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Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori 2020 | Your Moments

One Million Moments

On 14 September at 12pm over 1 million of you took part in the Māori Language Moment. In joining our Māori Language Moment, you became part of a movement that began a generation ago. Check out some of the awesome moments from across the motu and share your favourites to inspire others to join the movement.

Honour our past, celebrate the present, and join together for our future.

Kia kaha te reo Māori!
Kia kaha Aotearoa!

2024 2023 2022 2021

Karakia. Pepeha. Waiata. Kia kore koe e ngaro taku reo rangatira!

Jane

The mahi toi created by my intermediate students this week.

Janice

Hopper refill shop introduced written te reo throughout the shop. . .

Hopper

Hoon Hay School

Speaking in a dairy and everyone was startled by the reo. They greeted and said good bye . . .

Hiwa

Ataahua, Ka rawe, ka mau te wehi, Tumeke, kia kaha, te mea te mea

Hiki

Tamariki walked into town in Takaka and performed waiata for everyone.

Helen

Helen

I was really brave and answered in Māori for the very first time. I worry about offending by getting it wrong.

Heather

I spent all day listening to te reo maori at my whare in Whitianga

Hazel

I want to work on my pānui!

Hannah

We are a Playcentre, at midday we had the kids around the last table and everyone belted out the karakia Kai (it was so loud in our little kitchen), we sang some waiata and tried to use as much te reo Māori as possible as we enjoyed our hupa

Hannah

This is NZMA Waikato staff and our campus kapa haka roopu Piringakau flash mobbing our campus with waiata and haka. Kia kaha te reo maori

Haley-Jade

Halena

We held a waiata practice session in our School - a dozen staff participated in person, and a heap of students joined via Zoom. It went really well!

Greg

Ko Giles me Jake nga tama tokorua. Ko Heath naku tenei mokopuna.

Grant

Kia ora. My video file type is unsupported. Hoi ano, it was of a group of work colleagues enjoying a game of Tākaro at the office. We timed it to be playing it [for the first time] at midday on Monday 14/9/2020. Ngā mihi Glenda Harris WorkSafe NZ

Glenda

incorporating some Te Reo Maori in our church service

Glenis

I've just started learning Te Reo Māori. To celebrate Māori language week I've spent an hour a day studying.

Gillian

sharing and learning new words with my family. I learnt that my 7 yr old boy has good use of te reo. And had joined kapa haka at school.

Geoff

In Whakaahurangi / Stratford we celebrated by making history. Our town’s Glockenspiel plays a scene from Romeo and Juliet four times a day and at 12noon on Monday 14 September we launched our new Te Reo Māori recording of the scene. This is the first time our Glockenspiel has performed in Te Reo. Voiced by local people and translated by Makere Edwards, the Te Reo Māori version is playing four times a day until 20 Mahuru. We hope to be able to play it more regularly going forward once we improve the sound system. We were fortunate to have representatives from local kura come down and support our Māori Language Moment with waiata and haka prior to the recording being played. Ngā mihi! Stratford District Council

Gemma

Te Wiki O Te Reo Maori - Maori Language Week. Taieri College junior cohort performing their Mihi and Haka. From year 7 to 10, approximately 800 students, Lead by seniors Max Whaley and Liam Anngow.

Gemma

Staff at Immerse learning to play Poi

Freda

a moment when the realisation hits that i am incredibly passionate about te reo. Its the most beautiful language. I long to be able to speak however its not going to come magically ( I wish) life's journey is in unravelling colonial thinking and to grab reo opportunities when I can, even if there iti ones.

gail

Francine

I kōrero Māori mātou ki te Berhampore Community Orchard. Tokowhā ngā pakake, tokorima ngā tamariki. Ia Rāhina (10am), e tū ana tetahi rōpu māra mō tamariki.

Frances

Our akomanga chose from different Te Reo activities like. . . waiata, takaro like knucklebones, mū tōrere, quizzes, Kahoots, making board games, creating legends/stories, drawing, wordfinds etc.

Fiona

Kia ora a chairde ('a chairde' is 'friends' in Irish), My daughter Cara (4 years old) and I practicing our waiata, the beautiful Te Aroha. I am an Irish immigrant who has lived in NZ for 10 years and our daughter was born here. Language and music are the heart of a culture and sharing this together is very important to us.

Fiona

Eileen

In celebration of Te Tuku Reo and Te Wiki o te Reo Māori , we at Education New Zealand Manapou ki te Ao launched our organisation waiata "Manapou ki te Ao" written by Te Haumihiata Mason and Ed Tuari.

Ed

An acoustic cover of part of Aotearoa by Stan Walker.

Isaac

I waiatatia ai e te kura katoa te waiata o Whaea Pania Papa, katahi ka kawea te haka o Te Aho Matua. Ko tona 180 te tokomaha o to matou kura. . .

Hemi

This week on my Open Floor Movement Meditation Classes on the Kāpiti Coast all the waiata we danced to are Maori artists apart from a few who are inspired by or from the south pacific. Our kaupapa for the day was, ki runga, ki raro, ki waho, ki roto, and then sending out that mihi using movement and dance. Here is the soundscape that was woven, may you who read this find your self a place to kanikani x https://www. mixcloud. com/kaiakindness/muka-tangata-the-sacred-thread/

Kaia

One of my Te Reo moments for the week “Heads, shoulders, knees and toes” in English and Te Reo with third year physiotherapy students @University of Otago

Donna

Everyday this week at 12pm Wymondley Road School in Otara have come together to share waiata, haka, dance, learn new games, words and phrases in Te Reo.

Dominica

We chose to sing E tū kahikatea as the name of our farm and nursery is Kahikatea Farm. We named the farm to acknowledge of the history of the area - the whole of Poukawa valley where we live was once kahikatea forest, and also due to the cultural symbolism of these trees, growing in stands with their roots intertwined to support each other. Supporting our local and our permaculture community, as well as our environment, is a key part of our kaupapa. https://kahikateafarm. co. nz/

Jo

A very proud moment when my girls perform for one of their hapu.

Denny

I am studying horticulture in Papakura and studied these maori majestic medicinal native plants.

dave

Rūma ono celebrated Māori language in our school maara. Makayla shared her pepeha and then our class tautoko with a waiata.

Dasha

We had a sing along to E Minaka Ana in our library with several staff and members of the community joining in. It was AWESOME! Our song has been on two local radio stations and our facebook video has been viewed almost 4000 times since we loaded it up on Monday afternoon.

Dargaville

This was done last year for a assessment for school I'm finish school so now I am serving a mission in hawkes bay so mean as chur chur

Dante

i whakaako au ki taaku iraamutu teetahi o ngaa waiata pai ake moo ngaa tamariki mai i ngaa koohanga reo, otiraa ko taatou katoa, maamaa noa iho teeneki waiata, karawhiua

daniel

Proud children, tehei mauri ora! ! 😝

Cyril

Our EIT centre in Hastings had an informal waiata session led by Hawea tomoana and Margaret Fleur Young

Clare

I asked my colleagues to join with me in a te reo Māori quiz. The winner of the quiz received a kazoo solo (by me) of Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi. I suspect that’s the first time that’s happened at my workplace! 🙂

Claire

We sang Wairua Tapu around our school cross at midday on Monday to mark the start of the wiki o te red Māori. We used New Zealand sign language also. It was awesome to be together to honour this wā with the nation

Claire

Miharo ❤️🖤

Chris

Christine

Staff at Waikato Management School gathered to call out in unison 'Te Wananga o Te Raupapa' followed by sharing about how our Maori values can guide us at this time and weaving these into a whariki.

Chellie

Shared a text with my whānau: Ehara tāku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini. My strength is not as an individual, but as a collective. Arohanui e te whānau.

Carolyn

I made this video for our Maori Language Moment on Monday. We got footage from almost every class in the school and shared this with the children this morning. We appreciate the significance of this moment and really enjoyed working together to empower Te Reo Maori. - Caley Plinston, Classroom Teacher, Mairangi Bay School

Bruce

Observed powhiri for new kaimahi and sang two waiata

Brigitte

Kaipara College Reo Māori and Tū Rangatira classes celebrating Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori through waiata.

Brianne

David St School in Morrinsville gathered together for karakia and 500 people performed the Matariki /Macarena waiata outside.

Brenda

I have been writing short stories from our 2nd home: Aotearoa, called 'Corona-diaries from the MiddleEarth' since the 1st lockdown. There are 110 corona-diaries on my Facebook account so far and keep going. . . The aim is to inform our relatives and friends back home in Europe about Kiwi life, Kiwi people with their art, culture, traditions. Yesterday I wrote a post – dedicated to Māori language week (Te Wiki o te Reo Māori) how I finally understood what the famous voyager's (Kupe) wife meant when she cried: 'He Ao! He Aotea! He Aotearoa! (Cloud! White cloud! Long white cloud! )'. It's even more visible during the summer period. The best place where to raise a child. We're learning Māori songs, waiatas (including lullabies – oriori) together with my daughter Tove Tui. I'm happy that she'll learn Māori language at school. Because that's the only way – how to be aware of the history of our ancestors, how to build our identity and keep the stories (whakapapa) alive. So for me as a story-teller, journalist and mom the most important word (kupu) will always be: 'whakapapa'. And the most important saying (kiwaha) of these tough covid days could be: 'Never waste a good crisis. (Kaua e maumauria he raru pai). ' All these lockdowns are really good opportunity for all of us to pause, think and make a positive social change in our community. . . Let's give it a try.

Boba

My HB (class) at Ao Tawhiti in Ōtautahi. We stopped our maths lesson at 12 on the dot to sing one of the waiata we have been learning.

Bonnie

Ko au māua mahi hoa i mahi i te 'kahoot' mō māua mahi tīma. Ko whakaahua tēnei o whakamohio he pātai. Kia tika te reo, kia rere te reo, kia kaha te reo!

Barbara

I was not even born when our foremothers and forefathers thought to revive a beautiful language that will later become the new norm. I now pride myself learning everyday what I can learn in te reo Maori and watch my kid's grow within its embrace. Meitaki e kia manuia Augustine Kopa

Augustine

A review of Māoriland Festival Shorts in te reo Māori by Jacqueline Carter on The Pantograph Punch

Ataria

Here at Revesby North Ymca in Sydney children have embraced te reo maori and maori culture. They have learnt their left and right by playing maori games like Maui/Matau. They learnt how to say Kia ora and their pepeha also. They are keen to continue their learning after Maori language week. Which is awesome! :)

Ata

Etahi mea tino pai ki a mātou - a few of our favourite things Here at the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation NZ (Te Hā Ora) we wanted to celebrate Te Wiki o te Reo Māori by sharing a few of our favourite things. . . in te reo! 🦐🍔🎿🏖

Asthma and Respiratory Foundation NZ

We went to parliament gardens for our moment and to sing and eat cake for our colleagues rā whānau.

Arihia

Hello, on Monday our school St Francis, were playing and reading books to the kids we enjoyed helping them and teaching how important it is to show our history and the past. The kids loved and we loved learning about, they loved doing every fun activate. All the leaders (like me) loved showing and teaching the kids all about it and we learned some Maori stuff as well.

Arielle

Brigette

Our class has become proud of the way we are learning Waiata and we sing every morning and close the day the same way. It sets a wonderful tone for the day.

Debz

We are Māori Performing Arts Kaiako. This was done with our dance students at Unitec. We did Kapa Haka and played a quiz in Te reo Māori then created a kanikani to the waiata “Peke” by Atareta & Te Haakura 😊

Ariana

This week last year I carried out a 45 minute research interview with me asking in English and my research participant providing all their korero in te reo Maori - I realised I understood a lot of what was said. I decided to use te reo greetings as a standard in my daily interactions. This week as I work alone and went out to catch up with a friend for coffee to mark the moment. I had a short an impromptu te reo Maori conversation with my barrista - after opening up the conversation with Kia ora. It was a challenge as I hadn't planned it. But I surprised myself when I recognised what was being said and I was able to answer with a sensible answer after she asked how I was today. #firstgenrationNZer #startingtereojourney #dailytereo

Anne

Ko tēnei te whānau karetao. Ka mahi mātou i ētahi kiriata i te reo Māori hei tautoko i āku akonga i te wā o te rāhui o Covid

Anne

I whakatau mātou te Wiki o te Reo Māori ki Ara Institute of Canterbury. Ko Te Mātauranga Māori mātou ki Te Puna Wānaka ā Ōtautahi. https://www. facebook. com/watch/?v=658790644756234&extid=Jln36UZyq7d4wTW4

Anna

Pa Tate did a sermon on te wa - a moment in time. I spent my te wa reflecting. I spent my te wa with my hoa rangatira, who passed away last year. He was a fluent speaker. He was a trained teacher. He was mentored by Sir James Henare, at that time they were setting up Kòhanga Reo. He said then that they needed trained teachers of te reo Màori. With Ngapo Wehi, they started the first te reo class at AIT, in an old disused science lab. That's how it was. He would not accept the position offered to him at Carrington (now Unitec) unless he was on the top table - where the decisions were made. He said he needed to have a voice for things Màori. He set up the Màori Faculty at Unitec - Puukenga. There are many other stories. I always told him he was gifted and had unique skills. All these years later, they still need trained teachers of te reo Màori, now more than ever. I miss him so.

Ann

Our tamariki performing haka alongside the All blacks! !

Angela

We learnt a few new words of Te Reo and I enjoyed listening to some waiata. Everyday we have been making the effort to greet each other in the morning in Te Reo and have been studying the great book "Maori at Home" to learn some new phrases and words.

Our office lady dressed up as a patupaiarehe Pāua and joined our juniors singing kōrero parirau. We had to do our moments separately in the school due to covid in Tamaki. Majority of school participated but this was the main one in the middle of the school for everyone to hear

Andrea

My baby at kohanga

Alishia

Kei aku iti, kei aku rahi, tēnā koutou katoa. Ko tēnei te wiki o te reo Māori nā reira e hoa mā kia kaha, kia maia ki te kōrero. Ko te pukapuka o tēnei wā, ko Paraweta, nā Stephanie Blake te kaitito, nā Karena Kelly i whakamāori, nā Gecko Press te pukapuka nei i whakaputa i te reo Māori. . . . ( Sorry I didnt have the video to upload, , but this talented Librarian, did a fantastic story telling for the Porirua Library Childrens Chat. )

Alice

Te Tika, Te Pono, Te Aroha. . E hika ma.

Alan

Ko Morgana Harris taku tamahine, ka taea e ia ki tetahi waiata no te kainga nei. He reo te kainga te take, Na reira matakimataki mai, taku kotiro maia. Karawhiua

Taisha

On our Fijian Language Radio Programme Show (5pm - 7pm) on Saturday 12th September, 2020, i dedicated a moment acknowledging the ancestral land of Tangata Whenua Māori o Aotearoa. Most importantly, the preservation and strengthening of the Te Reo Māori. On Sunday, 13th September as a lead up to the 14th September 2020 the beginning of Te Reo Maori Week, I dedicate and posted a picture of me at the Radio Studio on Saturday on our Facebook Page, with a beautiful Whakataukī lifted from Jane McRae in the book I'm currently reading to honour Tangata Whenua Māori. It's titled; 'Maori Oral Tradition: He Kōrero nō te Ao Tawhito'.

Adi Elisapeci Samanunu

Sharing resources with whanau and speaking in Te reo whenever we could.

Angharad

Ngā Manu Aroha Cluster 9 Otahuhu/Mangere RTLB Services celebrating te wiki o te reo Māori. Ngā Manu Aroha Cluster 9 RTLB services Mangere/Otahuhu e whakanui ana te Wiki reo Māori mā te poi. Tō mātou roopuu Ngā Manu Aroha Cluster 9 RTLB Otahuhu/Mangere e whakanui ana te wiki reo Māori 2020, mā te tākaro tīrākau E Pāpā Waiari. Ngā Manu Aroha RTLB Services Cluster 9 Otahuhu/Mangere e whakanui ana te wiki o reo Māori mā te waiata ā ringa. Ngā Manu Aroha RTLB Cluster 9 Otahuhu/Mangere e whakanui ana te wiki reo Māori, mā te waiata.

Awaroa

Wairoa Hopupu Honengenenge Matangirau community proudly singing the waiata written by local composers. Wairoa joins Maori Language Moment together :) Newly elected Maori Ward councillor, Cllr Chaans Tumataroa-Clarke starts the Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori Pepeha challenge for the Wairoa District Council

Hine

Room 5's students were learning greetings in Te Reo Maori. Zurielle, Alyssa and Jasmine created this video tutorial to support our learning. Ka Pai! How are you? tutorial by Room 5 Mahunga, pakihiwi, puku, hope, waewae by Rm 5

Chris

Nga kaimahi o Te Puna Oranga ki Otautahi

Hester Urukehu

He Pai ahau ki te Kōrero te reo

Hong

Te Kaunihera ā rohe o Wairau- Marlborough District Council. At Tge Forum in Blenheim at midday on the 14th

Jilli

All of our ākonga and kaiako came together at midday to sing along to Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi! By choosing a waiata that all of our tamariki know we made sure that the kaupapa of everyone participating and celebrating our taonga was front and centre of our day - Te Wiki o te reo Māori 2020 - Kia kaha Te Reo Māori! ! !

Matt

Tena Koutou Katoa, these are seniors students at Manunui School - We wanted to express our school pepeha because these we believe that no matter who you are and where you come from love, belonging and connection are the universal sources of true well-being.

Moyra

He kaiako ahau ki te kura tuatahi o Herewini ki Rotorua. Koinei nga tamariki o te kura e ako ana i te reo ia ra, ia ra! He waiata tenei I whakaako ki nga tamariki i tēra tau. He waiata e kaingakau ana ki a rātou, na nga tauira o Te Wānanga o Raukawa ki Otaki i tito.

Ngati Kuia

We introduced our audience to some of our values via a special video posted on social media, and we also emailed our whole email database!

Awhimai

QE Health (Rotorua) started off Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori with a staff photo @ 12noon on Monday 14th September 2020 followed by daily quiz challenges, with cool prizes awarded @ the end of the week. We had loads of fun learning & celebrating together ;)

Vicki

Every January, every year. Without fail. Father and sons Kahu (jnr) & Mīharo

Trish

Ka nui taku aroha mō te reo Māori. Kei konei au i te taha o taku kurī. He āhua māuiui ia. Heio anō, kei te whakanui hoki ia i te wiki o te reo Māori. Ngā mihi maioha ki a koutou.

Will

Te rà tuatahi o Te Wiki o te Reo Màori

wena

E takaro ana matou i te kemu kari Whanau hari - not very PC hoiano he wa tino hari 😊 Kaha te katakata

Waikarere

Dive Instructors in training learnt a karakia to tangaroa!

Virginia

At Titirangi Primary, we wanted to have a whole school assembly for the Māori Language moment and sing some of our favourite waiata. We are in Level 2. 5 because of Covid-19 in Tāmaki Makaurau, so we had to improvise. We made a slideshow for all the classes to play at 12pm so we could all sing in our own classrooms at the same time. Here is Ruma Tekau mā toru singing "E Kereru. " (written by Jenny Shearer and Matiu te Huki. ) The rest of our playlist included "Aotearoa" "Tutira mai" "Poi E" and "Kia māu ki tō ūkaipō. "

Victoria

A group from my mahi got together and said the Serenity prayer and sung a himene. We were 7 strong :) The Salvation Army Addictions Service, Bridge and Oasis, Wellington

Vicki

Year 3 waiata!

Tracey

The Aranui Community Trust in Otautahi alongside the Aranui community, sung a waiata and had shared kai to celebrate, Te wiki o te Reo Māori.

Tracey

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The Aranui Community Trust in Otautahi alongside the Aranui community, sung a waiata and had shared kai to celebrate, Te wiki o te Reo Māori.