HOW IT WORKS

What is it?

Kōrinorino is an integrated unit of work that focuses on the history, science, technology and maths associated with navigating. Kōrinorino learning experiences are designed to show progression for students in three phases from from year 4 through to year 10 and are intended to provide them with the skills and knowledge to understand the history of settlement of their area. Kōrinorino is available to schools and kura throughout Aotearoa New Zealand.

What is included?

Kōrinorino includes classroom and sailing learning experiences. Classroom experiences include activities to help your students learn about the journeys of discovery to Aotearoa New Zealand and this is free of charge. Sailing experiences include going sailing and imagining what it was like to sail across the ocean to this land, this may have a cost associated with it depending on the local club. Learners use the skills and knowledge they acquire to retell the settlement histories of their area.

How to get involved?

Use the register section to let us know that your school or kura wants to get involved. We will then provide you with a copy of the teacher guides. 

LEARN ABOUT YOUR PLACE

There are three sets of classroom learning experiences and a sailing experience to help build the knowledge and skills you will need to retell an aspect of your local history. Your teacher will decide with you which experiences you are going to use and will tailor these to the phase of schooling that you are currently in (either years 4-6, years 7-8, or years 9-10). Your teacher will also frame with you how the learning intentions for each activity relate to the following key things to know from the social sciences curriculum for your phase of learning. 

Years 4-6

Māori voyaging through the Pacific was deliberate and skillful and brought with it Pacific whakapapa and cultural identities. These identities were transformed over the centuries through adaptations to, and relationships with, the environment, and through the formation of hapū and iwi that eventually occupied Aotearoa New Zealand.

Years 7-8

The signings of He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni | The Declaration of Independence and Te Tiriti o Waitangi | The Treaty of Waitangi emerged from a long period of complex interactions between hapū/iwi and newcomers in which Māori were the majority. These interactions, particularly those with missionaries, helped to facilitate the treaty process. Also important were the international events and ideas of the time that informed the Crown’s thinking and actions.

Years 9-10

Since the mid-nineteenth century, immigration practices and laws have shaped Aotearoa New Zealand’s population and sought to realise dominant cultural ideals and economic ends. Māori as tangata whenua were excluded from these cultural ideals, which they experienced as colonising and assimilating.

Regardless of the phase of learning that you are in, the intention is that the activities will help you to explore and deepen your understanding of how colonisation and settlement have been central to Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories for the past 200 years.

CLASSROOM EXPERIENCES

Kōrinorino includes three sets of classroom learning experiences and a challenge to take action. Each classroom set has four learning experiences designed to help students develop the knowledge and skills to retell the settlement histories of their area. The challenge for ākonga  is to create a presentation of some aspect of the settlement of their local area. Register today and we will get you set up to start working on Kōrinorino with your students.

FINDING
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OUR
TŪRANGAWAEWAE

TANGATA WHENUA MEET TAUIWI

SHARE YOUR
LOCAL HISTORY

TAKE ACTION

You will remember when you started on the Kōrinorino learning journey that your challenge was to to research and retell an aspect of your local history. To support your progression toward becoming knowledgeable about ngā ahurea me te tuakiri kiritōpū (culture and collective identity) and te tino rangatiratanga me te kāwanatanga (sovereignty, organisation, and government) we have set up three challenges, one each for ākonga in years 4-6, years 7-8, and years 9-10. Regardless of the phase of learning that you are in, the intention is that the challenges will help you progress in building your capability to use the social inquiry process.

Te kaingākaunui me te hiamo ki te ako 

Expanding horizons of knowledge and collaboration

Te mōhio ki tōku tūrangawaewae me te kōkiri kaupapa 

Knowing I belong and advocating for self and others

Te whai ahunga, te manaaki i ētahi atu me te manawaroa 

Having a purpose and being empathetic and resilient

Years 4-6

Tangata and mana whenua in your place​

Retell the story of the first arrivals to your place? Who was tangata whenua? How did they come to be there? Are they still there? If not, where are they now? Who are mana whenua today? How did they get that status?  

Years 7-8

Tauiwi in your place​

Retell the stories of settlement of your place in the 5 decades following the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi? What motivated these people to come to your place? What was their experience on arrival? What changed in your place over these years? 

Years 9-10

Impact of two peoples being in your place

What specific immigration practices and laws facilitated the arrival of tauiwi in your place in the 5 decades following the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi? What was the experience and impact for Māori as a result of tauiwi arriving in your place?

SAILING EXPERIENCES

Kōrinorino provides the opportunity for your students to get out on the water and experience what it would be like to be an ocean navigator. Kōrinorino sailing experiences take place over a full day.


Up to 30 students can participate in each sailing experience day, which are facilitated by Yachting New Zealand qualified kāiako. All the boats and safety equipment are provided, as are permission slips and RAMs forms.

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During the sailing experience your learners will get out on the water and be like an ocean explorer. They will also participate in a series of hands on activities to familiarise them with Kāpehu Whetū the Māori Star Compass. They will also get an introduction to safer boating practices and water skills for life.

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You can check out the sailing experiences page to watch a video about what is involved and to see the activities that will take place when you visit the club.