Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori 2023 | Your moments

Share how you celebrated Te Wiki o te Reo Māori. Kia kaha te reo Māori!

2022 2021 2020

We sang the national anthem in both Maori and English, using NZSL

Paula

I have spent the week, outside of work commitments, learning new kupu, watching Māori TV and Te Karere, debating in te reo māori with fellow classmates, and trying to speak as much as possible in te reo Māori.

Karen

Ka rawe Ruma 17! Tino pai to mahi poi.

Katy

I really enjoyed helping with waiata at the kura of my mokopuna (two different roopu). They showcased their familiar waiata to me, we did some fun action songs and then I taught them a new waiata (to them), E Minaka Ana, which they picked up really well. Was so proud! Such a wonderful experience!

Joanna

For the wā tuku reo Māori, I went live on TikTok for the 30 mins from 12pm - 12. 30pm. During this time, I only spoke Te Reo Māori to the people who joined the live. I wrote an apology to those who didn't understand what I was saying. And I had 8 people on the live who wrote back to me in the chat in Te Reo Māori. Then I finished the live with a waiata. Here is a small clip toward the end of the live.

Cory

Ka mau te wehi! I te takāro mātou ko taku hoa mahi i te kēmu Takāro. I te katakata nui mātou, i te ako matou ngā kupu hou. He tino pai tēnei kemu. Kia kaha te reo Māori! Arohatia te reo Māori!

Courtney

I was relieving in a junior class and we sang songs in Te Reo which practiced numbers, colours, actions and poi etc. The class loved it and were excited to be involved in the challenge.

Adria

I te ra Turei, i arahi ahau i te karakia mo te kai. I korero i nga kaimahi, whai mai i ahau. E te Atua - e te Atua Whakapaingia enei kai . . . . . On Tuesday I lead the karakia for a lunch shout at the construction site of Big Chill in Ruakura. I took the opportunity to ask everyone to repeat nga kupu o te karakia after me. And they did. There were about 60 subcontractors. Who were quite happy to participate. I rawe te karakia. While there is video footage, I'm prohibited from sharing it.

Denley

For Te Wiki o te Reo Māori week, my hoa mahi got together for a couple of hours to celebrate the culture and language of the Māori people. We had a shared kai of boil-up and Rēwena bread bread. We started the bread on Monday and each day learned about the process of making it and it's traditions in Māori culture. We celebrated a collague's huritau with keke and a waiata. It was a beautiful sunny day so took the opportunity to: - whakarongo ki nga manu - pai ki te ra - takaro keemu including pétanque and croquet We have labelled numerous objects throughout the office with te Reo and we concluded the event with a pātaitai of these items.

Ashleigh

#Te Wa Tuku Reo Maori #Te Reo Maori #Whanau #Korero Mai #Waiata Mai

Anarchy

This is the schedule of events we participated in for the week.

Kaia

Our Senior Syndicate from Tikipunga Primary School had daily rotations with mahi toi, kemu and as a Syndicate we learnt the history of this beautiful waiata from the late Ngoingoi Pewhairangi. We learnt about the history of the 1972 petition and the steps taken in the revitilisation of Te Reo. Ngā mihi rangatira 😊 Manawatia e reo Māori. ❤❤❤

Angus

My friends and I listened to Maranga Ake Ai

Etienne

We say some waiata on the waterfront in Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Gemma

Ko ngā kaimahi o Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki, he Pākehā te nuinga, e whakamātau ana i te mahi poi. E rere taku poi, e rere taku poi ki runga :) Ko te kai o te rānui, he ika mata, he parāoa parai, he kūtai, he tio. Reka rawa atu! !

Ataahua

Timaru library staff and members of the public celebrating with Waiata.

Ingrid

Our work team took some time at lunch to practise our Pepeha and speak Te Reo Maori.

Kirstin

Ka mahi o Forrest Hill Kura Tuatahi. Nga mihi akonga. Tihei Māuri ora.

Aaron

To celebrate Te Wiki o te Reo Māori Gisborne District Council staff along with the Mayor and councillors joined in for a lunchtime waiata with actions singing Paikea and Tutira Mai.

Beka

Tahi, rua, toru, wha. . . . this was our fun activity at midday in the Taranaki regional office of the Ministry of Social Development. We share the site with Oranga Tamariki so joined forces with some of their team. A great opportunity for whakawhanaungatanga!

Sarah

We used te reo in our workplace and our home with colleagues and whānau :) <3 I kōrerotia mātou i te reo, i te tari mahi me te kāinga

martin

Participated in group learning a new karakia, whakatauki and kupu. Played mau rakau games

Elizabeth

At ESR, our Māori Language moment was celebrated by coming together for waiata. Over 75 people joined together via teams for an uplifting waiata session. It was a really great moment to be a part of! Kia kaha te reo Māori!

Heidi

At Waiheke Primary we sang waiata under the warm rays of tamanui te rā to celebrate Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori. Mauri ora!

Olive

I listened to and sung along with a waiata at 12pm.

Amber

At Kaiapoi High School, our hospitality students offered free barista-made kawhe, for all staff who ordered in te reo.

Andrea

Greeted people in Maori

Ana

Our team acknowledging the journey of our tipuna, through to our current generation, by watching this. Then having a Mauri round about how it made us feel. Talking about our own personal experiences and reo journeys.

Tina

I'm a secondary school physics teacher, and at noon we stopped our work, stood up and sang "Te Taukaea o Te Aroha". We also talked about how this waiata was from our local iwi (Ngai Tahu) and how the Māori Language Petition was the beginning of teaching te reo in schools.

Jane

Year 10 Food Technology students at Kaiapoi High School, made these butter cut-out cookies featuring Māori patterns.

Andrea

Te Rito Ora Community breastfeeding and Infant nutrition support service. We support mama and pepi with feeding in South Auckland. The team stopped what we were doing at 12pm and did our part for Te wiki o te Reo Maaori 2023.

Te Rito

Ngā tēina o E Tipu E Rea mai i a Mana Kāreti. Kaha haka ana ēnei tēina ki te wharenui o te kura - Te Mana o Kupe

Ngahuia

He ope paku tēnei, ēngari ahakoa he iti, he poumanu! Ko tēnei tētahi akomanga puoro o te pae tekau me te tari tamatoa. Karawhiuuuuuua!

Greg

Our team has planted a kawakawa tree and we talked about the principle of Whakamanawa. It is our hope that the presence of the Kawakawa plant reminds us that we are all part of the healing needed from the impacts of colonisation and the loss of the reo. We learnt and sung a new waiata 'tiro tiro'

Andrea

Bellevue School celebrated Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori, with waiata. How beautiful our tamariki sound.

Honor

Kei te waiata ahau!

Karlene

Te Kaunihera o nga Roto o Rotorua staff came together at midday today and joined the Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori. An uplifting half hour of waiata to recognise this significant moment in NZ’s history. We’re proud to join communities across Aotearoa in celebrating and revitalising Te Reo Māori.

Aneta

I spent time working on learning Te Reo in the book "Māori in 30 minutes" by Scotty Morrison at around 12pm.

Bev

As a new student to te Reo Māori (week 2 of 10) I attended a team meeting and shared the karakia "Whakataka te hau" with the team, ending with the English translation - I think it was quite successful and broke the ice for me as a new speaker :)

Sonja

E toru nga whakaahua hei whakamanatia to tatou reo. E rua nga whakaahua kei TKKM o Nga Mokopuna, tetahi atu kei te Kura Kotiro o Te Rawhiti (Wgtn East Girls) I te po whakanuia mo ratou. I tu taku whanau i te wa tukutaonga to matou kotiro!

Eugene

I shared a video of making Rewena with my Y10 biotech class (who have been studying yeast and bread making). I choose this video as it had a lovely message about why sharing with whanau and passing down knowledge is important. It is presented in te Reo with subtitles. As a result, some students would like to try making a potato or kumara starter and make bread as a project. https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=qZeGH9DidSU

Michelle

Tawhirimatea was doing some community service planting native plants at the solar farm by the Waikanae Awa. We stopped at 12pm to say our pepeha, sing and do the haka. We were the first to haka under the new waharoa!

Michelle

Shared Te Reo resources with our kaiako, and shared our pepeha with my cousin

Jan

I committed to learning this poi challenge, as a beginner for Māori Language Movement!

Mahalia

We had our Primary School join together for Tutira Mai lead by the tamariki from Room 32. Proud kaiako!

Marie

Our Te Ataarangi group sang a waiata.

Jan

We gathered as a staff and sang waiata, then we had karakia and kai, and shared a new kupu or rerenga kōrero we’d learnt this week.

Emily

Our class start every morning with a karakia all about setting our intentions for the day. All students know the karakia and take turns leading.

Andrea

Our kura held a special hui to celebrate Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori. We shared Waiata me Kōrero, and we watched an important video to help us understand the history of Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori. Tamariki shared their ideas about why it was a special week, and gave powerful performances of the waiata that they practice every week.

Anya

Our Kapa Haka Performance Group led the school in Waiata and Haka. We met as a school in the courtyard (on a very windy Wellington day! ) and sang our school waiata, and tutira mai nga iwi. We finished with our school haka. It was awesome and I was so proud of our Rangatahi who led with mana and confidence.

Claire

E ako ana mātou i te haka hou a Te Kura Waenga o Tirohanga. Kia kaha te reo Māori!

Ben

On this day we celebrated, that day in 1972, by socialising and normalising Te Reo Māori within our workplace Te Whatu Ora ‐ Capital, Coast and Hutt Valley. Wellington Hospital, heard ataahua waiata from Te Ahurea Māori rōpū Ngā Puna Waiora (Wellington and Hutt Hospitals very own waiata group) led by our rawe kaiako Whaea Tanea Pahina, and finished it off with a reka kai as provided by the Whānau Care Services team. What a way to celebrate who we are as a whānau, who we are as a people and who we are as as a country.

Leigh

all emails i wrote on a daily basis were started and ended with te reo Maori. all greetings in the morning and throughout the day were in te reo as well as wishing them kia pai tō rā or kia pai tō pō.

Aroha

I am paying extra attention to my reo Māori social media feeds and speaking the reo out loud!

Anahera

Wā tuku korero, tākaro me te ako i te reo rangatira. kaimahi learned the pronunciation of nga pū maori, history of te reo māori, waiata, and tākaro.

Carole

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Judy

Our local te reo group which learns and practises everyday kōrero revised tātou kōrero of emotions.

Ali

We sang Te Iwi E, and Haka Huakina and Tena I feiwa

matteo

Hato Patariki in Waihōpai all went outside at 12pm to perform our school haka. Unfortunately the video cut out before we finished! The tamariki have loved extending their knowledge this week and celebrating Te Wiki o te Reo Māori.

Hannah

Kia kaha te reo Māori! ! Ngā mihi ki te Ataarangi, me te Maria, mō te āwhina i a mātou ki te reo Māori me ōna tikanga ❤️

Michelle

Im funny

Hunter

I whakanui mātou i te reo Māori ki Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, tokomaha ngā tāngata ki taua wāhi, he Rā Mākete i reira hoki i whakaritehia e te tīma Āwhina (Tauira Māori Support Team). I pai rawa atu te wairua me te mana o te reo Māori! !

Makarena

In term 3 our Year 9 Te Reo Māori students of Te Kura Tuarua o Ngā Taitamāhine o Maungawhau ( Epsom Girls Grammar) have been learning about the 2nd most important part of the whare, Te Kihini! Bridget from Whau Cafe on Maungawhau was able to create a safe environment for our students to demonstrate their Te Reo Māori all week by ordering some kai namunamuā whilst learning about the history of Maungawhau. We even had some of our staff who are learning Te Reo Māori participate. Nei rā te mihi ki ngā ringa raupā, ngā toki e whao tonu ana te kauapapa ko Te Reo Māori e.

Vinny

Tama Tū o Tararua i te rā Kapa Haka ki Tamaki Nui a Rua.

Rihari

I korero in te reo Māori. I am not experienced but I like to embrace our culture. Hopefully one day I will have the knowledge and courage to korero more in te reo.

Diane

At Busy Bees Lake Terrace each room at our centre took part in the Maori language moment through waiata

Brittany

Learnt about tukutuku and made this little one

Jude

Kia ora all, My name is Silena Morehu. This is my daughter in middle bottom name Marama cos she proundly deaf cant speaks only used NZSL based in her life so just wanted to show all of school around Aotearoa how to learn sign language. She's 9yr old and goes to Knighton Normal School. Thanks

Silena

Te wā tuku reo Māori mō Te Wiki o te Reo Māori. It was awesome to join other kaimahi including Social Workers Registration Board for the Reo Māori Moment at 12pm which stretched to ten minutes of waiata ataahua - ringing out in the atrium of our whare. Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, Tēnā koutou. Kia Kaha te reo Māori

Melissa

Our kura is learning a waiata, Ka Noho au by Nā Michelle Lee. This waiata connects Waiheke to our landscape, as it refers to sitting on the summit of Rangihoua and acknowledging the sacred mountains of Auckland - Tāmaki Makaurau.

Carol

Our team at Indigenous Growth Limited celebrated Te wā tuku Reo Māori at Te Mānukanuka o Hoturoa Marae with our Te Hononga whānau from NZPost. We sang waiata in the wharekai, had kai & then a big group photo together. Mauri Tū, Mauri Ora!

Toria

We had a hangi lunch on a construction site in Auckland with construction workers. Started with a karakia and then a waiata (E minaka ana).

Tom

We had some of our students join and sing with other schools. The remaining students gathered to sing waiata together at school.

Karen

I waiata tahi tō mātou kura teina (Nō Te Kura o Te Whanganui a Hei/Mercury Bay Area School) i te waiata rongonui ' Tūtira mai ngā iwi'. Poho kererū katoa i tō rātou mahi!

Jean

At 12. 00 we had our year 12 and a year 9 class perform our school haka in our quad. It echoed round our kura.

Helen

Here at Whare Paihikara - Bike House in Ōtepoti we chose to Kōrero to celebrate Te Wā Turku Reo Māori. Although we are all just learning (one of us just arrived from the USA) we are proud to support the movement and we look forward to using more Te Reo Māori during our mahi every day. Kia kaha Te Reo Māori!

Matt

Te Aho o Te Kahu, Cancer Control Agency had over 16 people joining around the motu and a large group in person in Te Whanganui-a-Tara saying our agency karakia.

Luisa

Haka a kura o Te Kāreti o Hato Marie o Te Whanganui-a-Tara. He wāhine mā me kaiako mā.

Te Kāreti o Hato Marie

Kia ora koutou, I attended my weekly Te Reo class with Te Ataarangi ki Te Tauihu o Te Waka-ā-Māui. I try and make every week Te Wiki o te Reo Māori. Kia kaha Te Reo Māori!

Sholto

We played the Kaupapa game with our History of Aotearoa Learning Club!

Eric

My Year 7 Drama class started their lesson with singing the waiata, Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi, as their vocal warm-up.

Kimberley

Ngāti Toa School - Pūkana!

Kathleen

Sang Waiata

Jan

We did a Te Reo Māori themed quiz!

Tory

Paparangi School got together outside and sang our two school waiata. Our tamariki love singing in Te Reo Māori!

Amanda

Crescendo Mentor Paki represented this Te Wiki o te Reo Māori for our Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori. At the same time the Crescendo whānau took a moment to whakarongo (listen), kōrero (speak), and pānui (read).

Tiffany

Ako about karakia and pepeha :)

Angelicia

I tākaro Ngā Kuia o Te Rōpu o Waiōrea i tētahi keemu ki te whakaharatau i te kōrero Māori. He ngahau! 😊 😁😅 🤣

Diana

This week I've been using more reo in multiple aspects of my work and home life. Listening to waiata Maori on spotify, using more reo kupu at work (especially - Mo taku tomuri! ), reading reo pukapuka with my pepe and using te reo maori kupu at te papa takaro (eg tiemiemi, retireti, tarere).

sophia

We celebrated Te Wiki o te reo Māori by creating a tukutuku panel as a group activity. When it is finished we will frame it and display at our workplace. Thank you to Irene and Jess that helped organize all this.

Stephanie

I whakaroko au i te waiata ‘te taukaea aroha’. I kōwhiria te waiata nā te mea, he waiata Kāi Tahu tēnei. Kāore au i noho i Te Waipounamu, heoi anō, ki te whakaroko i te mita, ka hoki mai tōku wairua ki te whenua.

Matahana

This week was amazing! At home, we were practicing our reo by using small phrases (I pëhea tö rä?) or using the words for everyday items (Miraka). Whilst at work, I practices my reo by opening and closing meetings with karakia. It was so great to be able to do this and have others around me doing the same. My team and I got into it.

Alexis

We sang waiata everyday and learnt new kupu

Jessie

We had a dozen of the New Zealand College of Chiropractic Admin staff stop work and participate in an uplifting Te Reo Māori moment. Ir was awesome how enthusiastic everyone was, no matter what their previous knowledge was.

Marina

We had our school production, which incorporated Te Reo Māori and waiata, including ending with "Ko Tepu" karakia/waiata

Evelyn

Our school Bay of Islands international academy in Te Tii celebrated with waiata on the court with all students and staff, aroha.

Toni

We practised the first part of the school haka. Led by one of the Year 10 students, whilst the rest of the class repeated back.

Nicky

I Te Rā o mane ka Haere au I te tautoko Aronui Arts Festival ki Rotorua. Ki te awhi au I te kaupapa me nga Rangatahi I te perform I te stage. Ka nui Te Aroha I te reo Māori, Mahia te mahi kia Ora ai te iwi.

April

I wrote my pepeha and put it up on the wall of my workplace at BLENNZ Hamilton.

Anna

The Cultivate Recruitment team completed a Quiz for Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori, with kupu we had learnt through out te wiki o te reo maori!

Rachel

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Te Wiki 2023

The Cultivate Recruitment team completed a Quiz for Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori, with kupu we had learnt through out te wiki o te reo maori!