Upcoming events
Y9-10 Social Sciences Curriculum Hui
Tuesday 1 September 2026
7.00pm
Online2026 NZHTA History Scholarship Series
NZHTA Scholarship History Series 2026 - Supporting tomorrow’s history scholars
This year’s theme is relationships between workers, employers, and the state, with a specific focus on Aotearoa New Zealand from the beginning of the 1870s to the end of the 1940s.
Our 2026 line-up features:
Thursday 27 August @4.30pm - Frances Steel. Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Wollongong. Her research connects histories of empire, mobility and the sea in the Pacific World.
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83216798714?pwd=jQZMazLKROsbsqjVMRHXiBaOLKhaMY.1
Thursday 3 September @4.30pm – Cybèle Locke, Jim McAloon. Cybèle’s most recent book, Comrade – Bill Andersen, A Communist, Working-Class Life traces how trade union leader Bill Andersen encountered the world between 1924 and 2005, broadening political history to embrace communist history. Jim has a wide range of interests in the economic and social history of New Zealand and other places, including settler societies, colonial development, class and history, labour history, migration, and twentieth century political history.
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85498098544?pwd=PpVhUGowUcQr0X9Qxgg4P6IPWffuAg.1
Thursday 10 September @4.30pm - Guosheng Xie - A current PhD student looking at Chinese labour and enterprise, 1860s-1920s.
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89578963982?pwd=8SJxvFqcZO6NuHVMBaUQfFSUVgRfFO.1
Thursday 17 September @4.30pm - Ross Webb - He has a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington and is a historian with an interest in organised labour and oral history. He is a principal researcher analyst in the Research Team at the Waitangi Tribunal Unit.
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83595193080?pwd=zjEOrQED1lIKtva1fHHsvn9qUUj3SW.1
Thursday 24 September @4.30pm - Melanie Nolan - Historian and university academic from New Zealand, specialising in labour and gender history. She is the director of the National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University, and general editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86801688907?pwd=zuCf3ZsNynec21YL6TRvxhweZFaNqj.1
2026 NZHTA Workshops
To be announced soon!!!
A series of workshops in Term 4 to help kaiako to become familiar with both the Phase | Tūārere 4 Years 9 – 10 and Phase | Tūārere 5 (Years 11 – 13) curriculum. These workshops will help teachers to interrogate the curriculum and to understand the nature of the two different sections:
Knowledge
The facts, concepts, principles, and theories to teach.
And
Practices
The skills, strategies, and applications to teach.
The sessions relating to the Phase 4 will likely be covered in conjunction with other disciplines in the Social Sciences curriculum.
These face-to-face meetings will be to provide background material on understanding the curriculum and the new
assessment methods as well as practical activities to design and develop new programmes that reflect the refreshed PT5 (and PT4, where appropriate) curriculum, and changes to assessment and qualifications.