Tawera Bilingual School

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29/06/2023

Congratulations to Hinehou and Pika’s son and ex-Tawera student FLTLT Donté Kelly, Deputy Maint Flight Commander - 6 SQUADRON, Te Tauaarangi o Aotearoa | Royal New Zealand Air Force

He is receiving The Joe Young Memorial Award for Best Overall Student - highest overall academic grades & The award for Best Individual Research Project Thesis.
He was selected by NZ Defence to study a Masters in Aerospace Engineering.

He will be graduating in London England, Thursday 29 June 2023, 9pm NZST

Well done! A great achievement for a Tawera School old boy and Tuhoe Whanaunga. �
https://cranfield.shorthandstories.com/graduation-2023-cranfield-campus-2023-cohort/index.html

31/08/2022

Anei he korero māu

Waikaremoana

Lake Waikaremoana is in the south-east of the territory. Tūhoe and Ngāti Ruapani say the lake was formed by the thrashing of Haumapuhia, who was turned into a taniwha by her father Māhū. In her vain efforts to reach the sea, Haumapuhia formed the various branches of the lake.

In the early 19th century a state of war existed between hapū (sub-tribes) of Ngāi Tūhoe and Ngāti Kahungunu around Waikaremoana. Tūhoe hapū moved from other parts of the tribal territory to the lake, to cement the Tūhoe occupation of Waikaremoana. They built and occupied pā, and intermarried with local hapū, to the extent that Ngāti Ruapani-ki-Waikaremoana identify strongly with Tūhoe. With the arrival of Christianity in the 19th century, peace was achieved and the boundary laid between Tūhoe and Ngāti Kahungunu to the east, by the symbolic joining of two mountains: Kūhā Tārewa (Tūhoe) and Turi-o-Kahu (Ngāti Kahungunu).

Korero: Rangi Mc Garvey
Whakaahua: Curtesy of Cara Simpson

28/08/2022

Pehea te mahi

This video will show you one way of making paint using soil, water, and tree gum. Check out our website for our gathering guidelines, karakia and some ways you…

28/08/2022

preparing paint from Papatuanuku

In this video we will show you how to transform raw soil and rock into powdered earth colours to make art materials like paints, crayons and dyes. Check out our…

09/08/2022

TUHOE TRIBAL TERRITORY

The traditional lands of Tūhoe centre on the rugged Te Urewera region, in the central eastern North Island. It stretches westward from Maungapōhatu to Ngā Māhanga on the Whakatāne River, then further west to the watershed between the Whakatāne and Rangitāiki rivers, and northwards along Te Ika-whenua-a-Tamatea range to a point just west of Tarapounamu peak. From there the boundary extended south to Maungataniwha, crossed the Wairau River and followed the Huiarau Range to Whakatakā, and then back to Maungapōhatu.

Over the centuries, mainly through conquest and intermarriage, the tribe’s influence spread to Waikaremoana and Te Pāpuni in the south-east, Te Whāitinui-a-Toi, Whirinaki and Te Houhi to the west, and Ōpouriao, Waimana and Te Hūrepo to the north. Later, Ōhiwa provided a northern access to the resources of Ōhiwa Harbour.

The land is extremely rough, broken, mountainous forest country. The rivers are fast flowing, ill suited to canoes or Pākehā craft. At Ngā Māhanga, Ruatāhuna, Ohāua, Hana-mahihi and a few other locations there are areas suitable for cultivation, but elsewhere there is very little useable land. It was only with the occupation of Ōpouriao and Waimana to the north in the early 19th century that Tūhoe acquired large areas suitable for cultivation. The ruggedness, harsh climate and inaccessibility of Te Urewera, along with the fierce reputation of its inhabitants, deterred most Europeans until the second half of the 19th century.

Korero: Rangi Mc Garvey
Whakaahua: Curtesy of Cara Simpson