Puāwai
Extend Your Reo and Bring It Into Everyday Workplace Communication
Whakamāhuki | Overview
Grow confident, culturally grounded reo Māori capability—at work, during work hours.
Puāwai helps foundational learners move from short memorised expressions into adaptable sentences and short conversations. Participants broaden vocabulary, strengthen action, descriptive, location, possession and time structures, ask and answer questions, and use language across meetings, written communication and team interactions. Tikanga learning focuses on context, role clarity and the values that shape respectful engagement.
Designed for
Learners who have completed Te Reo Tupu or have basic pronunciation, introduction and sentence knowledge.
Course Dates:
Week commencing Monday 24 August 2026
Delivery Mode:
Live online: one 90-minute class each week
Course Fee:
$500 per person
Duration:
10 weeks
Hāngaitanga
Why This Course Matters in 2026
Learners often understand familiar reo but hesitate when they need to change a sentence or respond unexpectedly. Pu?wai develops the patterns and confidence needed to make the language more flexible. It supports workplaces to grow users who can participate consistently rather than only during formal events or language weeks.
Kupu Ārahi | Guiding Expression
"Ka whāngaia, ka tipu, ka puāwai"
"That which is nurtured will grow, then blossom"
Learners often understand familiar reo but hesitate when they need to change a sentence or respond unexpectedly. Pu?wai develops the patterns and confidence needed to make the language more flexible. It supports workplaces to grow users who can participate consistently rather than only during formal events or language weeks.
Ngā Hua Nui
What this course covers
Whāinga Paetae | Course Objectives
Across the programme, participants will:
Increase fluency and spontaneity when speaking about familiar personal, community and professional topics.
Use complex sentence structures, linking words, tense patterns and possessive forms with greater accuracy.
Listen to and interpret longer spoken passages, instructions and conversations.
Prepare and deliver extended mihi, presentations and narrative k?rero.
Use whakatauk?, k?waha and figurative language to strengthen expression and cultural depth.
Adapt language according to audience, purpose, formality and context.
Explore tikanga, m?tauranga M?ori and iwi narratives at a deeper level.
Use reo M?ori to explain ideas, reflect, give reasons and contribute to group discussion.
Integrate language consistently into workplace, wh?nau or community practice.
Develop an ongoing learning plan focused on sustained fluency, cultural integrity and confident participation.
Putanga Ako | Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, participants should be able to:
Construct and adapt a wider range of foundational sentences.
Ask and respond to common questions.
Use action, description, location, time and possession patterns.
Participate in short workplace conversations.
Use an extended mihi or pepeha with greater fluency.
Apply tikanga and M?ori values more intentionally in workplace practice.
He Aha Kei Roto
What Is Included
Live facilitated learning with experienced Poutawa kaiako.
Access to course slides, recordings and structured revision resources.
A practical learner workbook with explanations, examples and reflection activities.
Pronunciation audio, vocabulary support and language-modelling resources where relevant.
Templates, sentence frames and practical tools that can be used immediately.
Short between-session activities designed to move learning into everyday practice.
A supportive learning r?p? where questions, practice and mistakes are welcomed.
A certificate of participation following completion of the programme requirements.
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Te Wā Tuku
Course Dates
Courses commence during the week of Monday 24 August 2026. The indicative final teaching week is the week of 19 October 2026.
Class Option 1:
Tuesday: 3.30pm - 5.00pm
CLass Option 2
Wednesday: 5.30pm - 7.00pm
Participants enrol in one stream. Where space permits, learners may attend the alternative stream when they cannot attend their usual class.