Kapa Haka

"Line three, go and stand behind lines one and two!", Koka Terri called, as I jogged to my place in our formation behind the tent. The whole of Nui syndicate were there, preparing for the big performance that lay ahead.We chatted with our friends, ignoring the butterflies in our stomachs.  "OK, time to get out there and show them what we got. We walked up to the stage and listened to our school getting presented.  Walking with pride we stepped up onto the stage.

Hunter slowly stepped forward in rhythm with Tu Mai Ra and we all followed him with piu piu swishing until we had formed the shape of a triangle. The first two rows of boys went down on their knees as we joined Hunter with strong singing. We soon heard the call of whakapiri and squished together in a huddle to sing Haramai a Paoa. As soon as that was finished we went into neke atu and sang Ka pio oi. Purea nei followed that and Utaina was the transition between the girls and the boys. The boys then did the haka and then Wainui e followed that.


When we were finally finished we were all really happy with what we had achieved and we were happy that there was going to be no more kapa haka practice. Then we went to go see our parents and got ready to go back to school on the bus.