Newsletter – Wednesday 11 September

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Newsletter – Wednesday 11 September

Kia ora, Talofa, Malo e leleli, Kia orana, Fakalofa lahi Atu, Taloha Ni, Ni sa bula, 你好, Namaste, 안녕하세요, Hola, Xin chao, السلام عليكم.

Welcome

Welcome to Henry Sun who started with us this week.

Happy Birthday

Happy birthday to Cameron Spurr,Liam Schneider, Max Skinner, Anna Wang, Kaylee Coventry, Yugveer Chudasama, Ethan Steyn, Maisie O’Mara, Sienna Gibson, Jemma Mason, Aarnav Gambhir, Deacon Barnard, Deniz Kaplan and Aaryan Shukla.

Māori Language Week

In 2024 Te Wiki o te Reo Māori will be 14 – 21 September. Māori Language Week has been celebrated each year since 1975. For more information please go to https://www.reomaori.co.nz/

During Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori week our school will organise some fun activities to engage and challenge the school, staff and students to support, encourage and promote Te Reo Māori at Silverdale School (Te kura o te Weiti). Feel free to encourage your child at home in celebrating Te Ao Maori. If you have any questions please email your child’s classroom teacher.

About Te Wiki o te Reo Māori

Māori Language Week has been celebrated in Aotearoa since 1975. This special week is an opportunity for the concentrated celebration and promotion of te reo Māori, helping to secure its future as a living, dynamic, and rich language.

In the mid-20th century, there were concerns that the Māori language was dying out. The future of te reo Māori was the subject of a Waitangi Tribunal claim in 1985. The tribunal’s recommendations led to far-reaching legislative and policy changes. Māori became an official language of New Zealand in 1987. Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori was established in the same year to promote te reo.

Te Wiki o te Reo Māori is part of a broad Māori language revival programme and raises public awareness for Māori language learning and public usage. Mahuru Māori is an initiative begun in 2017 to promote the use of te reo Māori throughout the month of September..

Ways you could participate:

Māori Language Moment. Is a great website to get involved with Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori / Māori Language Week.
You can talk with our tamariki about how they have celebrated te reo Māori each day and use a little te reo Māori at home.
You could use a little te reo in your homes and workplaces.

50 Māori words every New Zealander should know

Here are the 50 Māori words every New Zealander should know. They are more commonly used now than ever before so if you don’t know them, you should get to learn them.

Aotearoa (New Zealand, long white cloud)
aroha (love)
awa (river)
haka (generic term for Māori dance. )
hangi (traditional feast prepared in earth oven)
hapu (clan, sub-tribe; to be born )
hīkoi (walk)
hui (gathering, meeting)
iti (small)
iwi (tribe)
kai (food)
karakia (prayer)
kaumatua (elder)
kauri (large native conifer)
kiwi (native flightless bird)
koha (gift, present (usually money, can be food or precious items, given by guest to hosts) )
kōhanga reo (language nest, Maori immersion pre-school (0 to 4 years))
mahi (work or activity)
mana (prestige, reputation)
manuhiri (guests, visitors)
Māori (indigenous inhabitants of New Zealand, the language of the indigenous inhabitants of New Zealand)
marae (the area for formal discourse in front of a meeting house, or applied to a whole marae complex)
maunga (mountain)
moa (extinct large flightless bird)
moana (sea)
motu (island)
nui (large, many, big)
pā (hill fort)
Pākehā (New Zealander of non-Māori descent, usually European)
pounamu (greenstone, jade)
puku (belly, stomach)
rangatira (person of chiefly rank, boss )
taihoa (to delay, to wait, to hold off to allow maturation of plans etc. )
tama (son, young man, youth)
tamāhine (daughter)
tamariki (children)
tāne (man, husband, men, husbands)
tangi (funeral)
taonga (treasured possessions or cultural items, anything precious)
tapu (sacred, not to be touched, to be avoided because sacred, taboo)
te reo Māori (the Māori Language)
tipuna/ tupuna (ancestor )
tuatara (reptiles endemic to New Zealand and which, although resembling most lizards, are part of a distinct lineage, the order Rhynchocephalia)
wahine (woman, wife)
wai (water)
waiata (song or chant)
waka (canoe, canoe group)
whaikōrero (the art and practise of speech-making )
whakapapa (genealogy, to recite genealogy )
whānau (extended family)
whenua (land, homeland)

Tū Maia Festival 2024

This week our beloved annual Tū Māia Kapa Haka Festival will be held at Orewa Primary School on Thursday 12 September and Friday 13 of September. Our Silverdale School rōpū will be performing on Thursday 12 September at 12:30pm. Our kura is renowned for bringing an amazing performance and this year will be no different. Our performance slot is from roughly 12:30pm – 12:45pm. It would be a good idea to get there 15-20 minutes before, as whilst other schools are performing it’s not be appropriate to enter.

Kura from across the Hibiscus Coast will send a group of their best senior Year 5 and 6 mau rākau and Hine Toa students to perform in front of a packed auditorium. This is the pinnacle event of the year for our local kapa haka groups and a chance to showcase our hard mahi and development from the past year.

The day will start with a pōhiri at 9:45am which everyone is welcome to attend and whānau are welcome to stay for the whole day should they wish.

We would love for our community to come along and show their support on Thursday 12. Bring your wider whānau for a great time to celebrate te ao Māori in our hapori.

Robert Kerr currently doing post-graduate MSc studies in Health Psychology within the School of Psychology at Ulster University. He is investigating coping by parents of children who have recently been diagnosed with ADHD. The study has the potential to make a difference to how parents cope with a child who has recently been diagnosed.

He is inviting parents and carers of children who have been diagnosed with ADHD in the last 6 months to take part.

Participants are invited to complete an online questionnaire which should take no longer than 20 minutes to complete. The questionnaire is anonymous, and all data will be stored safely and securely. The results of the research will help him build up a better picture of how to cope with children with ADHD.

Link to participate: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ulster/parental-coping

If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to contact Rob or his supervisor, Dr Jenny Davison on j.davison@ulster.ac.uk.