Reading | Treaty of Waitangi | Te Tiriti O Te Waitangi

Ti Tiriti o te Waitangi

This week we have been learning about the Treaty of Waitangi by accessing different text types and media.

In groups we needed to firstly access the information and gather the main ideas of Who, What, Where, Why and When. We had journal stories, website, youtube videos and more.

We then had to summarise the information in to sentences using key words. Even though we all picked out different words, the main idea of the treaty are the 3 Ps.

The 3 Ps are Protection, Partnership and Participation. This is what the treaty set out to achieve.

We then had to evaluate our new learnings and think of questions that we want to find more information on.

An interesting fact I learnt connecting to the Treaty of Waitangi was that the peace treaty was actually signed so that the British could protect the Maori from the French people because the Maori suspected that the French were planning an attack on them.