L.I: To understand what honouring the treaty means.
For this activity, we learnt information about what the Treaty of Waitangi is, and why it’s an important part of New Zealand. But to get that information, we read a book called “Te Tiriti o Waitangi”, by Ross Calman, Mark Derby, and Toby Morris. Some of the reasons why we thought the Tiriti o Waitangi is important to New Zealand is that it’s the founding document of our country. And it represents the 3 P’s which are Patnership, Participation, and Protection. We think that the Treaty of Waitangi is an agreement signed in 1840’s by over 500 chiefs. But Important words weren’t properly explained in Te Reo Maroi.
This activity was interesting because there some interesting facts and information in the book. Like did you know that the Treaty of Waitangi’s draft was written in one night!