The Best Day Ever - At the AMI netball courts

Ms Tito said “can all the kapa haka students please meet in the hall, thank you”. So all the kapa haka students meet Ms Tito in the hall to have a meeting about the workshop that we will be going on Wednesday. “You will all be given this permission slip and it will be brought in in the morning” Ms Tito said. “ Okay Ms Tito” the kapa haka students replied back.

The noticed said “ you will need to be at school by 7.45am. This will all be held at the netball courts. But before entering the courts you will have to be welcoming a powhiri. It is a Taonga to us, and we should all treasure it like its our own. Its not just our school going there will be other school coming to the courts as well.

There will also be a Maori game held at the courts too. It is the Ki O Rahi people that is going to be playing this fun and amazing game as well as all the other schools that will be coming. But some of the kapa haka students were in the Ki O Rahi. So they will go to the Ki O Rahi game to represent our school, because that is the most important thing that will be going on.

So Mr Jacobson was taking all of us to the courts, so that is the kapa haka people and the people that is playing Kia O Rahi. He could only take 9 people at a time but Ms TIto and Tyson will be taking some of us too. So they had to go back and forth. About 15 minutes later all the Pt England students made their way to the courts. So we all found good place to put our stuff, and just waited for all the other schools to come.

FInally waiting for 20 minutes we made our way to the inside of the courts and waited for the powhiri to start. The Tangata Whenua did there karanga and everyone sang a waita (He Honore). The kapa haka students from Selwyn College were singing a beautiful waiata for us, which meant welcome everyone. Then all the people from our school and other schools that will be playing Ki O Rahi will have 15 minutes to get ready for their game to start, before they left we said “good luck Pt England and we hope you make it into the finals”.

Then the kids went of to do there first activity for the workshop. There was games set up for us stations on how to make a bracelet out of harakeke (flax) and how to make a Kawowo. So all the students went of to play Kia O Rahi and the rest of us stayed and waited for all the grown ups to set up the workshop. The kapa haka students went of to make a bracelet but before making it we will need to pay attention for the rules.