Nau mai haere mai Bicultural Officers
Nau mai haere mai he kaiwhakaihuwaka Māori, welcome to all the new Bicultural Officers!
This is a rewarding role within your centre, if you haven’t touched base with your Regional Kaihononga Māori please email [email protected] to be put in contact.
You can also find the recent Bicultural Officer training on our website.
Please join us for our upcoming Bicultural Officer patapatai on Friday 9th December at 1.30-2.30pm via Teams.
The aim of this hui is to help you better understand your role as He kaiwhakaihuwaka o te ao Māori (a champion for actively promoting Te Ao Māori and Te Tiriti o Waitangi) commitment within your centre, to be a point of contact, to access the support you need, whakawhaungatanga, networking with other centres.
Meri Kirihimete resources
Meri Kirihimete ki a koutou ko te whānau! The Kaihononga Māori team wish you a safe and happy holiday with your whānau and here are resources for the festive season:
Kei te haere mai a Hana Kōkō
Kei te haere mai a Hana Kōkō
Kei te haere mai a Hana Kōkō
Kei te haere mai a Hana Kōkō
Mā runga te rei
Kia hari, kia koa
Kia hari, kia koa
Kia hari, kia koa
Mō Hana Kōkō
LSI Kaihononga Māori visits
On Thursday the 17th of November we were fortunate to have a visit from our Kaiwhakahaere Hononga Māori, Erana Rattray. She arrived in the morning, and we were warmly welcomed to Roslyn Māori Hill Playcentre. This was a long overdue visit as our initial plan was to come together at Matariki, but due to snow we didn’t make it. It was fantastic to catch up again with many familiar faces and to meet newer members.
We shared some rauemi, and ideas, retelling and encouraging the tamariki to act out pūrākau how Maui slows the sun and sung waiata together. It was a great opportunity for whakawhanaungatanga, getting to know each other, sharing knowledge, inspiring, and learning from, each other.
After our visit to the centre we went out to the Lower South Island Regional Office, where we had a mihi whakatau and shared lunch to welcome Erana. It was a busy and very rewarding day. Here are some pictures from our visit and the beautiful kākahu we were able to koha gift to the centre.
Nā Sacha Harbott, Kaihononga Māori LSI.
Pukapuka: Te Aumiti meets a real hero
Sally Cooper and I were very fortunate to accompany author Nolamay Campbell in Nelson promoting her first pukapuka ‘Te Aumiti meets a real hero’ by Nolamay Campbell.
Te Aumiti loves wearing her Wonder Woman costume, and she loves visiting the Pou Tupuna inside the wharenui. She thinks he speaks to her. Grandma tells his story, and Te Aumiti finds out that he was a real hero, maybe even better than Wonder Woman. She makes him a promise…
Read about her hero, and the promise Te Aumiti makes in English, and Te Reo Māori.
Kōrero pūrākau storytelling plays a huge part of Māori mātauranga and stories are passed from generation to generation, these pūrākau are told and retold and hold such power. We all need to play a role in keeping them alive. Our kaumatua are a source of so much knowledge and so many of these wonderful stories. E mihi ana ki a Nolamay mō tō taonga tuku iho! Thank you Nolamay for sharing your pūrākau with us.
Ngā mihi nui he whānau mātou o Te Whānau Tupu Ngātahi o Whakatū. Thanks also to the Nelson centres for your manaakitanga hospitality, your tamariki listened attentively to the pukapuka which reflects the Ngāti Koata pūrākau of their tupuna ancestor. We cherished the time being able to hono connect with you, share pūrākau traditional stories and have these taonga passed down to the next generation!
Tū mai e moko. Te whakaata o ō mātua. Te moko o ō tīpuna.
Stand strong, o moko. The reflection of your parents. The blueprint of your ancestors.
Birkenhead haerenga ki te tātahi!
This morning Tara Solomon Regional Manager UNI and Erana Rattray were lucky to join Te Whānau Tupu Ngātahi o Birkenhead to Wai Manawa Little Shoal Bay!
Birkenhead have strengthened mana reo communication with Reo Rua bilingual sessions weaving te reo Māori through learning and play. Today at Wai Manawa Little Shoal Bay they took the curriculum outdoors and extended their knowledge of te taiao environment. We began with karakia, mihi and waiata and read pukapuka ‘Ngā Mihi’ about the creation pūrākau to set the scene.
The tākaro play explored nature with Rapunga Ngārara scavenger hunt in the ngahere forest and Investigations of moving water tere fast and pōturi slow, continued out of the water through waiata with pakipaki clapping and with the beat of the drum.
He puna wai, he puna kai, he puna reo, he puna ora, ita a ita.
A spring of water, a bountiful spring, a spring of language, a spring of health, holdfast.
Ngā mihi nui he whānau mātou o Te Whānau Tupu Ngātahi o Birkenhead for sharing your session, waiata, pukapuka and karakia with us, it is such a taonga treasure!
