Te tiriti o Waitangi
February 6th marks an important date in Aotearoa’s history where the
signing of the Treaty took place in 1840! As a group we talked about that being
nearly 200 years ago! That’s a long time and it was so important.
Teacher Laura did a mat time story with our special Tui puppet.
During that we looked at pictures of a waka and talked about how Māori travelled to NZ from Pacifica to
discover a beautiful, lush island- Aotearoa! Our friend Scottie said “ Hey
that’s where I live!” pointing to New Zealand.
Māori learnt to live from the land. “ They went fishing” Sid contributed! Another group of British came exploring in a big ship that our tāmariki thought looked like a pirate ship!! Sid knew it was powered by the wind. Tāwhirimātea did power those sails and the boat had travelled a long way- we looked at a map! Eliza added that she liked exploring too! Hazel said that she did as well!
We learnt that when the two groups saw each other they didn’t know how to be
friends, and didn’t even speak the language!
There was some fighting which we agreed at Uxbridge isn’t very good
behaviour. We wondered how they would
solve this problem. A treaty was made
up, which is like an agreement. Over 500 chiefs signed the document and it had
3 main ideas; Participation, Protection and Partnership (Three very big words that we had a look at
the meaning of) and as some of you may know, forms the basis of our curriculum
Te Whāriki.
A very big concept for the children to grasp hold of but all seemed to be
engaged and enjoyed helping Tui the puppet understand. It was wonderful for our
tamariki to contribute their ideas and bounce ideas around about this.
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