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Mahana Primary School wins Living Heritage Award
UNESCO MEDIA RELEASE: Mahana Primary School wins Living Heritage Taonga Tuku Iho Award
An online history project initiated by the children of tiny Mahana Primary School - a rural school 30km from Nelson - has won a Living Heritage Taonga Tuku Iho Award for 2009.
The students recognised that their small community was changing and they wanted to promote a sense of belonging and pride in their past by finding out more about the lives of their ancestors and tipuna.
"Living Heritage, Taonga Tuku Iho Awards celebrate our country's heritage and or treasures," says NZ National Commission for UNESCO chair, Bryan Gould.
"UNESCO
recognises that living or intangible heritage provides
people with a sense of identity and continuity. Helping
young people to learn from their past is a key way to help
prepare them for the future."
The online project
involved all three classrooms that make up Mahana School and
students report that they learned a lot more about their own
families, their school, region and country. In spite of
their isolation, students developed their ICT skills by
contributing to their web page, producing podcasts and
integrating ICT into performances. A variety of
pictorial/photo resources from books and communities, local
museums, archives and family collections were also called
upon.
Living Heritage is a free, bilingual (English-Maori)
online resource that enables schools all over New Zealand to
develop and publish websites about heritage treasures of
their communities. Living Heritage preserves history and
culture in a digital format and allows children's voices to
present a view of New Zealand on the World Wide Web.
The New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO helped
establish the Living Heritage Taonga Tuku Iho Awards to
celebrate schools whose work contributes to UNESCO
objectives by capturing heritage resources for future
generations
Living Heritage (Tikanga Tuku Iho) is a project of the 2020 Communications Trustin partnership with The Learning Centre Trust of New Zealand, The National Library of New ZealandTe Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, and Sun Microsystems.
VisitMahana School's Living Heritage: http://www.livingheritage.org.nz/schools/primary/mahana/the-mahana-whakapapa/index.php
Visit NZ National Commission for UNESCO: www.unesco.org.nz
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