Starting out

 At the moment I am volunteering in a Year 2/3 class at Lincoln Heights school in Massey teaching art lessons.  This is some of the student work from my most recent day in the classroom, with the children making Matariki kites.  I read Melanie Drewery's Matariki to the class as an introduction to the lesson and we had a class discussion about what we do to celebrate Matariki.

GTS 3 Graduating Teachers understand how contextual factors influence teaching and learning
3b. Graduating teachers have knowledge of tikanga and te reo Māori to work effectively within the bicultural contexts of Aotearoa New Zealand.