Moutere Hills Community Centre

We are delighted to introduce our schedule for our holiday programme next week:

Monday: Circus Day – Juggling, Trick Sticks, Bubbles, Face-painting and Clowning Around
Tuesday: Tennis Coaching, Baking Extravaganza
Wednesday: Ropes and Challenges (morning at Whenua Iti), Arts and Crafts Afternoon
Thursday: Berry-picking to Pavlovas, Gymnastics, Flag-making
Friday: Aqua Olympics (be prepared to have fun and get very wet…), Science Alive Experiments, Treasure Hunt

Plus: Daily fun with Board games, Boccia, Dodge ball, Moon hoppers, Stilts, Hula hoops, Jumping Sacks and Walking skis

Our school holiday programme will be running again from January 18th-22nd inclusive. 8.30 – 3.30pm daily. Cost for the programme is unchanged at $100 for the full week and $25 per day for single days. Enrolment forms and parent information are both available below.

Please be in touch as soon as possible if you would like your child/children to attend.

Come and support the local children with stars in their eyes! Karaoke will be followed by a good old community night out for everyone. Good company, good music and great food & drinks all evening. There will also be a social softball game to celebrate the start of Rangers Softball Club! Jane Pascoe’s little dancers will also be given us a performance. Giant worm, gladiators and bouncy castle for the children.
Friday 20th November, 2009 From 5.00pm

A retro remake of the original format, the new Top Team competition is full of fun, team spirit and competitive Kiwi attitude.
Businesses, sports clubs, families, friends got teams together for the heats (Motueka, Saxton, Murchison) in recent weeks. The best four teams from each heat will be in the finals at Moutere Hills Community Centre on Sunday 13th December 2009. Pipe bands, cheer squads, marching girls and mascots are encouraged.

Come and support your favourite team at what promises to be a fun day out for all the family. Alternatively, how about a helping hand at the event? We will need around fifty volunteers to make this event the best of the whole competition and at the same time raise some funds for your Centre!

Come and learn how to use Trick Sticks (also known as flower sticks, rhythm sticks, devil sticks, juggling sticks). Heaps of fun and a great way to perfect coordination and get both sides of the brain working. Impress your friends and family with your new skills – spins, twirls, throws, catches and tricks.

After just a few lessons, you’ll take home not only your own pair of trick sticks and a handy book but also the skills to progress onto making up your own moves!

Contact Michelle at Moutere Hills to enrol enquiries@mouterehills.org.nz or call 5432516
$70 for four weeks (includes trick sticks and book).
After school on Wednesdays starting November 18th at 3.30 – 4.30.

The Moutere Hills October School Holiday Programme was another success story. During the recent school holidays, twenty-four children from Upper Moutere, Mahana, Mapua and Richmond enjoyed an action-packed week partaking in a whole host of activities including crafts, fort-building, basketball with a Nelson Giant, yoga, volleyball, drama, gymnastics, sweet-making, tennis, leather workshop, trick-sticks, baking and softball with Marty Grant. What a busy and fun time we had! Thanks to our team of enthusiastic staff: Samantha Slade (Programme Supervisor), Birgit Klingebiel and Bishnu Aran for making it a truly memorable week.

The programme opened with a Japanese theme day which included calligraphy with master calligrapher Akiko Crowther, fabric dyeing with Upper Moutere artist, Yuko Fujii, sushi-making with Junko Tsuchiya from Richmond and origami with Yuki Egashira from Lower Moutere. Another highlight of the day was a Sumo tournament run by our own staff.

We are already taking names for the Summer holiday programme which will run for one week from 18th January 2010. The October programme was generously supported by development funding from OSCAR and an assistance grant from Tasman District Council.

Over the past year we have been working towards OSCAR affiliation and Child, Youth and Family approval of our holiday programmes. It has involved hours of work and the development of more than forty-eight policies, new systems, staff-training and strict procedures. This culminated in a full inspection visit from Child, Youth and Family, Wellington on Friday 16th October. Now we eagerly await the final decision of our efforts which if successful, will give Moutere Hills access to more financial and professional support from OSCAR and children from eligible families will be entitled to WINZ subsidies for participation in our holiday programmes.