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Shared Reo moment at Marshland!

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  2022 is the second year we have started doing a shared Reo moment annually as part of Te wiki o Te Reo (Māori Language Week). This week at Te Rito Harakeke we have celebrated Te Wiki o Te Reo (Māori Language Week). Each hub has been working through activities around learning kupu (words), using kupu, waiata (songs) and history. On Tuesday at 11am each hub assembled outside their hubs and all sang 'Tutira Mai Ngā Iwi' together, it was a spine tingling moment and so beautiful to hear all our tamariki singing together! One of our activities involved learning about the 50th anniversary of the Māori language petition. On 14 September 1972 representatives of Ngā Tamatoa and Te Rōpū Reo Māori (the Te Reo Māori Society) delivered the Māori language petition, with over 30,000 signatures, to Parliament. The petition asked for active recognition of te reo Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand, and for the language to be taught in schools. This week there was a national commemoration of this sig
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Māori@Marshland - Kiwi

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Cecile Lyon In the kiwi hub we read the legend of 'Maui and the sun'. We imagined we were Maui catching the sun and created these Art works. For Matariki we made kites that were inspired by the book 'The seven kites of Matariki'.
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Māori@Marshland - Kupu for Term Toru

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  Welcome back to Term 3! This term we will be focusing on colours and items of clothing. Hopefully after a few weeks you will be able to mix and match the colours and the items of clothing.
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Māori@Marshland - Toroa

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 By Bex Osborn In Toroa we delved further into understanding the importance of representing who we are, where we come from and the stories we can tell.  Ta moko is a traditional facial tattoo that shows about our whanau and where we have come from.  The students looked into the meaning of various shapes in Maori culture and linked this back to their whanau and culture and created their own Ta moko.
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Māori@Marshland - Toroa - Matariki: The Māori New Year

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 CAROLYN DAVIES  Toroa have been getting their creative juices flowing as we learn about Matariki and the legend of the Seven Sisters. There are so many stories around the world, from different cultures that are associated with the Pleiades star cluster.  After looking at these, and learning about the individual stars, Toroa created some unique prints showing mountains that depict the New Zealand landscape (and one that shows Table Mountain in South Africa) and the constellation that can be found in the dawn sky.  Watch this video to find how you can find the constellation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3ETD3rPnFQ&t=14s  Matariki is on 2 July this year. The images attached are a snapshot of the beautiful prints that our tamariki have created. We will be displaying some of them in the office area, as well as in our hub, for you to see as we head towards Mātariki.
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Māori@Marshland - Matariki in the Kiwi hub!

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In the Kiwi hub, we are celebrating the beginning of Matariki. We are all having fun with Art and Reading around Matariki. We are also writing the story about Matariki and learning some Waiata.
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