Kakano Wha

 Kakano Wha

About Assessment - Aromatawai

 Giving assessment a life! Ka rawe!  

Student Voice - Racism

 

2020 Personal PD Courses

Ann Milne Education

I have been working through this self-funded course.  It is a very in depth study. 

28/09/20 I need to add here that my school has funded the second course that I will be studying

- COURSE TWO: DECOLONISING THE CURRICULUM: BEYOND "CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE"

By the end of Course Two, participants will have …
Identified actions to dismantle those barriers (these might be personal actions or institutional barriers that need to change) to develop both curriculum content and pedagogy that are culturally sustaining and critical.



DMIC Short Course

My school has funded me to complete this course.  It is also a high quality course.

Revising What DMIC Assessment is About

Harakeke Recovery

The harakeke plants are beginning to heal.

The children have said karakia and harvested ngā rau and have been weaving putiputi and their own creations.  They have cut the damaged leaves into mulch which they have lain around the plants or gently dug into the earth.

There is still more work, healing and learning to do.

Harakeke

I will be working with my students to restore the mana and hauora of the harakeke at our school.
Here is a link to the Christchurch City Library Website where I sourced the whakatauki and karakia from as well as explanations around the importance and care of harakeke.

Whakataukī / Proverb

E hara taku toa, i te toa takitahi ēngari he toa taku tini
My strength is not from myself alone, but from the strength of the group

Hutia te rito

o te harakeke
Kei whea, te kōmako e kō?
Kī mai ki ahau
He aha te mea nui
o tēnei ao
Māku e kī atu
He tangata, he tangata, he tangata.

When the heart is torn
from the flax bush
where will the Bell bird sing?
You ask me
what is the greatest thing
on Earth
My reply is
it is people people people.

Karakia for Harvesting Harakeke

Te harakeke 

Te korari

Ngā Taonga whakarere iho 

O te rangi

O te whenua

O ngā tupuna

Homai he oranga mo mātou

Tihei Mauri Ora!

Flax
The treasure passed down to us
By the sky, the land, the ancestors
Give us wellness for our life force

29/06/19
Take a look at our work so far on our AKO page on our website.