Posts tagged with Pasifika

Celebrating Samoa Language Week at the Library.

Teaching and learning resources about Matariki and ideas for celebrating Matariki.

Learn about ASB Polyfest, its history and ways we can support Pacific communities to reconnect to their languages.

Find out how Te Kupenga online can help ākonga (students) learn about New Zealand's histories.

Lost languages lead to lost cultures and identities. Read how stories and storytelling can help preserve our Pacific languages.

Ulu Afaese, Content Analyst for digitalpasifik.org chats to us about his library career so far.

World Poetry Day — write it, read it, perform it, celebrate it!

Teachers, librarians, parents, interested groups or individuals — read and have your say on the draft Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories curriculum content by 31 May 2021.

Explore and embrace the rich and dynamic language and culture of Tonga with your students during Tonga Language Week | Uike Kātoanga’i ‘o e Lea Faka-Tonga, 6–12 September.

Take a closer look at the finalists for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults (NZCYA) Russell Clark Award for Illustration.

The Non-fiction Award finalists in the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults (NZCYA).

The Young Adult Fiction Award finalists in the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults (NZCYA).

Ideas and resources to help you celebrate Sāmoan culture and language in your library and across your school during Vaiaso o le Gagana Sāmoa — 24 to 30 May.

How would your secondary students like to enter an exciting creative writing competition? Entry is free and there is $3,000 in prize money!

How’s this for a great idea to boost students’ reading at your school — a school-wide reading challenge with a rugby league theme and teams of students competing against one another!

Auckland-based poet and educator Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh is the New Zealand Poet Laureate 2017-2019. Read how you can use poetry to inspire students across the curriculum.

Get ideas for celebrating Tonga Language Week — Uike Kātoanga’i ‘o e Lea Faka-Tonga — in your school. This year, celebrations take place from Sunday 3 September to Saturday 9 September.

Online communities for reading and literacy serve up rich discussions, ideas and resources.

“Tula’i Mai” is a call to young Pasifika people of the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Niue, Samoa, Tahiti, Tokelau, Tonga and Tuvalu living in Aotearoa New Zealand, to rise to the challenge of educational success.