Maori Language Week

This week Pukekohe Intermediate have participated in a Nation wide celebration

MAORI LANGUAGE WEEK

The chosen theme this year was “Te Mahi Kai” which is translated to The Language of Food, the Maori hospitality has always been a big part of the culture and this year having this as the theme has made it a bit more special, to celebrate Maori Language Week our school put on a number of activities for the students of the school and they had competitions where you could battle it out with other classes using Te Reo words and phrases. For instance every class would receive the classroom challenge in the morning and you had to either translate English words to Maori or vice versa. There was also a fishing competition where 3 people from each class competed against each other to catch ika (which is also known as fish) they had to make there fishing rod then find a way to catch the most amount of fish possible in the time frame, the winning class was room 43 catch 11 ika.
As PINTV has been starting up there was a special feature called “Te Reo Tuesday” which will carry on through out this year. This week it included greetings and farewells so we could use them in the playground. There was a competition set out through out the whole school which was released a week before the start of Maori Language Week and that was the poster competition where you had to make an eye catching poster that showed it was Maori Language Week and Te Mahi Kai, and also the dates. Ana and Jade from room 12 took out the competition. Congratulations. Thank you very much to Mrs Pearson and Mrs Poutai for their VERY hard work over these past few weeks.