Drop into the lunchtime Quick Questions at Learning Services at the back of the Madras Campus library! A learning advisor is available Monday-Friday, 12-1pm to answer your quick questions about exam strategies, APA, understanding your assessments, or anything to do with successful study.
Or do you prefer learning in your own time? Check out our online StudySmart resources, available through MyAra. StudySmart has videos, explanations, tip sheets and activities on all sorts of learning topics and assessment types. e.g. APA Referencing, Report Writing, Poster Presentations, Exam and Test preparation, and many other topics. Check them out today!
The Tokelau Language Week is on! Let us remind everyone a wee bit about Tokelau: this New Zealand dependent territory is located about 500 km north of Samoa. It consists of 3 atolls with the population around 1500 Tokelauans.
There are over 7000 Tokelau peoples living in New Zealand with over half of the country’s Tokelau community living in the Porirua and Hutt Valley areas of Wellington.
Flag of Tokelau
Tokelau Language week is an opportunity to celebrate the unique culture of Tokelau and its people.
The 2020 Tokelau Language theme is ‘Apoapo tau foe, i nā tāfea i te galutau. Ke mau mai, ke mau mai’ which in English translates to, ‘Never give up hope, even amidst chaos and much uncertainty. Stay united, stay strong’.
Poster for Tokelau Language Week 2020
Get a sense of how Tokelau language sounds like in the following video:
And if you want, you can learn a phrase or two from the following table:
Mālō ni = Hello E ā mai koe? = How are you? Ko au e mālohi, Fakafetai = I am well, thank you Tulou = Excuse me Ulu tonu mai = Welcome Tōfā = Good bye Fakafetai lahi lele = Thank you very much Ke manuia koe i te Alofa o te Atua = May you be blessed in God’s love Ke fakamanuia e te Atua ia = Tokelau May God bless Tokelau
We’ll putting some useful links below where you can learn more about Tokelau, it’s peoples and its language.
All Ara library branches will be closed on Monday 26th October for the Labour Day holiday. Our usual hours will resume from Tuesday the 27th October 2020.
Lithograph showing the first Labour Day celebrations in Wellington in 1900
While some people will still be working many of us will be able to spend time with family and friends. Great Labour Day activities include camping, walks, visits to the beach or your favorite park. It is usually a good day for a early summer barbeque or picnic. You might make a weekend of it and head off to some exotic location around New Zealand….
From all the staff here at Ara Library we hope you have a happy and restful Labour Day however you decide to spend it.
According to my mother my housekeeping standards are too low, and my dating standards are too high. Luckily for me the more important standards in life are determined not by my mother but by an international board of subject experts. Each year on the 14th of October we celebrate World Standards Day by paying tribute to the collaborative efforts of experts worldwide who develop international standards.
What are standards and why are they so important? According to the International Standards Organisation a standard is “a document that provides requirements, specifications, and guidelines that can be used to ensure that materials, products, processes and services are fit for their purpose”. In short standards keep you safe and confident about the world around you. For example, have you ever asked yourself why your tyres don’t pop under the weight of your car? How about why you can turn the lights on in your home without getting electrocuted? Or how your roof stays on in these awful nor ’westers? None of these are happy accidents – only careful testing, collaboration and enforced standards can eradicate danger!
Luckily we can access New Zealand Standards Online through the Library. I have had a quick search myself and much to my relief noticed no standard related to how sharp the edges on your lawn need to be nor is marriage seen as a requirement for a happy life. I doubt either of these discoveries will soothe my mother, but one does not argue with international experts!
Ara’s (Timaru campus) retired tutor, Gail Tatham and Fashion & Art graduate, Sue Connolly have reconnected for “The Scottish Play”.
Gail Tatham’s connection with Ara is 20 years of teaching in the Art Department, mainly Art History and Theory. Sue Connolly studied in the Fashion Department and then went on to graduate from the Art Department as well. She is now a well-known local artist and President of the South Canterbury Arts Society.
Gail has now retired and is following on with her passion in theatre. She is directing this show while Sue has been helping with the design and making of the costumes. The Aidan Theatre is a local independent theatre company.
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