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  • Kia ora 8C1!

    I am Ms Wood and I will be your Global Studies teacher this year.

    What is Global Studies?

    The social sciences learning area is about how societies work and how people can participate as critical, active, informed, and responsible citizens. Contexts are drawn from the past, present, and future and from places within and beyond New Zealand. At MHJC we call this Global Studies.

    Throughout your time here at Mission Heights Junior College, we will explore the unique bicultural nature of New Zealand society that derives from the Treaty of Waitangi. 

    We will learn about people, places, cultures, histories, and the economic world, within and beyond New Zealand. 

    Through this, we will develop understandings about 

    • how societies are organised and function 

    • how the ways in which people and communities respond are shaped by different perspectives, values, and viewpoints. 


    This week we have one session. As it is coming up Waitangi Day, we will be sharing what we already know about the Treaty of Waitangi. We will be using our reading skills (finding and locating information) to discover more about the Treaty to share with each other.