Joseph @ Greymouth High School

This week we learnt about the features of a  Pā, here are some features and some interesting facts!

This week we learnt about a few parts of a Wharenui inside and out, I have made a slide showing some parts of it. We are working towards building our own Wharenui in small groups.

On Monday Te Hiringa visited Shantytown, to learn about the early maori, pounamu and a man called Kehu. When we first got to Shantytown she told us all the rules and the  boundaries, Then we entered the room with all the the pounamu and fossils. Then we went to make huts in the forest, we walked a track to get to the area we were separated into 3 groups of 4 and there was 1 adult to each group. All of the huts were amazing and it was fun to pick up sticks and ferns. She then separated the tuakana from the teina, we learnt about Kehu and all the amazing stuff he did, Some people call him superman. Then we walked across a narrow bridge made of a log, And had a Christmas service like Kehu, we all had to sit on mats and we proceeded to say a series of priers and one of the students told the Christmas story. In conclusion Shantytown was a good trip and a good experience.