Medicube Opening - Gold CARE Awards.

As head boy I represent our school at different functions and when visitors come into our school. This term we have opened our new building which is a place where students can have a private conversation with a trained medical professional without feeling uncomfortable. Just before the ribbon cutting Tiava and I fulfilled our duties by presenting at the assembly where we were joined by visitors from Star ship and people who helped fund for the building. This is the first portable medical cube in New Zealand and they are planning to have more. Like every special assembly I was asked to speak Maori to greet them to our school. I spoke as confident as I could and Tiava and I worked towards making sure that this assembly ran smoothly. During assembly we had a performance by our kapa haka group and some of our guests spoke. After that we all went outside to witness the opening of the medicube. The ribbon was cut by Sarah who is a nurse and the person who came up with the idea.

Whare Hauora Blessing

Panmure Bridge School is the home of New Zealand's first Medicube. The purpose of this new building is to make sure that children are fit for school and that they get a sense of focus so that they do not worry about getting sick. Our nurses will carry on doing a good job and making sure we are healthy. Like every new building at Panmure Bridge School the Maori blessing took place early in the morning and as we are in kapahaka, we were asked to perform a waiata and represent our school. Our waita was He Honore which was a nice soft waiata that we sang to with just an acoustic guitar. We were all proud of our efforts and it was a honour to partake in this event. The Kaumatua went around the medicube blessing the building in Maori. We all followed the visitors into the medicube looking at the space the health nurses will be working in.