Melville Intermediate - Maori Mihi Format

A Maori Mihi is a greeting or introduction that is typically spoken when people meet.  Our students would be most likely to recite their Mihi when they were staying on a Marae or meeting someone for the first time.  All students of Melville Intermediate School need to learn and be able to recite from memory.  This is Jamie's example.

Maori Mihi - Introduction from Myles Webb

Melville Intermediate - Our Mihi for 2012

We're back into the swing of things with our work at Melville Intermediate School and one of the things that were famous for, one of the things that we're world famous for, is our Maori Language Work (check out some of the videos on our pages to the side).  This year we've got some of the students from some of the other classes helping, so we started with this question to students in Room One - what's a Mihi and can you give us an example.  Filmed by Bianca and Jamie on Monday 26th February 2012.

Melville Intermediate - Maori Mihi

A Maori Mihi is a traditional introduction that is given to other people usually on a Marae. At Melville Intermediate School all Y7 and Y8 students are required to know their own individual Mihi and be able to recite it. Last week we started working on these with our 2011 class. The first two examples are by Hayze and Mackenzie. We've deliberately left out the information in English to see just how much of the Mihi you can understand by listening. Filmed in the Room Eight ICT Lab area, Melville Intermediate School, Hamilton, Waikato on Friday 11th November 2011.

Maori Mihi 2011 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Skyping with Broadlands School

On Thursday students from Melville Intermediate School Skyped with students from Broadlands School near Taupo. They are having a Marae visit this week and wanted an opportunity to practice their Mihi (greeting/introduction) with other students before their stay. We set up Arahia and Alkana from Room One in the library and they spent nearly an hour online with the students! This video contains some of the highlights from the conversation.

Melville Intermediate - Speaking Maori in Russia

Today I became aware of two very, very special videos.

As you know we have been busy completing our work on Maori Mihi and publishing them online. We've had some wonderful feedback and the students are very pleased by this but our friends from Lyudmila's Classroom in Kransnoyarskiykray Kray, Russia have been learning - they have posted two videos, based on our work in New Zealand - its really amazing to think that work that we have produced from one side of the world has had an influence on students on the other side of the world. This interaction is hugely important for everyone involved and when the students view this video Monday morning I am sure that they will be completely blown away. This is Nikita's video!

Melville Intermediate - Mihi Instructional Video

In this video, presented by Anahere from Room 8, you will learn all the main parts of a Mihi. Anahere says each phrase in Maori, then explain it in English, the words are on screen while you are watching, with the idea being you can say them as you see them up on the screen. Filmed at Melville Intermediate School by Lana on March 4th 2010.

Melville Intermediate - Maori Mihi Examples from Room 8

• This is the Maori Mihi from Room Eight students. A Mihi is a Maori introduction or greeting, which contains information about yourself. In this video you are looking for the following key phrases:
  ko te Maunga (the name of the mountain closet to where you were born)
  
  ko te Awa (the name of the river closest to where you were born)
  ko te Iwi (the name of your tribe/Iwi)
  ko te Marae (the name of your local marae/meeting place)
  ko te Kura (the name of your school)
  ko te Tumuaki (the name of your principal)
  ko te Kaiako (the name of your teacher)
  ko te Taku Ingoa (your name)
  
  

Students from Room Eight and Melville Intermediate School are available to help with your Mihi learning. If you would like to contact us, we are able to Skype with your classroom or learning institute to tutor you in the presentation and pronunciation of Maori Language and in particular Maori Mihi. You can leave a comment here on this post or email our teacher at myles.webb@gmail.com. This includes in 2011

Melville Intermediate - Maori Mihi

• This is the Maori Mihi from Room Eight students. A Mihi is a Maori introduction or greeting, which contains information about yourself. In this video you are looking for the following key phrases:
  ko te Maunga (the name of the mountain closet to where you were born)
  ko te Awa (the name of the river closest to where you were born)
  ko te Iwi (the name of your tribe/Iwi)
  ko te Marae (the name of your local marae/meeting place)
  ko te Kura (the name of your school)
  ko te Tumuaki (the name of your principal)
  ko te Kaiako (the name of your teacher)
  ko te Taku Ingoa (your name)

Since 2010 when the above video was published we've continued reviewing our work and currently this explanation of a Mihi and example of Mihi was produced by Hayze in 2011

Hayze Mihi 2011 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - How to Say a Maori Mihi

Maori Mihi Slideshow

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