What is a Fono Fale?

A Fono Fale is a model design of health. It is a similar design of a Hauora, A Hauora is represented as a Marae but a Fono Fale is represented as a Pacifica Hut. A Fono Fale holds four main dimensions - Taha Tinana, Taha Wairua, Taha Hinengaro, Taha Whanau. There are six dimensions all put together in a Fono Fale - Culture, Family, Physical, Mental, Spiritual, Other. These dimensions represent a Fono Fale, if at least one dimension breaks down, the whole building together comes down too. The two main dimensions that are important to a Fono Fale are Culture and Family, these two dimensions are important to a Fono Fale because it represents what a Fono Fale is. It is also important because it is what islanders are all about and because the Fono Fale is island, pacific created. Here is a picture of what a Fono Fale looks like :

Hauora

Hauora - ( Taha Tinana, Taha Hinengaro, Taha Whanau, Taha Wairua ) are represented as a Marae. They are four walls of the Marae that represents these elements - Taha Tinana, Taha Hinengaro, Taha Whanau and Taha Wairua. If at least one wall of the " Marae " is destroyed, the other three breaks and the entire building comes down because the four elements is reliable for the " Marae " to stand together as one. This can also be called " Dimensions "  

Dimensions are what we are talking about. The four parts of Hauora are linked to what we call Dimensions. Each Dimension has a different meaning behind of its word. For eg -

Taha Tinana - (physical)

• Sports
• Movement
• Exercise

Taha Wairua - (spiritual)

• Church
• Jesus
• Family

Taha Whanau - (family)

• Friends
• Interaction
• Family

Taha Hinegane - (mental/emotional)

• Thinking
• Feelings
• Emotions

He Korowai Hapori - Ruapotaka Marae

Ruapotaka Marae
He Korowai Hapori
Whaea Noelene
Housing in the Tamaki Community

When we entered the Ruapotaka Marae there was a speaker. Her name was Whaea Noelene. And there was one other school. That school name was Glen Taylor, they brought the year fives and sixes to visit like what we were doing. Anyways Whaea Noelene did and awesome Maori introduction to welcome us and to let us know who she is. Her fluency of speaking Maori was incredible and really unique. The tone of her voice, as she was speaking made me fall asleep. She talked about the Tamaki Community, of houses being built around that area. She also talked out some special Maori words telling us that we are the treasure for the future. She showed us a Maori designed Korowai. They said that they made the Korowai by hand and that got me amazed. Amazed of the amount of hard work they had to do. Each design of the Korowai they created, had a different meaning behind it. I cant remember all of it, but i still know what it could look like. It had colours of course and layers of house's on coloured lines on top of brown flax. It was a good piece of art and it was something different as in cool. I liked how it looked because i havent seen one before but that was my first time. It was a good trip down at the Ruapotaka Marae cause im sure we all learned something special and new.

Digitech - Brief Development

In Digitech, we have been working on Brief Development in class.

I have learnt more about Sustainability in the Tamaki Community and the happen in that problem. I have also learnt about how to sustain my ability in my Tamaki Community and how to create a website about Sustainability and many more stuff.