The inquiry process

Past students challenged us to think about inquiries they had been involved with.

Holding worms was part of our visit to Kelmarna Gardens.

Every class looked after a fern for the term to help it to grow.

The junior school visited the Tip Top factory and the seniors went to the Chelsea Sugar factory.

We made a virtual visit under the sea to see the impact of humans there.

We went to the Auckland Art Gallery to see how artists tell stories.

We had a birthday party for Tāmaki Makaurau.

The Royal Family came to visit and perform for us.

Matua Tereora from the National Library came to tell us stories about how people came to Aotearoa.

Gabriel has lots of questions about the human body.

We found out where the drains in our school are and what happens to the water that goes down them.

We tested the PH levels of milk and yoghurt to see how it changed.

We explored our own cultures to connect with the big idea.

We went on trips to see what learning looks like in different places and times.

We learnt new skills and ideas from Alexis Neal and Whaea Dagmar - famous artists in our school.

We found some information in books - including the one we made ourselves last year.

We are writing about the stories that we have heard.

We created timelines to make sense of the events we had been learning about.

Leilani is exploring how keeping fit will help her at school.

We sorted the characteristics of some trial products to see what they had in common.

Wayne has had lots of good ideas about education and has chosen the one he thinks is his best idea.

Room 24 sorted all the things that help their hauora into the four parts of Te Whare Tapa Whā.

We learned about thinking critically about information and using reliable sources.

We are comparing the heart with the lungs to make sense of everything we have learned so far.

Matthew got all the technology together so he could be online during one of the daily class meetings.

Amelia met a fitness challenge to build a fitness course in the garden.

Room 22 trialled and tested, then wrote their own smoothie recipe.

Joe Sun is making a video with a fitness challenge.

We made our products in different ways to see what would work best.

We designed meaningful symbols that represent the things that we think are important for amazing education.

Every class made a meaningful promise to do something that would keep Te Tiriti alive at SPS.  We used our marks to sign the promise.

Bruce made a hand that can flex its fingers to show the muscles working.

Tōtara whānau built a waka to represent the navigation from Polynesia to Aotearoa.

Room 15 are showing us how to play the Niuean sport of Tika.

We shared our learning with the community to help them be sea kaitiaki too.

We performed a traditional birthday dance from the Philippines for everybody.

We held a Hauora Day where we celebrated all the things that make us a better us.

We held an exhibition to show the pieces we had created and invited our whānau.

We put on a school production with singing, dancing and drama.

We took action outside the school to help our community to be healthy.

We evaluated how we did in this inquiry and how we learned to be better inquirers.

We had to reflect on how our artwork told our own story so we could bring it back to our question.

At the end of the inquiry we did a whole school PMI to think about what we felt about this inquiry.

The Board of Trustees gave us feedback about our ideas in our Dragon's Den.