On Monday 21st October, our local kaumatua Rangi Mclean blessed the new carving, created by Wikuki Kingi and his team at Pou Kapua Creations Trust. When you are next visiting the Homai Campus, please come and visit and explore this tactile mural. Huge thanks to The Trusts Community Foundation for a grant of $5000 towards this project!
The Trusts Community Foundation Logo
Another long term project that we are progressing is the outdoor environment at HECC. There has been a series of meetings with Jill Rice, Get Outside: Landscapes for Learning, a designer who has managed to work through our VERY long list of things we want in the outdoor area so the tamariki, whānau and teachers can maximise opportunities for teaching and learning. As much as possible the playground is accessible to children in their chairs and also those that are independently mobile. Attached is a draft design which is up on the office wall for consultation. Please look and let us know your ideas, positive and negative. There is a very short time frame for consultation this time around!
This is the draft plan of the outdoor environment at Homai ECC.
We have been working in the background to get our carving project in the entrance of HECC underway. Last week we met with local Kaumatua, Rangi McLean and Master Carver, Wikuki Kingi to finalise the design, materials and cost. It was a very exciting meeting and it is great to be making some forward progress on this project.
This is a photo of the draft sketch of the carving that will be created for the front entrance of HECC.
This is a photo of a possible carving design
Photo of the possible tactile mural design featuring the local area
One of the current projects is a tactile mural and carving of a waka tete (fishing waka) in the front entrance of the centre. We have had a series of meetings with local Kaumatua from Te Whānau o Homai and Manurewa Marae to discuss this project. They have all been in support of the kaupapa (purpose) of this project and we are ready now to make contact with the carver….watch this space for updates!