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Share what you did for Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2023. This will go on to become a showcase of how we celebrate te reo as a nation.

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Te Kura Tuatahi O Pakiaka - Woodend School

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This year to commemorate our Te Wiki o te Reo Māori language moment ākonga of Te Kura Tuatahi O Pakiaka in Te Pou (year 5-8) came together to perform our school's haka at 12:00pm today. This happened to also be the day we raised money for Wig Wednesday, supporting the Child Cancer Foundation, wearing mufti and wigs. In Te Pout this year our core focus has been building whanaungatanga. We felt especially connected doing our school haka together. Amongst this Te Maunga (year 7&8) has been completing a completely different timetable to normal with harakeke weaving, karakia, coding in te reo Māori, Numeracy games using te reo number knowledge, researching and developing passion projects of Māori change makerskēmu, waiata with NZSL, and kapa haka among other activities.

Karawhiua was the guiding phrase for Te Maunga as they launched into Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2021! A week filled with waiata, kaupapa kori, kapa haka, Whakataetae Reo Māori Wero, and kīwaha! For our moment at 12pm we came together to sing a new waiata with new vocabulary we learnt for our Māori Language Moment. Tau Ke!

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It is important for Te Maunga to be part of the Māori Language Moment as we are actively working to incorporate more Te Reo into our day to day lives and school work. We recognise and are doing more work around learning about our cultural location and Te Reo as one of our national languages.

It is important for Te Maunga to be part of the Māori Language Moment as we are actively working to incorporate more Te Reo into our day to day lives.