Hard school word search
Swimming sports, cross country and the road patrol at the gate: twenty-eight words from a Kiwi school year. The eighteen by eighteen grid hides them in all eight directions, backwards included.
- Assembly
- Calculator
- Classroom
- Cross country
- Exercise book
- Glue stick
- Homework
- Kapa haka
- Kura
- Library
- Lunchtime
- Morning tea
- New entrants
- Pencil case
- Playground
- Principal
- Reading
- Road patrol
- Rubber
- Ruler
- School camp
- Sharpener
- Spelling
- Sunhat
- Swimming sports
- Te reo Māori
- Teacher
- Whiteboard
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
Make your own versionSchool, extra hard
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Find these words
- Assembly
- Calculator
- Classroom
- Cross country
- Exercise book
- Glue stick
- Homework
- Kapa haka
- Kura
- Library
- Lunchtime
- Morning tea
- New entrants
- Pencil case
- Playground
- Principal
- Reading
- Road patrol
- Rubber
- Ruler
- School camp
- Sharpener
- Spelling
- Sunhat
- Swimming sports
- Te reo Māori
- Teacher
- Whiteboard
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About this word search
A Kiwi school year has its own big days: swimming sports in term one, cross country later in the year, a school camp for the senior classes and kapa haka for everyone. Te reo Māori is part of everyday class life, and kura, the te reo word for school, is on the sign at many school gates.
The grid is eighteen by eighteen and the words run in all eight directions, backwards and diagonal included. Swimming sports is the longest with fourteen letters, then exercise book and cross country with twelve. Kura has only four and hides easily, as do ruler and sunhat. Te reo Māori loses its spaces and its macron in the grid, so look for TEREOMAORI. The Y of library, assembly and cross country and the K of kapa haka are good starting points.
For older pupils, set a timer and see who finds all twenty-eight first. Then ask the winner to use five of the words in one sentence about their own school.
Ways to use this word search
In the classroom
Print it as a task for early finishers, or to open a lesson on this topic. With the QR code on the sheet, students check their own answers.
At home and on the go
Pack a few printed sheets for the car, the ferry or the bach. A pen is all you need, no screen required.
Play together
Print the sheet twice and race each other. Whoever finds all the words first wins. Or play it online and see who is fastest.
Try it in Spanish too
The same theme also exists in Spanish, French, German and Italian, each with its own word list in that language. Handy if you are learning a language: you already know the topic, now just the words.
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