Kupu whakataki
Introduction
Te Korowai, as the guide for whānau, articulates the principles, policies, goals, practices from the supporting documents based on Te Peka Matua (1990), Ngā tirotirotanga a te Whānau Wānanga (1982/1983), Ngā Mahi a te Whānau Wānanga (Blue Book Syllabus1984) and Te Whāriki a Te Kōhanga Reo. The five guiding principles and four Kaupapa statements espouse the Kaupapa of Te Kōhanga Reo movement.
Korowai Aroha
The Nurturing Cloak of Love
Te Korowai, Korowai Aroha
Te Kaupapa o Te Kōhanga Reo
Kei a koe kei ahau
Kei tēnā, kei roto i tēnā
Te Kaupapa o Te Kōhanga Reo
He parirau ki aku pōuri
He kahu ki aku mamae
Kia mahana i te ao mokemoke
Kei a koe kei ahau
Ko miria nā he miro
Ka whatu ki ngā mahara
Tūtahi ai ki ngā mahi ā-iwi
Kei a koe kei ahau
Ka whatu mai ka whatu atu
Te Kaupapa Korowai Aroha
Kei a koe, kei ahau, kei tēnā kei roto i tēnā
Te Kaupapa o Te Kōhanga Reo
The Cloak, the nurturing cloak of love
The cornerstone of Te Kōhanga Reo
Its protection is with you and me
It is with each and every one of us
The cornerstone of Kōhanga Reo
A shelter for my distress
A covering for my pain
Warmth in a lonely world
Its protection is with you and with me
A chiefly covering woven of significant threads
Woven with the history, instilled with the
thoughts of our ancestors
Built on the fabric of our cultural practices
Its protection is with you and with me
Woven by one and all
The cornerstone, the nurturing cloak of love
Its protection is with each and every one of us
The cornerstone of Te Kōhanga Reo
Te Ōrokohanganga mai o te korowai
E ai ki ngā kōrero, ko Te Kōhanga Reo tētahi o ngā taonga tino whakahirahira i whānau mai ki tēnei whenua. He kaupapa i moemoeātia, i tipu mai i te hinengaro Māori. Kei ngā Kōhanga Reo tētahi o ngā tino huarahi hei whakaora i te reo Māori kia kore e mate; kei ngā Kōhanga Reo anō tētahi o ngā huarahi hei pupuri, hei whakamana i te hōhonutanga me te whānuitanga o ngā tikanga o te ao Māori, o ngā iwi, o ngā whānau.
I te hui Kaumātua 1979, i puta te wero kia kaha tātou ki te pupuri i tō tātou reo mō ake tonu atu. Ko te pātai, me pēhea? I te Wānanga Whakatauira 1980, ka whakamanahia he kaupapa i Te Tari Māori mō te whakatū ngā Kōhanga Reo.
Nā te whakakoretanga o te Tari Māori i taka ai Te Kōhanga Reo ki raro i te maru o Te Tāhuhu o Te Mātauranga. Nā te whakahounga o ngā ture whai raihana, nā te hiahia hoki kia whai wāhi atu ngā Kōhanga Reo katoa ki te kou pūtea a Te Tāhuhu i whakaaro ake ai Te Poari Matua o Te Kōhanga Reo ki te waihanga i tētahi Tūtohinga me Te Tāhuhu o Te Mātauranga. Ka waihangatia, ka whānau mai ko Te Korowai. Nō te tuarua o Whiringa-ā-nuku, i te tau 1995, i waitohua ai e ngā rōpū e rua nei Te Korowai.
Kei roto i Te Korowai ngā aratohu a te kaupapa me ana puka tautoko i takea mai i Te Peka Matua (1990) i ngā Tirotirotanga a Te Whānau Wānanga (1982/1983), i ngā Mahi a Te Whānau Wānanga (Blue Book Syllabus, 1984), me He Whāriki Mātauranga mō ngā mokopuna o Aotearoa (1992).
Ko te kaupapa o Te Kōhanga Reo, arā, ko ana mātāpono e rima me ana pou matua, e mōhio whānuitia nei ko Ngā Pou e Whā o Te Kōhanga Reo.
Ka noho tonu mā ia Kōhanga Reo e whakahaere wānanga ki te matapaki tahi, ki te whakarite, ki te whakaemi i ō rātou wawata mō tā rātou ake Tūtohinga i raro tonu i ngā whakahau a Ngā Pou e Whā me ngā Whāinga Motuhake tekau mā rua a Te Korowai.
Oti kau ana te Tūtohinga, ko tā Te Poari Matua he whakamana. Ko tā te whānau Kōhanga Reo he noho pono, he ū ki tāna i taurangi ai ki te whakarauora i te reo Māori, i ngā tikanga me ngā āhuatanga Māori.
Nā te pono me te ū o te whānau Kōhanga Reo, he rite tonu tā rātou arotake i te kaupapa, i ngā kaupapa here, i tā rātou hoki i whakarite ai i roto i tā rātou Tūtohinga.
Ngā Mātāpono, Ngā Matatika, Nga here ki Te Tiriti o Waitangi
Me āhei ngā mokopuna katoa ki te ako i te reo Māori:
Kei roto i Te Whāriki a Te Kōhanga Reo te kaupapa o te ako
Ko te mātāpono nui o te ako he whakatītina i te mauri o
te Tino RangatiratangaHe whakaū i ngā mātāpono i roto i ngā tikanga Māori,
i ngā āhuatanga Māori
Kei te whānau te tikanga, te atawhai me te manaaki i te mokopuna:
Ko te whāinga nui o te Tino Rangatiratanga, he whakaū i te hunga kia ngākau tapatahi ki te kaupapa o Te Kōhanga Reo
Ko te haepapa a te whānau ko te whakapakari i te whānau kia tutuki ai ngā mahi katoa e whakaritea atu ai:
He whakamana i te whānau, mā te mahitahi o te Purapura me te Tari ā-rohe kia tutuki pai ai tēnei whāinga
Ko tā te iwi he kōkiri, he whiriwhiri, he kimi rauemi mā te hapū me te whānau:
Ko te kaupapa o te whanaketanga Tūtohinga, he whakamana i tētahi whakaaetanga i waenga i Te Poari Matua me te whānau
Mā tēnei ka taea e te whānau te whakatinana i ngā haepapa, i ngā kaupapa here a Te Poari Matua, hei painga mō ngā mokopuna me te kaupapa o Te Kōhanga Reo
Ko tā te kāwanatanga he whakatutuki i ngā wawata, i ngā maruāpō o te ao Māori, i runga anō i tā Te Tiriti o Waitangi i whakahau ai:
Ko te Tino Rangatiratanga te whāinga nui i raro i te mana o Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Koianei te kaupapa matua o Te Korowai me te Tūtohinga
Ngā Pou Matua o Te Kōhanga
Mehemea tātou ka ū ki ēnei kaupapa here, ka hua mai:
Ko te ora o te reo haere ake nei
Ko te ūkaipō o te ao Kōhanga Reo
Ko te manaaki a te whānau i te kaupapa
Ko te mahitahi a te katoa o te whānau
Ko te kaha ake o te kauanuanu me te aroha o tētahi ki tētahi
Ko te tau o te rangimārie i waenganui i te katoa o te whānau
E taea ana e ngā mātua te ako i te taha o ngā mokopuna
He uara nui tō te kaumātua i roto i Te Kōhanga Reo
Ko te reo me ngā tikanga te tūāpapa o Te Kōhanga Reo
Ko te reo kia tika, ko te reo kia rere, ko te reo kia Māori
Me whai wāhi te katoa o te whānau ki roto i ngā whakahaere o Te Kōhanga Reo, kia kapi ai ngā kaupapa katoa, mai i te Tūtohinga ki te ūkaipōtanga o te kōhanga reo
Me āwhina tētahi i tētahi
Me ako te katoa i ngā āhuatanga e pā ana ki Te Kōhanga Reo
Whakanuia te tangata i ngā wā katoa
He wāhi e tino rangona ana te tūrangahakoa inā uru atu te tangata ki roto i te Kōhanga Reo
Ki te kotahi te kākaho ka whati, ki te kāpuia e kore e whati.
tō tātou Atua
ā tātou mokopuna
ō tātou tīpuna
ō tātou whānau, hapū, iwi
a koe anō, tētahi ki tētahi hoki
Me whakaaro anō hoki te taha pūtea mai i te Kāwanatanga.
Tauiratia ngā whanonga e ora pū ai te hinengaro, te wairua, te tinana o te mokopuna, engari me whakatūturu te tohu manaaki rangatira Whakaahuru mōwaitia te ahurea o Te Kōhanga Reo:
Kia ngākau māhaki
Kia pai te wairua o te kōrero
Tiakina ngā mokopuna i runga i te rangimārie
Whāngaia ki ngā kai e tika ana
Kia auahi kore
Kai tupeka kore
Kai hiko kore
Kai rauhea kore
Kai waipiro kore
Tūwhitia te hopo, mairangatia te angitū.
Ngā Whāinga Motuhake a Te Kōhanga Reo
Ko ngā whāinga motuhake e whai ake nei he āwhina i te whānau ki te whakarite me pēhea te mahi, ā, mā wai rawa e mahi kia tutuki ai ngā koronga.
“Paiheretia te rangi me te whenua, he wairua, he mauri ora mō ngā tikanga me ngā whakahaere katoa o Te Kōhanga Reo.”
1. Ngā mahi aromatawai a te whānau
Ngā mātai ukiuki.
2. Te whakatipuranga o te mokopuna i roto i te reo māori, mai i ngā mahi akoako me to whāriki a Te Kōhanga Reo
Ko te pūtake o tēnei whenu he whakamātau i tōu mōhio ki te ngako, ki te hōhonutanga o ngā uara e pā ana ki te whakatakoto, ki te whakatutuki mahere ako.
3. Te whakamana i ngā rerēketanga o ngā hiahia o ia mokopuna
Ko tā te whānau o Te Kōhanga Reo he whakaaro nui ki ngā uara hei whakapakari ake i ngā pūkenga o ia mokopuna i roto i te korowai o Te Kōhanga Reo.
4. Ngā herenga ki tō whānau, hapū, Iwi
Ngā haepapa a te whānau, a te hapū, a te iwi mō te wāhi ki te mokopuna.
5. Aha whakahaere
Te rua ngārehu.
6. Ngā ōritenga
Me wairua tōkeke.
7. Ngā honotanga
Ngā pou ārahi i ngā mātua, te whānau me ngā kaimahi.
8. Akoako ā-whānau
Te whakaako ā-whānau – kia whai wāhi ki ngā akoako katoa ahakoa ōpaki, ōkawa rānei.
9. Ngā pūtea me ngā rawa
Ko te whenua, ko ngā whare me ngā taputapu.
10. Me aromatawai e te whānau ngā whakahaere a Te Kōhanga Reo
Atawhaitia ko ngā kōhungahunga, ko rātou hoki te iwi māori o āpōpō.
11. Ngā kaimahi a te whānau
Ka mōhio ngā kaimahi o te whānau ki te titiro i te whakatipuranga o ngā mokopuna me tō rātou matatau ki te reo.
12. Te Whaioranga, ngā tikanga haumaru, te taiao
Kia uruhau, kia āhuareka te whare Kōhanga Reo.
