Te Tiriti o Waitangi 2020

Treaty Work in Whakamanawa

In Te Rōpū Whakamanawa in 2020, we started our year working on a Treaty of Waitangi unit.  Each day, we did more learning about what a treaty is, how and why the Treaty of Waitangi was created and how the treaty impacts on life in Aotearoa.  

We created a class treaty which we keep alive by having a student read three of our treaty actions out loud as we start our day.  

Children have shown good engagement in this as they would ask when we would be doing more treaty work and are keen to read and repeat our own treaty ideas.  This helps to reinforce that a treaty is an agreement and we are acting within a partnership.

Students worked in groups to come up with ideas they wanted to be included in our class treaty.

We read The Tree Hut Treaty and did follow up activities.

Students could view what was written and how the treaty was signed.

We created our own treaty and acknowledge it every day.

• Understand and acknowledge the histories, heritages, languages and cultures of partners to Te Tiriti o Waitangi.