Kia orana everyone! Kuki Airani Language Week is coming August 1st and I’ve got a new book to help celebrate the week. It’s a collection of achievers who have Cook Islands ancestry – from legends, through history and into the present. The aim of this book is to inspire Kuki Airani young people and anyone…
Kia orana everyone! Kuki Airani Language Week is coming August 1st and I’ve got a new book to help celebrate the week. It’s a collection of achievers who have Cook Islands ancestry – from legends, through history and into the present. The aim of this book is to inspire Kuki Airani young people and anyone…
Kia orana everyone! Kuki Airani Language Week is coming August 1st and I’ve got a new book to help celebrate the week. It’s a collection of achievers who have Cook Islands ancestry – from legends, through history and into the present. The aim of this book is to inspire Kuki Airani young people and anyone…
This week’s Cook Islands hero is rugby league player, Jordan Rapana. Jordan plays for the Canberra Raiders in the NRL, the toughest rugby league competition in the world. He also represented the Kiwis in last weeks’ ANZAC test. What makes Jordan a hero? It’s not just the way he plays rugby league – there are…
You were like a butterfly in a storm In that foul war that destroyed you. I dream Of you sometimes, the same improbable Dream – that you’re alive and not dead at all! And then I see you floating down that stream. At the end of ANZAC week I just want to pay respects…
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An American dad made news this week when he held up this sign at an NBA basketball game: Thomas was looking forward to watching his favourite player Lebron James, live. But he came from school with poor grades and the punishment his father gave him was to miss the game. Then he put it on a…
Hey guys lots of schools like to do a “Who Am I?” theme during term one. Here’s a couple of newspaper articles about New Zealand Warriors rugby league player Shaun Johnson on that theme that you could share with your staff. Not many young people would know that Shaun’s mum is Laotian. She escaped Laos…
The 2017 NRL season is about to begin and I want to encourage all who work with young people to consider what a rich resource of material we can get from rugby league and other sports to help engage students in our schools and classrooms. Here’s a few ideas: Study rugby league jerseys as visual language…
Thirty five train stations in France have installed vending machines which print short stories. The stories are free for people to read while they wait for their trains. Over 5,000 authors submitted stories for the machines. Passengers can choose whether they want their story to take one, three or five minutes to read. There are…
There are a lot of things that make me really proud to be a Kiwi. One of them was seeing what the New Zealand Maori rugby team did at the start of their game against Munster in Ireland on the weekend. Munster have recently suffered a tragedy. In October of this year, their popular head…
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