Marae trip 2019

The 12th of April 2019 We arrived at Te Poho o Rawiri our schools marae. We slept there for the night around about 9:am we had our powhiri to get welcomed on by the tangata whenua to the marae. As we sung some songs and they sung back and eventually the powhiri was finished.

Then we started doing rotations my groups first rotation was Kowhaiwhai/tukutuku panels basicly cutting out maori patterns and gluing them on to a long roll of paper. Our next rotation was playing maori games with koka Ngaire then we a lunch break . That's when we got told we were walking up kaiti hill when we got to the top of kaiti hill it was great to relax for a while.

 Around 7:pm we got our beds setup  then we had a kapa haka assembly type thing then had we had a rest and went to sleep. Day 2. I woke up tired but awake we got our bags and gear ready to leave then we ran and played games outside on the court. Breakfast came we formed two lines then people started to get sent off to have breakfast we had a choice of  spaghetti on toast or weet-bix some teachers went around apples and we milo.

Our first rotation on day two was playing hand-ball for a while. After that we weaved some flax with matua Nic we had morning tea we lined up our bags and stuff played around for a bit. Finally the bus came to pick us up and go back to school.