Riwaka School visit to our local Marae. What a wonderful time we all had!

Here we are waiting with excitement before we entered the Marae.

The children at the Kohanga Reo were learning about their ancestors and the importance of family.

Room 3 were fascinated with the paintings on the ceiling of the Kohanga Reo

and and I'm sure some of them would like to see our ceilings decorated with paintings !

Seeing the carvings and the tools used was impressive .

The Marae has its own church and this building is very very old.

The carvings outside the meeting house all tell a story and are very important to the  local iwi. It was very interesting hearing what they represented.