MANY COUNTRIES:The Cultural Festival is on again at South End School on Friday.PHOTO/ FILE
MANY COUNTRIES:The Cultural Festival is on again at South End School on Friday.PHOTO/ FILE
South End School in Carterton will throw a spotlight on the diversity of its community at its third triennial cultural festival.
Tina Rahui, school te reo Maori tutor and teacher aide, said the festival would be held on Friday and would focus on the wealth of ethnic difference at theschool, which has a student, teacher and community population representing 14 countries across the globe.
The festival will be opened with entertainment and will includeperformances ranging from kapa haka to a Scottish piper.
"We're really quite diverse and we're looking forward to a great day teaching our children a lot about the different peoples of the world."
Mrs Rahui said Carterton Mayor John Booth had been invited to open the festival and other guests would include Carterton councillors who were also on the invitation list, a representative of former mayor and NZ First list MP Ron Mark, who lives in the town, and representatives from Idea Services.
Principal Alistair Kay will be MC at the festival, which will precede a food fair at the school set to run for two hours from 5pm that will feature "food from different countries".
