Tuesday, October 25, 2016. How far have Waikowhai Students travelled? Cybersmart with James this week required us to think deeply about how the population of our country and our school is made up. We are so lucky here at Waikowhai Primary to have such diverse students and teachers. We think that this makes our school so special. How far have some students travelled in their lifetime to reach WPS? Why do people make the choice to move to different countries? We would als.

We are a group of 83 Year 5-6 students, learning collaboratively in an open space, with four teachers. Our blog shares our work, our thoughts and the experiences we have at school. Enjoy! Friday, 9 December 2016. We had to predict what it would look like. If you would like to fi. A number of strategies were used.

Wednesday, December 7, 2016. This term Room 8 have been investigating mechanisms and how they relate to toys. Early in the term we blogged about going to MOTAT and you can you read this here. As a follow up from this we designed then created our own toys. For this we came up with some class success criteria using our trip experience and what we already know, being kids who play with toys. The toy needed a mechanism. It needed to be fun.