Matariki Day

On friday the 26th of june, we celebrated matariki here at school. For this day, we had different workshops, for different choices that people had chosen. There were four choices, arts and crafts, cooking, movie making, and sports. For my first choice, I chose arts and crafts and I ended up in one of the arts and crafts groups. My teachers were Mrs Moala, and Ms Tipene. We started by doing drawings of Korus. After colouring those in, we moved onto watching a movie while layering paper to make cool patterns.

This day was fun because it wasn't too busy, and everyone seemed a bit relaxed (maybe just because it was a friday.) We had an assembly at the beginning of the day. That assembly was quite normal, except for the senior Kapa Haka group performing. At the end of the day, we also had another assembly, but this time it was about showing everyone's work, and how much fun everyone had. The assembly at the end of the day also included the junior Kapa Haka groups performance.

Special Assembly!

Today we had yet another special assembly. This assembly was a surprise for all of the students, and it was a very cool surprise. The assembly went on as normal, but the surprise was a person. Can you guess who? Joseph Parker. If you don't know who Joseph Parker is, he is a New Zealand professional boxer. He came to our school today, and he was the special part of the assembly. He played the guitar, said a few words, and gave out some duffy certificates and welcome to Pt England school kits. But it was just Joseph Parker that came to our school, the other person who also came along, and who helped plan it, was his sister, Elizabeth Parker. 

It was a very cool assembly, where we practiced our Matariki song for next week, and lunch box heroes, and he said he liked the korero, and gave us one for next week. Two cool messages Joseph Parker gave us were, Believe in yourself, and nothing beats hard work. Those are two very important messages to hear. Especially when you're trying to work towards something. He said that these are what helped him throughout his career.

Matariki

Task Description:

This task included reading texts, and answering questions about Matariki, and reasons why we celebrate
it. Here is the slide that I completed. In this slide, it also shows what I knew about Matariki before I
read and answered questions about it. I also did the create task assigned for everyone on the last slide.

What is Matariki?

Task Description:
For this task we had to create a poster that would be suitable for a 7 years old. In this poster, we had to explain what why and who Matariki is. Here is my work/poster.