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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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Belmont Primary School

www.belmont.school.nz

Te Wiki te Reo Māori 2023 pledge

Waiata | Sing

Our whole Kura will come together at 12pm to sing our waiata-a -ringa we know and love. Kia Kaha re Reo Māori!!

450 people took part in this event

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Our whole school came together for singing the waiata we love and to share what we had done during the week.

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Belmont Primary shared a whole school Zoom hui. We had karakia, Te Reo stories, Kahoot! Quizzes and more. Over 230 of our whanau joined us.

We invited our community to join us in a Zoom and were completely taken by suprise when over 240 people joined us. Of those computer logged in many had siblings or whole Whānau so our net was cast much further than we ever dreamed. We sang, teachers and the Principal read Māori stories, we shared Pepeha and karakia. It was Tū Meke! ! !

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We understand that we can break the record for having our beautiful language celebrated all in a single moment. Our challenge to our tamariki is to take the knowledge they have been surrounded by ever since they started pre-school and spread it around their Bubbles. They are definitely up for it. Ngā whētu ataahua koutou!

We had an awesome lesson from one of our Whānau who is a lecturer at University about how to find the Matariki start using Puanga, Tautoru and Te Kokata to guide us there. We also used Michele Coxhead's beautiful resources in Te Reo Club. Tu Meke! ! ! On the first monring of Matariki, we read the Matariki story about the family on the beach, and we roasted kumara and ate them in dripping buttery beautiful bread. The tamariki loved it. Behold Matariki! We are pros now at the 8-point flax stars too!

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Because of Covid in Auckland, we decided to all Zoom into our collective moment for the whole school. You can scroll through all of the early part to see we had Karakia, we had a waiata, we had a Kahoot and then we had more waiata. It was Tu Meke! And it kicked our massive week of celebrating Te Reo off to an amazing start. Kia Ora for setting this up. We loved it.