Aurelia Arona & Rona Fatuleai
Aurelia Arona comes from a background in the health and disability sector and has recently taken up her role as Kaitakawaenga in Māori Services for Christchurch City Libraries.As part of her role Aurelia doesliaison and outreach work with community groups and has also been working within the network to ensure we are able to offer quality Māori resources.She delivers Māori language lessons to the children’s network and has been working alongside colleagues to develop and deliver bilingual storytimes that specifically incorporate Te Reo Māori and English.
Rona Fatuleai is the Preschool Outreach Co-ordinator at Christchurch City Libraries. She is on the go all the time getting books to parents and babies around Christchurch. Rona deals with parent groups, grandparents, teen parents any group where there are under fives and parents. Freda, her co-worker, handles preschools, kindergartens and read-alouds for teachers and children. Preschool outreach provides crates of resources for centres that don’t have the funding to buy new books and low decile organisations with little or no government funding are the major users. Rona brings to her role her experience as a Children’s Librarian and an enthusiasm and energy that reflects her cultural background and her passion for encouraging language and literacy development.
In their session, Rona and Aurelia will address:
- identifying your audience
- the quality and quantity of bilingual content the session needs to contain
- strategies that have been especially successful when delivering a bilingual session.