Inquiry Term 1 2014

 

Make Your Mark.

 

I make my promise, I keep my promise.

 

What makes a strong partnership?

This Term Room 3 learnt about the Treaty of Waitangi . We looked at videos of Waitangi Day celebrations and at photos that showed what the signing ceremony might have looked like.

We then made our own Class Treaty. A treaty is a promise and we all promised to keep our Class Treaty. To help us do this we designed our own flag and then had a ceremony where we signed our Class Treaty. We lay the Treaty on our class flag just like they lay the Treaty of Waitangi on the British flag. Then we all signed it.  Here are Bailey-Rae and Shylay signing our Class Treaty.

We also made a promise to come to school every day and we have been very good at keeping this promise.

We learnt that The Treaty of Waitangi is also about partnership. We made a promise to learn our school haka and our school song 'Pepeha'. These photos show us learning the haka. Our partners from the Senior School came every day for a week to help us learn the haka. They were very good teachers and we are very grateful that they helped us.  These photos show us practising the haka.

 

 

 

Learning the haka helped us learn that being a good partner is about working together.