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Early Learning Centre

Natures Nest –

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Phone 425 0511

33 Glenmore Drive, Warkworthwww.natures-nest.co.nz

Where learning and discovery are nurtured by nature

Please contact the Women’s Centre to enrollP: 0800 237 674 or 09 425 7261 • E: info@womenscentrerodney.org.nz

or visit: www.womenscentrerodney.org.nz

HOLIDAY PROGRAMMES TERM 4 RETURN TO WORK COURSES‘It’s All About Me’ A two day Self-Awareness Workshop for Year 7 to 9 girls • Thurs 9 & Fri 10 October, 9am to 3pm at the Women’s Centre • Cost $30 Two days of fun activities, learning about ourselves and gaining some new skills! We will be doing artwork, fun games and hands-on activities while discovering our personal boundaries and learning about self-identity, body image, assertiveness and self-defence skills. Facilitator: Rana Moir, supported by Comprehensive Care in association with Waitemata PHO

DJ Workshop for Teenage Girls A one day workshop for girls aged 13 to 16 years • Weds 1 October, 10am to 2pm at the Women’s Centre • Cost $20Come along and learn the basic techniques of operating turntables and DJing. Express your passion for music and have a lot of fun for the day.Facilitator: Maria Collins, supported by Creative Communities NZ

Computer Skills: Basic & Intermediate Word (Word 2010 and Windows 7) - FREEStarts Fri 17 October, 9.15am to 11.15am in Warkworth8 week course for women who have some computer experience and will teach you basic word-processing skills. For those who have Basic skills, the Intermediate course will extend you. Facilitated by Senior Net, Supported by Auckland Council.

Career Development & Job Search – FREEStarts Tues 21 October, 10am to 12pm at the Women’s CentreA free 6 week course women looking for work or changing careers. Help with a career plan, creating a CV, job search, interviews and so much more.Facilitated by Fiona Brading, People Architects

Mahurangi Christian School, at Snells Beach, could be offering high school education from 2016.School principal Helen Pearson says the Board decided to start the application process in June because of a growing demand from parents.“They like our strong sense of community, small roll and Christian perspective, and want their children to stay in that style of education,” Mrs Pearson says.Currently, the nearest Christian high school is KingsWay School in Orewa. The Board is likely to lodge its application early next year and if accepted, it could implement the changes by 2016.“But we are still in the early stages of consultation with the community.”Mahurangi Christian School is the only state-integrated Christian school between Whangarei and Orewa, and draws students from as far a field as Wellsford and the Hibiscus Coast.If the school does introduce high school education, it will start by enrolling Year 9 students, gradually expanding to cater for higher grades in subsequent years. The school roll continues to grow, with 25 new pupils this year taking the roll to 60.

Christian school may expand

Care programmes in demandThere’s an increasing demand for programmes that keep young children busy after school and during school holidays in Warkworth.The demand is being fuelled by longer working hours, an increase in the number of families where both parents work and the number of sole-parent families.The Cool Kids Warkworth programme, based at Warkworth Primary School, is one programme meeting that demand with places for up to 40 children, aged from five to 13 years. Programme

manager Kristen Thomson says it’s much more than babysitting.“We try to provide a variety of activities that the children will enjoy, but which will also expand their learning,” she says.This includes activities in art, science and sport, as well as day excursions, picnics and special days such as Japanese Day and Wheels Day.While the holiday programme runs from 9am to 3pm, before and after school care is available from 8am to 6pm, and subsidies are available to help cover costs.

“We think we will have about 68 students by the end of the year and could reach 100 by the end of next year.”The school, which had a higher enrolment before Snells Beach opened in 2009, can currently accommodate up to 140 students.As an integrated school, Mrs Pearson says it is unlikely to receive government funding for any additional classrooms.The school has had secondary students in the past, but reduced to primary level when it changed from a private school to an integrated school in 1995.There is no move to return the school to private education. The school will hold a public meeting on the expansion soon.

High school students could be enrolled at Mahurangi Christian School by 2016.

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Pruning Fruit Trees and Berry Canes with Arthur HopkinsVenue: 129 Grange St, Snells Beach Date: Fri, 26th, Sept Time: 9.30am - 12.30pmPlanning Your Food GardenVenue: Homebuilders Family Services, 5 Hexham St, WW. Date: Oct, 23rd Time: 9.30am - 12.30pmBackyard ChooksDate: November, 13th Venue: Homebuilders Family Services, 5 Hexham St, WWTime: 9.30am - 12.30pmMike Hanne-Vege Gardening For Real BeginnersVenue: Homebuilders Family Services, 5 Hexham St, WW. Date: November 7th and November 14th Time: 9.30am - 12.30pm.Bag Of Tricks Parenting CourseDates: Tuesdays’x6 beginning October 21 - November 25thTime: 9.30am - 11.30 am. Venue: Homebuilders Family Services, 5 Hexham St, WW

Parents Who RockFacilitator: Brian Shires. Venue: Wellsford Community Gardens Date: Fridays, October 17th-November 21st Time: 9.15 am - 12.15 pm Festive Gifts From Your KitchenDate: Friday, November 21st. Venue: Warkworth Methodist Church Hall Time: 9.30am - 12.30pmVenue: Wellsford Co-operating Parish Hall Date: Friday, November 28th Time: 9.30am - 12.30pmVicki Macgillivrays, Cleen, Green Homemade ProductsDate: Thursday, November 6th. Venue: Homebuilders Family Services, 5 Hexham St, WWTime: 9.30am - 12.30pm

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Growing democracy at TaporaVoters at Tapora may find a lamb in their polling booth on election day as Tapora School hosts its Agricultural Day and the town’s voting station, both on September 20.School principal Ingrid Stewart says the combination is a win-win.“People were thinking we’d have to cancel it, but I think it’s a great way to get people along to both important events,” Ingrid says. “But we aren’t allowed to wear any red or blue on the day.”Nearly all the students live on farms, or are closely connected with farming, so agriculture is a huge part of their learning experience, she says.At calving time, pupils often come to school a bit weary-eyed after getting up early to help their parents. Students have also been rearing a lamb each since June, which will be put through a range of challenges at the Ag Day to judge the children’s husbandry skills.It is Ingrid’s first term at the school, after working as school principal in Aitutaki in the Cook Islands. “My mother is from Aitutaki and my childhood was spent between the islands and Nelson, so it was a chance for me to reconnect with my roots.”Her passion for adventure has taken her to all corners of the globe.At the age of 16, she boarded a 48-foot ketch to sail from Aitutaki to Hawaii.She went on to Alaska where the family she was sailing with worked as pilots near the Arctic Circle.

“I learned to fly and completed high school through night classes and almost had enough hours for my commercial pilot’s licence.”When Ingrid returned to NZ, she studied art at Otago Polytechnic, but soon found the ski slopes more appealing than brush strokes and became a professional skier. She was a pioneer of free skiing in New Zealand, is a two-time NZ champion and competed in six world championships, living between winters in New Zealand and Colorado.Then, after six years living in Connecticut, Ingrid came back to NZ to study business at Massey and developed a line of coconut oil with Cook Island coconuts.She later settled into a teaching job in Nelson for 10 years, before teaching in Dubai for a year, which included tutoring a sheik’s family.“They had lion cubs and snakes as pets which they wanted to bring to school all the time.”She managed to see 14 countries in the region over the year, including a trek through the Himalayas.Ingrid says her varied life experience has taught her that learning shouldn’t stop at the school gate.“Life’s full of education. I think I’m the epitome of that. I’ve always been really interested in my surroundings, and it’s taken me on quite a journey.”Tapora School Agricultural Day starts at 10.30am at the school.

Tapora principal Ingrid Stewart, left, helps pupils prepare for the Ag Day

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Make your bookings now for our fantasticOctober 2014 Holiday Programme!

Some great fun is planned with trips toExtreme Edge Rock Climbing, Ice Skating,

Devonport Tunnels and Ferry, The Old Lolly Shop and Takapuna Beach plus Magical Science, Bead Craft,

Awesome Art, Sports Day, Japan Day, Sausage Sizzle, and much more!

Contact Cool Kids on 027 931 1311 oremail office@warkworth.school.nz

Information Booklets and Enrolment Forms can bedownloaded from the school website:

www.warkworth.school.nz

School Holiday ProgrammeOctober 2014

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Exhibition focuses on eelsThe fascinating world of Mahurangi’s eels has been under investigation by a Year 5 class at Snells Beach School and their findings will be on display at the Mahurangi East Library later this month. The Nikau 2 students are studying large and small human communities this year, as well communities of plants and animals. Teacher Erena Williamson says many students were curious to know if there were eels living in our local streams and rivers.

“A huge amount has been learnt about these creatures through various learning areas including science, technology, writing and visual art,” she says. The exhibition is an opportunity to foster a connection with the students’ own community and provides an opportunity for others to view examples of their learning. The exhibition opens on Monday September 22, at 5pm, and will be on display for a week.

Learning about the ecology of eels has been a hands-on exercise for students of Snells Beach.

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At Mahurangi Christian School, we take this seriously, providing a learning environment to develop:

1. Self-awareness: Learning conversations with teachers help learners to know themselves, their strengths, their challenges. Children learn to notice their feelings and make positive choices.

2. Self-management: Learning goals focus children to set and monitor their own progress towards personal and academic goals, and to ‘own their learning’ and their personal growth.

3. Social awareness: Our learners are encouraged to take the perspective of and empathise with others.

4. Relationship skills: In a small school, children learn to co-operate and collaborate with people who are different from them.

5. Community-building skills: At Mahurangi Christian School we are creating a school community that is caring, supportive, and responsive to students’ emotional, social and spiritual needs.

What’s the result? Happy learners making great progress!

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At Mahurangi Christian School we provide:

• above average National Standards results and a strong academic programme

• a genuine Christian education for Years 0-8• small classes with high individual attention

• integrated digital learning• a supportive community

We are growing quickly! 25 new students this year!

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Students Oliver Corteen, Tabitha Gleeson and Alyssa Gore working on an item for the library exhibition.