Matariki!

Matariki Week!

On Week 9 Term 2 , for homework we had to decide if you think Matariki should replace Queens Birthday Weekend. As Matariki becomes more popular many people think that Matariki should replace Queen’s Birthday as a public holiday.

So we had to:

1. Outline three advantages and disadvantages of this happening

2. Present an illustrated story of a story about Matariki.  

Overall Room 19 thought that it was a bad idea to replace Queen’s Birthday with Matariki because it would make the royal family feel ignored, it would make people in New Zealand who like royalty feel ignored as well and other countries who don't know what Matariki is. But the advantages were that people thought it would be a more New Zealand related holiday, it would make people from other countries and cultures learn more about the Maori culture and New year.

By Julia Koning

By Georgia Simpson

 

 

By Anton Keller