Malama houna

Welcoming the malama honua waka

On Wednesday, Glenbrae School went to Pt England beach to go and see the waka . When we arrived we saw a lot of people there and there was St patrick , Glen innes primary,Panmure bridge ,Tamaki primary,Tamaki college, Pt england,Stonefields,Te kura kaupapa ,St pius x and Ruapotaka and there were 2000 children . All the schools saw the first boat arrived and there was a hawaiian word on it.

A boat came it went to the another waka at the end next to the hill and we sang oho rahi 2 times. Then some of the Pt England  students told us about Manaiakalani and they said Manaiakalani means ‘hook from heaven’ after a while the singing started to stop all the schools standing up

walked down to high fived them.

Then when we finished some of the students stayed behind and the others went back to school.