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. 

Also attached is a pdf of the Kids Fest 2019 brochure that runs from Saturday 6th July until Saturday 20th July. 

There are lots of fun activities that you can do with your children and many of them are free.