KS Kapālama Convocation 2014

September 2, 2014

Kamehameha Schools Kapālama students and faculty members from elementary to high school celebrated the new school year with mele and hula at the campus’ annual convocation at Kekūhaupiʻo Gym.

Head of School Earl Kim, addressed the event attendees and made a simple request: Pay it forward. Remember Princess Pauahi and how she gave generously to others and think of helping others without expecting anything in return.

The convocation culminated with the annual torch relay. Attendees cheered as students from the upper grades passed the torch down to their younger siblings until the kindergarten students carried the torch across the finish line.

KS photographer Michael Young captured the event in the photos below. If your division or campus has pics to share, please send them along with background information and captions to ksonline@ksbe.edu.

The torches are handed off down through the grades from high school to middle school to elementary school.

The blowing of the pū (conch shells), signal the beginning of the Kapālama campus convocation.

Staff from the elementary school campus provide music.

Elementary school students perform a hula that they learned in just a few days.

Boys from the middle school hula class perform in front of a portrait of Kamehameha Schools founder Princess Pauahi.

Head of School Earl Kim told a story of how he was walking through the airport with high school Principal Julian Ako, in the foreground, and how they were stopped several times by former students of Mr. Ako who wanted to thank him for his support for them while they were in school. This was the result of “Paying it forward.”