Factual description on farewell to school principal
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There is a saying pinned on the wall of the Tikipunga High School workroom that reads: "Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be Kind. Always."
The words were placed there by outgoing principal Peter Garelja, recently retired after nearly seven years at the helm.
He has been quietly fighting his own battle with Parkinson's disease and has earned widespread community respect for his courage, his kindness and his ability to transfer power to Maori.
Tikipunga kuia and teacher Ngawai Anaru sums up the community response: "The community love him to bits. He has that quality of kindness and he listens."
An emotional farewell, organised by Komiti Maori to coincide with the Maori Achievement Awards, revealed the extent of gratitude felt by the local Maori community.
Representatives from the school community - Whanaunga Aotearoa, Pehiaweri marae and the well-known kapa haka group Hatea - met to celebrate student achievement and to pay tribute to Peter. A whole evening was devoted to feasting, speech making and performance, and Peter and his wife Raewyn were presented respectively with a waka huia (especially carved box) and greenstone pendant earrings.
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Memories were set in stone as senior student Te Huringa Totoro played out a film in which students held out a stone inscribed with the value they selected to describe their principal.
Grace Turuwhenua, spokeswoman for Pehiaweri marae, identifies Peter's ability to form links with the community.
"He set up quite a few community projects. The marae driveway was dangerous; he found funding to make our entrance safe.
"He gained apprenticeships for two Tikipunga students to work with Fulton Hogan, the company in charge of doing the alterations [at Pehiaweri] and involved students from the building academy in renovation projects.
"Peter was always interested in what was going on there and had a very visible presence - turning up for Anzac Day ceremonies and attending other important community events," she says.
Grace describes him as "very respectful to whanau, always humble and a person who highly values Maori tikanga".
She, like many others in the Maori community, is keenly aware of the strong moves Peter made to transfer power to Maori - getting Maori into positions of responsibility, encouraging Maori staff members to go on to become principals. Ex-student Robert Diamond believes part of Peter's intuitive understanding of where Maori are at as a people generates from his Dalmatian heritage.
"He is Ngati Tarara - Dalmatian - and he is a man of staunch identity, a man who understands what it is to be part of a minority culture," he says.
Peter agrees identity has been his compass.
"The most important thing you take to a classroom is your cultural identity. Identity matters. I have always fought hard for Maori students to have the absolute right to learn as Maori and succeed as Maori.
"If they can believe in themselves, they can believe in their teachers."
He described the evening put on in his honour as quite simply "the most humbling experience of my life".
Most importantly, the evening and its accolades sent a clear signal to would-be educators about what Maori want in terms of education.
"We want what Peter began . . . school that is built around community," Robert says.
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at farewell time its responsibility of principal that at last time try to explain and appreciate each and every student ,i know its time taking but its actually play a very important role in students life because whole tym of their schooling or college they try to give their best at every field in which they can so by giving appreciation and awaring them about thier some quality we can able to make their Day memorable and happy