Workshops

2010

Sacks for Santa

Starship Children’s hospital would like calico dolls for the sick children to decorate and Santa Sacks to put the children’s presents in at Christmas Time.

• @ School• $5 for materials• Mrs Tagaloa

Toys for Tots

• Like creating things with wood? The Auckland City Mission would like donations of new wooden toys.

• @ School• $5 for materials• Mr Newbrook

Gifts for Xmas

SPCA• Are you keen on

helping animals? Come and join our SPCA workshop. This will involve making toys for the puppies and kittens, and a visit to the SPCA.

• @ School & SPCA• $10 for trip• Ms Knell

SPCA

Habitat for Humanity

• Calling Bob the Builder! Are you keen to help build housing for underprivileged people in South Auckland.

• You can only join this workshop if you are 15 years old and have someone to supervise you.

• @ Habitat for Humanity building sight in Otara

• $5 for transport to Otara

• Mr Ratnam

Bob the Builder

• Interested in the environment. Come and take part in some ecological and historical restoration on Motuihe Island.

• @ School and Motuihe Island

• $25 for ferry trip to Motuihe• Mr Wadsworth

Adventure Island

Beach Clean Up

• Come and help clean up the local community. This will involve visiting a local beach & children’s playground and cleaning it up.• @ Local beach &

children’s playground• Free• Mrs Wells

Beautify the Bay

Artwork for the Creche

• Are you a budding artist? Come and help us paint murals for the local crèche. This will involve a visit to the crèche.

• @ School & the Crèche• $5 materials• Mrs Wensor & Ms

Fletcher

Art work for Crèche

• @ School & the creche

• $5 for materials• Mrs Ankersmit

Babies & more

Creative types apply here! Come and join us to make a fabric mural and other soft toys to donate to the local day care centres. We will also make cushions to donate to Middlemore Hospital.

Fabric Art

Pimp my Ride

• Come along and help us free the area around Lynfield College of graffiti. In this workshop we will be painting over tagging and tidying up the local area. Some students have already been approached to be part of this workshop.

• @ School & local parks

• $5 for materials• Mr Su’a

Adopt a Spot

Saving lives

Want to learn some basic surf life saving, first aid and bush survival skills. Come and join us. We will be visiting Piha as part of this workshop and local bush areas. Explore the outdoors – learn to save a life. • @ School & Piha

• $25 for transport & lunch

• Mrs Findlay

Saving Lives

Do you want to go swimming in the ocean on a summer’s day?

Designs for Dementia

• Sunset Villas would like some murals painted for their dementia patients. Come and join us in creating fun and exciting outdoor murals.

• @ School & Sunset Villas

• Free• Mr Hambridge

Designs for Dementia

Mean Maori Mean

• Like kapa haka. Fancy yourself as a weaver! Come along and learn about traditional Maori culture. This will involve taking some workshops with New Windsor Primary and two local day care centres.

• @ School & the local primary school & crèche.

• Free• Ms Kairua

Mean Maori Mean

Fun Fundraising

• Are you Lynfield College’s answer to Donald Trump? If ideas and marketing are your thing come along and help organise a fund raising event. All proceeds go to charity of course!

• @ School & in the local community

• Free

Fun Fundraising

Robotics

• Calling all the Robotics team! During this workshop we will be holding robotics demonstrations at the local intermediate schools.

• @ School & the local intermediate schools.

• Free• Ms O’Brien

Robotics

• Do you enjoy playing games! If so come along to Peacehaven rest home and join the fun. We will be joining the residents for morning tea followed by games and entertainment. We will also be helping Peacehaven with their Christmas decorations.

• @ School & Peacehaven retirement home.

• Free• Mrs Whalen

Peacehaven

• Like chatting to people. Come along to Powley house and help the activities co-ordinator entertain the residents. You’ll also be helping with the Xmas decorations.

• @ School & Powley House

• Free

Powley House

BHB Santa Parade

• Come along and help with the organisation of the Blockhouse Bay Santa Parade.

• @ Lynfield College & BHB main street.

• Free• Mrs Prasad

BHB Santa parade

Are you ever bored on a Friday night? Come along and have your say on what activities are offered for teenagers at the Blockhouse Bay Community Centre. You will also be designing a brochure for the centre and helping with ideas to represent the centre in the BHB Santa Parade.

• @ Blockhouse Bay Community Centre

• Free• Mrs Green

BHB Community Centre

Peace Banner

• Do you want world peace! ‘One People One Planet’ are trying to get school students to create the world’s largest peace banner. Contribute to this banner by joining this workshop and creating Lynfield College’s peace banner.

• @ Lynfield College

• Free

Peace Banner

Music

• Do you like to entertain? Come and help us put together a performance. Everyone must be involved in the choir. Instrumental opportunities also available.

• @ Lynfield College, local rest homes & disabled school.

• $5 for transport• Ms Evans

Music

Sports

• Interested in sports coaching. Come along and organise a sports day with the local primary school students. You will be running your own station with an activity or sport.

• @ School • Free• Mr Burne

Leaders in Sport

Caring for the Kereru

• Do you enjoy the outdoors? Come and help us install Weta monitoring boxes, lay bait and improve the local bush walkways.

• @ locations in Hillsborough & Mt Eden

• Free• Mr Welsh

• Calling all budding Peter Jackson’s. Come and help us create a news report about our project.

Lights, Camera, Action

• @ School & locations around the community

• Free• Mr Howell

• Come and make Christmas Cakes and puddings for the City Mission and West Auckland Hospice. Finish them off with some gift wrapping and hand made cards.

Xmas Cakes

• @ School • $5 for ingredients• Mrs Rushton

• Love technology! Come along and teach older people how to use computers & mobile phones. They would love to be able to text as much as you do.

Terrific Technology

• @ School & Avondale Community Centre

• Free• Ms Wilson

Local History

• Do you enjoy history and technology? Help the Blockhouse Bay historical society photograph some of their artefacts and digitalise their archives. They would also like a calendar to be created out of some of their local photographs.

• @ School & the BHB Historical Society.

• Free• Miss Derbyshire

Past Present & Future!

• Can’t get enough of singing and dancing. Come and join us. We will divide into two groups. One will write and perform raps. The other will rehearse some song and dance routines to perform.

Glad wrap

• @ School & local• Free• Ms Nicholson & Ms

Allpress

The Lynfield Leader

• @ School & locations around the community

• Free• Mrs Carswell

Would you like to be a reporter? Come along and help us create a newspaper about the activities everyone is involved in.

• Come and help us clean up the local parks and reserves. We will meet at school at 9:00am, walk to a local reserve and clean it up. A picnic lunch with optional games will be held. We will return to school by 3:00pm.

Park Clean Up

• @ Local Parks• Free• Miss Han

• Come along and help us make cards for Christmas. You can design your own cards and we will get them printed off and sold for charity. We will also make some hand made cards so if you enjoy scrapbooking come along and join this workshop.

• @ School• $5 for materials• Mr Angus & Ms

Munro

Cards for Charity

• Calling anyone keen to help create distraction toys, puppets, mobiles for Kids First Children’s Hospital at Middlemore.

 

Toys for Tots

• @ School• $5 for materials• Ms Austin

• Calling all Pacific Pride Leaders. Come and play music and interact with students at Glen Avon School. These students will mainly be future Lynfield College students so you can show them all the things you love about Lynfield.

Your Place, My Place

• @ School & Glenavon• $5 • Mr Tonks & Mrs Lange

Remember

• You have to select your 1st choice and your 2nd choice.

• Your workshop selection forms are due this Friday 19th November. They should be returned to your form teacher.