Te Piringa KapaHaka group place third at Nationals

As Manawatu regional champions and reigning national champions from 2008, Te Piringa, a high school kapa haka group mostly made up of Freyberg students, achieved an outstanding 3^rd place at nationals in Rotorua this week.

Their performances were judged in several sections, with Te Piringa achieving a 3^rd placing in Poi and also 1^st placing in Te Reo (the language) out of the 35 competing regional finalists. This is especially significant since they were competing against a number of total Māori immersion schools.

Thirty of the 48 students who made it through auditions for this year’s Te Piringa group were students, including student leaders, Parata Kerehoma and Sarah Hanita-Paki.

After six months of increasingly strenuous practice, Freyberg's Head of Maori, as well as the principal song-writer for Te Piringa; Tipene Waihi wanted to thank ‘all of the supporters, and parents who helped out’.

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