Our story so far...

In 2017 we brought a small group of our ākonga to the local Pounamu workshop of Jon Jeet. We observed the engagement, connection and knowledge growth after just one day in the pounamu workshop. We started discussions about how we could offer this opportunity on site at the new, state of the art school in eastern Christchurch, Haeata Community Campus.

Over the next 18 months we worked in collaboration with Jon to set up the space ‘Tūhono Taonga, Tūhono Tāngata’ which opened at the end of the 2018 school year. We also considered what a pounamu kaupapa might look like in a transdisciplinary learning model such as Haeata.