Kotahitanga week School Powhiri

This morning we had a whole school powhiri for Kotahitanga week.  

Francesca and Connor stepped up to their leadership roles and were the first class to present our class pouwhenua. They were very calm and spoke very well in front of the entire school. They did our class proud.

Pouwhenua Speech:

FRANCESCA: Kia ora Ko maungawhare Ko Francesca toku ingoa.I am here with Connor on behalf of our pou designer Harite White. In ruma tekau ma rua we have been working on unity and diversity, as part of our pou we have used our logo in the middle of the pou as our main feature.The red is for the best house, AKA: sheppard !!! we used the red inside of each koru representing  the maori culture in our house and HNI.

CONNOR: Our pouwhenua represents different cultures at HNI, by all of the hands reaching into the HNI logo in the middle, symbolising the different cultures together.The REACH at the bottom is for our values that in room 12 we try our hardest to achieve.

We also used a lot of green for one of  the HNI main colours. We have our class number right at the top so everyone can see.

After each class presented their pouwhenua, the boys delivered an amazing haka.