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Warrington School Maori Curriculum

Children learn to:

1. Develop an awareness and knowledge of Maori culture, through history, legends, art forms, music, games, and protocols
2. Utilise local expertise and resources to increase understanding
3. Know how to use simple greetings and phrases
4. Know about events of the past and how they affect and influence the present and future of the Maori people

Present achievements

Pupils currently:

• Have a Te Reo teacher who is in each class 30 minutes a week
• Greet and farewell each other in Maori
• Pronunciations are correct
• A few instructions are given each day in Maori
• Build up to the Matariki evening each year with Kaupapa Maori performances
• Entering the East Otago Kaupapa Maori Festival
• Have opportunities to perform
  • Haka
  • Waiata
  • Poi
  • Mau Rakau
• A day each year is devoted Maori arts and crafts - eg harakeke, tukutuku.
• Visit Puketeraki Marae or Huriawa Pa or each year

3 Year Programme

Pupils will:

• Plant native plants and share their names in Maori, how and what they were used for and why they should be cared for
• Locate native flora and fauna share their names in Maori, how and what they were used for and why we should continue to care for them
• Understand the celestial aspects of te ao o te Maori - seasons, navigation
• Archeology
• Land forms
• w:Waitangi Day celebrated with children learning why we celebrate it and viewing how others celebrate it
• [[Study Maori current affairs - w:Ratana Church, w:Maori Party, w:Treaty of Waiatangi
• Share information about
  • famous Maori leaders - Dame w:Whina Cooper, w:Tame Iti
  • musicians - Tiki Taane, Herbs, Hirini Melbourne, Bic Runga
• discuss food knowledge of past and present practices - w:hangi, w:kumara, fern root, modern hui catering
• discuss passive resistance of Chatham Islands Moriori and Tohu and Te Whiti of Parihaka.
• discuss myths and legends of Aotearoa me te tangata whenua iwi

Language will develop within context and a separate te reo programme will be established for senior pupils.

Outcomes

• Assessment data will show differentiation of achievement in Maori curriculum
• Students will have their needs met wherever they fit within the assessment data information.