Sunday, May 18, 2008

Visit to Panguru on Thursday 15th May 2008

The roadway between Panguru and Kaitaia, coming out by Ahipara.


Leaving home at 8:00am, I arrived at the beautiful Te Kura o Panguru school at 11:00am, just in time to listen to the wonderful speeches being given by the tamariki at the top marae above the school. Was a great opportunity to catch up with Marietta Rihari (our Te Reo Maori teacher) and Mina Pomare (Principal). Following the visit, I travelled the back road up to Kaitaia. Had to stop to take a photograph of the one lane road, just to be able to remind people why we need meetings via VC so that we don't have to travel.

Panguru is set in a beautiful valley and it was so enjoyable to be around the students from Panguru.

Before travelling North, we joined a VC with StudyIt from Wellington and the "expert English teacher", Roz from Bay of Islands College. This was a great PD opportunity and no one had to travel.

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