Kia Ora Ra, Welcome to the homepage that Room 3 will be using to explore the Maori Universe and Historyverse this year. We will be working off an accelerated learning platform which uses self discovery and innovative information concepts to create new education dialogues for students. These dialogues enable our young explorers to achieve learning targets in new and exciting ways which positively imprint and impact. Our Room 3 Maori Adventurers find themselves preparing to escape the mystical island of Hawaiiki which has become inhospitable due to ongoing and massive volcanic activity. We observe four powerful dynasties as they make final preparations to leave behind all they know and embark upon a perilous journey far out across Te Moana-nui a Kiwa which if fortune favours them will lead them to a remarkable new land called Aotearoa. Many adventures and dangers await our heroes as they attempt to navigate a route to safety. They will need to use all their innate skills and knowledge if they are to succeed. They must overcome struggles both within and without in their efforts to successfully navigate the arduous passage to the 'promised isles' of the long white cloud. And then there is the massive task of trying to survive in the much colder, hostile and very alien new territory called Aotearoa, if they make it! This accelerated education project will utilise Te Reo, strategy, art, story composition, role-play, music and good old kiwi ingenuity as drivers to success. Follow our Maori Adventurers as they set out on what will be the adventure of a lifetime!