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

I pulled my pukapuka out of my dusty bookcase and vowed to ako 30 miniti every day.

Stefanie

We decided it would be funny to do a flash mob Tika Tonu haka in our Statistics class, obviously we warned the teachers that the classes would be distracted for a minute, but their reactions were hilarious! Kia Ora

Hadley

Ko te reo Māori te waka kawe o ngā mahi katoa o tēnei rūmaki Māori. E ngākaunui ana ngā tamariki ki ngā momo kanikani o te wā. . Koinei tō mātou koha ki te kaupapa nei hei whakakipakipa i te marea mā ngā mahi toi… Mātakitaki mai! 💃🏼🕺

Lenora

Mauri Ora ki a tātou katoa! I embraced Te reo today by greetings and farewell in Te reo, listening to waiata on Spotify/radio, and texting in Te reo messages all day today😊

Natasha

Team Ōtepoti, CORE Education, Tatai Pumanawa, Te reo learning and sharing with a wider team via zoom!

Anne

My beautiful class!

Dasha

Ruma Kauri were at KURA TĀTAHI today, they were learning about: ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY "Mō tātou te taiao ko te atawhai, mō tātou te taiao ko te oranga" "It is for us to care for and look after the environment to ensure its wellbeing, in doing so we ensure our own wellbeing and that of our future generations" Tu Kaha - Kaitiakitanga - Nature of Science - Living World But we just stopped to have our Māori Moment with Matua Jason and Whaea Hayley.

Jayne

Along with my 10year old moko ==we used Scotty Morrison's == Māori Made Easy book to learn more Te reo

Beth

I hui au ki ōku hoamahi mo tetahi pātaitaitanga. I karakia mātou hoki. My colleagues and I got together for a karakia and a quiz. Though we couldn’t be together in person, it was good to be brought together by te reo Māori.

Mathew

I did a mihi

Jack

KIa ora I did this last year but didn't know where to upload it lol, so i'm adding it to this years moment mauri ora

Margaret

The artists at Ilminster Intermediate school all participated in shouting out 'mauri ora' together to celebrate Māori Language week

sofia

Our Canterbury Clinical Network (CCN) Tīma enjoyed the opportunity to share, learn, kōrero, partake in waiata and enjoy a variety of whakatauki that had significance to the individuals and the work of our group. We also got to hear about two pūrākau that were significant to the presenters, who connect with the whenua it spoke about. Alongside our planned agenda, you see a few of us partaking :) We are committed to continuing our exciting journey, incorporating te Reo Māori in all aspects of our mahi across the Canterbury health system. Tau ke!

Koral

Kia pai to rā! Have a good day! Just had a swim. .

Anna

Our team recorded our pepeha as individuals (as we are working from home currently) They were woven together as a seven minute video. At midday today I recited my pepeha and my goal is to learn it better. Kia kaha NZ!

Anna

I shared my pepeha on my social media

Robyn

A karakia to open up our English class for the day!

Tim

The video contains a reading of the Te Reo translation of a KARAKIA from the Muslim Scripture; the Holy Qur'an. The whole book has been translated into Te Reo and published under the title; Kurānu Tapu. The translation of the Holy Qur'an into Te Reo Maori is an achievement of historic nature. One aspect of this achievement that makes it yet more momentous is that the translation is done by a non-native, Mr. Shakil Ahmad Monir, an Ahmadi Muslim scholar from Pakistan who worked tirelessly for more than two decades to ensure the accomplishment of this noble project.

Shafiq

Understood meaning of whakarongo, aka, takaro and panui

Mauveen

MĀ PANGO, MĀ WHERO, KA OTI TE MAHI.

Thomas

Our 2 to 5 year old tamariki joining their kaiako in singing our National Anthem in Te Reo Māori.

Brenny

Our Whanau in Australia and Aotearoa got together online. A little bit of Te Reo and a lot of Korero. Decided we would try and keep this going and learn a bit together each week.

Melanie

STUFF te reo quiz by myself and with my class. Each morning I am doing: SELF STARTER CHALLENGE MĀORI LANGUAGE QUIZ. Loving this and learning each day.

Rachel

I did a mihi to celebrate Te Reo Maori

Tracy

Today some of our senior class of Years 5 & 6 tamariki at Monte Cecilia Catholic School in Mt Roskill, Auckland and all of the kaiako gathered on a video call to greet each other in Te Reo Maori, to karakia, korero and question in basic phrase using Te Reo and to waiata together. We actually lost track of time and by the time we had finished, we had spent about 25 minutes in total, using our beautiful Maorinlanguage together. We all loved it and enjoyed putting ourselves up for the week of using new, (or a bit rusty) phrases.

Rachael

Te kura õ Rawiri senior students taking a moment to korero te reo Māori.

Deidre

It was a privilege to stand with my brothers and sisters in Christ today, to honor this kaupapa. Long may it continue. Mauri Ora e te whanau ! !

tammy

Ko au te toa o te Waiuku College Māori language moment patapatai ngahau, paiā!

Kirsty

Te Puna Wai o Waipapa/ Hagley College had a socially distanced wā tuku reo. We all got together via Teams video chat for a rousing rendition of Tutira Mai.

Chantelle

At Mercy Hospital we celebrated our Māori Language Moment by singing a waiata and playing a kahoot.

Mercy

Tēnā koutou katoa - what an absolutely fabulous whakawhanaungatanga time we enjoyed together over our lunch hour today. BDO Gisborne kicked off our "Mahuru Māori" moment with a mihi and opening karakia to welcome all staff in attendance. We then listened to the uplifting beats, whilst taking in the beautiful scenery of our East Coast paradise from Rob Ruha's recent waiata anthem release, Ka Hao - 35. The icing on the cake was definitely the delicious kai, and seeing all the smiles on the faces of our staff who have missed the face to face contact on the back of another lockdown period. Tau kē!

Janene

Favona Primary School performing - Ka Hao.

Miria

Singing along to a YouTube clip - Kia tau (The Grace)

Amanda

I shared my pepeha last year and this year 2 of my tamariki are sharing it

Margaret

We are a small rural preschool in Tuahiwi, and at mat time today our Kaiako Karen read a pukupuka for the tamariki in ruma Kōwhai all in te reo. In ruma Kahurangi the Kaiako also read a pukapuka about a Taniwhai, then our little tamariki at the 2 year old mat time sung a waiata - pakipaki tamariki ma, read a pukapuka called Maranga Mai and a kōrero about ika and nga tae. #reomāori

Karen

He pai tēnei mahi toi! !

Nicola

Kia ora. At Kahurangi Kindergarten we ended our mat-time today with this waiata that we learnt for Matariki.

Catherine

He mhi poto hei whakanui te kaupapa miharo nei!

Mary

Amazing artwork! !

Nicola

We did many wonderful things at Gracelands! At 12pm we had karakia and waiata Then this afternoon we watched kapa haka and learned poi. Our white board activities were written in both Te Reo and English, our windows, doors, nurses stations etc all had their Te Reo and English names on them and we made placemats for our residents with the Te Reo names for trees, flowers, farm animals, sea creatures, numbers and colors.

Jules

Ngā tamariki celebrated this moment by singing Te Rama Te Rama

Amanda

Kō Caitlin tōku ingoa. I’m a teaching assistant at a secondary school, and the teacher of the social studies class I was in that period organised a #MāoriLanguageMoment, for the whole lesson! We watched some of the video resources on your website, listened and learned a waiata, then had a kōrero about kupu we knew already. Kia kaha reo Māori! Kia ora ❤️

Caitlin

❤️ Arohatia te reo ❤️

Mel

Our tamariki enjoyed learning how to keep the rhythm, use hand eye coordination, and creating their own passing combos to 'e papa waiari' with the tititorea. Karawhiua! ! !

Jeaneva

Nau mai haere mai ki te Makauri kura, ruma wha, Turanga-Nui-A-Kiwa.

Tanya

Nga Tauira o Te Wananga o Raukawa

Hori

The new entrant Tamariki in He Kākano at Mahora school have jumped on board to say a big “Kia Kaha” We’ve been learning about the history of our language, and why it is important to continue to speak our special language.

Emma

About 13 of us at work joined to be led in karakia and waiata and discuss some resources for learning te reo and discuss the significance of the Te Waa Tuku :)

Francy

For my moment this year I had a little waiata and sang along to a few songs in te reo. . . I've been practicing in the comfort of lounge for the last few days 😀

Rehutai

He mahi rawe i tēnei ruma. Kei te whakarongo ki te puoro me mahi toi hōki.

Nicola

Was at small sticks mahi at te kura o wapahihi . Karori west normal. school . sharing abit about hockey in te reo to the tamariki

Kiri

Ko Te Whakatupuranga te ingoa o tō mātou akomanga reo e rua. E toru ngā akomanga, e toko whitu tekau mā waru ngā tamariki mokopuna iroto i ngā akomanga. E timata mātou ki ngā mokopuna hou ki te kura, ara, e rima ōna tau tae noa ki ngā tau ono (ngā tuākana) e tekau mā tahi ōna tau. Anei ngā tuākana o Te Whakatupuranga e tākaro ana rātou ki ngā kēmu iroto i te reo rangatira. Mauri ora ki a tātou! ! !

Waimarie

We joined with CAB colleagues from around the motu via Zoom and shared how te reo Māori is important in our lives and in our mahi and then did a te reo quiz on Kahoot. Kia kaha te reo Māori!

Sacha

This is part of what I shared with my kindy whanau today on Storypark. We are all still all beginning our te Reo journey but are keen to learn more and to support our tamariki with their learning.

Michelle

I did the reo moment kahoot with my daughter, as well as listening to waiata while learning the next word in my 'A Māori word a day' journey. We also said kai karakia at lunchtime.

Lauren

Our team celebrated the Māori Moment by reflecting on a few whakataukī, taking turns reading and sharing their meaning.

Erin

My mokogirl Charli and I had matching moko kauwae and sang waiata together ❤ Matariki Macarena is her favorite. . . . upoko, pakahiwi is a close second!

Tui

My first ever attempt at singing a waiata. Will work on learning a longer one.

Carmel

One of our students, using the Tuakana Teina approach, was sharing her knowledge of Te reo to support the younger students learn a game.

Joanna

Ko ngaa ringa raupa ngeenei noo te akomanga reo rua o te kura tuatahi o Tuakau. He wero anoo teenei maa maato. Engari, he whakaaturanga aawhina teenei maa ngaa kaimahi katoa o te kura, hei awhina i a raatou ki te patua i te ngangara whakamaa.

Marama

Ngā Tamariki in the nursery participated in waiata and poi

Nikki

Taku pepeha. . a little something about myself that I am proud of.

Brae

My moment is reading Harry Potter reo version with my trusted Wiremu Māori Dictionary. Pen and paper handy to learn heaps of new kupu.

Monica

In February, I got the opportunity to my very first visit to marae, and it was an amazing and unforgettable experience where I had my first exposure to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and biculturalism in Aotearoa. it was a wonderful experience and my journey to another culture. Now I feel proud of myself that I can introduce myself with my mihimihi. # Kia Kaha Aotearoa #Tihei mauriora!

Rajwant

At our Kindergarten we sang Tutira mai nga iwi and read a Maori myth.

Shannon

I chose to kōrero ahau te Reo Māori by creating a visual mihi in Scratch.

Hannah

St Theresa's Catholic School, Plimmerton - Kapa Haka. We use a Tukana Teina approach to Kapa Haka. Our Juniors from new entrants all the way to our Seniors who are year 6 perform Kapa Haka together. The younger tamariki learn the actions, te reo and waita from the older tamariki. You are all tumeke at St Theresa's.

Joanna

Randwick Park School Choir - Psamony

Sala'a

Kei Te panui pukapuka matou

Jenna

Wrote several emails with a Kia Ora greeting and Ma te mauruuru salutation inviting friends to participate in this event! He tino ngahau! Whakawhetai

Christine

Zay and Puti E rere taku poi, ki Te kohungahunga o Eagleby kids ELC

Jenna

Our three kuri have karakia before kai. Today my daughter prepared their food and did a special karakia for te wiki o te reo Māori. We shot a video . . . . unfortunately it was pākaru so we won't upload it. Kia kore koe e ngaro; taku reo rangatira.

Antony

Room 6 filled in their own Whare Tapa Whā from their lockdown experiences

Toni

We listened to this beautiful soundscape - Oro Atua: a puoro maori sound healing journey - https://youtu. be/Gz_8SyGXLkE - with its introduction and closing waiata, as a way of reflecting on Reo Māori.

Shelley

Tākaro: We created a Kahoot! quiz on te reo Māori.

Lagi

This is out awesome Year 9 Health/P. E class here in Whaingaroa. We are a very competitive bunch of students. Today we decided to split the class into 7 teams. Each team battled it out in a number of 'MOMENT' challenges. The menu for todays feast included the classic mauī/matau stick game, a school waiata battle which was taken out by our boys (who normally sit quietly in the corner), a Guess Who/What Kupu game (girls thought Hōhipera was a food. . . Hospital Lol), and we finished of with a well know waiata that had been cut into pieces and the students had to put it back together (forgot to say they had to do it in 60 seconds). We laughed, we sang, we played, we made a Māori Language Moment.

Jason

As a kura (Ruakākā School) we all went to the courts and sang a range of waiata - te iwi e, toia mai. We did the jump jam of kotahitanga and a haka. We then did the tik tok dance for ka hao. Everyone loved it and had heaps of fun. We did a quick pukana at 12pm too

Alex

Tākaro: We played a game of Tākaro.

Lagi

Poi practice

Toni

To celebrate the partnership between Ngāti Wheke and Te Ūaka The Lyttelton Museum, each day we explored Te ahu-patiki via the Ngāi Tahu online atlas at https://www. kahurumanu. co. nz

Malcolm

At Funlab we did a small presentation about the movement and then sang along to the Māori colour song

Jay

Revisiting some of my favourite Whakataukī at 12pm today.

Cherie

Our school choir the day before lockdown preparing for the The Kids Sing. Performing He Honore.

Sala'a

Kei te waiata ngā tamariki i tēnei wā. He aha te waiata? He Tirama, tirama ngā whetu! ☺️ Ka pai ō mahi koutou mā! ! !

Jesse

Mahi toi: Eli drew the hei tiki logo from the Māori Language Movement.

Lagi

Our office had a huitīma game of Kahoot using the Reo Māori game.

Monique

Several members of our RTLB team got together at 12. 00pm today to sing waiata in celebration of Te Reo Māori

Sarah

Ko te mana o te noho tuakana me te teina. Ko ngā tauira e noho rumaki reo ēnei. Ahakoa he iti he mapihi pounamu. "Nei ra te kaupapa o te reo Māori. " Toku reo toku ohooho🖤💛🖤💛

Jo

My 7 year old learning counting in te reo

Fawziyyah

Our class Ruma Tahi made FlipGrid videos of our mihimihi and pēpeha, we made Te Reo word art, we learned how to ask someone's age, and we made human sculptures of words. It was a fun mashup of activities. Kia kaha Te Reo Māori!

Miss

Mahi toi: We drew pictures inspired my beautiful Māori patterns.

Lagi

In our new entrant class - Ngā Ngaru, we read the story Papatūanuku has a Tummy Ache. A lovely story about looking after Papatūanuku.

Jodie

Whakarongo: I listened to pukapuka being read in te reo Māori.

Lagi

I had a kōrero, waiata and kēmu patapatai over zoom with my workmates

Alison

My puppie Frankie and I spent our Māori Moment together today throwing and fetching his pōro. He knows lots of te Reo Māori commands from me, but he can only say "awh awh" so far. Found out from Pāpā Chris today, that you can call a dog with "Moi! Moi! " I'm still learning Tonotono Kurī 😂

Mark

I updated my email signature at mahi :)

Sarah

Ko tō mātou paku Kura Kaupapa Māori o Ōtepoti tēnei i te kōpeke kaha waiata ai, kaha haka ai kia hono ai te mauri o te motu i tēnei wā nei. Kia kaha te reo! ! This is our small Kura Kaupapa Māori o Ōtepoti in the cold singing and doing haka to participate in the energy created by our country participating in the Māori Moment. Kia kaha te reo! !

Marcia

Our tīma came together at 12pm to whakarongo, kōrero, and ako. Our Manutaki/CEO shared with us the whakapapa behind our Ingoe Māori - Te Tāpui Atawhai. Our Manutaki/CEO delivered an inspiring and thought-provoking kōrero. It was a very special moment for our rōpū. Ngā mihi for giving us the platform to do this!

anne

Alzheimer's New Plymouths day program enjoyed singing waitata in our bubble while out for lunch. The club members are very passionate and sing with their hearts.

Toni

He paku kōrero tēnei ki te mihi ki a koutou kei taku mahi i te ata nei. Mauri Ora!

Ness

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Maori Language Moment 2021

He paku kōrero tēnei ki te mihi ki a koutou kei taku mahi i te ata nei. Mauri Ora!