Our journey to Rehua marae

Today in rūma toru we went to Rehua marae. To get there we travelled on the bus. When we arrived we put our bags down and prepared for the pōwhiri. We went into the wharenui where we listened to Matua Timairiki. We did a waiata to support the people who spoke.

After we had kai we went back into the wharenui and listened to Matua Ritchie talk about the whare and how it got built.

Some things we learnt about Rehua marae;
- The poupou in the marae represented iwi from around New Zealand.
- The whare represented our tūpuna. The whare is a person and we can see the spine and ribs.
- Learnt new kupu māori.
- Tahu Potiki and his ancestors.
- The tūpuna on the walls.
- The full name of Rehua: Te Whatu Manawa Māoritanga O Rehua
- Built-in 1960.

After we had tūakana/teina where we drew and talked about our favourite part of the whare.

Mahi Toi - Selfie Portraits

In rūma toru we have been making selfie portraits with Whaea Taylor using multiple medias. We created our backgrounds using watercolours and then our faces with oil pastels.

After we finished we made padlet about things that challenged us, things that we learnt and things that we enjoyed about this process.

Mahi Toi Padlet

Manuhiri

This morning we had the pleasure of welcoming a group of students from Sonoda Women's University and their teachers to the school. Alyssa welcomed them and we did a waiata to support her. Then we broke into groups and the Japanese students read us picture books that they had translated into English of very old traditional Japanese fables.

Tāne Whakapiripiri

Last week we learnt about Tāne Whakapiripiri and what he represents. We learnt that he is the atua of the buildings that provide shelter to bring people together.  In Winter he works harder because the buildings keep people warm.