Te Kōtare is a waiata resource for young New Zealanders. The crowdfunded project was dreamed up by the late Jenny Shearer, an early childhood teacher who did not live to see her ambitions fulfilled. Earlier this month, Te Kōtare co-writer Matiu Te Huki and performers Alistair Fraser and Jessie Moss performed waiata with the tamariki of Wellington's Berhampore School. Yadana Saw was there to see Te Kōtare take flight.