Te Hiku Hauora is privileged to provide local secondary school students who show outstanding achievement in Te Reo Māori with the Dr Bruce Gregory Merit Award. This year awards were made available to Taipa Area School, Te Rangi Aniwaniwa, Abundant Life, Kaitaia College, Broadwood Area School, Whangaroa College, Pukemiro Kura and Te Kura Taumata O Panguru.
The study of Te Reo Māori has become an increasingly popular degree option as a result of evolving government policy and social attitudes. Careers are available in areas such as teaching, library work, law, research, iwi organisations, policy analysts, service delivery areas of government, local body and private organisations.
Language revitalisation is key to retaining Maori cultural identity and uniqueness in the world, gives students expertise in a major aspect of their own culture and something they can be very proud of; this is why Te Hiku Hauora is committed to offering the Dr Bruce Gregory Merit Award to students who demonstrate outstanding achievement in Te Reo Māori.
Ko Mamaru te maunga, Ko Mangatakawere te awa. Ko Rangaunu te moana. Ko Mamaru te waka. Ko Parata te rangatira. Ko Kareponia te marae. Ko Patukoroha te hapū. Ko Ngati Kahu te iwi. ‘Te Rangi kei runga, te Whenua kei raro, te Moana kei waho. Taku au kei roto, Tihei Māuri Ora’
Ko Lyla-Blue Jaqueline Shalom Paparoa tōku ingoa. He uri tenei nō Ngāti Kahu, Te Rarawa. I kuraina ahau ki Te Wharekura o Te Rangi Āniwaniwa, koia! i kuraina ahau ki tenei o ngā kura kaupapa Māori mai i te kohanga reo tae noa ki ngā rā o naianei. Nā tēnei te mihi ki tōku kura, me tōku whānau i kaha akiaki, i poipoi ai i tēnei raukura kia tū hei mangai, hei kaiarahi, mo tōku kura, tōku whanau ōtira toku iwi mo ngā rā kei tua.
I tenei tau i tū ai ahau hei raukura, hei kahurangi mo tōku kura. Nei rā he reo ki ngā manu korero a rohe mo te manu korero, Ngā pū kōrero a Rohe, me Ngā pū kōrero a Motu i reira ka whiwhi au i te turanga tua toru. Hēoi he kaitataki ahau mo ngā ahurea o Te Tai Tokerau 2017. Āna koia, i whakauranga ahau ki ngā kura reo o taku kura, arā i whai wāhi ahau ki ngā whakataetae a Rohe, i reira i whai ahau me tōku kura i te taonga toa whaka-ihu-waka 2017.
Kātahi kē nā hoki, āe! Ko oku wawata, oku moemoea i te mutunga o te kura kia uru atu ahau ki roto i te tauā moana, i te Ngāti Tūmatauenga hei kai whakapakari tinana ka mutu hei kai pakeho matauranga. He āritarita taku kia tū hei kanohi mo te whenua o Aotearoa.
Hō ake, ko ngā mihi kia koutou e Te Hiku Hauora. Kei tawhiti kē to koutou kaha, manaakitanga, aroha, mo tātou ngā rangatahi, kia tutuki ai tātou i o mātou moemoea, tenei te reo mihi kia koutou nā konei, ka tipu ka puawai ahau, tātou, kia tū hei rangatira mo apopo tena koutou kātoa.
Along with supporting students who show outstanding achievement in Te Reo Māori, Te Hiku Hauora Dental provides FREE basic dentistry for all adolescents aged 13 – 17 years old. To maintain that award winning smile phone us now on 09 408 2781 and make your appointment today.