City and Te Aro School Visit.

 

Māhutonga Matariki had a fantastic visit to the city this week. We took notice of the impact people have on their marine environments, in particular how much of Wellington City is built on reclaimed land and the fact that there are no natural beaches left in our urban space. 

We also noticed all the words and poems which are scattered across the waterfront. We found a poem by Denis Glover whose poem Drift we used as a writing model this week. 

Wellington Harbour is a Laundry

The harbour is an ironing board:
flat iron tugs dash smoothing toward
any shirt of a ship any pillowslip
of a freighter they decree

must be ironed flat as washing from the sea.  

Then we walked REALLY QUICKLY up to Te Aro School. They greeted us with a Mihi Whakatau. Then we played games and made a whole lot of new friends. Here they are!

The Tug of War

Te Aro students sent us some comments about the visit.

It was so much fun being mixed up with the students from Worser Bay. I caught up with some of my old friends from gymnastics. If we caught up again with them I’d like us all to learn a new game together. John, one of their teachers, said we might visit them and maybe play in the rock pools at Worser Bay and possibly sail.   – Izzy

 

I enjoyed that we had lots of visitors and that the girls won on the tug of war three times. There were so many of us up on the turf. I made three new friends. It is so much fun having another school visit us. – Kala

 

I got to meet so many new people on Wednesday. I decided to go for it and ask people their names. I think that maybe a longer session together would have helped me to meet more new people. – Jay

 

I liked that both groups of children got to meet new people. We began as strangers and then we became friends. They said quite a different karakia from us. – Bentley

 

I liked making new friends. I wish they had arrived earlier in the morning. I would have so liked hanging out for longer.   - Dezon

             The Football

          Climbing the goal posts. Who is that kid?

                          

                         And what we do best; hanging out with friends in trees!

 

                                     Kupe, Hine-aparangi/Kuramārōtini and Pekahourangi 

                              On the waterfront.