Hello Readers,

In today’s lesson we began a new topic. This time we’re focusing on New Zealand freedom fighters. We’ll be learning about significant people in New Zealand’s history. I hope you enjoy reading!!!

Springbok Tour

For the first lesson on NZ freedom fighters we learnt about the ‘Springbok Tour.’ It was very interesting and had a lot of conflict evolved. Below is my work.

What was the tour about?

The tour was started because of the conflict against New Zealand and South Africa. South Africa’s government only allowed ‘whites’ to play Rugby in South Africa. This meant Māori players weren’t allowed to be associated with New Zealand or even play. In 1970, South Africa allowed Māori to play as ‘hononary whites,’ this discouraged the players and caused a lot of conflict.

July 22nd, 1981 the first ever game with Māori occurred in South Africa. However, John Minto had already planned the ‘Springbok Tour.’ Over 150,000 people took part; filling the streets to the brim. Anti-tour protesters gathered confronting parliament calling for change. Police used batons and stopped those marching — this caused a lot of damage towards people.

Here is my biography on John Minto:

Springbok Tour Map

In class today we needed to mark the places of the springbok tour and add 5 events that occurred. I used google earth to map out the locations and Canva to add the events. I hope you enjoy the map!!!

Robert Muldoon

Today we got tasked to make an infographic on Robert Muldoon. I chose to make mine on Canva; which was very simple and easy. It was a bit hard to find information on him but I managed to finish it!

Here is my work:

Springbok Summary

NZ Government Structure

Yesterday in Social Studies we learned about the nz government structure. We needed to create a poster explaining the 3 structures; head of state, legislative, executive & judical. It was very easy to do!

Here is my poster:

Thank you for reading!