Te Puna Wairua | Rumaki Reo

About us

Te Puna Wairua is a full-immersion te reo Māori unit in the heart of Tāmaki. Our akomanga works in partnership with Tāmaki Primary to provide a quality Māori-medium education for tauira and whānau. We recognise the unique needs of urban whānau in large city centres to learn and retain their reo and tikanga in a continually changing landscape.

Te Puna Wairua is a 80-100% rūmaki classroom, which means te reo Māori is the only language used everyday. Tikanga and matauranga Māori are woven into every school day, as well as our usual literacy and numeracy curriculum. 

Our goal is to ensure your child leaves our kura with their reo, literacy and numeracy levels required to continue into Māori medium education after their time here at Te Puna Wairua.

Our akomanga

We have three akomanga in Te Puna Wairua (years 5-7) (years 8-10) (years 11-13). While we follow these general groupings, children move according to their learning level, not their year level. This means if your child excels in one subject beyond their year level, we will teach them at a higher level beyond their year, however if they need more support in another level, we will not move them on until they are ready. Our holistic approach to teaching is wrapped around by the tuakana teina model which we integrate into our ways of being daily with our tamariki. 

Please speak to our Pou Matua, Whaea Lee for more information