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Nau Mai, Haere Mai

East Taiari School – Kōrero Tuakiri (Our Identity)

Tēnei te mihi ki a koutou

Greetings to everyone

Ka noho ā mātau kura, ko Taiari ki te Rāwhiti i raro i te haumarutaka o te kaitiaki, ko Matamata

Our school, East Taiari, sits under the protection of the Guardian, Matamata.

Ka whiri kā awa, ko Ōwhiro rāua ko Whakaehu ki te awa nui o Taiari

The Ōwhiro and Silverstream rivers connect to the Taiari River and flow 

Ka rere ki te Tai o Araiteuru

To the coast of Araiteuru.

Ko Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe me Waitaha kā iwi o te whenua

Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe and Waitaha are the tribe of this land.

Ko Kāi Te Ruahikihiki rātau ko Kāti Taoka, ko Kāi Te Pahi, ko Kāti Moki kā hapū o te rohe nei.

Kāi Te Ruahikihiki, Kāti Taoka, Kāi Te Pahi and Kāti Moki are the hapū of this area.

Ko Ōtākou te papatipu rūnaka marae

Ōtākou is the ancestral meeting place of the hapū

Ko Taiari ki te Rāwhiti ā mātau kura

East Taiari is our school

Ko ā tātau moemoea, ko te whakamana, ko te whakaohooho, ko te manaaki ki te tiputahi ana tātau.

Our vision is to Empower, Inspire and Care as we grow together. 

Nō reira, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā tātau katoa

Therefore, greetings

Taiari 
Mana whenua are on a determined journey to reinstate and embed the original and
correct place names to our tribal territory. We ask your school to go on the journey
with us and help socialise the correctly spelt name of the Taiari. This requires an
integration of the name and its whakapapa (history) into your school, your curriculum
and daily mahi. This is a journey that we need to go on together.

Explanation taken from our School Cultural Narrative – see here