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!

2023 2022 2020

Ka rawe, noho ora mai

Deidra

Our roopu created five videos to share a little reo and a little tikanga with our colleagues at F&P Healthcare on our internal social media and intranet sites. Kit McArthur created this video on hōhā and koha thoughts, a strategy we learned in wānanga with Indigenous Growth Limited to strengthen our hinengaro.

Veronica

This week students chose to either make kowhaiwhai pattern bookmarks, make poi from the resources they have at home or do some craft activities focused on koru patterns, tiki and/or Muri Paraoa. Some students have also been taking part in online Kapa Haka lessons from youtube.

A

First time making Fried bread! Loved learning with others and how simple it was. So yum! ! !

Destiny

Kōwhai tamariki enjoyed seeing each other on Zoom in te wiki

Kirsty

Our kaiako learnt a Māori phrase a day for te wiki o te reo Māori

Kirsty

Read my pukapuka entitled "Waiata Maori Songs In History" #ReoMoment

Terri

Tamariki in Manuka Room recited their pepeha on Seesaw

Kirsty

Kimbolton Early Learning

I organised a 'Mihimihi with me' zoom session with my colleagues. Tōku mihi tēnei . . .

Sue

Taken a step to learn te reo thru Utube clases

Rose

This is our Waimea College Special Education Department singing Ko Te Waipounamu.

Paula

Puriri tamariki searched their garden for ngā aitanga pepeke

Kirsty

Puriri Room recited colours and numbers in te reo on zoom

Kirsty

As I was driving for the "moment" I put on Poi E and sang loudly in the car . . . as no one was there to hear! This week I have been listening to the Taringa podcast and Indigenous 100 podcast. Mauri ora!

Lara

Alice B taking snapshots of all she has done this week to be a part of Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori. Ka mau te wehi Alice!

Terri

Room 14 continued to enjoy sharing the Karakia to start our day, each day it was led by a different student. We also read about myths and legends, then wrote our own.

Jacinta

Riverhills School sung waiata together at a zoom hui.

Sarah

I've been sharing just paku kupu on my Instagram platform everyday for this month because of Mahuru Maori, and I've gotten some feedback from my friends, and they say they enjoy it and some saying how they wish they learnt te reo! Its a huge thing for me to get feedback like that and I enjoy it.

Taryn

I shared my interest and learning about the Maramataka and Te Rātaka o te Marama with my colleagues during our staff meeting. And have been using te reo as much as possible this week in all my communications.

Carol

Celebrating Te Reo Māori in our community! Join us as we put together a kaimahi, tangata whaiora and whānau collaboration ❤️

Hinemoa

Our school sang waiata at a zoom hui.

Sarah

Kia ora koutou! Kia pai tō ahiahi. For our Māori language moment this week, the team at Circularity each wrote our own individual Pepeha, collected some of our favourite waiata and a wrote our own mihi for the beginning of meetings! As part of our pepeha, we acknowedge ngā maunga and ngā tohu in the area in which we live and work, all of which our work transitioning to the circular economy seeks to protect. He akonga tatou, he kaiako tatou - In all of our work, we are students and teachers.

Katie

At Read NZ Te Pou Muramura, we work to spread the joy of reading in Aotearoa. We wanted to celebrate this aroha in our Māori Language Moment! Our CEO Juliet read the team a story in te reo: 'I te Tīmatanga' by Peter Gossage & Kātarina Te Heikōkō Mataira. Thank you for the invitation to take part in this special moment, kia kaha te reo Māori!

Melissa

This week we started learning about the ahuatanga of a Wharenui: tekoteko, pou mua, maihi, raparapa, amo, paepae, tatau, māhau, matapihi and learn't it in the form of a waiata, as well as learning the waiata "Aue te aroha i ahau"

Nani

Today we did karakia together

Heeni

I love this waiata

Su

Kei te kanikani tāua.

Melissa

Steam pudding custard cream and fruit salad

Debra

Over 60% of our kaimahi, joined via Zoom, and at our desks (to be socially distanced) and sang a waiata (Purea Nei) together at 12pm.

Nadine

Ngā Toa Taiohi programme is a Mau Rākau programme promoting confidence and leadership through culture and identity. Delivered at Adventure School. This week's session was entirely in Te Reo Māori! ! !

Whaitiri

Tamariki at Bream bay Educare sang waiata Patuharakeke- this waiata is all about our Maunga, Moana, Whenua me iwi. It empowers tamariki with a sense that they belong.

Rachelle

As local information and booking centre in downtown Queenstown, we are proud to share the Te Reo Maori with our visitors. We posted this Reo Maori image on our digital screen to bring awareness and encourage people to take part in this movement.

Eric

My New Entrant class are learning the days of the week, months of the year, numbers to 10 and writing about sea creatures in Te Reo Māori.

Dan

This is the Tauparapara (opening prayer) and Pepeha I learnt from my Te Reo lessons.

Bryan

My pehepa + short story of my ta moko - the draw of returning to Aotearoa after so long overseas.

Nick

I played my guitar and sang the NZ national anthem in te reo. I also shared it on Facebook to encourage families/whānau to learn it by heart.

Cielo

At 12pm on Tuesday the 14th of September the Matua School tamariki and kaiako stood outside their classes and as a school sang our beautiful school song E Rere. The song is about our special Kotuku flying up to the heavens to retrieve the baskets of knowledge. We love our school song and the children sing is with passion, enthusiasm and pride.

Sarah

Kia ora With my colleagues at Ako Mātātupu: Teach First NZ I learned a karakia kai and heaps of new kupu for different kinds of kai. Ka rawe! Richard

Richard

Our students enjoyed our Hakari

Debra

Up to 800 ākonga, kaiako, and kaimahi participated in the Māori Language Moment at Berkley. We had a blast with "get to know a teacher" Kahoots, which had been translated into te reo Māori. It was also a fantastic way for students and staff to build connections.

Hayley

KIA KAHA te reo māori from my pepi and I.

Kiri

Tōku Pepeha tēnei ki te taha o tōku whaea. He whakaahua o tōku marae i Whangārei, ko Pehiāweri.

Rowena

ETU KAHIKATEA IS A WAIATA FROM MY CHILDHOOD

Alex

I use #MyMihi to introduce myself to our new employees during our monthly health & safety induction session and asked them to do the same.

Malou

St Joesephs Fairlie, South Canterbury learnt the popular new Six60 song Pepeha and performed it for Maori Language moment

Bridget

Kia Ora, fantastic to be part of Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori in Aotearoa! Our Kura in Ōtautahi spent the time in waiata. Nga Mihi nui

Sarah

This is a Room 22, a Year 3 class at Papatoetoe Central School and to celebrate Maori Language Week we dressed up in our Maori costumes for our Zoom lesson.

renu

Kia Ora, I am very happy and nervous to share my pepeha 😊

Vikash

I recorded this video in one of my favourite places, the Kaituna Valley Scenic Reserve. It is a tiny pocket of ngahere amidst a valley owned by a large livestock company, practicing intensive farming with large irrigation systems. The ngahere is a small place of hope and reminds me what used to be here. The large kahikatea and matai trees are my grandparents. I sit with them, I talk to them, I listen to them and most of all I hongi them. In summer I swim in the small awa and hope not to get a rash from the the leakage of fertilizer and stock effluent into the awa. I stand with the ngahere, even though physically I cannot help it much, I share my aroha and spiritual tautoko with it.

Katarina

BestStart St Lukes with our whakapapa, "He aha tenei?", a pukapuka and a kanikani to poi e :)

Taygen

Short mihi

Kei te ako koutou. . . . Sharing what I have learnt with others in my team.

Tania

Room 1 used traditional Maori measurements( Inenga) to measure items around our house.

Jillian

R18 did a Kahoot to help remember all the instructions we use when we korero during the day at our kura. Tino pai, R18!

Nick

Room 1 learnt about pre European, traditional Maori measurements based on body parts (Inenga). We learnt the Maori names and used these measurements to measure around our houses.

Jillian

We had a hangi Hakari to celebrate Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori but we will celebrate the rest of the Month Mahuru Maori

Debra

I know lots of waiata but today I decided to learn a new song called e Te iwi e

Shanaye

I updated my home page with a translation of the key aspects we try to celebrate in our architectural practice. Also shared on instagram and facebook wallacearchitectsltd Kia ora, we are taking part in this year's Māori Language Moment to acknowledge and value Aotearoa's indigenous language. He hau ki uta (the winds inland) He hau ki tai (the winds at sea) He hau kainga (our true home) Home, Land and Sea. https://www. instagram. com/p/CTx_qdKN9tt/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Liz

About 30 of the kaimahi at Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage participated in an online te reo Māori online quiz. Photos may follow.

Helene

Our tamariki and Kaiako dressed up and sung waiata together. We all had lots of fun and showed off our poi skills.

Danielle

I like this movement because it shows how many people care and are one. I loved taking part in it individually and with the kapa haka group. Because of Maori decent my mum thought it was the coolest record ever.

Shanaye

Students at Trident High School Te Ra class wrote their Mihi and spoke it at one of Whakatane's cultural sites.

Majella

A video I shared with my tamariki around learning the Māori alphabet - Te Arapū Māori ☺️

April

Playing mahara with Tipu in Schools resources.

Melissa

Ka Hao Tiktok from Sport NZ Ihi Aotearoa to celebrate our Māori Language Moment

Cherish

I participated in both the SADD Te Wiki o te reo Quiz and the Hive Te wiki o te Reo Moment.

Ash

Kia ora koutou On Tuesday I was able to share my pepeha with my team via our team's DM. I learnt the quick version of reciting my pepeha via Reo Maori. co. nz, took a video of me reciting it and shared it with my team via DM

Willie

Stopped mid morning in our office and officially celebrated Maori language moment with my work mates / employees.

Stephanie

Learned my Pepeha and got to dig a little deeper into my whakapapa back in the Kingdom of Tonga to complete this; which brought along some learnings about myself and my whanau. Kia kaha te reo Maori and kia ora for the opportunity <3

Semisi

He whakaahua hei tautoko te wiki o te reo Māori - Wymondley Road School Ngā te maha i ngā momo kiriata kia tango whakaahua kē

Bronwyn

We had a hangi Hakari to celebrate Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori but we will celebrate the rest of the Month Mahuru Maori

Debra

Learning my pepeha

Semisi

This is Room 6 from Oamaru Intermediate school in Oamaru North Otago. We had a great day learning this kanikani.

Isabelle

Mea nei ngā whakaahua kia tautokongia e te kura a Wymondley te rohe o te puke i Ōtara te wiki o te reo Māori.

Bronwyn

Felt our original video wasn't of good quality.

Karen

Te Kura o Te Ara Taumaihi- Bulls School! We performed our school waiata, outside! (Note: Video is not the complete waiata)

Amie

I've been practising new ways to greet and sign off emails, as well as extending my vocabulary of everyday words

Daniela

For Te Wiki o te reo Māori, our makeup class at Cut Above Academy has put together a video sharing our favourite Māori word, We hope you enjoy ❤️🖤

Geoffrey

A few tamariki from Wainui Beach School (Tairawhiti Gisborne) put together this medley of waiata to celebrate Te Wiki o te Reo Māori. Kia Kaha te Reo Māori - Let's make the Māori language strong!

Sue

One of our wonderful Kaiako put together a slide show for Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori and a Kahoot for our Buddy Classes to do together. This photo is Akomanga Waru getting ready for the Kahoot. It was a beautiful opportunity to build our tuakana-teina relationships. Our year 4 students knew some of the kupu that the older students did not know, and they had answers that we did not know, so we learned from each other. Before we began, a piwakawaka visited our class. Some ākonga were distressed with it being inside with us (for various reasons). My Buddy Class teacher explained that she felt graced with it's presence as it was the one year anniversary of her mum's death. Our whole school took part in the Māori Language Moment and you could feel buzz all day (and week) long. Miharo!

David

Each year I teach my class a karakia that we start our chemistry class with. It is challenging for students at first but by mid-year students are usually confident to lead it themselves. This video shows a smaller representation of the class and others joined in without their cameras.

Chhaya

was a way to share with whanau despite lockdown

Molly

We had to translate the english words to Te Reo (no cheating allowed) I didn't know a few so I will be brushing up on that, Kia ora

Kendra

I am part of the Early childhood centre within the Good Seed Trust, today all our programme Managers, Leaders and team got together to celebrate Te Wiki o Te Reo, we had a quiz or Te reo words and done some dancing at the end.

Kendra

I've been working through my pukapuka. Shout out to the wonderful people who made these resources! Tino pai!

Bridget

At St Canice's we spent the day making our kura colourful. It was fantastic working together to create beautiful chalk art all around our kura.

Lana

We all got together and talked about the things we were doing this week for Te Wiki. We then each took the stage to showcase something in Te Reo, from our mihi to a poem, to new greetings an farewells.

Joel

I shared many Te Reo Maori post and links from Pinterest. We watched the Maori channel all day and repeated many of the phrases. We have very little Te Reo as we are pakeha.

Sarah

In a middle level primary class we learned a Maramataka waiata and also practised rakau, using 'E Papa' . We became increasingly skilled at keeping in time.

Phillipa

i talked to my mum in maori

phoenix

Kia Ora, We are Evolve rehabilitation Palmerston north. We used these posties to show and encourage our clients and staff to use Te reo maori in their day to day life. These words are used on daily basis. Clients loved the idea of using these cards and helped them to remember the word of each day. We selected one word each day and wrote it down on a white board with its English so that by the end of this week we learn at least seven new Maori words. Nga Mihi, Team Evolve Rehab

gitesh

My Year 9 Class finished our lesson with Class Choir and learnt/sung Kia mau ki to ukaipo by Six60!

Clayton

I ako maua ko māma tetahi kanikani tiktok hou mo te waiata Māori KA HAO-feat r. ruha. . . I whakātu tēnei kani ki te mokopuna e noho ana ki Poihākina . . tino hari te ngakau a māma ia te wā te kite a ia I töna mokopuna I runga puka mata, CAM CALLS . I waea mai te mokopuna ia te wiki ki te körero ki töna kuia. E whakapou kaha ana a māma te körero māori ki tōna mokopuna, kia mārama ai te mokopuna he māori koe no Aotearoa, te whenua taurikura e körero ana I reo māori. Nāreira ae, ia wā ia hā I körero reo māori a māma ki töna mokopuna e noho ki nga moutere pākeha ake nei.

Tangiora

This week i have been supporting team members with pronunciation of words and giving the courage to "give it a go" I was also asked to deliver a Karakia this week on behalf of the team and then asked to share those Karakia around the MBovis programme. Although Te Reo Maori is not apart of my normal vocabulary it is apart of my Culture and i rely a lot on my experience growing up on the Marae to support my peers as much as i can.

Kura

At 12pm on Tuesday, we came together to learn about the Māori place names in Aotearoa, as part of the Māori Language Moment. https://www. linkedin. com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6843361110477959168/?actorCompanyId=10845628

Louise

Tena koutou, I am learning greeting in maori. Nga mihi nui. Thanks everyone.

Kanchan

For our afternoon mat time, we read the Pūrākau - Māui and the Magic of Fire for our tamariki and whanau.

Deepthi Sankar

From 11. 30 to 12. 30 over 30 of us got together via zoom to share Te Wā Tuku Māori. We all added one slide to a team Google slide presentation and shared our pepeha, our whakapapa, and some of the things we wanted to celebrate about our learning journeys around Te Reo Māori me ōna tikanga. At 12pm on the dot, we listened to our kaikōrero, Hone speak and marked the moment with kōrero. It was a special occasion and one that people felt was a wonderful way to come together as a team, even though we were not able to come together in person. Tukuna Te Reo kia rere!

Liz

I played the kahoot!

Daniel

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Maori Language Moment 2021

I played the kahoot!