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Ma
nga tamariki katoa
Nau
mai haere mai ki Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Bernard Fergusson
me ona tikanga i roto i te kimi matauranga. Kua paiheretia
ki nga taonga e tuhono atu ana ki nga ahuatanga o te whakatauki
a Kingi Tawhiao ko Ngaruawahia toku turangawaewae. Na
Te Puea i whakatutuki i te wa i hangatia ai te marae mo
te ao katoa.
Kei raro tenei kura i te korowai o te marae o Turangawaewae
me ona tikanga. Kei raro hoki tenei kura i te tongi a
Te Puea mahia te mahi hei painga mo te iwi.
Ko Potatau te tangata, ko Taupiri te maunga, ko Waikato
te awa
He piko he taniwha, he piko he taniwha, Waikato taniwharau
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Welcome
to this place of learning, Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Bernard
Fergusson. We are bound by the aspirations embodied in the
proverb of Kingi Tawhiao Ngaruawahia is the place where I
stand. It was Te Puea who brought this vision to fruition
at the time of building a marae for all people.
This kura shelters beneath the prestigious mantle of Turangawaewae
Marae and its customary practices, and Te Puea’s dictum
to work for the betterment of the people.
Potatau
is the person of prestige, Taupiri is the mountain, Waikato
is the river
At
every bend there is a guardian, at every bend there is a guardian,
Waikato of a hundred guardians
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Me
wehi ki a Ihowa
Me whakahonore a Kingi Tuheitia ratou ko tona whare
Me tangi atu ki a ratou kua mene atu ki te po
Me mihi ka tika ki a tatou e takatu ana ki te mahi o te
ao hurihuri nei
Tena koutou
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Ko
Paul Royal toku ingoa. He uri no te waka o Tainui heoi ano
he piringa ano oku ki Ngati Hine me Ngati Kahu o Ngapuhi
nui tonu me Ngati Wheke ki Rapaki o Ngai Tahu
I
am the tumuaki of Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Bernard Fergusson,
a position I have held since 1999. Te Kura Kaupapa Maori
o Bernard Fergusson is a U3 full primary kura located in
Ngaruawahia on the eastern side of the Waikato River in
close proximity to Ngaruawahia High school and Turangawaewae
Marae.
I started my teaching career in 1980 returning to teach
at Richmond Park School in Melville, Hamilton, a school
I first enrolled in as a five year old. I was appointed
to Bernard Fergusson School in 1985 and have been near the
forefront of its translation from a mainstream school to
an official bilingual school in 1986 and then to a kura
kaupapa Maori in 1993 (under Hera Johns and Iria Whiu respectively).
In 1994 I led a ‘school within a school’ pilot
project at the adjacent Ngaruawahia High School. The pilot
attempted to utilise existing Crown resources to meet the
aspirations of parents who wanted graduates from a total
immersion Maori programme to continue their secondary education
where Maori was the medium of instruction for most (if not
all) of their learning. I returned to Te Kura Kaupapa Maori
o Bernard Fergusson as tumuaki in 1999.
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