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Success Celebrated at Noho Marae
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Mâori students, their whânau, the Mâori department and senior staff of WEGC came together on Thursday 1 March to recognise and celebrate the academic, leadership and sporting achievement of senior Mâori Students at East.
The evening was initiated by Te Whânau Tûtahi and was held at Te Kuratini Marae at Massey University, as part of the school’s Noho Marae for Mâori students. The evening was a huge success.
The girls were privileged to have Ria Hall as their guest speaker for the evening. Ria is a talented and successful musician who has achieved highest honours in Kapa Haka and in 2011 starred in the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup – singing the World Cup song, ‘World in Union’ to an audience of millions.
Ria was able to tell the girls of her journey through school, competing at regional and national levels in multiple sports, rugby, touch, volleyball and netball, Ngâ Manu Korero Speech competitions and Kapa Haka. She encouraged the girls to set goals every year, and to keep referring back to them. She told the girls that 80% of her success has been as a result of hard work, while 20% was talent, and urged the girls to aim for the very top and not to be deterred by failure but to acknowledge it – have a little cry – and try again!
Ria also talked about her desire to enter politics, her hunger for knowledge and plans to study at Victoria this year so that she has an academic career to support her successful music career. And much to the girls’ delight, at the end of the evening, Ria sang a stunning unaccompanied version of an Etta James song.
Thank you to Ria, Sally Haughton, Ann Greenaway, Ameriai Kiriwera and Ricky Prebble for helping to make the evening so memorable.
Girls recognised in the ceremony were:
Leadership Awards presented to this year’s Maori Prefects: Phinie Malir-Crawford, Roma Simmons-Donaldson, Mamaeroa Munn, Emma Dench and Rangimarie Teautama
Academic Excellence and Merit: Roma Simmons Donaldson, Autumn McNeill, Valeria Mendoza Davis, Mamaeroa Munn, Ihipera Rimene-Sproat, Ngaere Hauiti Parapara, Marlissa Howard, Acacia- Viva Omeri, Kuraroa Ratu-James, Lily Simmons-Donaldson
Sporting Success: Kuraroa Ratu-James
Girls Climb to Great Heights at Noho Marae
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