Aotearoa New Zealand's histories: Supporting school leaders to understand and plan for Aotearoa New Zealand's histories in social sciences  

These two guides support primary, intermediate, and secondary school leaders to understand and plan for Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories within social sciences. 

Guide one

Guide one explores the foundational and key capabilities for engaging with the new curriculum content. It supports school leaders working with teachers to: 

• Increase knowledge of national and local histories and grow critical inquiry skills 
• build productive partnerships with whānau, hapū, and iwi 
• review their social sciences teaching and learning programme for years 1–10 and start identifying ways to strengthen Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories. 

Guide two

Guide two explores the key capabilities for understanding and implementing the new curriculum content. It supports school leaders working with teachers to: 

• examine the Understand, Know, Do elements of the Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories curriculum and how to weave them together to develop rich learning opportunities 
• review their social sciences programmes to include Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories 
• look after everyone’s wellbeing when learning about the past. 

See Materials that come with this resource to download:

• Leading Local Curriculum Guide – Aotearoa New Zealand's histories Part 1 of 2  (.pdf)
• Leading Local Curriculum Guide – Aotearoa New Zealand's histories Part 2 of 2 (.pdf)