Forget "just surviving" the holidays - here are some ideas to help you and your family and whānau have fun and “thrive"!

Here is a link to a article about School Holidays from the Ministry of Education website that has some great ideas for having a fun, exciting but also restful two weeks holidays:

https://parents.education.govt.nz/primary-school/learning-and-development-at-home/school-holidays/

Here are some ideas from the article about how to continue learning over the holidays:

• encourage them to read throughout the holidays - they might like to read in the mornings before they get up, at night before they go to bed, or help you by reading to their younger siblings
• keeping a holiday journal can be fun - plans, drawings, photos, and stories of things they do all help their literacy skills over the holidays, and kids love to read and re-read them in the future
• helping out with cooking and baking makes use of their maths skills and shows them how maths is all around them
• tell them about your work, and how your work day was. You might even be able to show them your work and share more about your work life with them.