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Activities throughout the week including Waiata, Scavenger hunt and quizzes

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Each day I created a Wordle using five-letter Te Reo kupu, and sent it out to my team.

All on site will take part in a Ko Wai au? Quiz

I'm learning Te Reo because I live in a bicultural country with two spoken languages, and so far I'm only fluent in one of them. Understanding another culture is greatly enhanced by learning the language and I believe Maori culture has a huge amount to offer us as kiwis, including the respect for the land, water and air and the need to protect those if we are to thrive.

To support my own ako and to tautoko my work environment. The Purpose at mahi is to support all staff in their understanding and knowledge of Te Ao Māori by normalising cultural values, traditions and practices within our work environment.

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We're practising Purea Nei over zoom as a team :-)

To keep the importance of our language going. Maori language week should be hugely celebrated by all. It's a beautiful language and part of my Whakapapa/heritage and who I am as a Maori Wahine.

It is part of who we are as a nation and we are proud of our heritage and culture

It is important for me to take part, to promote and support Mana Maori! Kia kaha te korero mai!

Kia ora e te iwi I am an instructor and adult educator based at Hawkes Bay Regional Prison. I currently run a course called Toku Haerenga Māori where instilling our department's Māori principles is paramount to myself my colleagues and the tāne in our care. Our course is modeled around the Departments Pathways and Hokai Rangi initiatives where as a kaiako I am bound and inspired to promote these on a daily basis. The below picture reflects the mahi my tauira create on their journey, the Model Marae is a practical element which reconnects our tāne with all that is Māori. Each marae is koha to a school as a learning resource where by we give back to the community but more so our tamariki . The Kowhaiwhai boards are designed around the 5 principles which govern their journey, Manaakitanga-Wairuatanga-Rangatiratanga-Kaitiakitanga-and Whanaungatanga. The smaller Kowhaiwhai boards are gifted to their respective whānau at the men's graduation, where we also hand over the Model Marae which is 2m x 2m to the respective principle of the kura it is going to. This is why our course want to be a part of Te Wiki O Te Reo Maori. Ngā mihi nui