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National MAC Hui Rotorua 10-12 August 2016

National Maori Achievement Collaborative Hui
Ōhinemutu Maori, Rotorua



Speaker 1: Ben Manley (Rotorua City Council)
The History of Ngati Whakaue - Fenton Agreement 1880

Speaker 2: Kingi Biddle QSM for services to Maori and Mental Health.   Led the development of Te Reo Revitalisation in the home (2010).  
Key Messages:
  • Acknowledge kids for who they are, not what they can do.
  • Every day a child walks into your school trying to find their place.  Their niche.
  • When you find your place.  You have a sense of direction.  You know where you are going.
Speaker 3:  Rawiri Waru.  General Manager of Radio Te Arawa Rotorua.   Alumnist.  Scientist. Chemical Engineer.  Musician.   
Key Messages:
Believe you can do anything.  Nothing is a barrier.   Strong links back to whanau important.  Giving back important.   Staying grounded.  

Speaker 4: Teachers from TE RANGIHAKAHAKA PROGRAMME FOR EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS
Key Messages:  A PD Programme for Lifting High Achievement in Maori.
Kaawatia (characteristics of high achieving Maori)

Matakokiri Programme.  Place based learning.  A holiday programme for students and whanau - Science rich and linked to the stories of Whakatuae.  Each wananga is based on a narrative, local experts are involved from iwi and the Science industry, compulsory for whanau to engage in this, practical and hands-on.

What could we use from Ngai tahu narrative and incorporate into our Science curriculum?

To check out the Royal Society Crest Programme and Curious Minds Foundation.

Speaker 5:  Leith Comer and Mercia Yates (Ngā Pūmanawa e waru - Eight Beating Eights)
All about increasing Teacher Capability, Engaging Whanau and Iwi with schools, ensuring Learners have access to Technology.
In what ways can families determine how their engagement will look in schools?

Speaker 6:  Jamus O'Callangh (Musician, Kapa Haka Leader, Business Entrepreneur)
Key Messages: 
There is a power and spirituality about Kapa Haka.  It also teaches discipline, and hard work as a team.  It helps to set the foundation with our children - kapa haka has it's own values base.   
We need to chase our talent down in young people and help them find opportunities.

In education we can use an an analogy from rugby - we need to run relentlessly, holding and protecting the ball (being clever not to drop it) and stick together as a team.

Speakers 7: Students from Rotorua Boys (Maori Achievement Leader), Rotorua Girls and Western Heights High School.

Key Messages:  As students we need to look out of the tunnel and into the world.

Who is your biggest inspiration?  Who is your father figure?
Who is the person who sets the bar high for you?
Our biggest influences in schools are those who don't teach their way but the way we learn - they get that we all learn differently.  Teachers who have PASSION, LOVE to TEACH.
We have had role models around us - setting the bar high and showing us the possible.
How are the Maori values and tikanga been instilled in you?
We have been in learning settings where we have been able to keep Maori ways with us - things such as sitting to eat, karakia, no shoes in classrooms, waiata.

Check out Cactus fitness programme - run by the Police.  Could we do a similar junior style programme here with the help of the Police?  Could it run adjacent to WPCA?

Implications for Breens: 
  • Maori success - it is being made really visible - can we see it, can we feel it are we showing the possible to our students?
  • Brilliance assemblies later in Term Four/early in Term One - Maori High Achievers from Secondary Schools speaking to our students about their influences, how they have been able to achieve and what they plan to do next.
  • How are we explicitly ensuring the values of Manaakitangia, Whanaungatanga, Tangata Whenuatanga, Ako and Wānanga are evident in all our learning spaces? They align beautifully with our values of Beautiful, Belonging and Brilliant but are they specifically being modelled, talked about and felt by our students in our spaces?
  • How to grow the Te Reo in our school further.  SPIN classes, interchange, extension.  A place based Science learning unit in term four through Wonder or in term one through Belonging?



For me:

Work on being able to play and lead Te Aroha, Tu tera mai, and He honere with confidence.  Whakataka te hau.  
Work to make part of my daily vocab - korero, mahi, patai, taonga, manaakitanga, tohu (advise).

Secondary students performing Haka to us




Views from the marae across to the Anglican church















View from Pukeroa Hill on our walk


Hereora Principals on Tour

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  1. Karla16 August 2016 at 09:41

    Looks and sounds amazing. Can't wait to hear more and see how we can implement into our school programme to give the most value to all our kids.

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