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RUATOKI SCHOOL.
At the beginning of 1978 a bilingual unit was started at a small country town of Ruatoki in the Bay of Plenty area. It is the first bilingual programme to be introduced to a New Zealand school.
There are not many bilingual resources available, so a group has been formed to produce learning material for the children.
John Hunia, chairman of the writers group, spoke about how the
group came together to work on the project of supplying resource
material for the bilingual unit for the Ruatoki School.
- Kaikōrero: John Hunia. [Interview in English with Selwyn Muru] He talks about producing material in the Tuhoe dialect.
- Kaikōrero: Hirini Syd Melbourne. As an editor of Department of Education publications and a trained teacher who was also educated at Ruatoki, Syd is now also involved in producing texts for the school. He says the writing in te reo for children needs to become more imaginative.
- Waiata : Kei whea a Mama.
- Kaikōrero : Retina Kora, research officer for the bilingual programme talks about using local history and legends in lessons at Ruatoki School.
- Waiata : Takahia te whenua e.