Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  Ka mātakitaki ngā tamariki kura puta noa i te motu i te rā āpōpō i runga i te pouaka whakaata nā te wehi mō te haumaru. Ka pōuri a Pāniora ki te pōuri āpōpō i te 9.30 i te ata āpōpō, i te mea ka haere te marama ki mua i te rā, e aukati ana i te 98% o tōna marama. Engari he maha nga kura e pupuri ana i nga tamariki i roto i te whare i te wa e puta ana te ahuatanga na te wehi ka taea e ratou te kino i o ratou kanohi ma te titiro ki te ra. Ko te whakatau a nga kaiako matua kua riri i nga matua, e hiahia ana kia kite a raatau tamariki i te kaupapa rangi onge me te kore e noho ki mua o te mata. Ka noho ngā ākonga i ngā kura maha huri noa i Ingarangi ki roto āpōpō i te pōuri o te rā i runga i te wehi ka whara pea ō rātou kanohi mā te titiro ki te rā. Whakaahua kōnae. Ko te hunga e noho ana i ētahi wāhanga o Piritene kāore pea e kite i te pōuri nā te rangi kapua e matapae ana. Ko Jen Palmer, he whaea tokorua, no Worthing, West Sussex, i tweet: 'Kia ara te ringa o te hunga e whakakeke ana ki nga ture o te kura apopo, e tuku ana i a raatau tamariki ki te mutunga o te ra i te kitenga o te eclipse?' A ko Paul Towner, he matua no Reading, Berkshire, i tuhituhi: 'Me haere ahau ki te kura i muri i taku tama kia kite ai ia i te Eclipse? Kei te mātakitaki ratou i te reira i runga i te TV!' Ko Isabel Stevenson, he whaea tokowha mai i Glasgow, i tapiritia mai: 'Kāore i te tino harikoa ki te kura tuarua ka haere aku tamariki ki te mahi KORE mō te pōuri o te rā āpōpō! He whero, he riri. Kei te mahi ahau i tenei ra.' Kua whakatūria e ia he petihana e karanga ana ki te kura o ana tamariki, Greenfaulds High School i Cumbernauld, kia nui ake te mahi hei tohu i te kaupapa. E ai ki te petihana: 'Kua korerotia mai ki ahau e te kura e kore ratou e mahi i tetahi mea mo te kaupapa. 'Ka whiua ngā ākonga kāore i te akomanga, me te mea noa iho, ā, kāore he mahere a te kura mō te mātakitaki i te pōuri i te wā e puta ana, mā te ataata, mā te whakaata rānei. 'Kaore e whakaaetia kia haere ki waho ngā ākonga e mau ana i ngā karaihe mātakitaki i te rā, kia whakamahi hoki i a rātou. 'Kei te whakahawea [te kura] ki te uara ka kitea e te hunga e mātakitaki ana i tēnei kaupapa torangapu onge ki runga i te tini o ngā ākonga, ā, e takahi ana ki te ariā ko te kura he wāhi o...
Ka whiti te marama ki mua o te ra āpōpō, ka 98% te pōuri i ētahi wāhi. Ka tū te hui i te 9.30 i te ata, arā, kei te kura ngā tamariki. E riri ana ngā mātua i muri i te whakatau a ētahi kaiārahi kura kia noho ngā tamariki ki roto. E kī ana ngā tumuaki kura kāore e mōrearea i te tirohanga a ngā tamariki mā te titiro ki te rā.