The highlight of the week last week was the visit by Anton and his kai cart to serve us Fish and Chips with lashings of divine tartare sauce and te reo Māori lessons on the side!
Anton arrived with his horse float - turned portable fish and chip shop on a sunny and warm afternoon on Wednesday afternoon last week, parking outside Tūranga beside the whare.
Would you believe that there were about 80 or so people here to celebrate and support the event; from our babies tucked up in their strollers, to the Nans and Pops, Aunties and Uncles, cousins, tuakana and teina and everyone in between!
We kicked off the afternoon with an update briefing by our wonderful and dedicated staff on the latest and greatest at Tuahiwi Kura. Whānau heard about our new uniform, our Wananei Wenerei and Play Based Learning programmes and our new LincEd reporting system. Whānau saw how to find and access new Learning Stories about their tamariki by opening the email notifications (once they become 'published' at the kura end).
While Rangi started the te reo Māori lessons with a some helpful kupu and sentences to ask questions and make requests with, Anton cooked up a storm delivering delicious chunky fries, fried chicken and fish to our hungry whānau and their tamariki. Thank you to Whāea Nush and the boys for setting up the bread and tomato sauce...ps the tartare sauce was divine!
Anton teamed up with Rangi to upskill the whānau with more helpful kupu and sentences. He reminded us of some useful approaches and ways to remember new te reo Māori, and most importantly that we must role model using te reo Māori at every opportunity in our homes and with our tamariki to promote its' survival!
We want to thank you all for coming along to support, by clicking the like button on our promotional Facebook posts, and for sharing and spreading this opportunity with your whānau and friends in our wider community.
Stand by and keep a look out for future and fun events that we expect to host as a kura to support the survival and regeneration of te reo Māori for our tamariki mokopuna and generations to come.
Whakawhētai e hoa mā! Kāore he hapori tautoko e tū atu ki a koutou, e te whānau o te Kura o Tuahiwi.