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Congratulations to Kalem and Sophie-Lee who were selected to attend a Gifted and Talented art workshop at Waihi Beach School. Blake, Kailala and Reid also attended this day as our camera/filming crew. It is great to see staff recognizing students strengths and finding new opportunities to develop their skills.
The fundraising team have been at [...]

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Charlie has been trying some live streaming TV with Ustream, unfortunately our school’s upload bandwidth is not really fast enough for streaming video content. We need to upgrade our internet account for this to allow upload speeds of least 700 kbs or higher.

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It’ll blow your socks off – check out some of our video footage.
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Check out some of our East School TV (EasterlyTV) videos using the embedr playlist below.
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Derek Weymouth was a keynote presenter at the ICT conference ULEARN 2009 in Christchurch, below is his Slideshare presentation on the way the new curriculum’s key competencies integrate with ICT.
ICT and the Key Competencies
View more presentations from dwenmoth.

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The sun is shining, long may it last. With the weather changing we are reminding children about taking care of their uniform. Sweat shirts are being left out on the field. These are collected daily by the senior school and placed in lost property. If you are missing a uniform item, please check out [...]

This week’s Habits of Mind continues to be
“Applying Past Knowledge to new situations.”
Successful people learn from past experience.
They use what they know on new challenges.

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Welcome back to the final term of 2009. It is an exciting term, especially for Year 6 students who are reflecting on their time at Waihi East School and the exciting possibilities of College. This term our focus is ‘Celebrations’. Individual classes have their own focus e.g. birthdays or what/how different cultures celebrate. We [...]