Seven Stars

Seven Stars Of Matariki

There was an adventurous boy named Meti, who had seven brothers. The brothers were the most handsome and strong men in the village. They were not interested in marriage because they did not want to love someone other than themselves.

One day Meti and the brothers went hunting and all of a sudden they heard beautiful singing and they saw seven beautiful wahine’s (girl) they immediately fell in love with them ; they wanted to take them back to their village.

But Meti warned the brothers about the wahine by saying, ``They are fairies which are spirits.” but they did not listen and took them back to the village to get married.

But Meti did not like the brothers wives ; because they did not contribute to the village they just spent time on their golden hair. All they wanted to eat was seafood. The brothers became skinny and their appearance was horrifying.

Meti was getting suspicious on the wahine because the wives don’t come out their whare(home). One day Meti came home with fish and no wahine were at home. Meti got really suspicious and went to a wise man for advice.

The next morning Meti camped behind some bushes and waited for the wahine to come out of their whare. They came out and Meti transformed himself to a Kereru. He heard the wahine have a conversation that they would starve their husbands to death. Meti flew in fear back to the village to tell his brothers.

At first they did did not trust him but Meti explained, `` My brothers you used to be strong and broad now you are skin and bones”.

Now they believed him. They spent the whole night making a trap to capture the evil fairies; bright and early the brothers captured the bird wives and Meti turned into an albatross and carried them to the god of stars – Uru.

Uru gazed into their eyes and fell in love ; he took the bird wives up to the heavens. But on a specific date Uru lets their beauty shine on the sky. The seven sisters come out as seven shiny stars each year between May and June.

Story by: Priyanka Nand , Room 14            

Karate

On the 11^th May I went to a karate grading. I was going from a green belt to a blue belt.

We started just as I got there. There were mainly white belts trying to get their yellow. That is really easy because if you can get all the basics then you get yellow.

There was also one orange trying to get her green. She had to know everything I knew; it is quite hard going from orange to green and green to blue. They are much stricter on us than on the white belts. We were going through the basics and I had to do double the amount than the rest, but that was okay.

We got up to the last half an hour and we had to do a thing called kata. Kata is a series of moves to block, strike and kick someone that is coming towards you in different directions. I had to do three of them. I managed to put all my power into everything I did.

At the end my instructor (sensei) nodded at me and smiled so then I knew I was going to get my blue belt. I was really happy once I got my certificate.

 

By: Taylor Woodhead  J

Matariki

The Seven Stars Of Matariki!

 

Metai had learnt how to turn into a Kereru and an Albatross from Koro.

Metai had 7 other brothers who thought they were …

THE MAN!

They were not yet married because they couldn’t find anyone more beautiful than them.

The next day the brothers set out to go hunting, but stopped after they heard enchanting music.

It was 7 beautiful wahines, they instantly feel in love.

Metai didn’t fall in love! He knew they were fairy women.

Since the men found the wahine they didn’t hunt anymore. (Except kaimoana for their wives).

The 7 brothers were so enchanted by the ladies beauty, they didn’t eat and became weak.

Metai knew something was up! So he went to investigate!

Metai realised they were fairies and saw them turn into birds.

He turned into a Kereru and followed them.

Metai heard their plans to starve his brothers.

He rushed back home to tell his brothers what their wives planned.

At first they did not believe Metai. But then they realised it was the truth!

The brothers went to tell Koro. He knew exactly what to do!

The brothers had to catch their wives in a bird’s net and so they set off!

They found the wahines and caught them as birds. They turned back to women and pleaded “LET US OUT!”

Metai turned into an Albatross and handed the wahines to the god of the stars.

The star god was enchanted by their beauty and turned them into stars.

Late May or early June the sisters get to share their beauty with the world.

 

Retold by Ebony Rangi

Manurewa Athletics Club

My name is Samantha Edwards and every Tuesday, after school, I go to my athletics club.

I do both track and field events. My favourites are 100 m and discus - even though I’m not the greatest I enjoy it.

In representative teams I have competed in the Counties Manukau relay team and the Auckland relay team. 

In club championship titles I have come 2^nd in High jump and in aggregate awards I came 3^rd for track events.

This has been my first year so I would like to do athletics again to improve my technique and keep my fitness up.

My goals for athletics are to improve my running and become better at field events.