September 12-18 is a week for te reo to be celebrated and promoted across Aotearoa. Anton Matthews (Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri), owner of bilingual restaurant FUSH, has been on a mission to normalise te ...
Regan Stokes is a young English teacher at Burnside High School, but also has another ambition as a teacher - to give free community night classes in te reo Maori. Stokes, 23, has both Maori and ...
A free te reo Māori class for beginners is starting in Stratford. Reverend Paul Bowers-Mason, missioner for Central Taranaki, has started the lessons to encourage the community to learn the language. ...
Bay of Plenty District Health Board (BOPDHB) staff and their whānau have the opportunity to learn te reo Māori on-site thanks to a new initiative to grow the use and quality of te reo me ōnā tikanga ...
Rotorua District Council director of Maori issues, Mauriora Kingi (left) with Rotorua District Library staff Robyn Skipwith, Manda Waiariki, Lois Haddon, Amanda Hemara and mayor Steve Chadwick.
As we approach another Waitangi Day, we should be thinking again about what Te Tiriti o Waitangi means. As the late Moana Jackson commented, the meaning of Te Tiriti will be talked about in each ...
Just four years ago, experts warned te reo Māori was on a “pathway towards extinction” unless resources were put into teaching young Māori. But a new mathematical model combined with recent data ...
Govt-funded Te Reo lessons described as applying 'Band-Aid' to Treaty After scrapping the previous model in 2024, a new online programme's been announced but it's unclear how many teachers it'll ...