Friday, 24 February 2017

To Toanga






Phoenix
H.E.S gateway is precious to us because it represent our culture and the students and the teachers that have been in this school more than 100 years.
Hodan
Hamilton East School (HES) has a gateway to welcome people like parents and visitors.
Jawad
HES has a gateway to welcome people like visitors and parents.
The gateway has guards to protect our school.
James
There is a beautiful gateway near the main entrance of Hamilton East School in Hamilton/New Zealand 3216. It shows things about the school.


There is the god on the very top of the gateway. It represents the acknowledgement of the gods/what you believe.


At the top right of the gateway is Hotumane.


FACT: Did you know that the school gateway is a few years old?


FACT: Did you know that the gateway is made out of brown wood.


The top right is representing teachers.


DID YOU KNOW: past students and teachers is represented on the top left. But it’s hard to explain where it is exactly/perfectly.
Piata
The gateway is precious to the school. On To Toanga are Māori designs like the fantail, lizard and silver fern.
Nishant
The gateway keeps us away from danger. It represents the boys and girls, and the guardians. The guardians help us live.
Aniket
Our gateway means boy and girl students. It also means our guardian. On the gateway the teachers are represented also.
Ryan
                          To Taonga
The gateway has Māori gods. The report happend yesterday. This is reported to people to help them learn about Māori. Māori people made the H.E.S gateway. The gateway is made in H.E.S. When you enter H.E.S you’ll see the gateway. The teachers are on the top right side. Boy students are on the top right side. The Maori gods are on the top! Lizard on the bottom east right side. Guardian on the top of both sides.
Sophia
On the top of the gateway are some images that stand for the current boys and girls of H.E.S.
Tommy
To Toanga. Hamilton East School has a gateway to welcome people like parents or visitors the taniwha is on the bottom left.
Isla
H.E.S has a precious gateway. It was carved a long time ago. It is called To Taonga. There is a fantail, lizard, taniwha, silver fern, girls, and teachers. Mahehe looks out to the pa site from the top left of the gateway. On To Taonga is the taniwha. He shares the job of representing the maori culture with the fantail and lizard. On the two sides are guardians. To Taonga is very, very, very precious.
Zeno
To Toanga
Mahehe got launched from a tree to the other side of the Waikato River. The fern represents the All Blacks that came to this school.
Tom
At HES we have a gateway, it is precious to us.
Matiu
HES has a gateway.
Zari
The gateway is tall. It has cool carvings all over it with a fantail, a lizard, and a silver fern. Maori must have carved it long, long ago. At H.E.S <Hamilton East School> the gateway is very, very precious to all of Hamilton East School! On the sides of the gateway there are guardians. There are Maori faces on the gateway.
Eden
At Hamilton East School we have a To Taonga. It means gateway. The gateway has a fern and a taniwha. The fern means sports players that came to this school.
Raedence
Hotumane apparently got catapulted by a tree that was bent. He also came back. He also lived by the river before the settlers.
Sharisse
Our gate is called To Taonga. On the gate it has a girls and a boys side. On the gateway it has a fantail. It is called to taonga, our treasure. A lot of images make up the gateway.
Hassan
At HES there is a precious gateway.
Aaisha
At Hamilton East School we have a gateway. The gateway means To Taonga. On the side of the gateway there is a guardian. On the top right are the teachers. Mahehe looks out to the Pa site from the top left of the gateway.
Jahzique
The guardian looks after us and helps us.
Terangi  
To Taonga is H.E.S precious gateway. The Waikato river mean that we are close to the Waikato. Mahehe means that he looks out over people walking past. The gate is a treasure to us. The head is dedicated to and an acknowledgement of the Ngati Haua people.
Devon
The taniwha, fantail, lizard represent the spiritual values. Hotumane got catapulted across the river by a big tree that was bent back.
Trey
The guardian is so the Pakeha got scared and ran away. On To Toanga is a taniwha he shares the job of representing Maori values. Settlers and Māori are represented.
Maddison
On the gateway it has a taniwha, a lizard and a fantail. Mahehe and Motumaewe built a pa just down from where HES is now. As you can see. Mahehe’s head is turned out over the pa area.
Summer
The teachers are on the top right.
Mahehe look out to the pa site from the top left of the gateway.
On To Toanga is a taniwha. He shares the job of representing the maori values with a fantail and a lizard. On the top of the gateway are some images that stand for the current boy and girls of H.E.S.
Cassia
If you can see at the top there are these 2 sides. They are girls and boys. The girls are to the left and the boys are to the right.
Nicholas
At Hamilton East School we have a gateway called To Toanga. The fern is for all of the sport stars that used to come to this school. The Koruru is an acknowledgement of god. The guardian is to keep our school protected. The Taniwha, lizard and fantail represent the Māori values. Mahehe looks out to the pa site from the top left of the gateway.
Rishi
Koru patterns are for the plant life of the Waikato River.
Anna
The koruru is the acknowledgement of god. The gateway of
Hamilton East School is precious. The fern is for the times that sports champions came to school.
Ruihana
Look at our beautiful gateway. But what do you call it and what does it mean?
Anab
Did you know that all the koros on the HES gateway are represented as the Waikato river?

5 comments:

  1. Wow I've learnt a lot about our Gateway from reading your blog. It is a beautiful piece of carving. Do you know who carved it?

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  2. I wonder how long it took you to draw and make the gate way? Maybe you can make another one for outside
    From Ivan & Curtis

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  3. I wonder how long it took you to draw and make the gate way? Maybe you can make another one for outside
    From Ivan & Curtis

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  4. I am glad you are curious and informed about our precious gateway.

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  5. Wow we did so much good work i like everbodys drawing and art! do you know old this gateway is?? by phoenix

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