TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2021 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 KEEPING WAIROA RACING HOPES ALIVE PAGE 5 ‘YOU CAN’T RELY ON LUCK’ PAGE 6 PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT: Manutuke School is one of the first schools in the country to pilot a new NCEA subject, Te Ao Haka, covering Maori performing arts. Students Rangimaitu Patuwai (left), Waiora Lewis, Mereaina ARTS & Kopa-Emery and Cheidan Moetara are practising movements for the physical section of the subject. SEE STORY PAGE 2 ENTERTAINMENT Picture by Paul Rickard PAGES 23 - 26 ‘We’re not letting it go’ Fundraisers in discussion about privately-owned location by Wynsley Wrigley Council has agreed to gift the entirely up to the fundraising other Endeavour model to Te group to decide what they wished THE fundraisers behind the Aitanga a Hauiti and Tolaga to do with the model. controversial Endeavour model Bay who have voiced support for They could gift the model to hope to have the model on displaying a model. another group, she said. display somewhere in the city Council would help with the Cr Sheldrake told the Herald this year. installation of the model. he had been approached by many Former Gisborne district The iwi did not wish to constituents who wanted the councillor Malcolm MacLean, one comment when approached by model displayed in the city. of the organisers of the effort to the Herald. Mr MacLean said no decision raise $20,000 for one model, said James Cook sailed on to Uawa was close at hand but he was they were “not letting it go”. in October 1769 and the area confident the model would be on Council had “given the tick” to became the place of first positive display sometime this year. the fundraising campaign, that’s contact between Maori and Discussions were being held why we did it,” he said European. with the owners of a privately- Councillors last June revoked Mr MacLean said he was “very owned location, but he did not an earlier decision to erect two happy” with the decision to gift wish to comment further. models, the other funded by the other model to Uawa. It was stated at the previous council, in the city after a strong Councillor Terry Sheldrake operations meeting that: backlash. raised the issue of the Endeavour •฀Public฀notification฀would฀be฀ While the lack of public models before the operations required if the fundraiser model consultation was one issue, committee which consists of all was erected on private land many Maori see the models as councillors and the mayor. “within the area of the opposing symbolising colonialism and He said both Tairawhiti group”. racism. Museum and the East Coast •฀Need฀for฀a฀resource฀consent฀ Mr MacLean said the council Museum of Technology had would depend on installation and had “flip-flopped” despite declined to accept the council- impact on neighbours. Gisborne Herald polling and funded model, and he asked to be •฀Community฀consultation฀ RUN AGROUND: submissions made to council both updated on the other model. would be required if the model A 4-metre long model of the Endeavour showing majority support for Council chief executive Nedine could be viewed by the general made of aluminium and weighing 200 kilograms faces an installation of the models. Thatcher Swann said it was public as a work of art. uncertain future but Malcolm MacLean is adamant it will go on public display somewhere in Gisborne. 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Picture by Paul Rickard by Jack Marshall around.” It was not that long ago that the Maori MANUTUKE School is among schools language was discouraged at schools, Mr across New Zealand breaking new Hollis said. educational ground with the introduction Thirty-five years ago there were no state of NCEA-recognised Maori performing Maori-immersion schools where teachers arts into its curriculum. and students spoke in their native tongue, More than 30 secondary schools and “and we need to remember that today kura across the country are piloting the we are beneficiaries of our elders’ hard new subject — Te Ao Haka — at all NCEA work”, Mr Hollis said. levels. “They slogged away when it was hard, The subject gives students a strong when it was not cool to be Maori, when foundation on which they can build they were made to eat soap at high themselves, Manutuke school kaiako/ school for speaking te reo.” teacher Dayne Hollis says. Mr Hollis said two of the early Maori “It helps students with their identity language advocates were Joanne Paenga, — who they are culturally — and from who passed away recently, and her late those contexts they are able to shape husband Anaru “Skip” Paenga. They themselves using Maori perspectives, pushed for Maori performing arts in using the stories from where they’re schools over 20 years ago. from.” The addition of Maori performing Te Ao Haka is a performance-based art arts marks a significant step towards form grounded in Maori culture, language ensuring parity for Maori knowledge in and identity. New Zealand’s education system, says Students will develop a range of abilities Ellen MacGregor-Reid, the Ministry of like leadership and communication skills, Education’s deputy secretary of early along with lateral and critical thinking. learning and student achievement. Mr Hollis says it is not just about Around 900 students in English-medium performing kapa haka. It is about breaking and Maori-medium schools will be down the actions and learning about studying Te Ao Haka this year. traditions, stories and context — using “This is a significant step in our efforts local stories to guide the subject and get to ensure Maori knowledge, culture kids excited. and approaches to learning are valued, Te Ao Haka is also helping students recognised and supported in accordance master body and mind while opening with the Government’s obligations under themselves up to other learning, Mr Hollis the Treaty of Waitangi, and to enable all says. young New Zealanders to choose from a The subject has been taught out of class full range of pathways to further study or in the past but is now being recognised at work,” Ms MacGregor-Reid says. the same level as English, te reo, maths As part of the NCEA Change Package, and science. the Government is committed to “What is awesome now is that Te Ao developing new ways to recognise IN A ROW: Haka sits among those, which gives our matauranga Maori, build teacher Rangimaitu Patuwai, children access to things that might not capability and improve resourcing and with classmates lined have been there if this subject wasn’t support for Maori learners. up behind her, goes through a movement PUTTING IN THE as part of the Maori MAHI: Giving it their performing arts all are (from left) Levi subject which has Hune, Te Uemairangi been put into the Lemon, Te Haeora school curriculum Kerekere-Puke, this year. 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This home helped to find a more permanent 170 additional transitional housing people with an immediate will be used for transitional housing place to live. places over the next four years. housing need — some of who THE Government has paid to help meet the urgent need in the “The people and families who “Within that, we expect to have have been living in overcrowded $520,000 for a family home to be area. will stay here may already be living, delivered around 40 additional situations — with warm, dry, short- used as transitional housing here. “The home will be managed working or going to school locally. transitional housing places in the term accommodation and vital The three-bedroom home was and maintained by a provider of Others will be from nearby areas or Gisborne district by 2022.” wraparound support services,” Ms listed on the open market for sale by housing and support services, who districts.” Earlier this week, the Government Woods said. negotiation and Kainga Ora – Homes is contracted by the Ministry of A Te Tuapapa Kura Kainga – revealed it had added 1000 more “The majority of new transitional and Communities supported housing Housing and Urban Development. Ministry of Housing and Urban transitional housing places as housing places (605 out of 1000) are director Andrew Booker confirmed They will make sure families who Development spokesperson said as promised under the Aotearoa New for families with children.