Visit to Porangahau School

 When I was a little girl in the Primers (ages 5-9) at Woodhatton Primary School, Wood Street in Wainuiomata, the thing I love the most was having a teacher read out loud to me. 

Fresh faced and attentive (the girls) squirmy and distracted (most of the boys), we sat on the “Mat” and listened to teachers reading one through books one or two chapters at a time or poems. I can’t remember all the books read out to us in the first two years except for the “Litt...


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