Teachers are hopeful the incoming compulsory New Zealand history curriculum will help close woeful gaps in young people's knowledge of this country's past.
Close to 5000 submissions were made on the Education Ministry's draft history syllabus, which covers colonisation.
Teachers at Manaia View School in Whangarei have already given it a test run and their principal, Leanne Otene, says it works well.
She told education correspondent John Gerritsen that many primary schools will find themselves teaching children about the impact of colonisation for the first time when the curriculum comes into force in 2022.
