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

Our staff sharing their Maori moments

Mary

Kāore i ārikarika ngā wā ki te maumahara i ngā ā ringa. . . Hika mā! ! Ko te mea nui, he pai te ngana ki te kore. Ktk. . Mauri ora

Hetz

Part of our amazing, all inclusive, kapa haka at Wairarapa College.

Cathy

We did a little video to show our support for the Kaupapa. Kia kaha te reo.

Bevan

Some of our student leaders used a common Te Reo Maori greeting Kia Ora!

Mary

Our staff played "Kia Tekau". I called our a number in Te Reo Maori and staff had to do the action associated.

Mary

Koinei te mapi aotearoa i mahia e te akonga. I mau ia te wero ki te tuhi i nga ingoa waahi katoa o te aotereoa i roto i te reo maori. This is a map of aotearoa done by a student. He took up the challenge of writing all the place names of Aotearoa in reo maori. He also did a voice memo to pronounce some of these places but i was unable to add this. Na James tenei mahi

Moana

Kia ako tikahia te waiata Tutira Mai Ngā Iwi ko ēnei ētahi o a mātou kaiako no Papaioea, Whakatū, Kirikiriroa, Te Whanganui a Tara, Rotorua. Rawe tēnei kaupapa.

Jade

My twins are doing a badge at St John’s and during lockdown we made Raku sticks and found a video on utube. We had lots of fun and might try other songs and games. Great skills training and mindfulness . Plus they can do it together !

Catherine

Missing delicacies from my kainga while in lockdown

Moana

I started a lecture with a mihimihi

Eleanor

Our tumuaki addressing our rangatahi just before our Kapa Haka group performs.

Cathy

I learnt to sign off my email in Te Reo with "Ngā mihi", in place of "many thanks"!

Sophie

Quick conversation in Te Reo with my partner.

Mike

Our team had our regular Te Reo Māori class by zoom and IRL

Jane

Waitakere Hospital Allied Health Staff (Physio’s, Social Workers, OT’s, SLT’s & TA’s) with a socially distanced waiata session at mahi.

Nikita

Included Reo in my emails

Vivienne

Preschool 2 sing a Pakipaki Tamariki Ma at 12:00

Etelei

I learned the karakia 'Whakataka te hau'

wendy

I mahi mātou he kanikani tiktok. . . . I menemene mātou, i katakata hoki mātou, ā, ko te mea nui i mahitahi mātou. He waka eke noa. . .

Moana

This is a compilation of over 60 staff at Pukekohe High School participating in the momment.

Suzanne

He paku mihi ki a tatou te iwi Maori. .

amohia

A challenge was given to my Home Room MT3 and to our wider school community to take a picture of a word written in Te Reo using objects to write a word in Te Reo (preferably objects that relate to the meaning of the word). Parents, students, and teachers got involved and are still sending photos in! https://ithinkcheesemanclass. blogspot. com/2021/09/maori-language-week-challenge. html and https://www. laingholm. school. nz/maori-language-week/ A ka pai response from our community

Claire

Our Year 2 class had a focus on te reo Māori in our Zoom call today.

Paula

A whakatauki that motivates me to do what I do!

Nese

He paku mihi ki te Ao. . .

amohia

Kia ora, te reo kauai, nau mai.

Clive

I shared #MyMihi with my hoamahi at Manapou ki to Ao.

Alex

Written by the late Prof Piri Sciascia this waiata was ā-turi for Ngā Ratonga Kaupapa Atawhai, a rōpū mahi within Te Tari Taiwhenua. We all love performing it, some more rikarika than others and a few were joining us on huitopa.

Andrew

The New Zealand Consulate-General, Hong Kong gathered on the 46th floor of Central Plaza (third tallest building in the city) for Māori Language Moment 2021. Current Consul-General: John Riley. Current Trade Commissioner: Kiwa Whatarau.

Naomi

I participated in my first online Te Reo course

Bronwyn

Students had to scroll through some summer vocabulary in Te Reo and then write a very short story using at least one of the words in Te Reo. The story is shared and the listeners have to try and guess what the word is. I thought this one was particularly funny, and also effective. Effective because, when my students heard the story shared out loud, they learnt the Te Reo word for "sandcastle" right away! Summer was a catchy topic at this time of year when summer feels closer yet still so far away. . . . ! By Marcus, Room 1 "On a summer holiday a boy goes to the beach with his family. He went to make a pakirikiri straight away, he grabbed his shovel and started to build it. When he was done with the pakirikiri he went to show his mom but when he looked back at the pakirikiri he saw the wave have just washed it away so he rebuilt the pakirikiri he was just about to show his mom when the wave washed it away again, he was furious he started punching and kicking the water but nothing happened. His mom asked him why he was so angry and the boy said the wave keeped destroying his pakirikiri. The mom said to him to build his pakirikiri away from the waves so the boy did and the wave did not destroy the pakirikiri again. The end. "

Cecilia

These are our students lining up to see a Kapa Haka performance and using Te Reo to ask for a sausage and a drink: Homai he inu; Homai he tōtiti. They were tūmeke!

Cathy

Ko te Kura Glenbrae tēnei, I huitahi mātou ki te tūtaki kūkara, ā, i mahi mātou tētahi kanikani tiktok. . . naku i rapu ki runga i te taupānga tiktok. . . he kanikani māmā, he kanikani harikoa mō te kura katoa. . . Ka kite, ka rongo, ka kōrero, pakipaki hī! pakipaki hā!

Moana

At 12. 00pm we met with our learners and shared the history of our school and the Maori Protocols that link to the foundation. We also listened to some Te Reo Maori songs and recited the Our Father in Te reo. Well done St Johns Otara.

Kathrene

This is my LOVELY Year 5/6 class at Sawyers Bay School in Dunedin! They have done an awesome job of learning Pepeha by Six60.

Sophie

Kia ora I'm learning to sing our national anthem. Leah

Mehwish

The tamariki and kaiako at All Saints Early Learning Centre, Ponsonby, Tāmaki Makaurau, meet for their regular Zoom morning hui slightly later today to coincide with 12 o'clock. At our special celebration of te wiki o te reo Māori, we sang waiata, used poi, we shared a pūrākau (legend) using magnetic characters of how Māui slowed te ra (the sun), and parted with a karakia.

Rachel

I am a nurse working at a drive through COVID swabbing centre. My moment came at midday when a Maori couple pulled up for a swab. I have limited Te reo however got brave and greeted them with Kia Ora, Ko Kathie toku ingoa. They responded with their names and it felt like a warm shared moment.

Kathie

We had a fabulous day with our residents speaking Te Reo, Waiata and sharing whanau connections.

Cheryl

We are incredibly lucky to have been gifted Te Reo lessons by our employer. A few of us got together to ako - learn and practice; kōrero - recite our mihi and whakarongo to each other's mihi. It was special to celebrate together with a supportive group who are all on the same journey

Tania

I took this time to listen to some awesome Aotearoa waiata, thanks to www. waiataanthems. co. nz :)

Keri

Had a beautiful time of sharing waiata with residents in a facility where I am on placement as a music therapy student. There are some moments Pokarekare Ana is actually just right for, and today was one of them. Kia kaha ngā waiata Māori! Ka nui taku aroha mō te puoro rōreka :)

Liz

Singing Māori waiata with my tamariki daily, and normalizing Te Reo in our whare. We have placed the names in te reo māori of our furniture and appliances around our whare to learn new kupu, So far so good 👍

C

Kia Ora Anei nga tamariki o te kura o Poukawa. Kei te waiata tatou a te waiata o taku kura, Ko Poukawa e. The second video is of our tamariki showing a pukana. Mauri Ora Catherine @ Poukawa School

Aorere

Kia ora tātou, We appreciated a whakataukī from Sir Tīmoti Kāretu: 'Ko te reo kia tika, ko te reo kia rere, ko te reo kia Māori. ' and we sang the waiata Maku ra pea. Whanaungatanga tino ataahua!

Janice

At Whakarongorau Aotearoa we normally hold Waiata Wenei, where anyone in the Auckland office can join and anyone working around Aotearoa want to join in they can jump on Teams to connect with us. We decided to change our Waiata Wenei to Tuesday to take part in this movement. This was a lot of fun and everyone enjoyed it.

Andrea

I learnt a new waiata on the ukulele

Lilia

This is our team in our Te Reo class in zoom and IRL.

Jane

Ētahi waiata. . .

Jessie

Tihei te maori ora! Honoured to support this beautiful langauage by undertaking waiata.

Stephen

Tēnā koutou Katoa. I te nei ra mo Te Reo Maori, kei te tiimata ahau kia maarama te hiranga te o te ahurea me nga taangata. Hello everyone. With Maori Language today, I am beginning to understand the importance of the culture and people. Maori Language is being increasingly acknowledged as a cornerstone of New Zealand culture, and an important part of the country's heritage. Koira te take, tangata katoa ko wai e ora i Aotearoa, me ako korero Maori. This is why everyon who lives in New Zealand, should consider learning to speak in Maori. KIA KAHA Koutou. Tēnā koutou, Tēnā koutou, Tēnā koutou Katoa. Kia ora.

Elikini iongi

Got together with the team at work to sing a Waiata (Te Pae Tata) in Te Reo Maori.

Aria

My name is Albert Tupuola and this is my son Mānaia Tupuola singing his waiata. He is 2 years old and of Samoan decent. He loves singing and dancing. Ia manuia le vaiaso gagana maori

Albert

This was a barrier game activity. The tamariki had to kōrero Māori as much as they could, instructing their partner to 'tae i roto' colour-in a particular part of the pikitia. We tried to use the kupu: matau/ maui, ngā tae, kōkako/ kereru, huruhuru, ngutu, rau, mahunga. Our goal was for tekau miniti, but it stretched out for toru tekau miniti. Tau ke tamariki ma!

June

I said Kia ora, te reo kapai

Linda

My name is Albert Tupuola and this is my son Mānaia Tupuola singing his waiata. He is 2 years old and is of Samoan decent He loves singing and dancing.

Albert

Paikea is a special song to us here as we live in beautiful Whangara.

Dallas

Ruma Toru sung waiata and completed a Kahoot about Ngā Tae. We are now making some PicCollages to teach others about Ngā Tae.

Jane

Our kura put out a digital challenge for all 21 classrooms to create and share their very own Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori 💡 One all classrooms have submitted their moment, we will compile them into one MASSIVE MĀORI LANGUAGE MOMENT video to share with our hapori 🎉🎉🎉

Matt

This morning we had a wonderful session with whaua Bea where we all took part in singing and learning te reo Māori. Then at 12 o clock today as part of Māori language moment we all came together to practice the waiata we are learning - six60’s song pepeha. This week is Māori Language week and a chance to celebrate and use our country’s indigenous language. The theme again this year is ‘kia kaha te reo Māori’, or, ‘let the language live’. Our kindergarten are getting involved again this year

Owhiro bay

Wednesday buzz was Ako (Learning): Started podcast episodes on Tōku Reo - first 3 episodes covered greetings and how to greet people. I have a lot to work on with my pronunciation but it was great fun with the kids listening in and sounding the words out :)

Maria

I was out walking so I sang some waiata to myself :)

Erica

Here is a whakataukī which represents my journey with learning Te Reo Tūwhitia te hopo, mairangatia te angitū! Feel the fear and do it anyway!

Bianca

At 12pm I read this pukapuka about Māori gods and goddesses!

Elicia

Miharo Aotearoa! Whakanui te wiki o te reo maori. Arohanui Maori Enrichment Learning Room 8.

Wilhelmina

We are a Maori Enrichment Learning Room with Kimhia Primary School in Raahui Pookeka. Twenty two tauira have been learning the traditional karakia "Whakataka te hau". As a way to help the students learn the karakia they share which line of the karakia they can remember. Each tauira says their line while the other tauira listen carefully. I have found this way of teaching and learning new information easier for the tauira to learn.

Wilhelmina

We took part in Task Master - Te wiki o te reo Māori. We designed a new logo for Te wiki o te reo Māori. Rōpu are gaining points throughout the week with kupu knowledge and mahi toi.

Kelly

At mahi we took some time to translate kupu we use everyday as Real Estate agents. We then finished off with a Waiata.

Kerry

He kanikani, he korikori tā Whakaata Māori hei whakatairanga i te Rangaihi Reo Māori. Kino kē hoki! Inā te pārekareka!

Whakaata

We are in Lockdown so classes had zoom moments for their te reo kōrero and waiata.

Kirsty

It was a group of tamariki iti who were just learning a waiata - a bit camera shy! !

Kathleen

Hi my niece and I spoke some Maori words & I have been introducing more words each day Thanks

Karen

At ENZ Manapou ki te Ao, we have been celebrating Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori in a big way since 2017. For 2021, we have a week full of exciting activities to get us all giving te reo a go! We are learning about the tikanga behind karakia, making our own poi and getting together to learn a mihimihi. Here's a video of a few of us taking turns to say our mihimihi. No one in this group is a native Māori speaker but it's fantastic to see the effort everyone has gone to. This week, there are many more groups in our organisation learning their mihimihi together!

Sai

As a primary school class we spent an hour doing a variety of activities: te rākau, mahi whai, toi Māori and we listened to waiata anthems. It was brilliant!

Meta

Dargaville Primary School. Tōku pepeha

Karah

Our tamariki practicing Pakekemai o matimati and Tohora Nui for our Polyfest Performance.

James

I sent out a work newsletter featuring many beautiful books that celebrate Te Reo or Matauranga Maori

mary

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Sam

I spoke Maori to our residents

Michelle

Kia ora koutou! There are many things that define New Zealanders and connect us to our home, and te Reo Māori is one of them. To mark this very special week, Te Wiki o te Reo Māori (Māori Language Week), I’d like to share my pepeha. My pepeha acknowledges the guiding principle of my life: What is the most important thing in the world? It is people! It also acknowledges my ancestors from India; my mountain-Himalaya; my river-Ganga; my mode of transport to arrive in Aotearoa- Singapore airlines; my tribe-Indians and Christchurch is home to me, my husband and our children. My name is Sunita Gautam🙏❤🙏 #reomaori #newzealand #aotearoa #christchurch #Ōtautahi #sunitagautam

Sunita

I spoke to my family , I used translater

June

An online session learning our Agency waiata this morning. Not ideal with all the technology lag that comes with hui-a-tima but we got there! Suddenly I don't sound like Mariah Carey after all when I'm the only one singing and everyone else is singing on mute! Ka mau te wehi tātou! Mauri ora!

Terri

We are celebrating the Maori language week on zoom with our tamarik, kaiako and whanau. We sang birthday Ra Whanau Waiata, counted in Maori and sang a few more waiata. Also used greetings and simple phrases.

Kavita

We all joined (there were over 60 of us on the call) together on zoom were led in karakia and then sung the original version of Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi together at Midday! We also made a zoom background for all our staff to use!

Nicole

He riipene ataata tenei mo aku irāmutu me te kanikani ki nga waiata maori e kiia nei ko Ka hao. He viral tenei kei runga i te tik tok i tenei wa.

Moana

Tēnā koutou e hoa mā Ko Hikuranga te maunga. Ko Waipaoa te awa Ko Ngāti Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki te iwi Ko Karen taku ingoa. Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa.

Karen

Wēteri Kura (Wesley Primary School) Auckland hear inspiring words from Matua Hare, perform dance and waiata, learn our School Pepeha on our google meet!

Joseph

Fishing at Coromandel

Kapua

In 4L we have been learning about how to ask someone how they are feeling and share our own feelings te reo Māori. We have learned to express a variety of emotions. To celebrate te wiki o te reo Māori we drew chalk pictures to represent various emotions and wrote Māori sentences to match. We hope that other students in the school will see our drawings and learn some te reo, too!

Charlotte

Zumba session on Zoom with Whakaata Māori hoamahi (approximately 50 participants! ) for Māori Language Moment 14 Sept 2021

Sheri

The Rockers of Ages Choir, singing Purerehua by Hirini Melbourne, arranged by Nikki Berry and Gary Easterbrook. Level 2 lockdown

Nikki

Today we hosted a 30 minute Teams session with the famous Dr Hinemoa Elder. This kōrero was about Māori Hauora (Health and Wellbeing) discussing how to use Māori values and principles in your everyday life to enhance your health and wellness. We had 63 kaimahi and haumi attend. Dr Hinemoa's session has inspired many in attendance with a number of the attendee's being inspired to attend te reo lessons for their own development. Some of the comments after the session were: “Nga mihi thanks so much for this opportunity today. Kia ora” “Kia Ora for this inspirational speech Dr. Henemoa Elder! “ “Thank you so much - feeling rangimarie – peaceful” “Ngā mihi Dr Hinemoa, was so awesome to have the opportunity to hear your korero” What an amazing and inspiring session :)

john-henry

Today we ran a 30 minute online zoom meeting for staff and whanau at 8. 30am. Our host was the amazing Taane Mete. His session was entitled "Kani kani a Pāpatūānuku" and was a simple Yoga inspired session to start our day. We had 32 people attend from all walks of life - even some senior leaders who had never tried yoga before! Some of the feedback we received were: “great session guys really enjoyed that I have never done yoga before. ” “Kei te 'hari koa' ahau. I am feeling happy “ “Manaakitia - Feeling Blessed”

john-henry

Workforce Development LTD preformed a TIKTOK

Bex

Tena ra tatou e te roopu whanau akonga. He tuku nei te mihi ki a koutou ki te kia kaha ki te korero, me ako, me panui, me te waiata mo te kaupapa o te wiki o te reo Maori. Kei te akonga au i tenei haerenga ki te korero maori i a ra ia ra i nga wa katoa. Heoi. Ka whakamahi au. . Nga mihi.

Karl

Capital Montessori Preschool tamariki gathered together with kaiako and sang their favorite waiata Te Aroha and Tu tere mai nga iwi. It was fun to explain to tamariki why we were singing at 12pm, and supporting them to understand that lots of other tamariki might be singing at the same time as us. They always enjoy joining together as classrooms and this was a fun way to support this.

Ashwini

Ruma Pīwakawaka at Hornby Primary School celebrated Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori by singing waiata, reciting whakataukī, colouring in whakataukī posters, and dancing the matariki macarena. We had an absolute blast immersing ourselves into the language and culture and are going to be continuing the celebration for the rest of the week!

Miki

For the third year running - Te Roopū Māori o SkyCity (Māori staff group) have run some activations to support Te Wiki i Te Reo Māori. The SkyCity group spans across all our sites within Aotearoa and can also include Australia. We have around 4, 500 staff across the group. Understandably things are a bit tough with Covid, but we as a group were determined to run some fun and engaging events to engage and educate our people. We started with some simple online 30 minute teams or zoom, levelling up with a number of interesting events as detailed below; 1) Maori Language Moment with TRMOS - 14. 09. 21 2) Kani kani a Papatūānuku with Taane Mete - 15. 09. 21 3) Hauora Māori with Dr Hinemoa Elder - 15. 09. 21 4) Learn basic mihi & karakia kai with TRMOS - 16. 09. 21 5) Fun Māori Quiz with TRMOS - 17. 09. 21 Added to this we ran a fun and creative tik tok, video or pic challenge for staff and their whanau called "Karawhiua" from Mon 13. 09 to Mon 20. 09. We gave away prizes at every event and had a diverse selection of both our Māori and non-Māori colleagues and friends attending and contributing through out the week. 2021 has been a challenging year for all businesses and whanau, and SkyCity is no different. However, we will still persevere - kia kaha, kia mai, kia manawanui!

john-henry

Exploring māori art from books written in te reo

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