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

For my Māori Language Moment, I prepared and said my pepeha.

Bridget

Ka Rawe!

Val

My husband Tony and I stopped and sang a waiata together at 12 noon. He finds it challenging to keep a tune so we decided not to inflict it on everyone else :) Kia kaha te reo Maaori

Janet

tama tu tama ora tama moe tama mate

tom

Sharing a phrase a day in te reo Maori to my work colleagues for the week.

Tania

Rutherford college that take photos at cook

Lyriq

This is one of the tasks that I have completed in distance learning during Te Wiki O Te Maori.

Ashleigh

I have been Practicing my Poi for 10 minutes a day.

Jessie

Our office has implemented karakia every morning at 8:30am to start our day off. Every staff member does one everyday to get everyone involved. Our office has also put maori waiata's on in the office for this week. Loving this and recommend this to every company!

Mereana

Over 200 of our people came together to ako and tākaro. Tūmeke!

Ruawai

Over 20 Alumni Relations & Development team members (and their Whānau) zoomed together to sing a couple of waiata.

Anastasia

I'm saying Kia Ora using snap chat filter

Jennifer

Yesterday we spent some time thinking about this beautiful whakatauki from Princess Te Puna Hērangi. We love this because we believe it not only resonates with our greater purpose at SME Financial, but also the dream we all have right now in Aotearoa of good health and healthy environments. Together we can certainly achieve more!

Carolina

Me and my boys learnt waiata and karakia together and followed along with some videos shared by the their uncle.

Sonia

Me and my class did a Maori Kahoot with lots of questions, and I came 2nd Place! !

Alan

I sang Waiata Matariki (even though it's not Matariki) because it's my favourite and I wanted to feel some joy during lockdown (:

Sally

Te Taiwhenua o Heretaunga staff singing a couple of waiata to celebrate Māori Language Moment. Kia kaha te reo Māori!

Sam

My students are creating a social media that includes one word that describes their business in Te Reo Māori.

Matt JM

Taaku peepeha teneei

Mark

During our class Zoom today we worked on our Te Reo greetings and the words and phrases of the day. I also recited the prayer with the tamariki which gave us a buzz. Whaea Maria.

Kirsty

For my moment, I continued my studies at Te Wananga o Raukawa, with my motivational note to keep going!

Honey-Rose

I am an 80-year -old pakeha with Maori grandchildren (hurrah) and although I have been singing waiata and te reo national anthem for 20 years I have not managed to join a te reo class (too busy with other things, mostly). But I regret that today's opportunities for real bi-lingualism that are developing now did not seem to exist 40 years ago.

Bruce

At 12pm we kicked into a game of Kahoot! We had three rounds of reo quizzes, and shared our favourite kupu and favourite whakatauki following each round. Favourite kupu = manaakitanga Favourite whakataukī = tūwhitia te hopo, mairangatia te angitū. Kia kaha tātau ki te kōrero Māori. Pō noa, ao noa.

Tate

My whānau and I all spent time learning more te reo Māori and we sang our waiata. We sang Mahunga, pakuhiwi, puku, hope, waiwai, and the Maori alphabet song, we listened to Māori songs on youtube as well. We practised our knowledge of body parts. Ko te reo māori ātaahua. Kei te ako ahau, ka pai. Kei taku whanau pakeha. Kei te ako taku tamariki pākehā korero, kei te ako te reo māori. Ka ako au me aku tamariki korero te reo māori. The native language is beautiful. I am learning and it is good. My family is pākehā. My children are learning English and te reo Māori. I am learning with my children.

Jessamy

Here we are getting ready for a couple of games of Kai Bingo. Anei kei te rite mātou mo ngā kēmu e rua o Kai Bingo.

Anne

We spent time listening to Māori language songs and dancing!

Renae

This child's mum painted these beautiful Rocks for Montessori STARS and the video shows you how we celebrate and our awesome wall displays.

Sharon

Tukuna te reo kia rere 🤗

Rose

A Waiata and a Karakia shared at Pinnacle House

Carol

Kia ora koutou. . . ka pai to ra

Chenelle

He akiaki tēnei kia ūkaipō te reo Māori ki ō tātou kāinga

Whatumairangi

We are meeting as a group to share and sing

Paul

Read the notice board at the dentist as a guide to help children clean their teeth…. there was a lot of laughter. I surprised myself as there was only one word I had no hope of pronouncing. Officially now that I am in my second childhood I have learnt not to rinse after brushing…. . just spit !

Raewyn

Sharing mihi mihi with a colleague!

Chelsea

Year 5 & 6 doing a karakia kai at Greytown School

Mackenzie

Teaching my grandchildren as well as my self each day in lock down maori words or phrases.

Kate

A group of us in my office did it. I'm a bit whakamā about singing in front of people, and definitely wasn't going to record it, so instead I thought I'd send our little clutch a song in te reo we could sing together. I shared the song E Minaka, one of my faves, and they followed along with me. There were a few of us across Zoom. We have the song as part of our repertoire now.

Hollie

Three of our Year 11 students having a kōrero

Rebecca

This is our 12 Art History class at Te Kura Tamawāhine o Whakatū/Nelson College for Girls. We only had a small window of time, but we wanted to do something! As part of our Art history studies during the year we have discussed many aspects of our country's history, including colonialism, imperialism and the doctrines of discovery. We picked "kia kaha" as our phrase because we need to be strong in learning about and acknowledging our history, and in promoting te Reo as an official language in Aotearoa New Zealand. Our contribution is small but heart felt - Ahakoa he iti, he pounamu!

tracy

ko tenei tetahi pikitia e pa ana ki a te huringa e mahi ana i te 40 haora whakataetae. Me korero raatou i te reo maori mo 40 haora.

Te Kauri

Learning from the people of the land is a wise thing to do

Richard

As a student teacher, I have tried to incorporate more Māori words and phrases into my teaching vocabulary. It is a work in progress as it still doesn't come quite naturally to me yet, however, Māori language week is a perfect opportunity to practice.

Ryan

At Te kura o Mangatangi we will be doing a range of things across our different classes. We will be singing waiata, learn Maori place names, learn the kupu for different emotions and one class will display the word kiaora as a human sign.

Katrina

kia ora koutou, I sang waiata including Tihore mai.

Miriam

Ko tenei tetahi pikitia e pa ana ki a Te Huringa i te waa i mahi raatou he 40 haora whakataetae. Me korero maori raatou mo 40 haora.

Te Kauri

We are creating social media posts that represent the business studies groups that the students have created!

Matt JM

We are a Cook Islands Punanga(Early Learning Service) in Otara, South Auckland, our kaiako created this video for our whanau to participate in our online learning and tautoko alongside Aotearoa for te wiki o te reo Maori.

Nancy

At the start of an online hui about growing native plants we recited this karakia: Tuia ki te rangi, tuia ki te papa tuia ki te moana, tuia tātou E rongo te pō E rongo te āo Haumi ē hui ē tāiki ē Bind to the sky, bind to the land bind to the sea, bind the people heard by those who have passed heard by those of this world Bind, gather, unite

Lance

We played a bunch of fun games in Te Reo Maori.

Te Rahera

Ko Tessa tōku ingoa, no Kotarani ahau, i tipu ake au ki Tokomaru. Kia kaha te reo Maori! !

Tessa

I sat at the piano at 12noon on 14th September and played and sang Pokare Pokare Ana. Later i talked to my Grand daughter (aged 11)in the USA by Messenger and she joined the Moment by singing with me E Papa Waiari. She and a fellow student sang and performed the stick game at their School's Cultural Day in 2019. Glenys

Glenys

I was all alone in my office and had no one physically present to share my moment with. However that didn't stop me and I practiced my mihimihi and my pepeha. A good practicing moment. Kia ora, Lisa

Lisa

The team attended a Teams Hui and were taken through a power point presentation briefly outlining words associated with online meetings, COVID-19, greetings and sayings for whakamihia and whakamahia. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed it. There was good banter and everyone took part it in.

Desmond

My class was listening to music and I practicing Kapa Haka. We all listened and copied the movements to Pakipaki tamariki ma. It was an amazing experience that I would repeat in a heartbeat.

Em

I decided to sing along (Kareoke style) via Youtube Song lIst Tirama Tirmam nga whetu E Ipo (prince Tui Teka *Haere Mai (Patea Maori Group and lastly Our NZ National Anthem in Maori

Darling

We sang 3 waiata and also happy birthday in Te Reo Māori to our project manager Dee. ❤️

Makere

Sharing myself through Pepeha Ko Ruapehu tōku maunga Ko Waikato tōku awa Ko Tāupo nui a tia tōku moana Ko Wisniewski tōku whānau Ko Kelly tōku ingoa Nō reira, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā tātou katoa

Kelly

My students are playing a card game (Food Fight) that teaches children about what’s in the food they’re eating as well as Te Reo Māori.

Matt JM

Waiata Te Aroha with Te Ao Rangahau Engineering New Zealand

Lachlan

I had an extra zoom with my tamariki, we opened with our school karakia, school waiata - Paraoanui, we did a kahoot for te reo Māori and we had one of our students share her pepeha that she wrote in lockdown. Ka rawe tatou!

Quanita

My students are playing a card game created by students teaches children about what’s in the food they’re eating as well as Te Reo Māori.

Matt JM

My husband is Kai Tahu and very proud of it. We have been married for 40 plus years. His mum was never able to speak te reo other than a few words which were regularly used in day to day life. I think she always wanted to know more. As a family they followed strong cultural practices . As my husband has got older his desire to learn te reo and include it in the lives of our whanau. We are continually trying to learn more and use te reo when ever we can.

Tracey

This collection of photos is for my te wā tuku reo māori 2021 that is a snapshot of all the moments happening this week at Waka Kotahi. We had an organisation wide zui practicing our vowels, our procurement team are getting daily knowledge bites on te reo, and I'm tuning in to videos and songs online to hear te reo being spoken and be inspired by all the amazing rangatahi fluent in reo.

Alice

I opened a class with the map of Aotearoa New Zealand Te Reo Maori Language Places Map

Malcolm

Korero to my colleagues Whakarongo to my colleagues Ako with my colleagues

Kat

I incorporated Te Reo into my speech and produced social media posts focusing on Te Wiki o e Reo Māori.

Sheree

Tēnā koutou, He kohikohinga tēnei o ngā ākonga e poipoi ana i Te Reo Māori kei tō mātou kura, e kii ana, ko te Kura Piihopatanga o Waikato. Kia kaha te Reo Māori xx

Faith

Kei te pēhea koe? I have changed my keyboard so I can now write in Māori

Anne-Marie

I finally gave the kai karakia for lunch, and wrote to individual friends on social media asking how they were in Te Reo, and received answers back in Te Reo. I continued to learn line 14 of our 37 lined moteatea that our whanau are trying to learn together.

Nolamay

He Waiata Ātaahua Te Aroha ano, Kia kaha Te wiki o reo Māori 🔥💯

Steve

Via arranged zoom recited a karakia with colleagues and participated in a knowledge of Maori quiz.

Patrick

Kia Ora

Dylan

We celebrated and promoted our partner: Amotai. nz as part of Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori 2021. They help businesses in NZ make supply partnership decisions that connect them to Māori and Pasifika businesses. Proud to be working with them.

Scott

The highlight of our Māori language moment as pictured above, was when we adapted a rhythm game using numbers in Te Reo. It was great to see students double checking with each other how to say the numbers correctly in Te Reo Māori and engage in a positive experience with the language.

Timothy

Kei te waiata, tākaro, tuhituhi, panui hoki, ngā tamariki me ngā kaiako kei te Kura o Tōtara Puku!

May

kirora means hello

justin

I listened to music in te reo Maori for the hour while I was studying - was beautiful

Bethan

We virtually met to sing a waiata and then play a quiz to test our te reo!

Jacinda

I hoko atu au i te pukapuka a Peppa Pig: Peppa's First 100 Māori Words mō tētahi o aku irāmutu - e toru tau tana pakeke. Ki taku titiro he pai ngā reo kei roto, nā Kristin Smith i whakamāori. Ko tāku ināianei he pānui tahi ko taku irāmutu. I purchased a te reo Māori book for my 3 year old niece. It contains some good quality language. It was translated into Māori by Kristin Smith. My task now is to read it with my niece. Korou ora ki a tātau!

Ira

kia ora.

mereana

We recited a karakia at the start of our Zoom hui planning for the new site of our community native plant nursery.

Lance

Together as a team we participated in celebrating Te Wiki o te Reo Māori with a quiz that our lovely Miro team created for us

Tash

[Yesterday 4:01 pm] Brenda Ford Hey team! This is the toughest week ever! I know many of us were hoping to be heading back down the levels yesterday but it was not to be, which for many of you means another week of gritting your teeth and getting by. Please remember that we are a team and we are all in this together and we can get through this if we stick together! You are all doing an awesome job at connecting with whanau - our stats are amazing! ! This shows me how much you are supporting each other to make sure our new pepi and their families are contacted and awhi'd through their first weeks. [Yesterday 4:02 pm] Brenda Ford Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini. My strength is not as an individual, but as a collective. Kia Kaha

Brenda

Tamatea kai ariki o mahuru

Doug

Rauhia-a-kainga ki Tamaki - a mātou mahanga e kanikani ana #kahao #robruha

Philomena

Our class watched the Year 5 and 6 classes perform the school haka, then we all greeted each other in Maori.

Susannah

Waiata with my class on video meet.

Maria

Tamatea kai ariki o mahuru

Doug

We listened to waiata

Liz

Hopefully this says, I am sitting in Manukau ahau e noho ana Kei Manukau

Sheryl

Kia ora e te whānau. I joined the CCHL group online for waiata. Ka mau te wehi te wā tuku reo Māori. Please forgive errors, ka ako ahau. Kia kaha koutou, kia kaha te reo Māori.

Catherine

This is Dad calling his two teenage boys into the room at a moment's notice and asking them to back him up as he tries to remember the beautiful Māori waiata that he learned at school - a long, long time before they learned it at school. Kia ora, Jack and Adam, for your mahi!

Julian

We all made poi and came to a 'Swing Your Poi' session where we learnt a few moves with waiata.

Janine

Singing Whakaaria Mai

Naisi

E nga mana, e nga reo, e nga karangaranga maha, tena koutou katoa

Tim

I shared some Te Reo conversation with Dave yesterday . . . and my Irish Cousins! And brother!

Fiona

I made a list of greetings that I can use with my colleagues and students over my MEETS this week.

Kathleen

As an elderly pakeha lady who attended beginners classes in te reo for 2 years 20 years ago, I enjoy the opportunity to participate in Te Reo Maori. I am looking over my past lessons and reaffirming my pepeha. Nga mihi nui.

Andrea

My class and I acknowledged the Māori language moment by playing a game of Kahoot in Te reo Māori!

Kriss

I whakarongo, i waiata ana ahau ki ngā waiata Māori

Karin

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