Taku Kapa Ahurea o Tautoro

I te  Rahina i haere te kura katoa ki te Kura Tuarua o Kaikohe mo te Ahurea kapahaka.Kua tae te wa ko to matou nei wa ki te heke ki runga i te atamira. I te wa i heke mai, ko  etahi o matou nei tamariki e whakama ana. I te wa i  timata te rakuraku ki te waiata wairua tapu. E tino whakama i ahau i timata ahau ki te katakata, i muri o te waiata Wairua tapu. Ka kapia a Whaea Chicky i nga arai, ka rongo i a matou i nga hunga ora “ko tera anake”, i te wa i puari i nga arai, ka parere nga hunga ora haere tautoro.ka waiata matou te waiata ko matou nei tino hari nga hunga ora, i te wa ka mahi matou i te poi, tino hari ahau  na te mea kahore ahau i wareware i nga mahi a ringa, ko te wa tino pai ki ahau ko te haka na te mea tino kaha nga tama, ki te mahi i te haka. I muri atu i te haka ka waiata matou te waiata tino pai ki ahau. Ko te waiata “He waka taonga”, ko tera te waiata pai rawa atu ki ahau. Tino harihari ahau ki te whakatu oku mahi kapahaka.  

Te Hararei Tuatoru.

Tino Pai Nga Hararei Kura

He pai ki ahau nga hararei kura, na te mea,  ka taea e ahau i te moe tonu. Ka taea matou ki te haere mo tetahi hararei ki Akarana. ki te whare o toku tuakana.

I muri i tera,  i haere matou ki te whare o oku nei Whaea Keke me oku Matua Keke. Ka kite ahau i oku kaihana a Kaiya ratou ko Dayton me Hori me Shevy. Kore matou i kitea i a ratou i te roanga o te wa.  I tera atu ra,  ka haere matou ki te puna kau kau kei te West Waves. I noho matou kei reira mo te roanga o te ra. I hoki matou ki te kainga  ki te whakamau kakahu mo te huritau o Ricky.

Te purakau o Poutini

Te purakau o Poutini

Taniwha Poutini guards the mauri within the treasured stone.

The mana (spiritual force) of pounamu comes from Kahue (or Ngahue) an atua (God).

Taniwha Poutini as protector of the stone is the servant of Kahue.

Poutini from time to time used to venture further afield.

One day, while resting in the warm waters offTuhua (Mayor Island, in northeast NZ) he saw a beautiful woman, Waitaiki, bathing in the sea.

Poutini looked at Waitaiki with lust in his heart. He lunged forward and snatched her and fled south towards the mainland.

Waitaiki's husband,Tamaahua was a powerful chief and skilled in the rituals of the spirit world. When he realised that his wife had been taken he threw a magical dart in the air. The dart pointed in the direction of his wife.

Finally, after reaching the shore Poutini lit a fire to warm Waitaiki, but hearing Tamaahua approaching he took her up again and moved on.Tamaahua and his slave paddled after then in hot pursuit.

The chase continued across Aotearoa (New Zealand).

Each time Poutini stopped he lit a fire to warm his captive: atTahanga, on the Coromandel Peninsula at Whangamata in Taupo, atRangitoto Ki te Tonga (d'Urville Island), Onetahua, (Farewell Spit) andPahuatare on the West Coast.

Fleeing further south Poutini and his captive eventually reachedPiopiotahi (Milford Sound).The rocks at all these sites - all of them important sources of stone for Maori - are all still stained by the fires of Poutini.

Weeping with cold and fright, Waitaiki begged him to turn around.

Poutini listened to her, and carried her back up the coast, eventually taking sanctuary in the headwaters of the Arahura River.

He realised that Poutini and Waitaiki had turned back and tracked them up the coast to the Arahua valley.In close pursuit, at Piopiotahi Tamaahua found his wife's tears preserved forever in the stone named tangiwai (Bowenite)

That night Tamaahua rested and prepared for the final showdown.

Poutini was concerned. Fearing Tamaahua's strength and determination, he decided that if he could not have Waitaiki, no-one would.

In the morning Tamaahua set out to do battle with Poutini to reclaim Waitaiki. But when he reached the head of the river, his enemy had gone.He transformed her into his likeness (pounamu) and laid her in the cold waters of the river. Then he slipped downstream past the sleeping warrior.

He found his young wife cold and lifeless, transformed into stone in the riverbed. Realising what had happened he went back home, grieving.

His tangi (song of grief) still sounds throughout the mountains.

To the Ngai Tahu people Waitaiki is the mother of pounamu.

The Jade fragments that break from the mother lode and roll down the river to the sea are her children.

Uanuku raua ko Rahiri

Uenuku raua ko Kaharau
Te ingoa o te manu aute...
Ko te ingoa o te manu aute ko Tuhoronuku. Na ta raua nei Papa ko Rahiri i tukua te manu aute kia rere.

Uenuku raua ko Kaharau

E totohe ana raua. Ka hoki mai a Rahiri ki tona kainga. Nana i mea mai ‘’ ko wai tenei tauhou?’

‘’ No hea ke ia ?’’ Ka mea mai ia ki a Rahiri ko Uenuku tera, e tikana ia mai i konei.

Ko nga tungane

E kore ano nga tungane i mahi tikana i korero tetahi ki tetahi.

Ka whakaaro ta raua nei Papa ko Rahiri ki te mahia tetahi manu aute ki te whakamanahia mo ona tamaiti kia rangimarie.

Te Ra Waka Ama

Te Ra Waka Ama i Hokianga
I te wa i haere matou ki te hoe i nga waka ama.

Ko te tuatahi e korero ana a matua Arean ki a matou e pa ana o nga waka ama, tuatahi nana nei  tetahi whakatauki hei arahi i a matou mo te ra whakahirahira.

I muri i te korero a matua Arean ka waiata ia, i muri o tona waiata ka tu a whaea Chanella ki te whakahokia te mihi ki ai ia i muri i tona tu ka waiata matou.

Ka ki a matua Arean ki a matou, "haere mai". Ka haere te ruma o te tau tuatahi i muri o te ruma rua ka haere te ruma rima. 

ka haere matou ko Ashtyn,Journey,Mahia,Kura me te 

kaihautu ko Dalton. Ka  mahi matou e wha nga laps ka ki i a Dalton ki a Journey "Kaua e hoa, kaua e patua te wai kei maku koutou!".

Ka haere te kura katoa ma runga i nga waka ama, tino harikoa ana matou tino ataahua ta matou nei ra.

                            Na Kohuroa