The Orana school journey is punctuated by a number of traditions — moments in time which form the fabric of the children’s experience of this school. These become a shared experience. Each student looks back on these events with both fond memories and a sense of the collective kinship but can also look forward with anticipation to what is on the horizon.
Maypole practice begins in Term 2 as the children learn the patterns and how to work together. It is incredibly exacting work, as it can be entirely undone by the single student who drops their pace or relaxes their grip on the ribbon. But it begins even before this, with morning circle activities that involve weaving and crossing the midlines that are introduced in Kindergarten.
Much like the maypole itself, we are weaving a pattern of skills and experience to form the story that is our time at Orana.
