Recount Writing - Term 4 2016

This is a piece of writing that retells and evaluates (what you think) events or experiences.

Title A brief name for the experience or event.	Arahura Marae
Orientation Tells when and where the event began and who was there.	Last Thursday morning the senior school went to the Arahura Marae for a school trip. We went to experience the Māori history and have fun at the same time. The Arahura Marae is on a hill and is about half an hour out of Greymouth.
Sequence of events Tells the events in the order they happened. You need to have a minimum of 3-4 events. Remember one topic per paragraph.  Your paragraph should have an introductory sentence use a time sequence word/phrase and then detail.	First, We had a pōwhiri process. It was a time of silence for the people who have passed away and have fought  for the people at the marae. I felt out of my comfort zone at the start of the pōwhiri process and when we did the hongi and the karanga. But after that it felt normal and fun. And the other people’s waiata sounded beautiful and calm. I think that our waiata was great as well. After the delicious morning tea we went into the beautiful wharenui and shared our mihi. We were in a massive circle and when it was almost my turn I was nervous. But when it was my turn I felt excited and proud under the beautiful roof and I felt proud of my mihi. After lunch we walked down to the Arahura river to find pounamu. Four people found pounamu and one person found a rare piece called lettuce pounamu. It was fun finding pounamu and there was heaps of different sounds like the birds and the river coming up onto the shore.  Then we went over to shallow bit in the river to cross over onto the beach where there was lots of sticks and a bit of rubbish.  We picked up the rubbish that was lying around. Then we got heaps of sticks on the beach and made some taniwha sculptures of Poutini.  In my group was me, Jaxon, Bryce and Clem.  It was fun collecting all the pieces that we needed and we were under pressure at the end when we were running out of time.  We came second equal with Callan’s group.  We thought our one looked cool and Jaxon told a really good story about it because we had the girl and the taniwha that are in the story of Poutini.
Personal Comment/Ending Tells how the experience/event ended and some thoughts you may have about it.	The marae stay was different to what we would usually but it was a fun and different experience.  I learnt a lot about the carving and that the front of the marae had a story behind it.  This is something I would do again in the future.