Matariki Family Event

Kia ora Koutou!

This Friday (22 June) we have our very first performance of the year! So exciting, you have worked hard and you will be great. Our performance is to celebrate Matariki, which is the Māori New Year. (Hopefully you'll be able to find out more this week and produce "something" so our parents can learn what it's all about!)

A big TINO PAI Ō MAHI to the P.T.A. for organising this event! We are so lucky to have such dedicated and creative parents doing cool things like this for us!

Here's the flier: 

We will need to be really organised, so please read the following:

Girls 
Please try on dresses any time this week. Take your dress home in a boomerang bag or cloth supermarket bag by Friday. It can come to school on Monday.

You can come to school on Friday night with your dress on, SO LONG AS YOU WEAR SOMETHING OVER TOP IN CASE YOU SPILL TOMATO SAUCE OR SOMETHING ON YOURSELF. Other clothes, like sauce-stained t-shirts, sweaters, etc, can go in a cloth supermarket bag which you will bring to the hall with you at 5.45.

I don't know where you can get changed on Friday night, so you will possibly wear your kapa dress, with something over top, for the night. Wonderful if your dress can go through the washing machine, and DON'T pat your cat or dog while wearing your dress!

Junior students- we might not have a dress small enough for you this time.

P.S. the Māori word for 'dress' is 'kākahu'.

Boys 
You are allowed to wear a plain (PLAIN) black t-shirt, if you like. You will need to put sweater, other t-shirt, etc in a cloth supermarket bag, which we'll leave in the hall or Whānau room (breakfast club) for our performance. 

Tīpare (headband) and tāpeka (sash) can be collected from the hall on Friday just before our performance.

EVERYBODY
1. We will meet in the hall ready to rock and roll at 5.45.

2. Bare feet to perform, so look after your shoes.

3. Open to ALL kapa kids, even our teina. It's a confidence thing, and it's up to you whether you join us. You're still allowed to be in kapahaka even if you're too nervous to perform with us on Friday.

4. You have worked hard to sing well. We haven't had the hall for 3 1/2 terms, so you can afford to relax a bit with actions :) Try hard but be kind to yourself.

If you have any questions please do ask!  

Ngā mihi

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

P.S. Do let me know if I have forgotten something....

Oh yes, go to Birchwood School's Kaupapa Māori page to see waiata and karakia. 
Click here.