Awakeri School

Kapa Haka 2006

Pictures from the Rangitaiki Festival

Placings:
Whaikorero (overall) 1st !!!! (Liam Richards)
Kai Tataki Tane (novice) 3rd (Liam Richards)
Whakaeke (novice): 3rd

Karaitiana Taipeti gets his headband and feathers put in place by Andrea Maru.	Here's assistant girl leader Leonie Hall, looking stunning with her hair done by Andrea.
Renee always has eyes for the camera	Warm up time. Racheal, Emma and Leonie are in the front.
Our wonderful girl leader Jordyn Hurkmans gets a good luck hug from her mum.	The warm up, pukana wars, got everyone going. Here's Diane versus Jesse.
Siri and Andrea get the voices warmed up. Last year's leader Katherine is right there making sure everyone is up for it.	Our leaders Terri-anne, Jordyn, Liam and Leonie
"Na te Atua i hanga i tenei ra..."	This is our march on (whakaeke), we came 3rd.
Whakaeke	Haka. Gene-Ron, Tyler, Karaitiana, Liam. "Ki mai koe te iwi..."
Jesse, Oliver and Edward	Our whakawatea, "tihei mauriora"
	Here's Liam with the trophy for the best whaikorero. In it he acknowledged the passing of the Maori Queen recently. He also talked about the different waka people travel on, with the waka of learning Awakeri School's waka.