Yesterday our Kapa Haka group, Tikanga Wakari, did a fabulous job at the Otago Māori and Pacific Islands Festival (Polyfest)!

Yesterday 160 enthusiastic children took the stage to represent our school at Polyfest. First our Junior School (the Teina Group) performed E Papa Waiari, the Year 2 girls impressed the audience with their amazing rākau (stick) dance moves!  Then our Middle and Senior Syndicate students  performed Pā Mai with lots of energy and strong voices.  Following that all children sang Whakarongo Ake Au together and then performed our school haka, Ko Te Whakaari.  Ruben did an amazing job leading this haka and the children really brought so much energy to the stage when they performed the haka!

The students did themselves, their teachers and their school proud with how they conducted themselves backstage at the festival, and their performance on stage. Ka mau te wehi! (Awesome work!)

If you would like to see the children perform, click on the link below and skip ahead to 1:57, then you will see Tikanga Wakari take the stage. The camera does a great job of panning around all the performers - we hope you enjoy it!

https://livestream.com/accounts/15197514/events/8812215/videos/196102847

And just in case you haven't had a chance to hear the recording of our Kapa Haka team singing for the radio, taken recently by Shannon Colbert (the Schools' Liaison for OAR FM, Dunedin's Communitiy Access Radio station)  please click on the link below.  You also get to hear two of our learners (Ruben and Roree) talking about their experience with Kapa Haka. 

You can access the recording on the OAR FM website:

https://oar.org.nz/school-shows/