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

A class video of us having a go with Te Reo.

Tu

I spent my time doing card games and speaking as best as I can in Maori for the whole 10 minutes

Paige

Great moment

Kerrie

Tamariki & Kaiako learning new Waiata together! ❤

Bindy

Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori | The Māori Language Moment to put our Te Reo waiata into practice. While our harmonising needs some work, it was so great to get together and work on our Te Reo.

Sandra

Ruma I enjoyed a waiata together at tekau rua pm today! 🥰 ('i waiata ngatahi maua?'- I tried to translate we sang together)

Jayne

To celebrate National Māori Moment Room 9 gathered for a zoom meeting at 12pm. We listened to Ke te kīhini o te pō- read to us by Mātua Olly. Then we played a memory/match it game. We matched the te reo Māori word with the picture from the story. We had lots of fun!

Maggie

Sharing korere Maori ki te tima o THINKhauora ki Otaki e Maori Pakeha me Rotuman.

Barbara

We just shared our pepeha in our hui. Tino hari koa ana te rōpū nei.

Leanne

This is Awhina, the Special Needs Class at Upper Hutt College practising some of our waiata in front of Te Manawa Atea, our school marae. We held our Dance Class inside the whare and came outside to celebrate our Te Reo Maori Moment with our karakia and waiata.

Anne

Our Wānaka Primary School Year 5/6 students hail from the beautiful alpine surroundings of the Wānaka region. The waiata we performed at 12. 00pm today acknowledges our maunga - Mount Aspiring, our roto, and the surrounding whenua. Kia ora!

Wānaka Primary

A class video of us having a go with Te Reo.

Tu

I waiata mātou ko āku akonga i te waiata 'Poi E'.

Jane

NIHI wrapped up a week's worth of activities with a Reo Māori quiz! Toru tekau pātai were shared on Zoom using an interactive format of polling (just like the 'Ask the Audience' format in game shows) to encourage fun, participation and learning. We have enjoyed running the following activities: 7th September - Whakarongo, recording a NIHI radio station of 5 waiata from Aotearoa artists 8th September - Kōrero, taught staff how to update their opening/closing email greetings using te reo Māori 9th September - Ako, ran a lunchtime te reo Māori pronounciation workshop 10th September - Pānui, encouraging staff to put up signs/labels in te reo Māori around their homes (with whānau) 14th September - Tākaro, NIHI Reo Māori Quiz! Kia ora e te whānau!

Stephanie

Today at 12 noon the Ashgrove School tamariki took part in the Māori Language Moment as a school by singing a waiata all together around our magnificent willow tree. Singing 'Te Aroha' was a special occasion for us, as we celebrated Te Wiki O Te Reo Māori.

Lainie

I played the reo Māori Kahoot quiz for beginners. I ordered my afternoon coffee in te reo! All those on shift today were using te reo greetings and farewells beautifully! Kia kaha te reo Māori!

anna

Me doing the Te Reo challenge on Tic tok. I love including maori language week into my tic tok routine. #cerabalpalsy

Junior

Reading to our tamariki, Gold Coast australia

Janelle

I learned my pepeha and started to get more involved in the culture, although not being Maori I will still try! !

nevaeh

Taking the time to learn a new word/phrase daily and also trying to watch more Maori Television weekly

Jo

Our juniors practising 'Heads, shoulders, knees and toes' in Te Reo.

Toni

He mea nui taku reo, ma oku tipuna, aku tamariki, aku mokopuna, māku ano hoki Kia kaha te reo Māori!

Bobbie

Tic tok I made. I love this song. The remix was cool . We dance to it in class but it's the nursery rhyme. I tried my best to do the moves.

Junior

Our wonderful tamariki singing and doing the actions to Paki Paki 😊

Michelle

The ELL students at Hagley College made Poi today and learned the Poi E dance. They had lots of fun!

Tara

Our team at Malatest shared a #MāoriLanguageMoment by participating in the reo Māori KAHOOT! It was a fun way to bring te reo into our office environment. Each team member was also challenged to bring a kīwaha and use it as their background photo while playing online. It was awesome to hear everyone's kīwaha, and I look forward to hearing these fly around the office in days, weeks and months to come! Karawhiua koutou mā! Ko te reo te take!

Carel

As part of normal classroom routines TEF102 students present dishes they have made as evidence towards their Unit Standards. Today they each recited the Karakia as they did this. Wananei!

Karen

Me singing maori song with a tic toker I like . I love singing.

Junior

We enjoyed sharing an old favourite and some new waiata today.

Lisa

We are a small community early childcare centre and after lunch we all came together to celebrate te reo Maori through waiata singing Tirama, tirama and Te Aroha.

Jo

We played a directions game, where all of our instructions were in te reo. These instructions showed us where our bodies should be regarding our desks. We then turned it into an elimination game!

Bronte

Royal Oak Intermediate- Jordan House. Tamariki and their ako were invited to attend the zoom today where we sang and all undertook 3 actions to represent Kia Kaha Te Reo. This is one photo of one of the screens. There were 50 akonga that took part.

Sheryl

Kia ora , I shared kia rua nga waiata with my whanau on a zoom and taught them their pepeha.

Annie

Small beginnings. - conversational . Mini- greetings nailed pretty much now. Waiata coming along well too .

Jude

We had a whole school Kahoot quiz on Zoom (as we are in Level 4 still in Tamaki) about te reo. 91 teams with students and their whānau, and staff members and their families too! Loads of fun, and the teachers' didn't go easy on those kids, with Mrs Nic taking it out as te toa!

Jessie

Dhiren counting from 1-10 in Maori

Dulani

Our kaiako taught us the pakiwaitara - Te Pura the guardian taniwha of Wairoa in Tauranga.

Toni

Deaf Maori Song with Sign Language.

Warren

Kia ora koutou! We organised a week of activities at NIHI, starting last Tuesday. 7th September - Whakarongo/Waiata, recorded a 'NIHI radio' playing 5 waiata from Aotearoa artists 8th September - Kōrero, taught staff how to change up their opening/closing email greetings using te reo Māori 9th September - Ako, ran a lunchtime te reo Māori pronounciation workshop 10th September - Pānui, encouraged arts and crafts by providing a list of te reo Māori labels and signs to stick around the house 14th September (Māori langauge moment) - Tākaro ran a lunchtime quiz with toru tekau pātai! Here is a photo of us at the start of the quiz.

Stephanie

I karanga mai tōku tama kī roto I ā Abu Dhabi. It’s important to us that our children continue to learn while living tawāhi.

Dreena

We sang Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi as a group.

Laurie

9STR wrote the numbers from 1-27 in Maori on whiteboards.

Robyn

Te Aho o Te Kahu & Manatū Hauora shared waiata Māori Language moment

Luisa

Te Reo kahoot quiz

Toni

At Clandeboye Kindergarten we all gathered together to have our lunch, but first we did our karakia kai.

Brittany

created a slideshow for my moko to learn te arapū māori.

Pare

Myself, my son and daughter looked at some videos of weaving with harakeke and decided to try it ourselves. We made putiputi (flax flowers) also!

Sam

My pepeha. Kia ora tatou Ko Mt Vaea te mauga Ko Te Moana nui a kiwa te awa No Hamoa/Niue again Ko Peaufa/Iosefo toku whanau Ko Tasi Poumale toku ingoa

Tasi

At Paremata Kindergarten we sang and signed Te Aroha before shouting Kia kaha together!

trudi

A group of us met online at 12 pm today and said our karakia and sang our school waiata together. All week we are meeting daily to kōrero, practice our pēpeha or mihi All staff & students are invited to join in a wero designing a tshirt with Maori design/kupu - I will share the photo when we have our two winners studnet & staff :)

Natalie

This video is from a little later in the day! We are learning the difference between 'koe', 'kōrua', and 'koutou'. At 12pm we listened to a story in te reo Māori while we ate our kai. Today we also played a kahoot quizzing our te reo! We have learned a new game "I have. . . who has" with 25 kupu that are kai themed! We are trying to beat our time every time we play. Every morning we start our day with a paepae and try to have 10 minutes of full immersion te reo. This includes saying our pepeha, school karakia and singing waiata. The tamariki run the paepae by themselves.

Nickee

A group of us met online at 12 pm today and said our karakia and sang our school waiata together. All week we are meeting daily to kōrero, practice our pēpeha or mihi All staff & students are invited to join in a wero designing a tshirt with Maori design/kupu - I will share the photo when we have our two winners studnet & staff :)

Natalie

I listened and sang to Waiata in Te Reo on Life FM.

Eileen

Classes A4 & A5 (Swanson School) finishing L4 Lockdown zui with Pepeha waiata.

Eileen

Did the Stuff quiz putting days in order in Te Reo. I remembered them and got it on 3rd go.

Sue

Ngā tamariki o Akomanga Māhaki. 163 o mātou e tautoko ana te wā reo Māori i te 12 karaka. Arohatia te reo Māori ❤️. Ko te tūmanako ka tuku ētahi anō tauira o tō mātou mahi mai i ētahi atu o ngā akomanga ākuanei. Ka tuku hoki au ki te pukamata mō tēnei wero ki ngā tāngata katoa o Aotearoa.

Susanne

This is Ruma 8 from Korokoro School singing our Waiata-a-Kura (only the second half sorry). Kia kaha te reo Māori!

Louise

Setting up to play Tākaro with my mum at lunchtime

Kiri

Te Reo yoga - here are our junior students being pungawerewere.

Toni

Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua. I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on my past. This whakataukī or 'proverb' speaks to Māori perspectives of time, where the past, the present and the future are viewed as intertwined, and life as a continuous cosmic process.

Katrina

The Whanganui District Council Community Wellbeing team used the template from MatuaK (https://scratch. mit. edu/projects/326879798/) to record and code the names of the parts of the waka hapori when you click on them. Have a play: https://scratch. mit. edu/projects/569975548/

Jo

Sharing his waiata and love for singing!

Kiralee

This is a mindful breathing exercise in te reo māori that we do daily - Hikitia te ha . As part of this exercise we mihi to the different Atua and perform a mindful action while focusing on our breathing. Unfortunately the music in the recording drowns out some of the korero.

Newtown

Rooms 11 & 12 playing a Te Reo Māori kahoots quiz!

Mackenzie

We had a focus on te reo Māori in our Zoom call today. The children made signs in Māori and read them to the class. We sang a song and shared a story in te reo.

Paula

Singing along to the Te Reo Singalong pukapuka - 'He aha tēnei?' Here we are being weta!

Toni

I read a karakia

Kay

At Paremata Kindergarten we sung and signed Te Aroha before saying a loud Kia kaha!

trudi

I practised my own personal mihi with my pāpā

Nick

I wrote and spoke a mihi to our 2 vineyard staff at lunchtime. I also wrote and emailed a mihi for my overseas grandchildren for their use.

Wendy

I shared my pepeha to Facebook and Instagram and responded to the comments in te reo. Kia kaha te reo Maori!

Rebecca

I played the kahoot game with our head office. Our team here at Citizens Advice Bureau Dunedin today all used te reo greetings and farewells on the phone and on emails.

anna

Retelling Ngā Tohora - Legend of the 3 whales

Toni

We did an awesome online meeting at work and learnt some basic phrases and pronunciation. Then we played a game of Kahoot to test our new learnings.

Alex

Kia ora Lees St Kindergarten sings waiata as part of our everyday kaupapa. We were happy to join in and participate for Te Wiki o te Reo Māori today. E kore e hekeheke, he kākano rangatira

Sally

Had a meeting at the time. Closed with a karakia in Te Reo.

Joanna

Waiata time with Creators at Home tamariki…

Lisa

My lovely Learning Assistant shared her expertise with my classroom for Te wā tuku reo Māori over Zoom as we are still in lockdown in Tāmaki Makaurau. We opened with a karakia, greeted each other in Te Reo Māori, sang some waiata, did some action games and ended with a colour scavenger hunt. My class loved it and it was so great to share this special moment with our associate principals and principal too :)

Emma

My students and I had a great game of Taakoro!

Sharon

We incorporated korikori tinana into our Māori moment by doing a burpee to every Poi in the waiata and singing along. Lots of fun and sweat😅Approx 40 burpees💪🏽

Bianca

Kei Matakaea ahau e noho ana. Ka kite au te moana me te takutai o Katiki, me nga kekeno me nga karoro.

Paul

Te wiki o Te reo Māori has Katoa Kindergarten starting our journey in flourishing Te reo Māori me Te ao māori into our program

Jessica

I’m a Radio Announcer for our local Radio Station here in Murupara and since it was 12pm lunch time told our Whanau to get their lunch ready and I will Karakia their kai for them on radio as part of my moment

Che

I read aloud and sang waiata from my Te Arawaru song book - my bilingual class in primary school in Te Papaioea. That’s where my love of te Reo began. It is something that sadly lessened along the way as I got older, but has stayed with me. I am committed to learning again.

Catriona

Karakia

Lynda

I did some study and listened to a taringa podcast during lunch at mahi. I try to do some study every day to reinforce te reo Māori. My daughter drew this picture for me, I like to add visuals when I'm learning.

Amarlee

Nga tamariki ki Nuanua Kindergarten love Kapa haka and waiata. Kei te whakahīhī ngā kaiako me ngā tamariki katoa and happy to have been able to contribute to this te reo Maori movement i tēnei ra. We are a pasifika Kindergarten and we connect to te reo, tikanga Maori and upholding te tiriti o Waitangi. This is very important to us and our children gain a sense of enjoyment, love and their wairua and mana is uplifted.

Ngaretta

Our akongā are always keen to learn new kupu, they especially have an interest in farming and animals. They played 'Tākaro! Into the Wild ' in their Tuakana Teina groups to learn new kupu, then they had a challenge against the other groups. There were many words that were new, and they will continue to play so that they can grow their kupu . They had a blast.

Christa

Room 10 playing Kahoot - we did 3 Kahoots - one was based around colours and two on general knowledge.

Penny

Troye Williams, (6) year 1, has lived in Aotearoa for 2 years now. He likes to ako te reo with the whole whanau.

Troye

Ka waiata mātau mo te wā tuku reo Māori! We'd planned a week of waiata performances and classes for staff and the public, but Level 2 stopped that from happening. So, spaced apart in the staff stairwell we could sing and be safe!

Lynn

I was taking part in the Whakataetae Reo Māori for Kura 2021 on Education Perfect. I learnt how to say basic phrases and structure sentences. I learnt different Māori words and that there are two words for some words like 10: Tekau and Ngahuru.

Humaira

Myself and two colleagues are doing a Maori language course - Te Ahu O Te Reo. Each week, we have a kupu or phrase to use with the children. Now that we are in lockdown 2, we are able to video ourselves using the phrase in context, rather than just videoing ourselves saying it. For privacy reasons, I try to ensure the children are not videoed (hence, you can only see their feet, as they rush past with the trolley). This is one little snippet of what we are doing, as we are using more sentences wherever we can.

Gwyneth

New to NZ. My first year here. Te Reo Maori is so exciting. Being bi-cultural and bilingual really matters. My ancestors lost their Gaelic and Scots. Important to keep language, culture and identity, to share it and nourish it

Gavin

Kei te tuku mihi ngā tauira ō Ruma 7 ki ngā rākau

Chris

Te wiki o te reo Māori is supporting our program to implementing waiata sessions and nurturing our program around te ao māori for our tamariki.

Jessica

A karakia

Lynda

We used some Anika Moa songs for a touch of karaoke!

Theresa

This is a chant called Maruhia and it is about our Whakatohea ancestress Muriwai. This is my Year 5 and 6 class, Room 4 Opotiki Primary School. Mrs Dunn

dianne

Integrating simple kupu into my teaching and using the Mahuru Māori Wero.

Anna

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Maori Language Moment 2021

Integrating simple kupu into my teaching and using the Mahuru Māori Wero.