Kākano Mano

Kākano Mano  is the name given to the cultural leaders team .
This includes
Visual arts, performing arts and music, Kapa Haka and International Cultural leaders.
2 students are chosen from each area, there is an application process. Their aim is to make the arts more audible and visual at Heaton. Collaborative projects are encouraged.
Kākano : means Seed
Mano : a thousand or large number
Together these words imply Growing leaders

Cultural Leaders Job Description
We are looking for Year 8 students to form the 2016 Kākano Mano Cultural Leadership Team and require two students for all the areas listed below.
International Cultural Leaders Performing Arts Leaders Visual Arts Leaders
Kapa Haka Leaders
General

1. Display respect, responsibility, reliability, motivation, and initiative.
   
2. Can organise and lead school events with teacher support.
   
3. Positive and passionate about promoting one of the four essential leadership areas.
   

International Cultural Leaders

1. Display openness and interest to learn about and promote the multicultural nature of our Heaton Community.
   
2. Willingness to share your culture and language school wide as a model to other Heaton Students.
   

Performing Arts

1. Skilled, motivated and confident performing arts students.
   
2. Willingness to share their gifts and talents with the Heaton Community.
   

Visual Arts

1. To help realize a vision to make the multicultural nature of the Heaton Community more visible through artworks and exhibitions.
   
2. A willingness to research and experiment.
   

Kapa Haka

1. Positive role model in Te Reo Māori and tikanga Māori (language and culture).
   
2. Ability to inspire and work with others to teach and promote in and around our school.
   

Please write on A4 paper or e mail to the appropriate teacher, your name and room number and explain why you would like to be considered as a Cultural Leader at Heaton. Write about your strengths and tell us what you can bring to this role.
Applications returned no later than (date)  to the student office. 

He kakano ahau 
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He kakano ahau i ruia mai i rangi atea... 
And i can never be lost i am the seed, Born of Greatness 
Descended from a line of chiefs, he kakano ahau CHORUS I hea ra au e hitekiteki ana kamau tonu i ahau oku tikanga 
Toku reo, toku oho oho, toke reo, toku mapihi maurea 
Toku whakakai marihi 
my language is my strength, an ornamental grace Ka tu ana ahau, ka uhi ahau e oku tipuna 
My pride i will show that you they know who i am 
I am a warrior a survivor 
He morehu ahau CHORUS I hea ra au e hitekiteki ana kamau tonu i ahau oku tikanga 
Toku reo, toku oho oho, Toku reo, toku mapihi maurea 
Toku whakakai marihi 
My language is my strength, an ornamental grace 
(fade to end) an ornamental grace

Ngā Toi

Like a supernatural being, Toi, we acknowledge you.

The heart quickens at your call.

Your heart gladdens the spirit,

your spirit releases the voice,

your voice opens the mind,

the mind weaves the words,

weaving the words carves the inherited treasures.

Inspired by your image, sound resonates,

performance thrives, the many faces of imagery

captures the eye.

Linked by a soaring voice,

fix your eyes on the people.

From traditions etched in the future let your breath be felt.

Ignite imagination!

Let the mind create beyond what is seen,

so that the arts that inspire continue to do so.

Let everyone know that the arts celebrate the present and create the future.

(Translation of Iho Toi by Hirini Melbourne, Te Marautanga o Aotearoa, 2010, p. 98)

The Ngā Toi learning area includes three dimensions:

• Toi Puoro (music – sound arts)
• Ngā Mahi a Te Rēhia (dance and drama/performing arts)
• Toi Ataata (the visual arts).

There are four uniting strands:

• Tuhura–exploration: with a focus on exploring, investigating, manipulating, and interpreting arts
• Mahi–creating: with a focus on making, composing, writing, drawing, and creating arts
• Mohiotanga–knowing: with a focus on students being able to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of art processes and theories
• Maioha–appreciation: with a focus on students being able to evaluate and critique, through their own knowledge and understanding, their own art and that created by others.

Ngā Toi has strong synergies with the English-medium arts curriculum in practices, creative processes, and connections with self and communities, yet comes from a unique and special kaupapa by Māori, for Māori.

Interesting design

‘Te Awe o ngā Toroa’, and it is this which is represented by the He Kākano logo.

Te awe is a white feather and refers to the rarely seen feathers below the wings of the albatross. Te awe is also a symbol of leadership.

The image of the single feather (te awe, representing the individual) relates to the proverb ‘The human soul is the rare feather of the albatross’, from which the phrase ‘Te Awe o ngā Toroa’ comes.

The kowhaiwhai pattern represents the spirit (wairua) of the individual, growing to grasp and seek knowledge.

The shape of the logo represents the cocoon or seed, which embraces and protects all people. Ngā Toroa (albatrosses) are birds noted for their ability to sustain themselves in flight over long distances and for long periods.