Akaroa Education The Seventh Generation, history told by a direct descendant, for future generations.
Yesterday I had the pleasure of visiting Akaroa Area School to talk about the natural abundance on Campbell Island. I was lucky enough to visit this remote uninhabited Sub-Antarctic Island three times while a student at Victoria University in Wellington.
I shared with the children some of most memorable experiences of living in the wild, with no phone coverage, no internet, no weather forecast, no TV, no roads, no shops, just freedom to live in the moment and be blown away by the abundance and beauty. Everywhere I went I was surrounded with wildlife that was not afraid of humans. Each time we made camp we would immediately have a New Zealand pipit (small brown bird in the bottom right photo) take up residence, hopping around our feet eating the crumbs and at times even sitting on our legs and feet.
Whenever I took the time to sit and enjoy what happened naturally around me, there would always be a surprise, one morning during my outdoor ablutions three yellow-eyed penguins gathered for their morning chat before heading out to sea. Anywhere that you sat and waited there would be magic.
Akaroa Education For The Seventh Generation.
The Seventh Generation offers education trips in Akaroa across a range of disciplines, History, Social Studies, Geography, Earth Sciences, as well as specific topics such as Pest Free Banks Peninsula. akaroa education the seventh generation
The History trips align with the Aotearoa NZ’s Histories Curriculum that will extend schools learning into local history told by key characters connected to the history, covering Māori, French and European History.
