Mahurangi Matters, School Holiday Feature, 6 July, 2016

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Check out our School Holiday Programme on

www.goatislandmarine.co.nz

GOAT ISLANDMARINE DISCOVERY CENTRE

HORSE RIDING WARKWORTH

42 Kaipara Flats Road Phone 09 425 8517 Email: [email protected] Google: horse riding warkworth

42 Kaipara Flats RoadEmail: [email protected]

• Quiet horses and ponies• Farm & Forest treks• Birthday rides• Lessons available• Social or family groups• English study tour groups• Holiday and weekend horse riding camps• People with disabilities welcome• On the doorstep of Sheepworld, Matakana and Goat Island

BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL

1 hour ........ $502 hours ...... $90

No eftpos or credit cards

Gift vouchers available

Cool Kids Warkworth MSD Approved OSCAR Programme

WINZ Subsidies are available enquire now!

Cool Kids 11 — 22 July

Holiday Programme (FOR AGES 5—13 YEARS)

For more details and enrolment form www.warkworth.school.nz

Phone 027 931 1311 or 09 425 8300 ext 786






Phone 027 931 1311 or 09 425 8300 ext 786






Phone 027 931 1311 or 09 425 8300 ext 786






Phone 027 931 1311 or 09 425 8300 ext 786






Phone 027 931 1311 or 09 425 8300 ext 786






Phone 027 931 1311 or 09 425 8300 ext 786






Phone 027 931 1311 or 09 425 8300 ext 786






Phone 027 931 1311 or 09 425 8300 ext 786

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HONEY CENTREPh/Fax 09 425 8003

Open 7 Days 8.30am-5pm

HONEY CAFEPh 09 425 0132

Open 7 Days 8.30am-3pm40mins north of Auckland • 4km south of Warkworth, Corner SH1 & Perry Rd

The Fun Place To Bee! ONE GEM .... IN A DISTRICT FULL OF SURPRISES

School holiday Candle Making For Kids at The Honey Centre100% Natural Bees Wax Candles

Runs Daily at 10.30am $10.00 per childBookings Essential Ph 425 8003

School Holidays Specials Honey Ice cream Kids $2.50

In-store Quiz and Count the Bees CompetitionDTry our free Honey Tasting and come and view

our Live Bee Display.

Venue: Honey Centre, 7 Perry Road Warkworth

www.honeycentre.co.nz [email protected]

The Goat Island Marine Discovery Centre is launching a seminar series next month, to bring the marine research to the public.The seminars will be held every Sunday at noon throughout August and will feature a range of topics, including ‘The Underwater Soundscape of the Hauraki Gulf ’ and a look at the calls of crabs and crayfish (see below).Centre manager Marea Neill says she started the series to help keep the public informed with the research at the University of Auckland Marine Laboratory. The seminars will be run by students completing their PhD, Masters or Postdoctoral Fellowship.The centre is also holding a series of workshops for the school holidays.On Monday July 11 and 18 at 10.30am, children aged 6 to 9 can learn about the lifecycle of animals in the centre’s touch-tank and make

play-dough models of the stages of the marine species, from egg, to larvae and juveniles to adult.Then, at 1.30pm, children aged 10 to 15 can learn how to identify the seven parts of a mussel and study their functions by dissecting one.On Wednesday July 13 and 20 at 10.30am, children (ages 6 to 9) can make papier mache versions of their favourite marine animal. Then, at 1.30pm, 10 to 15-year-olds will study the anatomy of fishes, which will include dissecting a fish.There is also a new tentacled arrival at the centre – a common Sydney octopus, or octopus tetricus. The octopus is part of a PhD students research into optometry, but is also on display in a tank with live feedings every day.It will eventually grow to have an arm span of over two metres.

Marine seminar series:August 7: Rebecca Smith: Farming in the Sea: Green-lipped mussels (Perna canaliculus)August 14: Roslyn Putland: Listening to the Underwater Soundscape of the Hauraki GulfAugust 21: Marie Goeritz: Crab and Crayfish Calls: Sound production and hearing structures in crustaceansAugust 28: Fraser Stobie: Effects of Oxygen Availability on Two Ecologically Distinct Triplefin Species.

Marine programmes aim to demystify underwater world

PAKIRI BEACH HORSE RIDES317 Rahuikiri Road, Pakiri Beach09 422 6275 [email protected] Pakiri Beach Horse Rides

Riding Holidays and Overnight Safaris

Enjoy a horse ride to remember on the beautiful white sands of Pakiri surf beach

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All children are welcome, from babies to 5 year olds, with

20 hours ECE for 3-4 year olds.

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Tararua St

TKapiti

Hinem

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Kapiti Primary School

17 , The Grange, SHWY 1, Warkworth • www.educare.co.nzPH 09 425 9941 • Email: [email protected]

child-led learning and discovery a natural environment to explorea great transition to school programme

Our promise to you and your children:a safe and supportive home away from home

lots of fun, laughter and play

The Grange Shopping Complex

Woodcocks Rd

Mahurangi College

Warkworth Primary School

Falls Rd

Educare Warkworth is now open at The Grange Warkworth, and taking enrolments .

Close to Mahurangi College

and Warkworth Primary

Schools are undergoing the biggest transformation in New Zealand’s history as new research into learning methods is revolutionising the design of clasrooms and the way students are taught.That was the message from education academic Mark Osborne, who visited Leigh School last month to present a talk on modern classroom designs. Leigh School has about 60 pupils and is replacing two prefabricated classrooms with modern buildings later this year.Mr Osborne is a consultant for Core Education and is currently studying for a PhD on modern learning environments. He said research into brain development over the past 10 to 15 years is revolutionising teaching and has led to significant changes in classroom design.“We used to think that everyone learnt roughly the same way, but now with MRI scans we know everyone has different strengths,” Mr Osborne said. “The one size fits all approach won’t work for everyone.”The new strategy is for large, combined classrooms with multiple teachers who are able to collaborate and learn off each other. The open-plan classrooms also offer different settings to cater to the different learning styles of students.“We’ve found a team approach results in teaching quality improving and job satisfaction also goes up.”Developments in acoustic planning have also been instrumental in allowing large, open-plan classrooms to function effectively, he says.“There are now more opportunities to

Mark Osborne and Leigh School principal Julie Turner.

Future of schools discussed as Leigh rebuilds

create different zones in a large space. We should have kids being excited and noisy, as well as having spaces for quiet learning. That can’t be done properly in a traditional classroom.”New Zealand has recently become a world leader in modern school design after 115 schools were forced to rebuild following the Christchurch earthquake.Warkworth School’s new junior block, which opened at the start of the year, exemplifies the modern approach. The new building is split into three “communities”. There are 120 Year 0-1 students in a large single room with seven teachers, and two classrooms for Year 2 and 3 students, each with 100 students and four teachers.School principal Cynthia Holden says there have been teething problems with the new building, but teachers and students are adapting, and overall the response has been positive.She says the students have thrived in the new classrooms, but it has been a big change for some of the teachers,

who have spent years teaching in “single cell” classrooms.“Some teachers have found it quite challenging,” Cynthia says. “It means they have to collaborate with other teachers, which they might not have done in a traditional classroom, and it can be hard if that’s not something you are used to. But it means they can learn from each other – it’s like doing professional development every day. And by having different roles they can be more efficient with their time.”She says the acoustic design also enables quiet spaces and noisy environments to exist in the same class without distracting other students.“Some parents grew up in open-plan classrooms in the 1970s and 80s which were very noisy. This isn’t like that. It works.”It is crucial classrooms and teaching methods adapt for the modern workforce which students will grow into, Cynthia says.

Mahurangi children will get to experience much more than books these school holidays as part of Auckland Libraries ‘Game On’ initiative.Activities at Wellsford Library range from Matariki star-gazing, to a Lego build-off. They even have a Nerf gun-shooting academy. Library manager Megan Livick says the approach has proved successful in the past.“We have a fabulous response to our holiday programmes,” Megan says. “Wellsford Library becomes a destination for children and youth. We like to offer them something new to entice them into the library.”Wellsford will also provide more traditional library activities, with a Roald Dahl reading from professional storyteller Nick Duval-Smith.Warkworth Libraries have their own list of events and activities, drawn up by children and teens librarian Mellony Meek. They range from theatre sports to multi player iPad gaming. Mellony says that although they have events that embrace both modern technology and play, the focus is still very much on learning.“There’s a literacy element to just about everything we do, but don’t put that in the paper – we don’t want to put the kids off!”

‘Game On’ at Mahu libraries for holidays

Mahurangi Matters, School Holiday Feature, 6 July, 2016

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