Section outline

  • Achievement Objectives:

    1.4 communicate about personal information such as name, parents and grandparents’ names, iwi, hapū, mountains, and river, or home town and place of origin

    Learning outcomes:

    Students will be able to:

    • identify the whenua & landmarks that are significant to the place which a chosen ancestor originated from
    • compose a meaningful pepeha that connects them to their ancestors and the whenua from which they cane.
    • Recite their pepeha

    Pepeha

    Pepeha is a way of introducing yourself in te ao Māori. A pepeha connects you to your ancestors and the whenua that they came from. It identifies important places like the maunga, awa, waka, iwi, hapū and marae to which you are connected

    This week you will research your own pepeha that will connect you to your ancestors to the whenua from which they came and the significant landmarks that were important to them.