Our Junior students (Year 1 - 3) learned some new waiata and movements for this years Cultural Festival.
They used the Key Competencies of 'Participating and Contributing' and 'Managing Self' as well as the virtues of 'Excellence', Confidence and 'Courage' when performing their waiata on stage.
Well done to you all, you performed awesomely well and made us proud!
Thank you to all our parents / whānau who came to support us and to Matua Grant and Matua Mel who helped us during our weekly practices.
Our Junior students (Year 1 - 3) used the Key Competencies of 'Participating and Contributing', 'Managing Self', Using Language, Symbols and Text' as well as the virtues of 'Excellence', Confidence and 'Courage' when performing their waiata on stage at our yearly Cultural Festival. Well done to you all, you made us proud!
Thank you to all our parents / whānau who came to support us and to Matua Grant who helped us during our weekly practices.
Our Junior students performed their waiata at the yearly Cluster Cultural Festival. This was the first time our tamariki performed in a large hall and in front of a huge audience. They used the virtues of 'Excellence' and 'Courage’ and we are so proud of them. We all had a great time and at lunch time some of us had hangi.
Thank you to Matua Grant who tutored them during the weekly Kapa Haka practices. Thank you to all our parents who came to support us.
Matua Grant is teaching our junior students a new Kapa Haka waiata called 'Whakatipu Ngā Huawhenua'. It is a song about planting kai.
Students are learning what these words mean:
kumara - sweet potatoe
riwai - potato
poukena - pumpkin
kamokamo - marrow
kāreti - carrot
kōrare - corn
The junior students used the virtues of 'Excellence' and 'Courage' when performing their waiata at our yearly Cultural Festival. Well done to you all, you made us proud!
We had our Kapa Haka Festival on Friday. (Denzel)
At the Kapa Haka Festival I had fun on stage (Nirvana)
I went to the Kapa Haka Festival. I also went on the stage (Harry)
I like doing Kapa Haka on the stage (Shaine)
I had fun at the Festival and I saw the audience from the stage. (Legend)
I like the Festival at the college (Isabelle)
I like singing on the stage (Carter)
I like the cultural festival because we wore pretty dresses on stage (Charlotte)
The Kapa Haka was fun (Ahlia)
The Kapa Haka Festival was fun and I like singing on the stage (Mahlek)
I love the Kapa Haka (Sian)
It was fun at the Kapa Haka (Lillith)
I hope our whanau had fun becuase I did (Libby)
I like the festival because our parents came to watch (Zaelia)
It was fun singing on the stage (Axel)
We performed our Kapa Haka items at the Reporoa Cluster Cultural Festival, which is held every year in Reporoa. We all had a great time and at lunch time some of us had hangi.
Thank you to Matua Grant and Whaea Martha who helped us during our weekly Kapa Haka practices. We are lucky to have you.
Thank you to all our parents who came to support us.
As Te reo Maori is an official language of New Zealand, we are learning some basic words/greetings, karakia and waiata.
This provides a means of communication with people from another culture and allows us to explore our own personal world.
Here we are learning Maori through our waiata during a junior Kapa Haka session:
