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Rehu Tai

15 Dec, 2025 | News

Rehu Tai 2020 is going ahead and finals are planned for early Term 4!

Rehu Tai is an augmentation of our traditional speech competitions and includes the oral language streams of:

  • Rap

  • Spoken Word

  • Flash Talk

  • Traditional speech 

The festival will go ahead either as a face to face event or as a digital event, depending on any alert level restrictions at the time. We are excited to be growing this event in 2020 and hope the following information helps you to involve your cluster in this fast growing festival.

Language speech finals are run separately and more information can be sourced from the specific language cluster organisers.

Information

All information can be found on our Rehu Tai website – this includes organisation, exemplars and resources. 

Theme

Our 2020 Theme is WISDOM – whaia te mātauranga hei oranga mō koutou ~ seek after learning for the sake of your wellbeing

Our theme is strategically broad to allow for interpretation and creativity – this allows for artistic interpretation and lends itself to either direct or inferred meanings – as deep and philosophical or as literal as students want to go. The aim is to be inclusive of all learners regardless of their ability and should be accessible by all cultures. All presentation must align with the theme

Cluster Lead 

This can be anyone from your cluster who is passionate about oral language and/or performance. Please nominate a person and note their details on this form so that we can provide direct support to them: https://bit.ly/3egxGnD 

Support

Ongoing support for cluster lead via online forums in groups for West, South, East, North and Central. 

Timeline

Term 2 

  • choose a cluster representative and note their name on this form:  https://bit.ly/3egxGnD

  • these reps will liaise with festival organisers

  • reps will share information with cluster schools

  • schools will begin to explore the streams of oral language; rap, flash talk, spoken word, speech

Term 3

  • school based competitions – mid Term 3

  • cluster based competitions – end Term 3

Term 4

  • Auckland Rehu Tai Festival of Oral Language – early Term 4

Any queries please ask, I will be happy to help!

Ngā mihi nui

Jane Bush

Principal

Hingaia Peninsula School

 

021 872002