Over many hundreds of hours Chris wove this beautiful korowai and presented it as a gift to the school. It represents her story , and the Journey of Her Heart over this past year.
It has huge significance to our cultural narrative and was completed as apart of a Diploma course under the auspices of Ngai Tahu. The amount of work that has gone into the harvesting the harakeke and preparation of the muka is a measure of the investment that has been made into this beautiful garment.
We had a special mihiwhakatau to honour this gift. Te Ao Marama spoke for us and honoured the hours of work, the taonga and the story and journey that Chris has taken to complete this for us. This ceremony was followed by our Maunga Teitei cultural festival which was once again cancelled because of Covid restrictions. Where there's a will there's a way. Each year we look forward to our Kahukura Celebration where hundreds of parents and children from across the 7 schools, gather together to showcase and celebrate Maori and Pasifika culture.
Our children lead with pride.
This was such a beautiful celebration and the video recording will be added to the Kahukura library of events. Special thanks to Jared for his hours of sweat and tears cutting and editing (and his church who loaned the very expensive equipment)
