Manawa Whenua Leadership Programme

In the first week of the Term 1 school holidays, nine of our Manawa Whenua Hauora Leaders travelled to Levin with the Toko team to co-facilitate a Hauora programme for Pasifika families.

It was a great opportunity for our MC Manawa Whenua Hauora Leaders to provide leadership raising awareness about wellbeing through various creative approaches with their peers in Levin.

On 26th of May, an MC Whanau Hauora Fono was held to consider how families could best work with the school to support their child’s wellbeing. Mr Paul Campbell spoke about how the Student Support services look after the wellbeing of the MC students and Toko’s clinical psychologist Pauline Taufa, spoke about the key cornerstones of wellbeing, namely Connecting, Caring and Contributing. It was another great evening reconnecting with families. The Toko Collaboration Charitable Trust would like to thank all the Manawa Whenua Hauora Leaders’ families, Mr Webb and MC staff for their support of this Whanau Hauora Fono and the ongoing Manawa Whenua Hauora programme this year.

The penultimate workshop in Term 2 was about the rising of the Matariki star cluster, a time of renewal and celebration. The Matariki star is the brightest star of this cluster and is connected to the health and wellbeing of people. It is written in the stars-Seek the Heights!