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Kapa Haka is now embedded into

the Middle Syndicate education

experience at the Preparatory School.

Teacher Penny Munro-Foster says

students have embraced Kapa Haka

with enthusiasm. “The students are

developing a passion for what makes

New Zealand, Aotearoa unique.

They’re saying, ‘this is important to us,

this is our country and we want to do

this the best that we can’.”

The group’s talents were on show in

September when St Andrew’s hosted

the Tuhono Kapa Haka Festival. A large

number of our Years 4–6 students,

and a few Years 7 and 8 pupils and 42

students from the Secondary School,

participated alongside students from

other Christchurch schools.

“Kapa Haka gives an opportunity to

those students who would not usually

perform in front of an audience to

step out of their comfort zone and

safely learn in a large group,” says

Penny. “There is a sense of being

part of something bigger when the

whole syndicate comes together and

becomes a team.”

For the Middle Syndicate teachers,

encouraging students to learn other

languages and cultures opens their

communication and thinking abilities.

It opens up new opportunities and

gives students’ perspectives that they

may not have encountered otherwise.

The Kapa Haka group has its own

St Andrew’s school haka –

Haka o

Hatu Anaru

(St Andrew’s College

Haka), created by Matua Steve Reid

who has worked with the Kapa Haka

group on its performances.

Haere mai,

we are

New Zealand