About me

 Kia ora my name is Tamarah and I attend Bay of island college. I am a year 9 student in the whare Totara.  I'm good at various types of sports but also at practical things too. I enjoy cooking and kapa haka. My goal for this year is to finish school and get alright grades. What i'm looking forward to this year is  reaching the end of the year and looking  back at the achievements I have made in school and out of school.

                         

Matariki celebration

Last week our school celebrated Matariki. We celebrate this because it is a very special thing acknowledging our Tupuna. I took part in prepping the hangi and also waking up at 5:00 to get the fire ready for when the hangi went in. The hard part was cutting the onion cause I cried. The easy part was doing the rest of the vegetables.

Waka haerenga

Today our school got the opportunity to partake in a education about waka and voyaging.

We learnt about Sir Hekenukumai Busby he is a tohunga who made over 20 waka, we were privileged to stand on his 2nd boat he made for his wife which is called Ngahiraka Mai Tawhiti. The first waka he made was to prove to pakeha that us maori who found Aotearoa wasn't a fluke. So he made his first waka called Te Aurere he made this waka and sailed to rarotonga and other islands and back by only using stars to prove that we didn't find Aotearoa by a fluke.

We also learnt about hoe (oar) we learnt several different commands but man there hundreds more. It was very fun but you had be very disciplined.

It was a fun experience and i would like to learn and do more things around this kaupapa.

Kapa Haka

On Saturday the 17th our school Kapa Haka Ropu performed at Maranga Mai E Te Iwi 2018 Te Taitokerau primary and intermediate schools Kapa Haka.
In our aggregate items we place 2nd in our waiata-a-ringa placed 3rd in Whakaeke and Whakawatea. For our other items we placed 3rd in our Waiata-Tira and Whai korero we placed 1st equal with 3 others for Kaitataki-Wahine. Overall we came 3rd in the intermediate section. To my opinion I think that we done well.

Our performance: TE RAU POU MANAWA O KAWAKAWA.

Matariki

For the last two day the whole school has been doing Matariki activity's, because it's Matariki and we do these every year year. The hard part was to make our co-operate with everyone  The easy part was to cooperate with my team to play Tapuae and Ki-o-rahi. I wouldn't do it again because I like to try different things. The point why we only play those games at Matariki time is because they represent peace and harmony and it also is a taonga tuku iho and a game from our tupuna.

                                 

Mihi Tautoko

LI: say a mihi tauoko 

Sc: thanking the taumata    

This week we are learning to say mihi tautoko to the people who are on taumata.

Whakatuki

This term I’ve been learning a new whakatauki for the beginning of my mihi.