Wests Roosters Rugby

Could you be the next Jordie Barrett, Ardie Savea or Ayesha Leti-I’iga?

Registrations are now open for the 2024 junior rugby season with Wests Roosters. We’re welcoming boys and girls who are keen to give rugby a try. Teams available include Nursery grade, Years 1 and 2 Rippa Rugby and Years 3 to 8 Tackle.

Rugby is a great sport for kids of all shapes and sizes teaching teamwork, concentration, discipline, decision making and leadership. Wests Roosters is a family friendly club, welcoming players from across Wellington’s Western suburbs.

Register now at https://www.sporty.co.nz/westsjuniorrugby/junior-registration-from or join us 2pm Sunday afternoons for preseason training sessions at Ian Galloway Park throughout March.

If you’d like more information, please email craigchild@gmail.com. 

Tech Time at Karori LibraryJoin us at the library to explore digital technologies in these hands-on adventures through the worlds of robotics and electronics!Tech Time is recommended for tamariki aged 8-12. Register at the library or by giving us a call on 04 476 8413.

Late Night Lights Trust is proud to present ‘HighLighting Talent!’, showcasing the diverse talents of the Wellington region’s solo performers and groups.

HighLighting Talent will focus on performances that creatively incorporate a light component.

Participants will captivate event attendees, and winners will be determined through judges each night as well as People’s Choice vote through our Facebook page.

To find out more and register: highlight.org.nz/highlighting-talent

Montessori at Otari Preschool and Playgroupwarmly invite interested families to our Open Day on Saturday 16th March, 10am – 12 noon, at the Preschool (166 Wilton Road). If you know of anybody else who may be interested in our Playgroup and/or Preschool and would find the Open Day of interest, please let them know about this opportunity. We currently have a few spaces available for an immediate start and run a holiday programme. For more information phone 475 9688 or email wcmp@xtra.co.nz.

Christina's Beginners Jazz Class - Tues 3.30pm - 4.30pm

Free Trial Class

Contact Jennifer Evans - 027 635 0191

Karori West Normal Schools annual fair is on Saturday 16th March 2024 from 11am - 2pm. PLEASE NOTE: this year there will be NO white elephant or clothes. But there will be kids books, toys, crafts and lots of delicious food and loads of fun activities and sideshows. So come along, grab a deal, have a turn on the inflatable axe throwing, inflatable slide or angry birds game. Sit and enjoy a treat from our cafe and cakes stall then lunch from our international foodcourt. Should be a fun day, hope to see you there. Don't forget your keep cup and shopping bag.

Crofton Downs Literacy Centre

Read Right, Write Well: After school tuition with an expert

Is your child having problems reading? Is writing a struggle for your child?

Enrol your child for after school literacy tuition, taught in Wellington’s northern suburbs by a highly qualified and experienced specialist. With a PhD in English, and over thirty years working in education, Viv has taught every level from five-year-olds, to secondary school students, to teacher trainees, to post graduate university students. Sessions are one-to-one, and include a range of approaches that address skills, and the child’s needs and interests, and remedial or extension reading, draft writing, spelling, handwriting, or children’s literature. Tuition is $30 per half hour, or $50 per hour. The initial consultation is free.

To make an appointment, or learn more, phone 021 073 9234 or 04 4791740, or email van.rij.vivien@gmail.com

WAFF - Wellington Animation Film Festival 15-16 March 2024 

The Roxy Cinema – 5 Park Road, Miramar, Wellington 6022More info here Tickets available here Trailer here

Do you want to have fun and become confident and fit

while enjoying a super sport which you can do for the rest of your life?

Learn JUDO, an Olympic sport, with experienced nationally registered instructors, in a safe and nurturing environment. Bring your friends along.

New to Club K, Salamanca Road, Kelburn, Wellington.

Beginners class starting this week

Ring Alan (06) 3626 459 or 027 5635 579

Juniors (7-13 yrs) - Tue 5.30 – 6.30pm

Intermediates / Seniors (14–90 yrs) - Tue 6.30 – 9pm

PHYSIO CLINIC OPENING IN KARORI

fixPhysio is opening behind Te Kororia at 170 Karori Road, run by a local Karori resident Caroline Appleton, offering a wide range of Physiotherapy skills. If you need to get those aches and pains sorted out, visit www.fixphysio.co.nz to book online, or give Caroline a call on 04 390 7777

Jennifer Evans Dance Academy at Marsden specialising in

• Classical Ballet
• Jazz Ballet
• Tap
• Contemporary
• Hip-Hop

Contact mobile: 027 635 0191

Email: j-evansdance@gmail.com

If you tell Jennifer that you saw the ad in the KNS school newsletter and she will kindly donate something to the school.

Is "Clean the Windows" on your To Do list? Save time & hassle, get the job done professionally & support the KNS by getting Karori local Bernard from Ultimate Cleaning 0277550107 to do them for you. $150 for inside & out ($120 for small house with easy access). Bernard will donate $10 from every job to KNS. Referee: Stacey Wilson 0274154849 or fin.stacey@xtra.co.nz

Celebrate that next birthday, graduation, baby shower, or Friday with a Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Cake. Available in 3 sizes the cakes can be made to order with 48 hours notice. Go to https://www.benjerry.co.nz/wellington to order and enter KNS Cakes in the special instructions and we will give $5 for every cake ordered back to KNS. As proud parents of a KNS student and owners of the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream shops in Wellington we are thrilled to be able to give back to the Karori community.