2500 children welcome Pacific vessels at Pt England - Maori Television

On Wednesday as part of the Mālama Honua Worldwide Voyage, two waka from Hawai'i called Hōkūle'a and Hikianalia landed on Pt England beach. They were greeted by 2500 children from our Manaiakalani schools.
This article and video on the Maori Television website talks more about this visit.

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Worldwide voyage arrives in Auckland - Radio NZ

This article on the Radio NZ website talks about Manaiakalani and the Mālama Honua Worldwide Voyage landing on Pt England Beach on Wednesday with the Hōkūle'a and Hikianalia waka.

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School team on big screen - East and Bays Courier

In an article for Fairfax Media's East and Bays Courier, Rose Cawley talks about Tamaki Primary School and the Manaiakalani Film Festival. To read the full article click here or click the image below.

To see videos from the 2014 Manaiakalani Film Festival, click here.

Digital leaps forward for decile one school - Stuff.co.nz

Tamaki College has been written about in an article for Stuff.co.nz by Rose Cawley. The article looks at the progress being made in raising student achievement, and talks about initiatives that are helping to boost outcomes, including Manaiakalani. 

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Manaiakalani mentioned on WhaleOil.co.nz

As part of an opinion piece about school decile ratings, Pete from the WhaleOil blog mentions Manaiakalani, praising the use of digital teaching to empower our learners. He also talks about how impressed he was by the Manaiakalani Film Festival, which was held last week.

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To see all the videos from the Manaiakalani Film Festival click here.

Nathaniel helps raise half a million dollars for NZ Kids

For the second year in a row one of our own Manaiakalani kids has been mixing with some big names in New Zealand to raise money for kids who need a hand up to acquire technology. Tamaki college student Nathaniel Tuia does a stellar job of presenting this funny and engaging film that played at The Warehouse Supplier Awards dinner 2013.The charity recipient was Variety’s Laptops for Learning programme. The film tells us why it’s essential to get technology into the hands of poorer kiwi kids and inspires the audience to give generously.

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Engagement in Deep Learning

The Manaiakalani Cluster has been part of the Learning and Change networks for the last 18 months ands has hosted a large number of principals and teachers from around the country as they come to learn from our journey.

This week one of these principals published a report which included her reflections on our approach to meeting the learning needs of our young people.

Jenny Jackson is the principal of St Joseph's school in Oamaru.