Why Is It Important To Celebrate Matariki

Why Is It Important To Celebrate Matariki

What is matariki?

Matariki is a maori new year celebrated by the maoris from the tiny country of new zealand .

Matariki is the maori name for the clusters of stars called pleiades it rises in the mid winter, for new zealander the maori new year.

How did our tupuna celebrate matariki ?

Traditionally Matariki was celebrated by gathering with family,telling stories from the past and  harvesting with friends and family also celebrating their culture with the rest of the community to remember their whakapapa and people that have past on .

Where do we find the seven sisters of matariki ?

From early June, before sunrise, look to the north-east horizon. Find the constellation Tautoru, or Orion’s belt (sometimes called ‘the pot’). Trace a line northwards from the three stars of Tautoru. Look for a faint sparkle of tiny dots, about the same width as Tautoru is long. This is the Matariki star cluster. Matatiki can also be seen during the summer months in this location of the sky after sunset.

How do we celebrate matariki now ?

Traditionally Matariki was celebrated by gathering with whanau (family) and reflecting on the past. The festival’s connection to the stars provided an opportunity for families to remember their whakapapa (genealogy) and those ancestors who had passed away to the heavens. Offerings were made to land-based gods who would help provide good crops, and new trees were planted to signal new beginnings.

Why is it important to celebrate matariki ?

In years gone by, Matariki was thought to determine your crop for the coming season, and therefore it was important to recognise the part it played in nature’s cycle. The disappearance of Matariki in Autumn, signaled the time to gather and preserve crops, and so was an important marker in the harvest calendar.

What you need in a mihi

Ngapuhi-Tauparapara

Mihi-Nga Atua (Gods.)

Nga Mate (Deceased.)

• Waka
• Maunga
• Awa `
• Marae
• Hapu
• Iwi
• Whanau
• Ko au

Tauparapara.

Ka Tangi Te Titi

Ka Tangi Te Ka ka

Ka Tangi Hoki Au

Tihei Wa Mauri Ora.

Tauparapara.

Kia hiwa ra kia hiura ra

Kia hiwa ra tenei tuku

Kia hiwa ra ki tera tuku

Kia tu kia oho kia mataara

Tihei Wa Mauri Ora.

Tauparapara.

Korihi te manu

Taukiri mai i te ata

Ka,ao ka ao

Tihei Wa Mauri Ora.

Where it is spoken

No reira nau mai hoki mai is when we are in our our school.

No reira haere mai ki raro is when there is just welcoming the manuhiri.

 example

Ka tu ahau ki te

Tautoko ki te kaihemene

Me te kai karakia

No reira tena korua

Ka huri ahau kia koutou

No reira nau mai haere mai

Hoki mai ki roto i nga

Maunga o Tautoro ma Tauanui

Ko te roto Kereru

Ko te awa e tere nei ko

Punakitere. Ko te waka

Ko Mahuhu Ki Te Rangi

Ko te marae ko te riingi

Ko nga hapu ko ngati rangi

Me ngati Morewa

No reira haere mai whakatau mai ra

Ko ahau e tu atu nei

Ko Alice raua ko Puhi oku matua

Ko Noline raua ko Epsom oku tupuna

No Hamilton ahua

Should We Wear A Uniform At Tautoro School?

Should We Wear A Uniform At Tautoro School?

Argument

1. Reduce the cost if you pay for a one off initiation Uniform fee.
2. Because you have bought a uniform you don’t have to keep up with the clothing/shoe trends and trying to be cool.
3. Because you are wearing a uniform no one will bully your uniform off you.
4. Wearing a uniform gives you a sense that you belong to your school.
5. Safety you can see your school when you are on a trip.

Do you know that if you wore a uniform it could eventually save your life.

That is why I think we should wear a uniform it would reduce the cost for our whanau it stops trend buying it stops bullying you create a sense of togetherness at school and lastly a uniform could save your live.

Firstly i believe uniform help to reduce living costs for our whanau so you don’t have to buy a lot of clothes and spend a lot of money then you should have to and you can buy more important stuff than clothes every day,month and year you can save lots and lots and lots of money.

Secondly I believe if you have to wear a uniform you are not pressured to buy the latest trends in clothing and shoe wear and it can also gives you a sense of belonging to the school and stop keeping up with a new trend and make your whanau spend money on labeled clothes and stop people from stealing or people bullying you to give your shoes and clothes.

Thirdly wearing a uniform makes no one want to bully your clothes off you because they wouldn't want to steal some uniform off you that has tautoro school on it and they wouldn't be labeled so it will not be worth much.

Fourthly if you wear a uniform when you go on a trip you will have a sense of belonging to the school and people will Know where you are.

Meanings Of Words From War

Archduke	Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Heir	A person legally entitled to the property or rank of another on that person's death.
Austro - Hungarian	Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire in English-language sources.
Sarajevo	Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is a compact city on the Miljacka River, surrounded by the Dinaric Alps.
Germany	Germany is a Western European country with a landscape of forests, rivers, mountain ranges and North Sea beaches.
Belgium	Belgium, a country in Western Europe, is known for medieval towns, Renaissance architecture and as headquarters of the European Union and NATO.
Allies	A person, group, or nation that is associated with another or others for some common cause or purpose: Canada and the United States were allies in World War II.
British empire	British Empire definition. The empire of Britain, which began in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with the establishment of colonies in North America and ended in the twentieth century as dozens of nations, formerly British possessions, became independent.
Contingent	Subject to chance.
Suez canal (where)	The Suez is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez.
Ottoman turks	The Ottoman Empire, also known as the Turkish Empire, Ottoman Turkey, was an empire founded at the end of the thirteenth century in northwestern Anatolia in the vicinity of Bilecik and Söğüt by the Oghuz Turkish tribal leader Osman.
Gallipoli	The Gallipoli Campaign, also known as the Dardanelles Campaign, the Battle of Gallipoli, or The Battle of Çanakkale, was a campaign of the First World War that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula.
Turkey	Turkey is a nation straddling eastern Europe and western Asia with cultural connections to ancient Greek, Persian, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman empires.
Chunuk bair	The Battle of Chunuk Bair was a World War I battle fought between the Ottoman defenders and troops of the British Empire.
Egypt	Egypt, a country linking northeast Africa with the Middle East, dates to the time of the pharaohs.
Conscription	Conscription, or drafting, is the compulsory enlistment of people in a national service, most often a military service.
Battle of ramian	The Battle of Romani was the last ground attack of the Central Powers on the Suez Canal at the beginning of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign during the First World War.
Sinai Desert	Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula is a sparsely populated desert region between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
Battle of somme	The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire.
Conscienious objector	A person who for reasons of conscience objects to serving in the armed forces.
Messines	The Battle of Messines was an offensive conducted by the British Second Army, under the command of General Sir Herbert Plumer, on the Western Front near the village of Messines in West Flanders, Belgium, during the First World War.
Casualties	A person killed or injured in a war or accident.
Pessendale	The Battle of Passchendaele was a campaign of the First World War, fought by the Allies against the German Empire.
Offensive	Causing someone to feel resentful, upset, or annoyed.
Armistice	An agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce.

Should We Have Prefects At Tautoro?

Should We Have Prefects At Tautoro?

Arguments:

• School prefects are role models

• Supports younger students
• Students look up to them
• Students might want to become a future prefect

Should We Have Prefects At Tautoro?

Do you know that if we have prefects at Tautoro School it could help Tautoro School become the best school in New Zealand? Because great leaders have great behaviour and it would help younger students to be a better pupil at Tautoro. That is why I think we should have prefects at Tautoro School.

I think if we had prefects it would help the prefects of Tautoro School be better role models, prefects would help younger students, other students can look up to the prefects, other students might want to become a future prefect’s and it would help Tautoro School become the best school in New Zealand.

Firstly, it would help the prefects of Tautoro School be better role models for themselves and others. It would equip them with the leadership skills needed for the modern world.  Because the prefects would know what being a leader is like and when they're older, it would come to them naturally. That's how prefects would help people be better role models.

Secondly, prefects would support younger students whether it be inside or outside of the classroom. They can help inside the classroom by helping with websites like Manga High, Reading Eggs etc… And they can help outside the classroom by setting up games for the teina like Ki O Rahi, Rippa Rugby etc.. That's why I think prefects would be a good addition to our school.

Thirdly, other students can look up to them and follow in their footsteps to become a better pupil at Tautoro School. Because the prefects could show everyone else the right thing to do. For example, they could show other pupils the right thing to do in the playground. For instance, no fighting, no put downs etc… and showing people the right thing in class, i.e on the right site at the right time etc… that's why Tautoro School would benefit from prefects.

Fourthly, students might want to become a future perfect. This way, everyone would become a better pupil of Tautoro School. Because mostly everyone would know what it takes to be a leader and it would help them in the big wide world.

And that is why I think we should have prefects at Tautoro School.

My Ideal Sustainable Graden

This term the boys and girls of Rm4 will be competing in a garden competition.

The rules are simple

1. Produce an edible garden that is sustainable for the whole year.

That means that each group must.

• Plant seasonally.
• Maintain healthy soil.
• Produce healthy organic plants.
• Maintain and gather food throughout the year.

1. What is the meaning of organic gardening?

Definition: Related to or delivered living plants.

Produce without the uses of fertilizer persists and artificial chemicals.

2. What does this mean for our gardening

No modern man made synthetic fertilizer.

Cow/Sheep/Horse/Chicken Manure

Vegetable and fruit food scraps.

Kina shells hua pea of the paua, seaweed,Fish frames and comfrey tea (leaves in water.)

Non Insecticides/Poisons.

How do we attract the bees?

How do we get rid of the insect pest?

NZ Plants (Vegetables)

March-April-May-June

Growing time

Our vegetable need to be ready for puanga (matariki)

Sturdy Vegetable  plants-Rain drop in temperature,lack of sun frost.

Act 1

Find the plants suitable for your garden.

Act 2

Design a vegetable garden plan.

Flowers/Bees.

Organic Sustainable Garden.

No man made soil

Fertilizer

Manure-Sheep,Horse,Chicken

Feeding your garden compost.

Companion planting

Frost/long lasting/resistance/seasonal planting.

Workplace hazards in our garden.

W.A.L.T: Identify and inform our tautoro gardeners about the potential dangers about the potential changes in our gardens.

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