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Vagahau Niue

Teaching and learning vagahau Niue

Fakaalofa lahi atu!

Learning Guidelines

Tau Hatakiaga ma e Vagahau Niue: The Niue Language Guidelines is a welcome update to the suite of language guidelines supporting the Learning Languages area of the New Zealand Curriculum. 

The development of guidelines to support the teaching and learning of vagahau Niue in New Zealand schools began in 2004. Working in close collaboration with the Niue community, the Ministry published Vagahau Niue in the New Zealand Curriculum in 2007.Tau Hatakiaga ma e Vagahau Niue: The Niue Language Guidelines is the updated version.

The early childhood section of these guidelines is aligned with Te Whāriki: He Whāriki Mātauranga mo ngā Mokopuna o Aotearoa/Early Childhood Curriculum. The schooling section is aligned with The New Zealand Curriculum.

Learning languages series

Explore Haia! An Introduction to Vagahau Niue. This new multi-media resource supports the teaching and learning of vagahau Niue as an additional language at Years 7 & 8, providing a language-teaching programme that can be used by teachers, including those who do not speak Niue or know how to teach languages.

Haia! includes:

  • twenty units of three lessons each
  • a range of language suitable for years 7–10 at levels 1 and 2 of the curriculum
  • video and audio support to engage learners and demonstrate how fluent speakers use the language
  • lesson plans that could be linked to opportunities for learners to enjoy reading Niue texts.

Six storybooks have been developed especially to support the Learning languages series resource Haia! An Introduction to Vagahau Niue. Each story gives students opportunities to extend their language and cultural knowledge and to practise reading the target language of specific units in Haia!

To order Haia! An Introduction to Vagahau Niue, item number 118306, email orders@thechair.minedu.govt.nz or phone 0800 226 440.


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