Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 24, 2016 16:22:50 GMT 12
Golden Bay Kindergarten bless new 'waka'
Golden Bay Kindergarten children and teachers were excited to return from their summer holidays to the newly built "Waka", or platform.
The 5.8 metre-long structure extends out from the covered veranda and into the outdoor play area.
As the heavy rain fell last Wednesday a blessing for the Waka was held by local iwi and led by John Ward Holmes of Manawhenua ki Mohua and Steve De Fue from the Onetahua Waka Ama Club.
Around 40 children, teachers, iwi members and parents gathered to hear a karakia which was performed in honour of the structure's significance to the Kindergarten.
The Waka is symbolic for the "vehicle that people arrive on," fitting in the Whakapapa, or ancestry of the "big kindergarten family", said Greatrex…..
www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/77178638/golden-bay-kindergarten-bless-new-waka
Golden Bay Kindergarten children and teachers were excited to return from their summer holidays to the newly built "Waka", or platform.
The 5.8 metre-long structure extends out from the covered veranda and into the outdoor play area.
As the heavy rain fell last Wednesday a blessing for the Waka was held by local iwi and led by John Ward Holmes of Manawhenua ki Mohua and Steve De Fue from the Onetahua Waka Ama Club.
Around 40 children, teachers, iwi members and parents gathered to hear a karakia which was performed in honour of the structure's significance to the Kindergarten.
The Waka is symbolic for the "vehicle that people arrive on," fitting in the Whakapapa, or ancestry of the "big kindergarten family", said Greatrex…..
www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/77178638/golden-bay-kindergarten-bless-new-waka