As a part of the Art Design and Photography course this year, we took Year 11 students to visit two significant local sites with historical connections to Māori culture.
As part of their NCEA 1.1 assessment task, students reimagined connections between the past and present at Maungauika (North Head) and Lake Pupuke, researching and visually recording information at the sites.
800 years ago, Māori settlements around the site of Maungauika produced food staples in organised gardens for surrounding areas and trading. They watched from the volcanic hills for traders, enemy waka and their own fishing expeditions.
This visual information collated in the form of photographs and drawings is being used to inform subsequent tasks exploring a historical indigenous perspective. The students are learning to form connections between their own multicultural backgrounds and the
indigenous culture of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Art work at top by Joy Yan.
Artwork above by Alison Fan
Artwork below by Holly Hampson-Tindale
