School Hangi

What’s Happening On Friday the 1st of July the school is doing it's first official school wide hangi experience.  This is an opportunity for the children and community.  The school has provided the community with a hangi pit and now this is our opportunity to showcase it to the community.  As the Kapa Haka community we will be working in partnership with the school to be able to perform it.  This is a massive undertaking.  In 2014 we completed a hangi for our Marae noho which was for 150 people, this time we are looking at feeding around 600 people.  This will be an incredible and ambitious undertaking. Why Is It Important Not only is this important for our children but also for our community.  Our community will benefit from experiencing traditional Maori cooking.  We can share the culture and assist the school in connecting with its biculturalism values.  Food can bring the community together but what we learnt from the last one is that the learning goes beyond the children to our families as well. Save The Date Please save the 1st of July as a date to come to the school.  The prior day is the preparation day but the school will be doing the hangi on the Friday during school time. We Need You We need your help.  For those of you that can, we would love to have your help in terms of preparation and to do some of the serving for the day.  We are looking for as many willing helpers as possible.  You can either help with the preparation on the 30th of June or the actual day on the 1st of July.  Duties will vary from facilitating the work with the kids as well as getting stuck in as well. Make sure you stick around to taste the food.  It's going to be an amazing day that we would love for you all to be involved in. What’s Next We need you to come back to us if you can help.  We'll circulate the jobs we need help with and connect you with a team that shares responsibility.  This is an awesome opportunity for us all to connect as a community. The school will be reaching out to parents through the hubs but the more people we can engage with the smoother the load will be.  Summary This is an ambitious challenge but if any team can do this it would be us.  We rely on the continued support of our community and hope that you will continue to support these endevours.  If you have any questions or require clarification please email back or contact at the next Kapa Haka practice on Wednesday. We would have missed many parents from our distribution list.  Please share this communication with any relevant parents or guardians. Kapa Haka Committee