Oh my goodness! I didn’t know that we were going to Orakei Marae on the 14th of October and the whole of Newmarket School was coming as well. Newmarket School was going there to learn about Maori culture and language.
Newmarket school rode in different buses to Orakei Marae and our class and a few of the others came in a low bus, not a double decker bus.
I looked outside the window and I saw trees and the mountain Rangitoto in the distance. It was really pretty.
The boys and girls of Newmarket School waited patiently outside the marae and waited for the karanga.
The older people were in front of the school and the people were my papa, Miss Koefed, Jackson, Paniora and Teiria.
Newmarket School arrived outside the meetinghouse.
Newmarket School removed their shoes outside the door and I put mine by my mum’s and my sister’s.
We entered the meetinghouse and did the song E toru nga mea.
Then we listened to a speech about big the marae and it was very interesting. It was about the carvings in the marae. After Matt had finished all of his speeches my papa, Hone, thanked him leading the school [in Maori]. Then we sang Purea nei.
Then Mrs Sutherland led us outside the marae and told us that it was morning tea and we had two cookies and an apple.
After we had eaten and played around on the huge field we did some sketching inside and outside of the marae. I drew inside the marae first but I forgot what the carving was called and then I went outside to draw the big bird up the top of the wharenui.
After we had finished drawing we went outside the marae and got on the bus and returned to school. I hope I can go back some day again.
Newmarket school rode in different buses to Orakei Marae and our class and a few of the others came in a low bus, not a double decker bus.
I looked outside the window and I saw trees and the mountain Rangitoto in the distance. It was really pretty.
The boys and girls of Newmarket School waited patiently outside the marae and waited for the karanga.
The older people were in front of the school and the people were my papa, Miss Koefed, Jackson, Paniora and Teiria.
Newmarket School arrived outside the meetinghouse.
Newmarket School removed their shoes outside the door and I put mine by my mum’s and my sister’s.
We entered the meetinghouse and did the song E toru nga mea.
Then we listened to a speech about big the marae and it was very interesting. It was about the carvings in the marae. After Matt had finished all of his speeches my papa, Hone, thanked him leading the school [in Maori]. Then we sang Purea nei.
Then Mrs Sutherland led us outside the marae and told us that it was morning tea and we had two cookies and an apple.
After we had eaten and played around on the huge field we did some sketching inside and outside of the marae. I drew inside the marae first but I forgot what the carving was called and then I went outside to draw the big bird up the top of the wharenui.
After we had finished drawing we went outside the marae and got on the bus and returned to school. I hope I can go back some day again.
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