Te Hiku and Kaikohekohe Symposium 2023

For the past few months we have been busy organising our combined symposium for 2023. Next year it is being held at the Taipa Beach Resort on Thursday 26 January. We desided as a cluster to include some local curriculum and invited the iwi to talk about the Ngati kahu area of Taipa point and how they got the land back. We have also got Mangonui school and Ian Swindel talking about the Rangikapiti Pa restoration program and Oruaiti school show casing their enviro school and how they achieved winning the award. Fraser Smith who is the ex Oturu principal is introducing the day with his good sense of humour and experience of telling stories. He has been writing lots of journal stories and books in retirement with a context to suit our local students. Steve from Google has also kindly offered to come up and present at the day. We also have Jenny Skinner presenting on the new history curriculum. So far it has all come together and is looking good and well organised thanks to a great collaborative Te Hiku team. So far we have 96 registrations. This is the site about the day.