Thursday, July 23, 2020

Matariki Activities


On Thursday this week we celebrated Matariki with some schoolwide activities. in the Middle School we made our way around to each class to try out things like: 

  • Making model manu tukutuku (kites) and playing a game called mū tōrere ngāwari with Mr Riceman and Mr Hing-Windsor

  • Matariki star art with Mrs McLellan

  • Whai (string) games and woven stars with Mr Rattenbury

Here are some photos of the woven stars...









And some string games...
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