Māori Leadership

On Wednesday 27th July, the Taki Rua performance group came to our school to present their production of Hine Kihāwai to the school. It is a performance delivered entirely in te reo Māori.
Since becoming the curriulum leader for Māori this term, this was my first real responsibility. I was the one who needed to ensure the smooth running of the Mihi Whakatau and to ensure staff and students were aware of the organisation. I read our school guidelines for Pōwhiri and Mihi Whakatau (written by James) and used these to type up a document to share with staff.

Everything ran smoothly and I absolutely LOVED the performance. I wrote a review of the show and they are going to put a quote from me on their Facebook page.

My next step will be to organise the mihi whakatau for our new teacher, new students and ERO next Monday. This mihi whakatau was a good practise run though for me for that.

I also completed a survey for someone doing some research on how effectively schools are implementing Ka Hikitia. As I went through the survey, I realised that I have a very solid understanding of the document and that our school has done a lot in the 5 years I have been there. We have set goals every year and continuously tried to improve and develop in the areas idenitified in Ka Hikitia. As the new Māori leader, it will be my job to develop a new strategy for our future direction. I am very excited to begin working on this!