KIA KAHA TE AO MĀORI!

Miss Nicole Solomon who already has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFa) and GradDip Teaching Secondary is on study leave for 2022, to further her goals as a lifelong learner. Nicole is currently studying toward a Masters in Māori and Indigenous Leadership at Te whare Wānanga o Waitaha, the University of Canterbury. This post graduate degree aims to equip leaders across a wide variety of sectors with skills and knowledge to advance aspirations of Indigenous people and enhance leadership capabilities in organisations working with Māori. Nicole's focus is the education sector and critically engaging with what the NCEA, local curriculum, and New Zealand Histories changes look like in the classroom. Nicole is studying by distance and the course can be mentally and emotionally challenging however, she enjoys the face to face wānaka with her classmates on wānaka (regular 3 day intensives) and the feeling of success when hard work pays off with good grades.  Nō reira, Ko te manu e kai ana i te miro, nōna te ngahere; ko te manu e kai ana i te mātauranga nōna te ao. The bird who partakes of the miro berry owns the forest, the bird who partakes of education, owns the world.