Intermediate & Secondary Schools Squash Players.

Finished playing squash for school, and not sure where the local clubs are and how local competitions are run?

Keep your squash skills up, join a club so you have access to courts to play with friends, practise and join in club and interclub competitions. A full list of squash clubs with junior programmes can be found http://www.squashcanterbury.co.nz/play-squash/junior-squash.cfm

If you just want to play competition games with out joining a club we can register you with Squash New Zealand which allows you to play in the Term 4 interclub competition on Monday evening, for more information please contact Di McCoy juniordev@squashcanterbury.co.nz or 021 245 0966.

Keep up your squash skill’s, get ready for another fun interschool competition in 2019. New player also welcomed.

Summer Writing School for Teens, 2019, Christchurch, January 14-18, 2019.  A whole week of writing and learning and laughing!

Each summer, young writers from across the country gather at Hagley College in Christchurch to work alongside award-winning writers in pen-to-page workshops.

You get to select four day-long workshops to follow your passion or add to your writing repertoire. On day five you benefit from 1:1 mentor time to redraft your pieces and share in a celebration of a community of writers.

Workshop options will include: song lyrics, comedy writing, poetry forms and skills, flash fiction, fantasy world-building, creative non-fiction, spoken word, kick-starting a novella…

Our tutors include award-winning writers and performers: James Norcliffe, Frankie McMillan, Lisa Tui Jonathan, Gail Ingram, Jeff Clark, Heather McQuillan, Melanie Dixon and Jess Fiebig.

Please note this is not a residential course. Participants must organise their own accommodation and food.

Go to: https://www.schoolforyoungwriters.org/summer-writing-school for details and registration form.

McKenzie-Villers Primary and Intermediate Schools' Scholarship is open to boys attending a registered public primary or intermediate school in the Former Canterbury Education District who have not attained the age of 14 years on the first day of December in the year of selection and who are born of New Zealand citizens.  Further information can be obtained from the Heaton Normal Intermediate School office.

The Patricia Paul School of Dance is currently giving jazz and ballet lessons in your area. The school’s director is teacher, choreographer & ex-ballet dancer Patricia Paul A.R.A.D. (London). Ballet lessons from 3 years through to Advanced, and all levels in jazz, tumble and hip hop starting from age 7. For all enquiries please phone 372-9191 or email info@studioone.co.nz