Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori 2021 | Your Moments

From schools, to workplaces to whānau and friends. Thousands of New Zealanders stopped to share in a moment of unity for our people and our language. In joining our Māori Language Moment, you became part of a movement that began a generation ago.

Kia kaha te reo Māori!
Kia kaha Aotearoa!

2024 2023 2022 2020

Tena koe

Sophia

I remembered when my husband travelled to Israel he sent a photo of this - the Lord's Prayer in Te Reo on the wall of this historic church in Jerusalem, along with other languages from around the world. We thought that was really cool! So for my Maori Language Moment I looked it up and recited the prayer in Te Reo.

Leigh

A small number of our team meet over Zoom to share our pepeha.

Rachel

I am fare welling two colleagues this week and have added the whakatauki below provided by Sonia Lilly and team kia hora te marino, kia whakapap pounamu te moana, kia tere te kārohirohii mua i tōu haurai.

Kim

I choose this whakatauki as it is so important during lockdown. We must look after our people and papatūānuku to look after our future.

Parris

Te Tik Tok a te Kōhanga Reo hei tautoko i te wiki o te reo māori. Nā Nanny Kuini tēnei waiata i tito. Ko Rodney Whanga me te mokopuna ngā whetu o te kaupapa nei.

Tahuri

E tautoko ana mātou ko ngā kaiako me ngā kaimahi o Te Iringa o Kahukura i te kaupapa o te wiki nei. We as Cashmere High staff support the purpose of Māori Language week. Here we all are with our favourite whakataukī!

Vanessa

E tautoko ana mātou ko ngā kaiako me ngā kaimahi o Te Iringa o Kahukura i te kaupapa o te wiki nei. We as Cashmere High staff support the purpose of Māori Language week. Here we all are with our favourite whakataukī!

Vanessa

Going out of my comfort zone here and recorded this in New Zealand Sign Language!

Janet

E tautoko ana mātou ko ngā kāiako o Te Iringa o Kahukura i te kaupapa o te wiki nei. As Cashmere High staff, we support Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori. Bit hard to see but here we all are with our favourite whakataukī :)

Vanessa

Hi and much love

Aimee-Leigh

At Pāpāmoa Kindergarten, Te Reo Māori is an interwoven component of our local curriculum. However, we loved taking the opportunity to jump onboard the Māori Language Moment - knowing we were participating in waiata at the same time as so many others all around the country, was a special feeling!

Aimee

My family and I played a Maori game called Takaro. The object of the game is to find the pictures on your card that match with the card in the middle and once you find it you have to say the word in Maori and if you don't know it you refer to the inference card. If you get it right you get the card. At the end of the game whoever has the most cards is the winner.

Salia

I hangaia e au he kemu ma aku akonga. I whakaharatau ahau i aku pepeha.

Mary

Some of our tamariki sharing our Maori Language Moment via Zoom.

Angela

As a group of people in various stages of our reo Māori journey, we gathered together and shared a word, phrase, whākatuaki, or a karakia that had particular meaning for us.

Dawn

As part of the te wiki bake off at my work (online due to lockdown), my daughter and I made a special keke!

Abigail

I hangaia e au he kemu ma aku akonga. http://www. superteachertools. us/jeopardyx/editor1. php

Mary

We had a little tutu with this whānau favorite waiata translating the kupu into Māori LOL

Gloria

Kia ora whānau ma. Greeting everyone in person and in īmēra , in te reo

Joe

I did a Te Reo Kahoot with my class and they loved it. My children also did a video with their family of them singing a Waiata. I teach Year 1.

Delwyn

We played Tākaro as part of our Māori language moment 😁

Kristina

Kia ora We had fun practicing our vowel sounds and learning a karakia mō te kai to use when we are serving Kai to our community at Belfast Community Network in Ōtautahi Christchurch. We have decided to make this Reo Māori practice part of our regular staff meetings. Our next challenge is to learn a waiata together! Kai mau te wehi! Thank you to the organisers of this awesome event!

Justine

He karakia about tuhia (writing/making ones mark) that I find valuable to use in my writing classes.

Collin

Myself and my two daughter sang Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi. My 10 year old daughter recited her pepeha and my 7 year old daughter said her colours in māori using colour props she found around our house.

Shayna

Kia ora! I and my two daughters regularly practice Te Reo counting and enriching our vocabulary while playing card games!

Davide

Myself and my two daughters sang Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi, my 10 year daughter practiced her pepeha and my 7 year old practiced and said her colours in Te reo māori.

Shayna

Listened to the ‘Te Wiki o te Reo Māori’ playlist

Sally

Kikī taku rā i te reo Māori. Mai i te kāinga, he wā whakamoemiti i te taha o te Iwi Morehu. He ngohe tautoko i te reo ki te Kāreti o Ōtaki . Kei Te Kura a Iwi o Whakatupuranga Rua Mano he reo Māori tōna ki ngā kokonga katoa o te kura. Ki tō mātou hui ki Hato Pētera Kaniera he arero reo Māori i puta hoki. Ki taku Zoom Hui, he reo Māori hoki i puta. A te pō, kua kapia tō mātou rā i te taha o tō mātou ake whānau whānui i Aotearoa nei e tuku whakamoemiti ana ki a Ihoa mō āna tini manaakitanga. Ka mau te wehi!

Ricki

I have tried to learn our national anthem in Te Reo. Once I learnt the basic I contacted my colleague who is fluent Te Reo in our libraries and my friend kindly corrected the pronunciation so I could improve a lot. After that I did share my singing with my friends and they said I have hidden talent and they have encouraged me to join the Waiata group in our libraries. Overall the experience was really uplifting for me. Now I have the motivation to learn more.

Rema

All week: I have listened to Maori radio. Greeted others in Te reo. Listened to sonny ngatis lessons. Podcast RNZ lessons. Listened to Hollie smith Te reo songs. Talked about Maori language week. Enjoyed TV hosts ability in Te reo Watched lots of tik tok and Instagram Te reo posts. Practised with Maori language speakers I meet. Kia Ora.

Barbara

My tamariki and I dance & sing to Anika Moa every day. We love learning Te Reo through waiata - it’s fun and catchy helps them learn the basics 😃

Kate

E kōrero ana au te reo Māori! Thank you for inspiring Aotearoa to learn te reo!

Marcelo

Ra whanau ki a koe toku hoa

Huia

Te Piki Oranga staff and Public Health staff joined together to sing waiata and speak Reo at the library park across from our workplace.

Jalen

Our actual Teams video

Andrea

Sang a waiata with some colleagues, and used Te Reo with library customers

Ruth

This is the video of our group of tauira and nga e hoa from Waitemata DHB singing the waiata 'Purea Nei'. It was tricky doing it on zoom with the delay, but we still had alot of fun!

julia

I Senior Firefighter Allan Brown of the Hastings Fire Station has produced seven bilingual health and safety risk reduction Apps. The Apps are designed to promote Te Reo Māori and to keep our whanau here in Te Matau a Maui the Hawkes Bay safe from fires and other community dangers. The Apps are at this moment only available on Apple Store they are interactive and on some pages will have kiwaha or idioms attached to the page. The stories encourage tamariki and their whanau to make good decisions for their health and safety kiwaha attached to the pages also support these decisions. To download or view the Apps go to the App Store and in search put in Kotuku this will bring up the App dashboard tap on the black setting wheel at the top right corner of your page then scroll down and tap on Introduction tap on view and you will then see the purpose design and intent of the Apps. If you are happy with what you see then you can purchase one two or all seven Apps each one costs $5. 00

Allan

St Theresa's Catholic School, loved having an opportunity to share our Maori language moment, through waiata and games.

Donna

As a kaiako while working from home here in Tamaki Makaurau we make videos for our tamariki to watch on our shared platform called Storypark. At 12pm I recorded a video and shared it with tamariki. It includes waiata, purakau and kōrero. Tukuna te reo kia rere ki te ao!

Chelsea

As a class we did different Waiata: Kanikani (dance) brain breaks. My class really enjoyed our Te Reo Shape Scavenger Hunt that we did together over our online meeting.

Annie

Members of our 2degrees whānau came together to ako and waiata together - led by one of our awesome team members - to celebrate the Māori Language Moment at 12pm on Tuesday 14th September.

Amy

Mahunga Pakahiwi Puku Hope Waewae! Ko Space 3 anō e waiata ana.

Hera

I helped Queenstown Medical Centre, put up daily Facebook posts throughout the week, with health and wellbeing themes that have commonly used words in both Te Reo and English.

Kathryn

Kia ora koutou On the day - ara, te poupoutanga o te rā, I read a pukapuka ki taku hoa tāre. They were tino engrossed. Ko te ingoa o taua pukapuka, Te Kete a Rākaihautū, etahi o mātou Kai Tahu tangata tino rongonui. I then wrote a waiata, on the same kaupapa, and sang it. My IT skills are wanting when it comes to uploading these mea to this page. Mauri ora.

Rangimaria

I am a cycle coach and educator and struggle with learning languages. It is my goal to attempt to learn a few new words. Thought I would start off with a word that has significance for me as a cycling coach. The bicycle is the core/centre of my business.

Janet

Kia Ora I am new to reo, but my neice, who has just started Kura is truly the influence in our house hold. We all are making a conscious effort to incorporate more te reo maori in our household on a daily basis. I feel so reconnected

Chanelle

I did a kahoot with my class

Alistair

I did the kahoot with my class

Alistair

For our team meeting on Wednesday we prepared our Agenda in Te Reo. We opened our meeting with a Karakia and then all team members introduced them selves with a pepeha, We ended the meeting with a Karakia whakamutunga

leah

Ruma Ono: Ka mau te wehi! Rua tekau ma tahi tamariki + rua whaea = waiata :)

Jackie

We couldn’t get enough of waiata so we carried our waiata session on outside i raro i te korowai aroha o Tamanui-te-rā 😳

Shaylee

I enjoy learning Māori with this app. It's very structured. I also enjoyed all the rauemi I received from my wāhanga with Te wānanga o aotearoa.

Teresa

I enjoy learning te reo with the Tupu app. It's very structured. I'm revising all the levels at the moment because I didn't register my account before I got a new phone 😜. I also enjoyed all the

Teresa

I tenei ra kei te mahi ahau i te kaainga (Today I am working from home)

Sue

A group of singing friends came together on Zoom to sing some waiata together. We all practiced sharing our mihi and sang for an hour.

Carol

Room 1 played Poi Rakau for the Maori Language Moment

Rebecca

Kaity practicing her pepeha. She was only going to do a few lines, but became determined to finish it somewhere along the way.

Rachel

Yesterday when I made a phone call, i decided to expand from just saying Kia ora, i asked him how are you in Maori her replyed back to me in Maori and I understood it! ! ! ! ! ! which blew my mind! ! ! and then I replyed to him. I want to do more. ! ! ! !

Paul

Our tamariki here at Brockville Kindergarten have many favourite waiata and these are some of them. We are currently hoping to be able to perform at Polyfest here in Otepoti and have been practicing.

Julie

We played Simon says in Te Reo as a whanau

Carole

This is our baby Tenissa Tuisafia she’s one very Proud wahine Māori Samoan Ko Tainui te waka Ko Ruahine te pai maunga Ko Rangitikei te awa Ko Te hiiri o mahuta toku Marae Ko Ngati Maniapoto te iwi Ko Matakore te hapu Ko Tenissa Toku Ingoa

Lorelei

I have always loved the bi-lingual nature of the New Zealand Prayer book of the Anglican Church from discovering it on my first (of many! ) visit to A/NZ in 1991 whilst it was still a recent publication. On this occasion, for Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori 2021, I was reading/learning the Lord's Prayer in Maori.

Alastair

My 5 and 6 year olds were given a song each day to listen and sing a long to - each day was a different theme - farm animals, shapes, numbers, colours - depending on the theme for the day. They were also given opportunities to make flashcards and games using key Te Reo words.

Anna

I took part in a Te Wiki o te Reo Māori session where we learnt about Māori pronounciation, the history of te reo Māori, greetings and acknowledgements, as well as kupu whakarite. It was a great starting point to my te reo education.

Sara

Hubby had a little fun translating this old favorite waiata into te reo Māori. Totally tautoko this kaupapa

Gloria

Kia Ora Ko awherika Tonga ahau

Gavin

A small group of keen Primary (teaching) distance students turned up to our huitopa (zoom) to sing a waiata Tūtira mai ngā iwi.

Emma

This book belonged to my Dad who died in January 2019. Taking it down off the shelf and starting to systematically work our way through it honours him as well as our desire to learn our official language.

Anne

The DI team held our own Māori Language Moment today as part of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori. An initiative encouraging people to stop, take a moment and celebrate te reo Māori. Led by Gareth Hill, we opened with a karakia, learned about pepeha, some kupu and wetereo, and finished with a waiata on the kitā - Tūtira Mai ngā Iwi. It was a great chance to huihui and improve our mātauranga about our indigenous language and culture and encourage each other to embrace te reo Māori and learn together.

Gareth

I led a karakia, Whakataka te hau, then we watched on YouTube and sang along to the same as a waiata. Others in my work group wanted "a lesson". They asked some questions relating to Te Reo: the meaning of the karakia/waiata; sorting out when to use Tēnā koe/kōrua/koutou; and from one person where to find Te Reo resources that have a clearer grammar focus (which I can help him with).

Jim

He Tik Tok hei whakanuia i tō tātou reo Māori

Trace

We held a virtual Te Reo Māori quiz to try and include the kōrero, whakarongo, ako and tākaro elements :)

Eileen-Rita

Titiro! Ako Maori!

Jo-Ann

Te Kura-ā-Iwi o Whakatupuranga Rua Mano - Wharekura

Trace

Our team came together and completed the Te Reo kahoot! Was heaps of fun and we all saw everyone's competitive side come out. Also learnt some new words throughout the quiz.

Moriah

At HGHS we were in Bubbles for our first week back at kura from Lockdown. We had 'Te Wero Miru' where each bubble was to sing part of a waiata rongonui from Ngati Kahungunu 'Tūtira Mai'. This was our way of collaborating and getting everyone involved to celebrate and engage in Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori.

Evelyn

Makauri Kura Turanga-nui a Kiwa Room 4 sang the waiata Pokarekareana with Mr Hall.

Tanya

Korero te kupu

Everlyne

I am speaking Maori everyday to my husband, colleagues, mokopuna, friends and children.

Diana

A Rose for Love presentation

Pushpa

Ko ngā rangatahi o te Akomanga Pāngarau (Akomanga 27) I tēnei ataata. No Te Kura Takawaenga a Whanganui tātou. Tino pai rawa atu ngā rangatahi katoa ki te mihi.

Terrayne

Was teaching my class Te Reo Māori sentence structures about travelling.

Mirihana

Ko ngā rangatahi o te Akomanga Pāngarau (Akomanga 27) I tēnei ataata. No Te Kura Takawaenga a Whanganui tātou. Tino pai rawa atu ngā rangatahi katoa ki te mihi.

Terrayne

All day we listened to Waiata anthems. The students were singing and moving to the music all day.

Jennifer

Here is a display of students from our local Kura who attend our school. The students were so happy that I put up this display to celebrate their successes this week.

Jennifer

He karakia tīmata mā tātou.

Garth

I updated my board to include ingredients using Te reo. The display on the left was put up this week. It is of our local Kura which attends our school. We also played Waiata anthems all day, greeted each other in Te reo at the beginning of the lesson and said a Karakia at the end of the lesson.

Jennifer

Kia ora e te whānau. Our whole kura stopped and performed a waiata and a haka. Kia kaha te reo Māori!

Shelley

Kia Ora tatou. . . just a little video compilation of us - Dee, Simba and myself living in harmony with nature, enjoying all the gifts and elements of Papatuanuku. As nature seekers, we feel blessed to live in Aotearoa surrounded by the glorious Moana on all sides. Nga mihi nui ki a koe. Aroha mai. Aroha atu. AROHANUI ❤

Amar

Ruma wha, ruma ono, ruma whetu Churton kura

Myrtle

While my 6yr old and I were practicing and learning body parts in te reo Māori for our Māori Language Moment my 2yr old wanted to join in and test her te reo Māori 🥰

Rosie

Our family are learning together Kei te ako tahi to maatau whanau ~Claassens Family~

Melanie

The Why Ora team and Te Pāharakeke - Māori language moment ✌🏼

Olivia

Nau mai te Reo Māori

Ngahiriwa

Kia Ora kou tou Whanau, As Tongan I am very proud because Today I Learnt how to write a pepeha and say a karakia. Which I was able to say during a zoom. I can’t wait to learn more. Happy Maori language week. Tena kou tou tena kou tou katoa.

Lydia

Yesterday at 12 noon, I shared my Pepeha and greetings in Te Reo with others in Crestwood retirement village via Zoom

Helen

My grandson praying before dinner, we are culturally diversified family but trying our best to teach our kids and grandchildren to learn the Maori language and respect the culture.

Shanika

Yesterday from 12 o'clock we had a Zoom meeting with others in Crestwood retirement village. We shared our pepeha and greetings with each other

Helen

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Maori Language Moment 2021

Yesterday from 12 o'clock we had a Zoom meeting with others in Crestwood retirement village. We shared our pepeha and greetings with each other