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Henry-Metcalfe, who makes dog jackets /PapamoaPost even hand-crafted dog coats - Organiser Lisa Cowan says there is no and will be donating all money she makes Pāpāmoa kids have got creative with charge to have a stall, but registrations are at the market to a needy family in Bali. CIRCULATION stall ideas for their very own market. now closed. All kids who hold a stall will go into the 12,200 copies printed More than 70 children have registered “Local kids of Pāpāmoa will be busy draw to win a Teepee Partee slumber party for a stall at the first ever It Takes A Village sorting out their toys, clothes, being cre - for them and three friends, with a $50 Four DEADLINE kids’ market, which will be held in the ative making things to sell and I am sure Square voucher so they can buy treats for Our news and advertising school holidays on Sunday July 18 at there will be baking involved too,” says the party. deadline is around the middle Golden Sands School from 10am to 12pm. 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Any - histories curriculum is being taught at Te thing that’s going to have an impact on Akau ki Pāpāmoa as the national framework tamariki Māori is something we are inter - is finalised, and the school potentially used ested in.” as a model. His work at this level is having a positive Bruce says Te Akau ki Pāpāmoa students impact on the Te Akau ki community; the have embraced learning about their history. school is at the front of new initiatives and “Our approach is very localised. We are doesn’t have to wait for it to ripple down to learning about the history of Pāpāmoa and regional level. It’s mahi that Bruce sees as a have been working in partnership with calling. “This isn’t a love or passion, this is [local] Ngā Pōtiki iwi, so we have an under - who I am. We are acting for Māori. It’s set - standing of the history and the relevance it ting a path for other tamariki to be success - plays in the rōhe (area) that we live in. Chil - ful in the system we have.” dren are learning about the history of the Under-achievement of Māori children in land they are learning on. With a deep schools is “a chronic disability” and Te Akau understanding of the accurate historical nar - ki has been able to buck that trend. “Why is rative of how we all got here, students would it that at our school the Māori children are be more likely to think, speak and learn with doing as well as everyone else? It’s about the authority about identity, culture and lan - importance of identity, culture and language guage.” – once you do that, the other things start to That includes learning about the history happen.” of the whenua (land) and the people of the At Te Akau ki, where there are children land over time. from 37 different iwi, the difference includes Te Akau ki Pāpāmoa School principal Bruce Jepsen. “We have been talking about the signifi - the option of full immersion Māori classes, cance of Pāpāmoa whenua, the people that as well as four “reo rua” classes which are lived on the land pre-colonisation, pre- taught 50 per cent in English and 50 per cent treaty.” in te reo Māori. Pāpāmoa Post July 2021 3 At Coastal Pet Vet we offer a comprehensive professional health care service for your pet, complemented with impeccable customer service. We want you to feel right at home with us. Come see why we’re different! 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