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I came here for a better education and to strike higher as a young Māori woman, my parents also wanted me to have a better education in Māori. But being assigned no work and no homework was weird from my teacher who disappeared without hearing anything from her. I want work

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I want to be able to speak te reo but can't because we have no one to teach us and support us.

We didn't even get any work to help us with learning te reo while Whaea was away. I do like being able to catch upon other work in this class, but would still prefer to be learning te reo.

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I find class annoying because our teacher doesn’t set as work to do it’s also annoying because it will be harder to get our credits i also wanted to get better at Māori but I can’t do that well my teacher is away

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When our teacher left I was confused and I emailed her to ask if there was anything I could do to help me learn for our exams but she didn’t answer so I was a bit lost throughout the whole time. And I need my credits for this subject because I have usually done well in this subject.

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When our teacher was away I had expected to at least be set work uploaded to our classroom which would’ve been the bare minimum. I came to this class expecting to be learning much much more than what we’ve been doing as already I’m not the best with the language so I was hoping to learn more than what I already know.

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Te Reo Maori for me is something that I really enjoyed doing until the end of last year and this year because I want to learn it but there is no point in taking it if I can have more fun and get the credits so much easier in a different class. Maori has become a study class for me where I have finnished all my work/prep in and to be honest I didn’t particularly want to take Maori this year because I wanted to take PE but I took it because it would be better for me later on but there is no point in taking it anymore I don’t have any heart for it anymore.

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It would’ve been nice to have been warned that we wouldn’t have a teacher for a while so we as students could’ve done something prior to keep the learning active. We expected at least work to be set in the Google classroom in our teachers absence but that never happened so we were left with nothing to do for about 6 weeks now. Us as students have been using previous students’ workbooks to teach ourselves which is a challenge in itself as we have had to figure out what’s going on by ourselves without any adult guidance

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Maori at kings has been really average the whole time I have been there. I feel I learnt the most in year 9 with a good teacher, but he left the school. In year 10 there was little learning and everything got rapidly taught within the final last term, and then he wasn’t even there for the last 3 weeks leading up to exams. There was no support in this and it’s really annoying knowing that other languages would have had support. Moreover there was no practise material that we were given for the Maori exam, so it was really hard to achieve a good mark. This year when Papali actually put negative sentences It felt good because it actually seemed we would learn this year, but then she left and didn’t leave any work for us to do. We are meant to do 2 internals in term 1, but haven’t learnt anything to even pass one. It’s pretty annoying when I was initially going to do PE as a subject but ended up not doing it for Maori. It makes me feel I made the wrong choice.

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I like this class because it gives me time to catch up on other work like a self study period. I didn’t even want to do Māori in the first place but I got forced to by my parents. On the flip side not getting taught Māori is dumb because I won’t get the credits I need to pass the year. So we probably need a teacher.

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I think that it is really annoying, and it is definitely not the best for the school, or us. For some people they really need the Te Reo Maori L1 credits in order to pass NCEA L1. I know that there are only 65 odd credits for my other 3 subjects, so I need these credits from Maori in order to be successfully. We also need consistency, as us Boys who’ve taken it from Y9 - 11 (Lachie, Hamish) have gone through about 5 Maori teachers in 3 years. I really love the subject and the language, but it doesn’t help us or the college not having a Maori teacher. Even if she wasn’t here, but if she set some work it would’ve been better, but now we are probably behind 2 internals, so it may be unlikely that we can catch up, and in a positive way. As  someone who really likes Maori, it isn’t doing any favours for me in wanting to continue the favour. I think consistency for us is key, because this class is really just a study period for us, to do other work. It started off really well, and gave me some hope that this year would be really good. I feel like I should be doing another subject that I don’t enjoy as much as Maori, but had I known we would have not had a teacher for 6 weeks+, I wouldn’t have given a thought taking it.