The Pompallier Experience: Living History
~ making history serious fun

Pompallier caters for education groups of all ages, from pre-school to adult education. Check out our

Hands on experiences
Education kit
Maori language education resource on earthern architecture

For further information, see

French Bishop, Maori Chiefs, British Treaty
Gaveaux Printing Press
Book Production
The Return of Bishop Pompallier

The Pompallier Experience: Living History

Highly recommended by:

Primary & Intermediate Schools:

• Rick Kivell - Science Adviser
• Robyn Boswell - Technology Adviser
• Raewyn Sills - Social Studies Adviser
• Kiri Matthews - Maori & Pacific Islands Adviser

Secondary Schools:

• Steve Watters - NZ History Teachers Association

Contact us to make your booking and discuss your group's needs.

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Hands on experiences and stories of the people and place

In this restored and working factory, students receive wonderful hands-on experiences of the tools and equipment of the 1840s mission printery. They are taken through the early 19th Century industrial processes, from tanning and leather production, to typesetting, printing and bookbinding. At the same time, Pompallier staff tell the stories of the people who lived and worked here.

• How did Maori, and the English already in New Zealand, respond when French Catholic missionaries arrived in 1838?

• What did literacy mean to the Europeans who were bringing it to New Zealand and to the Maori who were so keen to have the new books?

• What did Bishop Pompallier and the missionaries who went with him to Waitangi in February 1840 contribute to the Treaty made there?

• What was it like working here in the 1840s? How did colonization and the Industrial Revolution affect this, and other places in Kororareka and the Bay of Islands?

• What did the French Catholic missionaries see and do when war started on the neighbouring hillside in 1845?

The Pompallier landscape and garden was occupied both before and after the mission station was here.

• How can the land and plants tell stories of the people who were here?

• And learn what generations of mummified rats (see above) found in our thick earth walls can teach us today!

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An Education Kit

Our Oldest Factory: Pompallier is highly recommended as a classrom and cross curriculum Social Studies and Technology resource that will expand your group's understanding of the history and technology of this place.

This has been developed in partnership with Developmental Publications and is for Primary and Intermediate students. The picture-based resource follows the chidren at Karetu School as they explore the mission tannery and printery, learning about and discussing the work, lives and experiences of the missionaries here. The resource kit includes material for teachers to develop classroom-based projects.

Price: $95 plus $5 post & packaging anywhere in New Zealand.

Our Oldest Factory: Pompallier is available from:

Pompallier, contact us
and
Developmental Publications Ltd, P O Box 4082, Hamilton
email: ksmythe@wave.co.nz

Whare uku kei Kororareka:

Ko te Whare o Pompallier kei Kororareka. Ko ia te whare tino tawhito o nga whare uku katoa o Aotearoa. Ko nga pakitara kua oti te hanga i te oneone whakatuki. I timata te hanganga i te tau 1841, a, i te tau 1842 ka oti.

No Wiwi hoki te tangata nana te whare nei i waihanga. Na reira, ko te ahua o te whare he orite ki nga whare o Wiwi.

I nga ra o mua he whare perehi. Ko tetahi mahi miharo o nga mihinare Wiwi ko te ta pukapuka i te reo Maori. He whare whakamaroke kiri kau, he toa hoki tenei mo nga mihinare Wiwi.

I te tau 1856 ka hokona e te Mihinare Katorika e James Callaghan. Ka tu hei whare noho mo nga tau whitu tekau. Ka mutu, ka hokona e te kawanatanga, a, ka tuwheratia hei whare pupuri taonga. Ko nga taonga o roto e pa ana ki nga mahi o mua i mahia i tenei whare.

He whare tawhito, he whare ataahua, he whare miharo te Whare o Pompallier. He whare uku hoki tenei whare!

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