E oho! Mānawatia te whā ngahurutanga o ngā Kōhanga Reo

*Note this event will be conducted in Te Reo Maori.
I te tau 1982 i whakatuwherahia te kōhanga reo tuatahi i Wainuiomata. Mai i taua wā, 60,000 ngā ākonga kua puta i te kōhanga reo, ā, e momoho tonu nei. He aha te pānga o te kaupapa kōhanga reo ki te whakarauoranga o te reo Māori?

Me tae mai ā-tinana, me hono tuihono mai rānei mō tēnei kaupapa.
Me whakanui e tātau te 40 tau o te kaupapa kōhanga reo i takahuri i te āhuatanga o te mātauranga i Aotearoa. He mea whakaaro te kaupapa nei e ō tātau kaumātua i te tīmatanga o ngā tau o te 1980, ā, i whakatinanahia e ngā whānau me ngā hapori puta noa i te motu.

Whakarongo ki a Evelyn Tobin (Heamana Kōmiti Māori), i roto ia i ngā mahi whakatū kōhanga reo me te kura kaupapa i aua tau tuatahi, me tana tama a Ruki Tobin (Kaihautū, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa), ko ia tētahi o ngā ākonga tuatahi i puta i te kōhanga reo. Ko Hinerangi Himiona (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Toarangatira) te kaitakawaenga o ngā kōrero a te pae kōrero, e arotahi ana ki ngā pānga pai maha, takahuritanga hoki a 'ngā pēpē o te kōhanga reo' o ngā reanga ki ngā iwi o Aotearoa.

Mō te kaikōrero
Evelyn M Tobin, MNZM, JP (PGDipEd, B.MS, Tohu Mātauranga Māori, Dip Tchg Te Toi Reo Māori, Tohu Panekiretanga o Te Reo) he kaiako rēhita ia me tētahi tiwhikete Pūmau onāianei e tuku ana i ngā ratonga takawaenga whakangungu me te tautoko mā ngā kaiako, ngā tumuaki, ngā poari kaitiaki, me ngā kāhui ako.
He wahine para huarahi, he kaitaunaki nō te kōhanga reo me te kura kaupapa Māori me ngā pūkenga mātauranga e whakaara ana i te reo Māori, ngā tikanga Māori, me te mātauranga Māori — otirā i ngā wāhi o te mātauranga akoranga Māori e tino mātau ana ia me te whakarauoranga o te hiranga o te reo Māori.

E kaha ana a Evelyn i roto i ana mahi ki te tautoko i Te Puna Mātauranga, Te Rua Mahara me Ngā Taonga, ā, he hononga piri ōna ki ngā tūmomo rōpū ahurea, tūao me te arumoni rerekē. He wairua auaha tō Evelyn, he whakaaro arohaehae ia, ā, he mātau ia ki ngā reo e rua me ōna mōhio whānui hei kaiārahi, me te noho ki ngā poari ā-motu maha, ngā rōpū tohutohu, minita hoki.
Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari takimano nō ōku tūpuna.
et’s celebrate 40 years of the kōhanga reo movement that changed the face of education in Aotearoa New Zealand. The kaupapa was conceptualised by our kaumātua elders in the early 1980s, and brought to existence by whānau and community groups up and down the country.

Listen to Evelyn Tobin (Kōmiti Māori Chair) who participated in setting up kōhanga reo and kura kaupapa in those early years, and her son Ruki Tobin (Kaihautū, National Library) who is one of the first-generation graduates of kōhanga reo. Hinerangi Himiona (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Toarangatira) will facilitate the panel discussion, focusing on the many positive and transformative impacts that generations of ‘kōhanga reo pēpē’ have had on Aotearoa New Zealand’s societies.
Evelyn M Tobin, MNZM, JP (PGDipEd, B.MS, Tohu Mātauranga Māori, Dip Tchg Te Toi Reo Māori, Tohu Panekiretanga o Te Reo) is a registered teacher with a current full Pūmau practising certificate who provides training facilitation and support services for teachers, principals, boards of trustees, and communities of learning.

She is a pioneer and advocate of kōhanga reo and kura kaupapa Māori initiatives with educational expertise that highlights te reo Māori, tikanga Māori, and mātauranga Māori — particularly in her specialist areas of Māori medium education and the regeneration of te reo Māori excellence.

Evelyn takes an active role in support of Te Puna Mātauranga, Te Rua Mahara, Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision, and has close associations with a variety of cultural, voluntary, and commercial groups. Evelyn is a creative, critical thinker and proficient bilingual communicator who has extensive experiences as a leader and member of several national governance boards, advisory, and ministerial groups.