The songwriting competition Hook, Line and Sing-Along is ready to accept your entries!

Last year Tahuna's own Grace Gemmell won Best Junior Song as well as a Top Five Award with the very catchy and uplifting song "Sunday Afternoon"; and Emily-Rose Young, who was in year 8 at Tahuna  won the Te Reo Māori Award with the lyrical and compelling “Tokuo Tatou Aotearoa”.

Hook, Line and Sing-a-long is both a songwriting competition and a live performance event. Begun in 2010 by Aotearoa’s music education teacher group MENZA, the kaupapa is driven by the desire to keep NZ young students writing and singing original NZ songs. For eleven years each winning song has been professionally recorded, printed and published in ways that make it easy for any and all teachers (not just music teachers) to get their students participating, singing, playing, and signing with NZSL. The learning and rehearsing of the song culminates in a nationwide effort to perform it simultaneously, at 12:00 midday on the final school day of NZ Music Month (May).

The guidelines in the Hook, Line and Singalong competition state: "The lyrics should reflect what it means to live in New Zealand". For more guidelines visit: www.hooklineandsingalong.com