Special Visitors

Kia ora Koutou

We had a couple of really special visitors at Te Rakau Whakapapa's practise yesterday.

Jensen, a friend of Sophia's. Jensen is an expert kapa haka tutor, who used words like 'tone' and 'notes' while talking about singing.

Bec, who is also an expert kapa expert. She brought Tigger with her, who giggled and explored. She is completely cute- if you look up 'cute' in the dictionary, you get a picture of her. Her giggles and exploring brought life to our practise and gave us something to focus on.

Matt, who helped support us by making sure the boys at the back were paying attention.

Thank you so much to Jensen, Bec, Tigger and Matt for coming. We do kapa haka partly because we enjoy it, but mostly because it makes all our effort worthwhile. Kapa haka is for our audience, so it's great having an audience there. 

I'd also like to acknowledge a couple of real leaders:
Flynn, for organising the boys to practising the haka, and being able to lead so well.

Xavier, for overcoming his whakamā and leading the difficult end bit of 'Ko Toku Marae'.

Lastly, thank you to all of you who did you mahi kainga and practised Poi E. Aue, did you all sound great!

Ka kite

Damian / Mr H
damian.hardman@birchwood.school.nz

P.S. This post was to have been posted last week, and refer's to kapa practise in week 9.