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After a successful assessment of our first four lessons focused on greetings. We start with our fifth Spanish lesson – discussing where we [...]
Where are you from? #5 – Spanish
July 28, 2017 -
We have been learning to create effective inquiry questions using the above video as a framework to create questions for our inquiry into Maori [...]
The right question? – Inquiry learning
July 26, 2017 -
Since joining the teaching staff here at Woodville School I have been actively encouraging parents and caregivers to come and spend a little [...]
Parents helping out #3
July 4, 2017 -
The key competencies of the New Zealand Curriculum are aimed at providing students with capabilities for living and lifelong learning. There are [...]
Key Competencies – capabilities for living and lifelong learning
July 4, 2017
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Since joining the teaching staff here at Woodville School I have been actively encouraging parents and caregivers to come and spend a little [...]
Parents helping out #2
June 29, 2017 -
We are continuing to learn how to write up and present scientific experiments. Below is Ashantae’s effort. Can you Bend a Pen in Water [...]
Can you Bend a Pen in Water Without Touching It? – Science
June 27, 2017 -
Main concepts covered: ¿Qué tal? = What’s up? (How’s it going?) ¿Cómo se llaman ustedes? = What do you call yourselves? Te presento a [...]
Greetings #4 – Spanish
June 23, 2017 -
Since joining the teaching staff here at Woodville School I have been actively encouraging parents and caregivers to come and spend a little time [...]
Parents helping out #1
June 19, 2017
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A light breeze floated in the air as the sun shone brightly, casting shadows of the children and adults that were scattered across the field. [...]
7 Aside Football Report – Woodville School
June 14, 2017 -
Today, room Whareiti started a new course with local police educators, constable Max and Sarah. Today’s lesson focused on – What do I [...]
Dare to make a choice
June 13, 2017 -
Today we had a member of our local Maori community, Melissa Reiri, come to our class and help teach us some plaiting (whiri) with flax (harakeke) [...]
Flax work – Maori
June 8, 2017 -
In class today we’ve been learning to use speech marks. I used the video below to help teach how to use speech marks.
Using speech marks – writing
June 7, 2017
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Here’s what Ashantae wrote while describing the character Black Bull, the horse in the short animation clip, the Dragon Slayer. This is her [...]
Black Bull – writing
June 1, 2017 -
As part of our writing unit, we’ve been learning how to : recognise and use complex adjectives and adverbs recognise and use language [...]
Dragon Slayer – writing
May 29, 2017 -
In room Whareiti, I’ve set up each students with personalised learning activities in the area of reading, spelling and [...]
Learning with Studyladder
May 26, 2017 -
In room 5 today we are continuing to learn waiata. You can listen to our attempt here. The second waiata we’ve learned is called TENA [...]
TENA KOUTOU – Waiata
May 23, 2017
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Here you can see the boys working on their spelling together on the mezzanine floor of our classroom. It’s not often your classroom has a [...]
Taking student learning to new heights
May 22, 2017 -
One of the things I’ve introduced to class Whareiti is the game of chess. So far they’ve learnt about how to use the pawns, rooks, [...]
Make your move – Chess
May 17, 2017 -
This term I’ve introduced my students to coding. I believe computer science should be part of our core curriculum, alongside other [...]
Coding in room Whareiti
May 15, 2017 -
In class we’ve been learning how to write up science experiments using a scientific process. Below was our first go. It was a good start. [...]
Will a paper towel stay dry in water?- Science
May 12, 2017
