Māori Perspectives

Mrs Andis in conjunction with Nga Kaakano Puawai are helping us with our 2018 
Working Bee... more details will follow shortly!

Allie Knox is our 2018 speaker to welcome at our Mihi Whakatau







Our baby just won Junior Maori female scholar of the year!

Yah Maungaraki!! 

Tino pai! Well done the Hawkins Family - it is always nice to hear how well our leaders have done at College!!

2016 Maori Language week...Please enter the activity that you and your buddy class teacher will be teaching in week 1 of term 3 for Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori (Maori Language Week).  You will have an hour each day - 1:45-2:45.

The idea is to build in Te Reo (language) into the activities, if you need help with this just ask.  You may want to look back at the list of Matariki activities for ideas.

If you look across you will see which classes you have on which days, we all have our own classes on Monday.

Teachers and room you will be using:	Activity	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Natalie and Becs ~ Room 1	Visual Pepeha	Room 1 and 7	Room 2 and 4	Room 3 and 8	Room 5 and 10	Room 6 and 9
Darrel and Belinda ~ Room 2	Tekoteko Carving	Room 2 and 4	Room 3 and 8	Room 5 and 10	Room 6 and 9	Room 1 and 7
Jackie and Chris ~ Staffroom	Māori Language Graffiti Art	Room 3 and 8	Room 5 and 10	Roommm 6 and 9	Room 1 and 7	Room 2 and 4
Rebecca and Eric ~ Room 5		Room 5 and 10	Room 6 and 9	Room 1 and 7	Room 2 and 4	Room 3 and 8
Mel and Krista ~ Library	Mosaic Art	Room 6 and 9	Room 1 and 7	Room 2 and 4	Room 3 and 8	Room 5 and 10

Room 10,1,9,8 went on camp went to Hau-Ariki Marae in Martinborough for camp we had lot's of fun check out the photo's!

Here we are doing some stream restoration...

Part of our waiata...

A SAMPLE OF OUR THANK YOU LETTERS:

3.12.12

Hau-Ariki Marae

Kitchen Staff 

Martinborough

Kia ora kautou

Thank you kitchen staff for going the extra mile with making the food for our Noho.  Ka pai!

It was great for all the vegetarians and other dietary requirement people, because they were all worried that there would be nothing for them to eat!  

I loved all the kai that was served on the table, there were so many options to pick from!

E noho ra

Jake Chadwick

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3.12.12

Hau-Ariki Marae

Debbie and staff

Martinborough

Kia ora tatou

Thank you Debbie and staff for teaching us how to make those awesome harakeke flowers.  The karakea needed before we cut the harakeke and how to harvest was a great way to learn some of the tikanga around harakeke.  It was also really fun learning how to weave.  I intend to give mine to my great-grandmother as a get well gift.

Thank you for this great experience.

E noho ra

Kaitlyn Cooper

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3.12.12

Hau-Ariki Marae

Wi and hangi gang

Martinborough

Kia ora tatou

Ko Joseph toko ingoa.  Thanks for all the work and effort you put into the hangi.  Thanks for the time you put into digging the hangi pit, heating up the stones/irons and putting the food into the ground.  Also explaining how the hangi process works.  I know that the irons were dangerously hot, yet you still did it.  We loved the haka your team presented to us over the pit, it was very intimidating!

I am sure everyone, including myself, appreciated all the work you put into this immaculate hangi.  Thank you again, it was a great experience. 

E noho ra

Joseph Perry

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Here are our slides from the Whanau Hui powerpoint.

If you have any feedback, feel free to write to us on jsutherland@maungaraki.school.nz

Enjoy

Enviroteam.

 Whanau Hui - Kaitlyn, Molly, Hannah, Grace and Sophie turned up
 to gather ideas from the whanau group.  Look at the awesome ideas we came up with:

Ideas from Whanui Hui night.

Fireworks for assembly who Kapa Haka performing

Hangi

Each child has Maori dictionary in the classroom to challenge them to discover and use new words and APPLY them throughout the day.

Have a Maori Minute every day where only Maori is spoken.

Have a day of learning Maori stories and plays.

A culture evening featuring songs.

In reception area have a heritage wall (cloak/wooden carving).

Mentoring children in cultural karanga

Te Reo in all classrooms

Maori names for classrooms.

Carving at our entrance

Maori talent show (all people enter but it has to have a Maori theme)

Grow a Maori vegetable garden

Create a cared seating area to sit and reflect in

Re-name the school assembly to Hui or something more appropriate.

Maori classes for art/weaving/music/history/visiting guests to teach and share.

Its not about division its about our heritage – we are all one!

Maori themed playground

Buy the community hall so we can decorate with more Maori.

R10's assembly was awesome (week one, term 4, 2012). Well done to Harrison and Kaitlyn who were able to host the assembly nearly in fluent Te Reo! Ka pai!

The e-team will present at the Whanau Hui this term, date 30 October.  The plan is to introduce our dreams and aspirations for Maungaraki School 2013 and see if and how our Maori community can help us to strengthen our maori perspective.    We can't wait. Thanks to Miss Matich and Mrs Cavanagh for giving us this opportunity.



 Noho Marae trip has been confirmed for Nikau Syndicate - Yay!  Dates 28-30 November 2012.  A big thanks to Greg Hawkins for extending the opportunity to host us on his Marae - we can't wait! 




E-team Maori perspectives reflection July/August - what we would like to further explore 2012/2013... After going to the Board of Trustees and surveying the teachers at school, we did our own reflection but also brainstormed ways we could improve maori around our school:
Art-around the school-more carving/flax weaving etc
Marae trips - Noho marae
School exchange kapa haka group
Names of plant in Maori see more Maori names posters
Kapa Haka group to perform to more than just our school.

Room 10

Maungaraki School

Dowse Drive

Maungaraki

7 September 2012

Dear Mrs Cavanagh

My name is Sophie and I’m a member from Room 10.  Room 10 would like to go on a Noho Marae trip to learn more about the Maori culture.  Here are some reasons why we should be able to go on our trip.

Reason 1

Maungaraki School E-team are working on developing the Maori culture further for our school. We can get some ideas from the Marae trip.  Then we could bring them back to our school. The E-team can report back to the whole school and we could get these ideas integrated into our school and this could help us achieve our green/gold award.

Reason 2

Some of us have not been fishing or eeling before, so we would like to try something new fun and exciting.  I’m sure there are lot’s of other stuff there that we haven’t done before, so we can learn it before we go into Year 7 and 8.

Reason 3

Most people in my class have never been on a Marae, only 7 people have out of 28. So we all want to go and experience what it will be like to sleep in the marae and pick up some new Maori cultural experiences. 

Please let Room 10 go on the Noho Marae trip this year, Mrs Cavanagh.

Kind regards

Sophie Galletly


SYNDICATE WET DAY OLYMPICS
kicked off with our own Kapa Haka group performing...WOW! Lead by Jhansi and Milla

NAU MAI, HAERE MAI, KI TE WIKI O TE REO MĀORI! Nga mihi nui kia koutou,
This week is Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori (Māori Language Week) and children right across the school have had an extra focus on ʻthings Māoriʼ as they have gone about their daily work. We have used this week to consolidate the Te Reo learning we are already doing in classes and to raise the profile of Māori language around the school. I thought I would take the opportunity to share with you why we teach Te Reo in our classes:

• There is no other country in the whole world where you can learn to speak this beautiful language!
  
• What makes us unique and special as kiwis is our unique indigenous culture. Regardless of our own heritage,
  we can all connect with our ʻKiwinessʼ through Te Reo me ōna Tikanga Māori.
  
• Te Reo Maori is an endangered language - in order for it to thrive, we must all breathe life into it by speaking
  what we can, when we can.
  
• In many other developed countries, children can speak 2-3 languages. Speaking our indigenous language
  helps our Tamariki to be leaders and stand confidently on the world stage.
  
• The Treaty of Waitangi, our founding document, states that all Māori have the right to speak and learn their
  own language. The National Education Guidelines ensure that schools meet their obligations under the Treaty
  of Waitangi.
  
• Last but not least, ITʼS COOL TO KŌRERO!
  We are so happy to see all our wonderful students reenergised and enjoying their first two weeks back at school. There have been lots of exciting things happening already, with more to come as the term progresses. As always we look forward to working with you and your children as we continue with our exciting learning journeys.
  Ma te wa,
  Lisa Cavanagh, Principal.
  

Mā tini, mā mano, ka rapa te whai. By many, by thousands, the work will be accomplished (many hands make light work).
Nga mihi nui kia koutou
If anyone doubted the support Maungaraki School gets from it’s community, this was well and truly dispelled during the weekend’s working bee! The weather was perfect and we had an amazing turn out of friends, family and community members. The whakataukī (proverb) above was proven to be very true as almost everything on our “to do” list for the day was ticked off! Huge thanks goes to:
~ The children from the Enviroteam, who did an amazing job of organising and managing the day, with plenty of jobs to keep people busy;
~ The Maungaraki Baptist Church, who pitched in and not only helped with the hard labour, but also put on an amazing lunch to feed all the hungry workers;
~ The Home and School group, who not only turned out in force to help out, but also funded resources for the pergola, the laying of the mosaic tiles, compost and bark for the gardens;
~ The staff, students, parents, friends and family, who gave up time on their weekend to come along and help out (estimates say over 100 people were here over the course of the day).
For me it was a real treat to see our Enviroteam taking the initiative, organising the event and then getting stuck in themselves and working hard. I enjoyed working alongside a number of families that I haven’t previously been able to chat to, and absolutely loved walking around the school, seeing the results at the end of the day.
On Tuesday night we also had our Whanau Hui. 6 families were able to come and share their ideas with us regarding other things we can do to maintain, or even raise the already high standard of educational achievement we have for Māori students at Maungaraki School. As New Zealandʼs indigenous culture, Māori is a part of not only our curriculum, but also our heritage as New Zealanders. Those who are interested in learning more about Te Ao Māori (things Māori) can check out this website: www.korero.Māori.nz The resources page has some neat ʻfreebiesʼ that you can order ahead of Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori (Māori Language Week).
Naku noa,
Lisa Cavanagh, Principal.

Whanau Hui
We will be holding another Whanau Hui on Tuesday 12th June from 6:30 - 8:00pm, all welcome!

Whanau Hui
There will be a Whanau Hui held next Wednesday 29th February at 6.30pm in the staffroom. The purpose of this hui is to share our plans for Te Ao Maori at Maungaraki School and to provide you with the opportunity to contribute to Whanau voice in the strategic planning process. All welcome.