Mānawatia a Matariki - Happy New Year!

[icecreamsoldier]

This Friday 24 June for the first time New Zealanders will be celebrating Matariki, the Māori New Year, as a public holiday. Most Māori people recognise Matariki as the beginning of the calendar, a time to come together and to acknowledge past, present and future.

Matariki refers to the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters constellation.

Here's a video explaining the celebration and its significance:

Wishing everyone in the WR community good health in these challenging times!

 

[Silver]

Hi teacher icecreamsoldier,

Thank you so much for helping me with my stupid sentences and paragraphs on WR.

I appreciate your help, kindness and sincerity.

I look forward to learning new things from you.

Happy Matariki to you and your loved ones.

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[Welsh_Sion]

All the best for the coming year to our Maori friends - from another language community that prefers VSO!