Play Week Aotearoa 2022 – Come out and play

Play Week Aotearoa 2022 is a celebration of play and its value to tamariki, whānau and communities across Aotearoa.

We’re encouraging you to come out and play. It’s the easiest way for tamariki and whānau to stay active. Play is fun, it offers freedom and chances to take risks. It’s how our tamariki learn to problem solve, get creative, make mistakes and create new friendships. They get to build the attitudes, skills and life-long love of being active.

Play also allows tamariki to experience joy and laughter in a way that is important to them.

During Play Week Aotearoa 2022, everyone across Aotearoa is invited to take time out and play. We want people to remember how they played when they were younger and to recreate those opportunities for their whānau during Play Week and beyond. Get together and join in the fun!

Play Week Aotearoa is being promoted across New Zealand through organisations who want to share the importance of play with the communities they work with and to encourage them to play. This includes Regional Sports Trusts, Councils and schools.

You can be part of it too. Come out and play!

Te Wiki Tākaro o Aotearoa 2022 - E puta ki te tākaro!

Ko te Wiki Tākaro o Aotearoa 2022 tētahi wiki hei whakanui i te tākaro me tōna painga ki ngā tamariki, ki ngā whānau, ki ngā hapori huri noa i Aotearoa.

E akiaki ana mātou i a koutou ki te puta mai ki te tākaro. Koia rā te ara māmā rawa hei whakakorikori tonu i ngā tamariki me te whānau. He pārekareka te tākaro, māna te tangata e wātea ai, māna hoki te tangata e tū māia ai. Mā te tākaro ka ako te tamaiti ki te whakatika i ōna raruraru, ki te tuku i ōna whakaaro auaha, ki te pakewa, ki te whakahoahoa ki ētahi atu. Ka wātea rātou ki te whakawhanake i ngā waiaro, ngā pūkenga, me te aroha mau roa ki te tākaro.

Mā te tākaro hoki e āhei ai ngā tamariki ki te rongo i te koa me te katakata mā roto mai i tētahi ara e whakahirahira ana ki a rātou.

I te Wiki Tākaro o Aotearoa 2022, e pōwhiritia ana ngā tāngata katoa o Aotearoa ki te whakatā, ki te tākaro. E hiahia ana mātou kia maumahara te tangata ki tāna momo tākaro nōna e tamariki ana, kia whakarite anō i aua āheinga mā tōna whānau i te Wiki Tākaro, i tua atu hoki. Nō reira, whakahuitia te whānau ki te tākaro.

E whakatairangatia ana Te Wiki Tākaro o Aotearoa huri noa i te motu e ngā rōpū e hiahia ana ki te whakaatu i te hiranga o te tākaro ki ngā hapori e mahi ai rātou, ki te akiaki hoki i a rātou ki te tākaro. Ko ētahi o aua rōpū ko ngā Kaitiaki Hākinakina ā-Rohe, ko ngā Kaunihera me ngā kura.

Ka taea hoki e koe te whai wāhi mai. E puta ki te tākaro!

Play Week events around the motu

Regional Sports Trusts, Councils and schools have organised events and activities for their communities to get together and play. Check out play events happening in your town or city and head along and join the fun.

Play Week 2022 events

Tākaro Māori

The Tākaro Māori video series profiles stories that provide a window into Māori play in Aotearoa.

Tākaro Māori

Play Festival, Stanhope Road School

Auckland’s Stanhope Road School had an awesome Play Festival where tamariki, whānau, staff and the neighbourhood joined in lots of fun and activities.
Check out this excellent video to see highlights from the festival.

The importance of play

Play is one of the four ways Sport NZ supports New Zealanders getting active, alongside physical education, active recreation and sport.

The importance of play

Play e-learning modules

Learn about play with new e-learning modules

E-learning modules

Play Streets

Play Streets are all about providing a safe environment for children and parents to be active in their neighbourhood through play and engaging socially with their neighbours.

Play streets

Play stories from around Aotearoa

Play tips for schools

To promote play in your school, ask tamariki how they would like to play and consider some of these ideas.

Play tips for schools

Tāmokohia te whenua enriching lives through play

Imagine tamariki going to kura and getting more than an education; a place where they could connect more with the whenua, recite whakapapa and learn Māori kupu.

Students swing into action

A new piece of play equipment at an Otago primary school is providing a more inclusive environment for its students.

Play trailer teaching valuable lessons

A new play trailer in Northland is removing barriers to participation and giving everyone play opportunities.

Families brave cold to play over winter

Children and their families tapped into their creativity during a play initiative at outdoor concerts held in the small Tasman town of Richmond.

Canterbury kids get active with take-home equipment

Students from St James Primary, a Healthy Active Learning School, have been taking play and sport equipment home and getting active after school with whānau and friends, as part of Sport Canterbury’s SportStart Home initiative.

New ways to play keeping Favona School students active

Children at Favona School in Mangere have new ways to be active, develop skills and have fun through play thanks to a new Tū Manawa Active Aotearoa project funded through CLM Community Sport.

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