On Thursday the 1st of April our Year 7 Tāhuhu team headed to the Museum to build on the learning we have been doing about the history of Aotearoa.

We learnt about early Māori technology and how their clever use of natural resources is something we can continue to learn from today. As well as exploring the museum itself, we also had the opportunity to go into one of the learning spaces and experiment with some of the technologies. 

This included carving using pounamu chisels, using shells to get the muka (fibre) from harekeke (flax), using a pirori (cord drill) to drill holes and drawing some of the images that early Māori drew inside caves and other natural shelters.