Beep test

Last people surviving.

House and Vice-Captains

Tessa, Amy (Foster) Fletcher, Ayesha (Guinea)

Cultural badges

Congratulations Amy, Ayesha, Amy and Holly.

Triathlon winner - Tessa

Weta

Face painting

Radio tracking

Worm Charming

Bugs

Native plants

Poop

Bird calls

Samara

The red patiki represents my mum. I choose red for my mum because she likes red.
The green Manglopare is my dad. I choose green for my dad because he likes green. He has courage and strength. The yellow koru is my brother. I choose yellow because he has lots of energy.

Ryan

Nash

My kowhaiwhai, family tree.

The hammerhead shark is my dad because he is strong and courageous. I painted him green because of his love of nature.

The two koru’s are me and my sister because we are young.  I painted us yellow because we are happy and bright like the sun.

My mother is the flounder because of her kindness and hospitality. I painted her blue because of her depth and she is not only what meets the eye. 

Mitchell

My Kowhaiwhai represents my family. My family is a kind caring family. For the koru's it is me and my mum and my dad is the mangopare. I picked the hammerhead (mangopare) because my dad is very strong. My brother is a koru because he is very kind and caring and nurturing. I picked the koru for me and mum because I'm good with little kids and my mum is too, because she is great with little kids and is good at looking after me.

Millie

My kowhaiwhai has me, my three brothers, my mum, my sister and my dad.

My dad and my brothers are the hammerhead mangopare which represents strength, courage and power. My dad's colour is red which means leadership and courage. My first brother is yellow which means freshness and joy. My second brother is purple which means frustration. My third brother is green which means ambition and jealousy.

My mum and my sister are the koiri which represents self-reflection and nurturing. My mum's colour is a darkish yellow which means freshness and joy. My sister is the same.

I'm a koru which represents birth and the unfolding of life because I'm the youngest in my family. My colour is yellow which means freshness and joy.

Max

My kowhaiwhai is of my family. I made my mum and dad a hammerhead. The hammerhead stands for power and strength. I made the backgraound purple and green because they are my two favourite colours.

Mattthew's Kowhaiwhai

Matthews Kowhaiwhai

The big red Mangopare represents my Dad because he has a lot of willpower, leadership and courage. The smaller green Mangopare represents my brother because he is commonly associated with money. The big blue Koru represents my Mum because she has good health, healing, tranquillity, understanding and softness. The small yellow Koru represents me because I have freshness and joy. The green tiny Koru represents my dog Bolt because I felt like making him green.

Jorja

My kowhaiwhai has Mum, Dad, my brother, my dog and me. My dad is a hammerhead shark, the Maori mangopare which means strength, courage and power. My dad's colour was dark blue which represents knowledge, power, integrity and seriousness. My dad is strong and can be serious when he wants to be.

My Mum is a koiri which means self-reflection and nurturing. My mum's colour is bluewhich means trust, loyalty, wisdaom, confidence, intelligence, faith and truth. You can tell my mum anything even if she doesn't agree you can still tell her and she tells you teh right thing to do.

My brother is a koru which means unfolding life. I picked teh koru for my brother because he is teh youngest in teh family. His colour is light blue which means softness. I picked light blue because my brother is very soft and sensitive.

My dog is a puhoro which represents swiftness and agility. She is always running around. Her colour is yellow-greeen which means jealousy. She is always jealous of something.

I am a puhoro which represents swiftness and agility. agility means flexible and trust me. I'm flexible. My colour was yellow which means sunshine, joy, happiness and energy and I am all of those things.

Daniel

My father is the strong hammerhead shark over the top of my family. I put him as this because he is strong. My mother the caring flounder is in the middle because she holds us all together. My brother is teh blue strength in teh corner and i am the yellow puhoro (agility) linked in the corner.

Caley

Bree

Becky

A kowhaiwhai is a picture of a family, represented by koru's. Me = wave like koru, meaning speed and agility. Sarah = same as me, Mum = double koru meaning nuturing and reflection, Pam = same as mum, Dad = hammerhead shark meaning strength and power and Catherine  = small single koru, meaning birth and unfolding of life.

The colours also have meanings: Orange = enthusiasm, happiness and encouragement (Mum).
Yellow = happiness, intellect and energy (Me and Sarah).
Blue = trust, wisdom and faith (Pam).
Purple = extravagance, independence and creativity (Catherine).
Red = strength, power and determination (Dad)

Anakin

My Kowhaiwhai

With my kowhaiwhai I have included myself, dad, step mum, sister, and my second sister in my picture that represents our families.

In my picture my sister (Morgan) is represented as the Rauru which is similar to the Koru which is birth and unfolding of life (Josie) my other sister is represented by the Koru which is birth and unfolding of life. My step mum (Lisa) represents the Patiki which means the symbol of welcome and hospitality. My dad (Mark) represents the Mangopare which represents the hammer head shark which is strength, courage and power. And me (Anakin) I represent the Puhoro which is swiftness and agility.

I’ve chosen this for my family because it represents us best in the many ways that I could of chosen for our family. 

Amy G

On my Kowhaiwhai my dad is the hammerhead. The meaning of the hammerhead is strength and masculinity. I thought my dad fitted that. My mum is the patiki. This shape represents the flounder. It is a symbol of welcome and hospitality. I thought that was like my mum. Also my sister and I are both koiri. This shape involves the koru repeating in on itself. It represents both self-reflection and nurturing. And then there's the meaning of the colours. My sister's colour is yellow. The meaning of yellow is sunshine. It is associated with joy, happiness, intellect and energy. I thought yellow was a good colour for her. I am blue. Blue is the colour of the colour of sky and sea. It is often associated with depth and stability. It symbolises trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith and truth. I thought this was a good colour for me. My mum is red which is the colour of strength, power and determination as well as passion, desire and love. My dad is green. I didn't choose green because of its meaning, I chose it because he likes the colour green.

Amy J

My kowhaiwhai.

In my kowwhaiwhai I have Me my Mother, Father and my older Brother and Sister.

For my father I have the mangopare also known as the hammer head, the hammer head represents the hammerhead shark. And is about strength, courage and power. And that is what I see in my Dad. It is also in the colour blue which stands for faith and truth.

For my Mum I chose the Patiki, it represents the flounder. It is a symbol of welcome and hospitality. It s in the colour red which means energy, strength and power.

For my older Brother I have a koru the koru is based on the curled- up young fern frond. As such it represents birth and the unfolding of life. And it is in the colour green which represents growth and harmony.

For my older Sister I have a koru as well in the colour light blue which represents heath, understanding and softness.

And I did me as a koru in the colour purple which represents creativity. Mystery and magic.             

Aimee

Abby

On my kowhaiwhai my dad is the hammerhead mangopare. The shape represents strength, courage and power. I chose the colour red because it represents emotional and intense colour . it is associated with vigour, will power, leadership and courage. My sister and my brother, Jake and Ashley are korus which represent the unfolding of life. Ashley is purple that represents gloom and sad feeling and Jake is green which represents ambition and jealousy. The next one is Angela and me (Abby). We are the koiri which represents both self-reflection and nurturing. The colour represents freshness and joy.

Lincoln University Ecology Trip

I hope you enjoyed the ecology trip out to Lincoln. I particularly liked seeing the weta and their log houses. what did you like finding out about?

Flax throwing