TAMARIKI UPDATE

Scarlett Mitchell

Scarlett lives in London and has been lucky to visit New Zealand a number of times, the last was just before the March 2020 lockdown. I have made a point to keep her in touch with her Māori heritage and bought various books to help her learning as well as show her what I know.

Scarlett participated in a drawing/making challenge amongst family friends in which we used a what’s app group to participate. Scarlett won the ‘Up in the Air’ challenge with her ‘The Seven Kites of Matariki’. It is one of her favourite books and we spent a good few hours painting/drawing/ and constructing this. She was 4yrs at this point - you will soon be celebrating the first Matariki holiday in New Zealand. Unfortunately, we can’t make this but will be thinking of you all and doing our celebration here in the UK.