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

Listened to the new waiata anthems playlist!

Ashleigh

Know our place, know our whanau. Kia ora kia matou nga mokopuna o Pita Penehio

Marlene

My Samoan husband Allan and I singing "He Honore" Ko Ngaire ahau. No Mangatangi ahau. Ko Ngati Tamaoho, Ngati Porou aku hapu. No reira tena koutou katoa.

Ngaire

Kua whakatūhia e au he rōpū i roto i taku mahi hei whakaako i aku hoa mahi ki te reo Māori I have created a group within my workplace to teach my colleagues te reo Māori.

Makere

A little waiata on our Te Reo journey from our Auckland lockdown family bubble.

Tori

Kia Ora! My name is Nat, and in this video I will Pānui a Karakia, "Waerea", which I have been learning and using to help give me the strength I need to learn and grow. Tihei Mauri Ora!

Nat

This waiata is one of our favorites it was written by the late Morven Simon it is about Te Awa Tupua .

Jigsaw

Reading te Reo Māori with my 1 year old

Rebecca

For Māori Language Moment the Sustainable Coastlines team each shared a portion of their pepha. Connecting to nature is a huge part of motivating people to look after the environment, so we love the pepeha because it not only lets others know where we’re from, but it’s also an opportunity to share the awa, moana and maunga close to our hearts. Te reo has a beautiful vocabulary for speaking about that connection — in te ao Māori, the environment is an inseparable part of human life. Kia kaha te reo Māori!

Helen

Had a wonderful moment this morning with both classes of nearly 60 singing, but the sound did not work. Sooo take 2 of this wonderful uplifting song with the few who were able to make it back on to sing with us! Ka mahi!

Gail

I te poupoutanga o te rā i tenei rā, i uru ahau ki te waea huitīma ki ōku hoamahi i te ako i te Reo Māori. I waiata matou, I korero matou, I katakata matou, i ako matou. I rawe tēnā! At midday today, I took part in a Teams hui with work colleagues to learn te Reo Māori. We sang, we talked, we laughed and we learnt. We're having calls at midday all week :)

Juliet

Kia ora, I'm not super confident but did my best. Shot in central Auckland in lockdown. Aroha.

Andrew

Inanahi, I timata au ki te tautoko te kaupapa o Te wiki o Te Reo Māori. Ka mutu te pikitia au I runga I te wharangi Pukamata o taku whanau. Nā reira tēnei te mihi ki ā koutou. Arohamai, I hope my sentence structure is correct.

Roni

Kaiti School kanikani!

Mackenzie

Our team at Ko Taku Reo Deaf Education New Zealand accepted the challenge to learn the longest place name in either spoken Te Reo Māori or NZ Sign Language or both. Here's 1 of 2 videos.

Kathie

Made a scavenger hunt for āku tamariki using ngā kupu o Māori and ngā pikitia.

Tania

I am a teacher in Auckland. Myself, my co-teacher and 20 of our students came together on a google meet at 12pm to take part in a Te Reo Maori Kahoot! The children loved being part of such a special movement!

Sophie

we are kaiako in a ece centre - we shared our pepeha with our tamariki in a short virtual mat time during lockdown.

Camille

Mā te rongo, ka mōhio; Mā te mōhio, ka mārama; Mā te mārama, ka mātau; Ma te mātau, ka ora. From listening comes knowledge; from knowledge comes understanding; from understanding comes wisdom

Shani

Ko Hinerākei tōku ingoa. Ko te mahi toi wētehi o wāku pūmanawa Ko Ngāti Hine , Ngāti Kahu me Ngāti Põrou ngā Iwi I hangaia tēnei kiriata toi mō ngā tamaiti e hiahia ana. He mahi ririki me ngā taputapu i te kainga. Mauriora e tātou mā!

Hinerākeimauroa

We say karakia at the end of every Te Reo Māori lesson here ar Huanui College. This was at the end of class at 12pm today.

Henry

I heard my tane saying I would love to learn Te Reo Maori. My tane is an American / Samoa and he lived most of his life in Samoa as well as Hawaii and USA. We have been living in Aotearoa New Zealand since 2017 and my tane is awaiting residency of this country. I am originally from Samoa, migrated to New Zealand since 1985 and lived in Australia from 2006-2017 and have loved being called a New Zealand / Samoa or Samoan Kiwi. I love how importantly the values and morals of this country which I called home. We lived in Australia just to experience life in Australia and all and all there is no place like home and that is Aotearoa New Zealand. We don't know how well of we are in this country. This week being wiki mo te Korero Maori I wish to practice more of my Te Reo Maori and exercise as much as I do for my Samoan Language as well as English. No reira, it is our freedom of choice that we get to value all the gifts and great opportunities that we are privileged to here in Aotearoa New Zealand. Aroha mai, Aroha atu Mark and Christiana Richmond

Christiana

Tena koutou katoa! In honour Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori my family and I decided to sing the maori waiata, Tutira Mai Nga Iwi! Enjoy, #kiakahatereomaori

Ken

Some of us at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand got together and got our Reo on! We all speak and master the language differently, and at different levels, but we gave it our best and had fun doing so!

Frank

I Karakia me Waiata matou

Keringawai

Kia Kaha Te Reo Māori! ! A busy day at mahi means I only had time for a waiata

Ashly

I sang the te reo song by 660, 'Kia Mau Ki To Ukiapo'. I am really enjoying the different NZ waiata translated into te reo.

Marian

Our kura of 430 was invited to take part in an online Māori moment. We had a mihi, karakia and some waiata. We also learnt a new kemu Māori. Tū meke te Māori moment! !

Te Kura o Pātiki- Rosebank School

Kōrero kawhe me a Rāpeti.

Cecily

I'm learning my Mihi.

Jane Riley

Me and my Son learnt Maoro colours and numbers using one if his favourite puzzles

Nicola

Listened to music

Dean

Little girls trying very hard to learn the national anthem. Ka Pai!

Mehwish

Listened to music

Dean

Greetings, the theme for this year's MLW, the karakia of my kura, inspirational quote '' Kia kaha, kia manawanui ''= ''Be strong, be steadfast'' then Good Bye!

Emmanuel

Kia Ora I am an at home Educator with Kids at home. My little group if tamariki and I have shared our favourite pukapuka Mahi Mahi Tamariki Ma

Laurie

I've changed my email sign off to include Ngā mihi - the code for the lowercase a with macron being alt+0257 in outlook and Microsoft word :)

Toby

through reading this poem together, we express our aroha and taupua to each other and the rest of Aotearoa.

Honour

Kia ora everyone so we are a mainstream kura here on the East Coast of Potaka our contribution to our Maori Moment for 2021 is some Maori games, some waiata and a couple of mihimihi from our senior and junior class, hey kei te ora rawatu te reo Maori i konei whanau :) Nga mihi nga kaimahi o Te Kura o Potaka.

Juanita

I decided to just do a few random things, and I was also working on my pronounciation and different words in Maori.

Katie

This is my Pepeha, my introduction to New Zealand and to the world.

Pati

Our class (13 of us in total) listened to a kōrero about porotiti, used Te Reo to ask for the resources to make one of our own and then practiced until our porotiti sounded like the wind

Deb

Wrote a lockdown gratitude list incorporating Te Reo and shared it to my social: Thankful for my lovely pūrere kawhe Time connecting with taha hinengaro and taha wairua Hanging with my tamāhine Working with Forest & Bird to help with Te Reo o te Taiao Exchanging kai with my kiritata :)

Kathryn

For our Māori Language Moment, we had a school zui where whānau joined us for karakia, waiata and then a kēmu of Whanowhano.

Kathryn

Korero te reo Hiranga hua i te manawanui

Debbie

We had a class vote and chose to sing a waiata, this is our fav at the moment! Great fun learning the vowel sounds 😊

Lydia

Kiaora, I am living in Melbourne and during our lockdown we have started a garden, we were gifted some kamokamo seeds and they are growing strong getting ready to be planted in our home made planter boxes, enough to feed the whanau ❤

Narelle

He kaputī kerei koa! Homai to kekē tiakarete ropere

Jilly

kei te noho ahau i roto i te waiaro mauruuru. I wanted to take a moment for my own quiet karakia; I live in an attitude of gratitude.

Leslie

Our mokopuna from Te Taura Here I Te Ao Kohanga Reo

Sue

We linked in via Teams and we each chose a kupu, a whakatauki, or a kiwaha to share and korero about. Some were connected to our mahi and the current situation Aotearoa is experiencing. Nga mihi

Andre

Video is a Waiata - Karawhiua/100 by Katchafire that my husband and I have been learning to sing in Te Reo Māori

Teresa

I held a karahe for my staff (19) on basic greetings and we split into groups t practice. We also practiced pronunciation.

Sam

Titiro mai whakarongo mai korero mai

Roseina

Ko Sol taku kurī, he kurī reo rua ia. Ehara tōku kainga i te kainga reo Māori, ā i whakāko i taku kuri ki te reo Māori.

Fallyn

Tena koe, Anei nga Pipi Paopao o te kura o OKorero (Thornton), Whakatane. Kei te waiata matou me te kanikani. Nga mihi ki a koutou. Ko nga kaiako: Erin Moore raua ko Cappy Hogg

Rangiwhakarewa

Sat outside and listened to the waiata Purea Nei.

Danielle

My 11yr old created a quiz for me and my team to do at mahi

Vicki

Dressed for our Māori Language Moment zui.

Sharon

I used maori greetings today, morena and kia ora and listened to some of the recent songs that have been translated into te reo. I'm trying to incorporate it more into my daily life.

Beverley

Room 15 Kerikeri Primary School Playing an action game with certain numbers of tamariki for each comand (tahi) - Rangatira (leader) - tahi tamariki (rua) - Maunga (mountain) - rua tamariki (toru) - Awa (river) - toru tamariki (whā) - Waka (canoe) - whā tamariki (rima) - Iwi (tribe) - rima tamariki

Rebecca

Kia ora 16 of us from around the motu got together on MS Teams to kōrero (speak), whakarongo (listen) and ako (learn). We each shared and practiced our pepeha and discussed what we have learnt (and are learning) in our weekly Te Reo Māori sessions. Kia noho haumaru, kia ora ai te iwi. Ngā mihi Accessible Properties

Greg

Our Busby ELCC teaching team had spent a great amount of time learning the mihi together yesterday and filmed this video to take part of the celebration of Te Reo Maori Language week! Ngā mihi, Wen.

Wen

this is such an very good weekend for nga wiki o te reo maori and celebrate any different ways watching kapa haka, waiata athemn and having an maori kai

khan

We've been sharing resources with our 10, 000 staff around the country, and sharing social content with our Macca's fans.

Simon

I am a beginner and its my first attempt to sing a Waiata .

Giza

So proud of this artwork done by my mokopuna who just turned 21 last week. His name is Tuwaiora Dunn, his art label is 2yora. Very special piece of Ranginui and Papatuanuku.

Marlene

Kia ora ao!

Guy

Kia ora, This is a video of Paniah and her older sister Kyrah-Lee singing a Māori waiata called Hutia te rito te harakeke. Paniah is a student at Clendon Park School in our bilingual unit called Te Whanau Āwhina. Shes in Akomanga 23 and I'm her teacher - Matua Carter. She is 6 years old and loves learning Māori. As part of the Māori moment challenge, I challenged my students to sing this waiata at 12pm, record it and send it to me. Paniah was the first to send her video to me.

Carter

The team at Active Southland singing the waiata Tōia Mai Te Waka Nei.

Cassandra

Family recited pepeha in Lockdown with two primary aged children

Fraser

I sent some waiata to some friends and listened to them throughout today! Love hearing waiata from my childhood!

Leonardo

Basic words in Te reo for daily use

Shelly

This video features our Te Ao Rangahau Engineering New Zealand staff taking part in Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, Māori Language Moment. With our office based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, we were fortunate that many of us could join together in the office and waiata Te Aroha. This is just part of our activity for Te Wiki o te Reo Māori – internally, as well as taking part in the moment, we've also created an internal staff quiz to test people's te reo knowledge (and have prizes up for grabs for any one who takes the quiz). Externally, we've written an article for our members with tips on how to celebrate: https://www. engineeringnz. org/news-insights/celebrate-te-wiki-o-te-reo-m%C4%81ori-2021/ We've also developed social media assets with te reo words relevant to engineers, and a guide on how to correctly pronounce these words. We'll share these on our ENZ Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram throughout the week. Having a dedicated week is a great chance to raise awareness and celebrate te reo Māori – and here at Te Ao Rangahau Engineering New Zealand, we understand to truly get behind it, we need this effort to extend beyond a single week by integrating it into our everyday life. This is something we’re working hard on. We’re underway with our own te reo journey through introducing weekly learning within our all staff meetings, dedicated online resources through an internal Teams channel, and by actively encouraging our people to embrace te reo. Much more is underway to embrace te ao Māori in all that we do. Kia Kaha te reo Māori!

Mimi

Went for my second Corona vax and greeted each person in te reo

Linda

The Recreation Aotearoa tīma too the te reo Māori quiz in Te Upoko-o-te-Ika (The Dominion Post).

Leah

Kia ora, introducing myself in te reo.

Aimee

What did we share during our MLM? • Karakia, whakataukī and kaikōhau • Job title quiz! ! • Shared our pepeha • Kupu o te wiki – teama hui • Closed with waiata Purea Nei, about overcoming obstacles (scattered by wind and rain), being transformed by the sun, and flying free with all doubts swept away.

Jo

Wish my mokos were here to help. Kia ora tatou katoa

Will

I listened to a few lessons on YouTube and also entered words in the Māori dictionary to hear them being spoken. I also researched my maunga.

Fiona

Kia Ora ra tatou katoa. I whakaputa pepeha . mihimihi ta matou tira i tenei ra

Wai

also did OK in this quiz

Paul

My whanau are all enjoying practicing our te reo on each other this week. Arohanui my whanau and kia kaha New Zealand! Gus xx

Gus

I waiatatia au i ētahi waiata, i kōrero au i te reo Māori mā runga i tāku huitopa mā mahi, I whakarongo au ki ēnei kiriata poto, ā, i pānuitia e au tētahi pukapuka- ‘Māori made easy’.

Kataraina

Teena Koutou e te iwi Ko Trinity Te Ata Whanga-Katipa Pahi tooku nei ingoa I am sharing on my behalf of my pepeha. This is my story to you

Te Ata

Whanake sang and played games

Kayleigh

I learnt how to do the afternoon prayer some time ago. It represents the sky father (Ranginui) and the earth mother (Papatuanuku).

Emma

I'm a teacher, so at midday today I was calling the role. I greeted the students in Maori and asked them to greet me back in Maori.

Sharon

E iti noa ana, nā te aroha Although it is small, it is given with love

Nicole

I ran the Christchurch City Libraries Te Reo Quiz with my Tourism class. They really enjoyed it. A number were a bit surprised at their scores. I got a C, so clearly some more work to do.

Blair

Room 31 Rāhina Zui message for our kura.

Jackie

Besides food, music is the fastest way for me to connect with a culture. You don't have to understand a language to appreciate the intent and meaning behind the words!

Rachel

Following my dream to start learning te reo Māori. As a kaiako I think it's important we do our part for the revitalisation of our beautiful language & culture. The Ministry of Education is helping kaiako like me with the Te Ahu o te Reo Māori programme.

Tracy

Me and mokos

Renee

I waiata tātou Te Aroha i te reo Māori.

Gilly

I learnt the lyrics to my favourite Six60 song in Te Reo within two weeks and sang along with my guitar. It was awesome!

Naomi

We got together to practice our mihi and our waiata :)

Ria

Pepeha I shared with my classes.

Michelle

Wish my mokos were here to help. Kia ora tatou katoa

Will

I wanted to share the national anthem in Maori because it unifies all of us in a song regardless of where we come from.

Patrick

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Maori Languge Moment 2021

I wanted to share the national anthem in Maori because it unifies all of us in a song regardless of where we come from.