WHAKATAUKI:

• "Ko tōku reo ko tōku ohoho"

- My language is my awakening

KAUPAPA:

The course develops the students’ listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, based on the required topic areas. There are no set topics at senior levels but students learn a variety of topics such as: 

• the land wars

• the status of te reo Māori

• Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori (the Māori Language Commission)

• urbanisation, assimilation, and resistance

• global travel and exploration

• social work, community service and teaching

• the tourism industry

• working and finding work

YEAR 12 PREREQUISITES:    

• Year 11 Te Reo Māori

YEAR 13  PREREQUISITES:

• Year 12 Te Reo Māori

YEAR 12 COURSE CONTENT:

In Year 12, students can:

• communicate about future plans

• offer and respond to advice, warnings and suggestions

• express and respond to approval and disapproval, agreement and disagreement

• offer and respond to information and opinions, giving reasons

• read about and recount actual or imagined events in the past.

YEAR 13 COURSE CONTENT:

In Year 13, students can:

• communicate about certainty and uncertainty, possibility and probability

• develop an argument or point of view, with reasons

• recount a series of events to inform, persuade or entertain

• communicate the same information in different ways for different audiences

• respond to selected and adapted texts in te reo Māori that are about te reo and tikanga Māori, for example, texts from recorded speeches, literature, film, newspapers, magazines, television, video, DVD and radio.

NB: For both Year 12 and 13, Students must attend events such as Manu Kōrero, and workshops, films and tikanga events. There may be possible wānanga offered depending on availability. 

YEAR 12 and 13 COSTS:

• Students will be charged for a workbook (cost TBC) and for any class trips to cover transport etc.  

FUTURE STUDIES / CAREER OPTIONS:

• Most professional career pathways in Aotearoa want people to have had some exposure to te ao Māori. Examples could include - governance roles including public policy, education, criminal justice/law, health and medicine, and social services.

• Most organisations now have roles dedicated to working with Māori communities and/or addressing Māori interests.