November 04, 2014
Students respond to 28 Battalion Challenge
The quality of entries in a school competition to honour the memory of the 28 Maori Battalion has prompted organisers to give two supreme awards.
Education Minister Hekia Parata, who chairs the Ngarimu VC and 28th (Maori) Battalion Memorial Fund Board, says entries in The Challenge from Year 7-13 students were extremely creative, using videos, artwork, waiata, photographic and written essays, power-point presentations and poems.
The Supreme Award winners are Hariata Dalton-Reedy, from Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Te Waiu o Ngati Porou for her essay, Where my Grandfather lies; and Rongomai Callaghan, from Gisborne Boys’ High School, and Atareta Smith-Taumata, from Gisborne Girls’ High School for their music video Maori Battalion Tu Ake E.
There were 11 section winners.
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