Every connection counts
Connecting your school’s SMS to Te Rito means information can be shared safely and easily when students move from one school to another – it's available for other connected schools to access from the day of enrolment, even if they use a different SMS.
Register for Te Rito before the end of Term 4, when many students are moving between schools:
For schools already connected who want to start using Te Rito now, complete the form at:
Sharing Te Rito across the motu
Sector working groups Te Rau Whakatupu Māori and Te Rau Whakatupu Auraki (Ngā Rau Whakatupu), in partnership with the Ministry, are well underway with the rollout of Te Rito to New Zealand kura and schools.
Te Rito now has:
- More than 820 schools signed up, and over 380 of those have connected their SMS.
- Over 155,000 learner records, and as more schools connect, the records increase.
- Expanded SMS data and will soon have NCEA data, increasing the amount of information displayed.
- More enhancements including to inter-school collaboration and pre-enrolment functionality.
- Students, teachers and principals at pilot schools set up with access and use and hundreds more signing up for early use.
- Full IT Certification and Accreditation (C&A) and Safer Technologies for Schools (ST4S) badging.
Our whakatauāki
Me tiaki te mana o te tamaiti me tōna whānau
Protect the mana of the child and their family
Ākonga and learners’ Information is taonga and must be protected. Te Rito’s whakatauāki acknowledges this and underpins everything we do.
The name Te Rito was gifted to us by Te Aupōuri, Aotearoa's second most northern iwi. It represents the baby flax at the heart of the harakeke, where it is secure and protected as it grows and flourishes – reflecting our protection of information as taonga.
We thank Te Aupouri and Te Rau Whakatupu Māori and recognise their knowledge and contribution for the benefit of our ākonga and learners.
Our commitment to Te Ao Māori
We are committed to working with Māori and iwi in a way that reflects our Treaty partnership and honours Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
Te Rau Whakatupu Māori leads in the design and implementation of Te Rito and we seek advice and input from the Mātauranga Iwi Leaders’ Group.
For iwi that sit outside this forum, we work with our Te Mahau regional teams, recognising each iwi has its own aspirations and interests.
At the heart of our engagement is our recognition that Māori wish to exercise sovereignty over the data held on ākonga by educators and education agencies.
