Notices from our wider community that may be of interest to your family.

Write Like an Author and Draw Like an Artist 

Workshops being held in the 2nd week of the school holidays at Tauranga Girls High.

These upcoming holidays young Tauranga writers and artists will have the opportunity to work alongside award-winning author Maria Gill in Write Like an Author and bestselling illustrator Nina Rycroft in Write Like an Artist camps at Tauranga Girls Collegethe second week of the school holidays. 

The 3-day writing and illustration camps run from Monday, April 26 to Wednesday, April 28 and are suitable for students aged from 10 to 14. Students will learn important skills and have lots of fun with the story sport games and illustration competitions. For more information go to www.writelikeanauthor.com or www.drawlikeanillustrator.com. 

Average Joes Surf & Skate Holiday Camp

Improve your skills and meet new surfers this school holidays!

19-23 | 26-30 APRIL8:30AM-2PMAGES 6-11

hello@averagejoessurfcoach.com

www.averagejoessurfcoach.com

For more information please see attached pdf.

Stakeboard Competition

Katikati is running a Skateboard Competition in the April School Holidays Wednesday 28th April 1-4pm at the Katikati Skate Park Fairview Road.

Free to enter and lots of prizes up for grabs.

There are also lessons in the morning for $7 at 9.30am – 11.30am at the Katikati Skate Park with Matt Markland one of NZs finest skate boarders.

Tots to Teens digi-magazine

Your school community’s link to the latest Tots to Teens digi-magazine (for your School Newsletter, website or Facebook page) is issue2104nin.totstoteens.co.nz

What’s in this issue for parents?

▪Taking little risks can build big rewards

▪Some kids definitely find it harder to come out of their shell

▪Encourage play to nurture your Tamariki

▪DIY heuristic play basket and homemade sand

▪Winter sport is great fun for most kids

▪Kiwi families discover more of Aotearoa

▪Lick-your-lips pumpkin and parmesan chips

▪Homemade “fluffy” recipe the kids can make themselves

▪Enter our epic competitions (prizes for parents and kids)

Ask your tamariki to find this issue's Te Reo Māori words including pāpaka, wharekura, hākinakina, pīwa, kirikiri and tīwanawana.

Thank you to everyone for supporting our new digital magazine, it means we are able to share our magazine with more kiwi parents and whanau, in a format that is super visual and phone user friendly.

We are proud to be Aotearoa’s favourite parenting magazine, with 550,000 free magazines distributed each year through schools, pre-schools, libraries and Plunket, for the last 19 years. We also distribute digital copies to over 1,800 New Zealand primary and intermediate schools nationwide.

Paper Plus Bethlehem

We would love to let you & your epic school know that we are creating a School Holiday home activity program for your awesome school kids that they might want to do during the upcoming school holidays. 

We have teamed up with the lovely Shelia who was Bethlehem College’s Librarian for many, many years and the first week’s activity is “Design a poster” competition at home, from a starter kit that the kids pick up from our store for free from the 12th April, with fab prizes to be won. There will be story time from 11am to 1pm on the 17th April, and the 2nd week will be design a Frog Card with a starting kit again that is free, that the kids pick up from store from the 17th April with fab prizes to be won with another story time from 11am to 1pm on the 24th April in our store here at Paperplus Bethlehem. 

See school facebook page for flyer.