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Native schools became known as "Māori schools" following the Maori Purposes Act 1947, under which all government usage switched from 'Native' to 'Maori'. The number of Māori schools began to decline in the 1950s. In 1958 almost 70 per cent of Māori children attended a board school, but there were still 157 Māori schools (down from 166 in 1955).
The first school along European lines for Māori in New Zealand was established in 1816 [6] by the missionary Thomas Kendall of the Anglican Church Missionary Society, at Rangihoua, in the Bay of Islands. The school had 33 students when it opened and the roll peaked at 70 within a year.
[5] [6] In 1941, the Honorary Geographic Board of New Zealand renamed the hill to a 57-character name Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu, which has been an official name since 1948, and first appeared in a 1955 map. [7]
Wellington, New Zealand, Department of Internal Affairs Official version of Te Aho Matua o nga Kura Kaupapa Māori and english explanation retrieved on 8 June 2008; Wellington, New Zealand, Parliamentary Counsel Office Section 155, Education Act 1989 retrieved on 8 June 2008; Hawaii, USA 'Aha Punana Leo retrieved on 8 June 2008
These schools teach solely or principally in the Māori language. [1] The name "Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o (placename)" can be translated as "The Kaupapa Māori School of (placename)". In New Zealand schools, students begin formal education in Year 1 at the age of five. [2] Year 13 is the final year of secondary education. Years 14 and 15 refer ...
Polynesian oral traditions say that the spirits of Polynesian people return to Hawaiki after death. In the New Zealand context, such return-journeys take place via Spirits Bay, Cape Reinga and the Three Kings Islands at the extreme north of the North Island of New Zealand. This may indicate the direction in which Hawaiki may lie.
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The Māori King Movement, called the Kīngitanga [v] in Māori, is a Māori movement that arose among some of the Māori iwi (tribes) of New Zealand in the central North Island in the 1850s, to establish a role similar in status to that of the monarch of the British colonists, as a way of halting the alienation of Māori land. [103]