Saturday Tamariki Kohanga plays local Indigenous games

26 05 2012

Our Saturday tamariki kohanga program for primary school aged tamariki has been playing the traditional games of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures over the past few months. Some of the games include “buroinjiri”; “Kungirruna”; “Birray”; “Keentan”; “munhanganing”; “Gorri” and using boomerangs and other traditional instruments.

We plan to hold a special class in two weeks time to play these taonga of the tangata whenua tuatahi – o te whenua nei, ki Ahitereiria!

 

Aboriginal games

More Aboriginal games

Our tamariki have also been learnng nga tae o te uenuku and

our mahi toi has reflected the many colours of the rainbow!

Tu meke tamariki ma

 

Mahi toi

Taatou tamariki





Saturday Tamariki at Sorry Day Ceremony

26 05 2012

Some of our tamariki went to Teralba Park to commemorate the National Sorry Day on Saturday 26 May 2012. The dawn service was held by a local Murri & reconciliation group to remember the stolen generation and call to honour the Bringing them home report recommendations.

Many whanau are involved in local community links with tangata whenua tuatahi, and our tamariki are very close to elders in the reconciliation group. Some of our tamariki are also tangata whenua o tenei rohe… We had an enjoyable service, breakfast and time with all the elders of the reconciliation group. Thanks to Aunty Amy, Aunty Bessie, Aunty Margaret and Aunty Rae and all the whanau who came along..

Some of our tamariki at the Sorry Day ceremony

Some of our tamariki at the Sorry Day ceremony

Aunty Bessie's waiata for the children coming home
Aunty Bessie’s waiata for the children coming home

Aunty Amy, Tamaiti & Christine
Aunty Amy, Tamaiti o ihoa & Christine





Saturday Tamariki program wananga

26 05 2012

Our Saturday Tamariki program  recently held a wananga to make poi, learn some new waiata and do some mahi toi. Our tamariki thoroughly enjoyed the weekend. Unfortunately all of our pics have been lost due to a hard drive crash – but we are trying to salvage some from whanau who attended. Be sure to check our updates as we add more pics for you to see!

For whanau interested in joining our program, call 0431 171 041 for more details. Kia ora!





Saturday Tamariki program 2012

31 03 2012

Our Saturday Tamariki program has started for 2012 and been running since January 2012. We are making poi for all of our tamariki, as well as learning new reo, kapahaka & taonga takaro. We meet every Sat. from 9.30am to 12.30pm. Check out our pics!





Kohanga Working Bee This Saturday 11 Feb 2012

9 02 2012

Welcome to 2012!

Our first activity this year is a working bee at our Geebung whare. All are welcome and we have included a flyer and list of jobs (see below). If you can make it, feel free to come along. Kia ora!

Jobs

working bee





Kohanga Hakari

8 01 2012

Kohanga recently held its end of year hakari for playgroup and our tamariki program. Both programs provided demonstrations for their whanau of their learning including our tamariki running workshops on taonga takaro and a mau rakau demo. Tino too much tamariki! We will return in 2012!

We recently had our presentations from our playgroup and Saturday program.





Kohanga playgroup 14 Dec 2011

14 12 2011

Kohanga playgroup met for the final time today for 2011 in preparation for this weekends hakari. Kia ora tamariki!

Whanau tamariki

Tamariki and their whanau

Whanau mihi time!








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