Organic Gardening
17th Dec 2022
We were super excited to have Chloe Rowe, an experienced organic gardener and qualified horticulturist, tutor a series of six sessions in our Community Garden. Funded partly through the Kaikōura District Council Community Initiative Fund and supported by REAP Marlborough, this was a great opportunity for people to up their skills in organic gardening.
Topics included: What’s organic, what’s not?, Soil science, Crop rotation/intercropping/moon planting, Compost and fertiliser, Pest control and beneficial insects, and the last week is saved for topics of high interest that come up during the course.
It was so great to see some new faces in our community garden! Thankyou to everyone for coming along and to Chloe for running this awesome course for our community!
Special FX!
14th Dec 2022
A massive thank you to the amazing Laura who came up and spent two days with these very cool rangatahi creating some awesome characters!
Day one was spent creating awesome fish/mermaid/dragon/lizard/alien???? faces! Learning the basics of layering colours and paints to create intriguing and professional looking special effects makeup. They also spent some time practicing using latex to create all sorts of gory looking effects on their hands!
Day two Laura took the group through the process of making themselves into "zombie grannies" - combining the art of aging up stage makeup and using latex to create zombie special effects! The group also got to put together a look on their own - making use of all the awesome techniques Laura had shown them!
MTFJ - Supporting Local Youth into Employment
13th Dec 2022
Emma Fissenden is excited to be started a career in the farming industry. At 16 she has been brought up on farms all her life. She has 2 dogs already with an interest also in Dog trialling. The Cadetship is 2years through a new programme called Growing Future Farmers. This is an on farm learning environment where she gets immersed in everyday farming. One day a week she is in the classroom with courses from chainsaw skills, wool classing and atv driving.
Emma says one extra bonus is she gets 2 new pups to train, 1 heading dog and 1 huntaway.
She’ll be located in Waiau and thanks the MTJF for assisting her in getting the clothing kit she needs.
Get in touch with Sean on 027 372 2248 for any MTFJ needs!
Our superstar volunteers!
8th Dec 2022
We held our volunteers lunch today at the Scout Hall! What a wonderful team of volunteers - thanks so much everyone for the mahi you do for our community - you are all superstars!
Computer Skills Course
7th Dec 2022
We have partnered with REAP Marlborough to run a women’s computer programme. Aimed at women who are wanting to upskill their computer skills, this course had the added bonus of the support of the New Life Church women's group; these lovely ladies hosted us at the New Life Church, where they put on a fabulous morning tea and offered their babysittinbg services for the morning. The course ran for 6 weeks, and had seven regular attendees. Thankyou to these ladies for coming along - you made it a brilliant time - and a massive thankyou also to Kaikōura New Life Church for supplying the venue and morning tea for this course!
Pō Whakanuia
2nd Dec 2022
Yesterday was our Pō Whakanuia - Ākonga Graduation and Industry Training Graduation combined! The evening was put together with the support of Mayor's Taskforce for Jobs. Congratulations to all the graduates, and thankyou to everyone who attended!
Industry Training Graduation
There were five graduates in attendance who completed certificates in various fields to celebrate!
Natasja Hill completed Certificate 4 in Cookery.
Michael Waite, Holly Horsfall and Cherize Buekes all completed the New Zealand Certificate Cookery Level 4.
Sabina Aitken completed the New Zealand Certificate in Pest Operations with strands in Rural Pest Monitoring, and Urban Pest Contol.
Ākonga Graduation
Tēnā tātou katoa, he mihi nui ki a koutou e te hāpori o Kaikōura, he mihi harikoa o te wā kirihīmete. Kua tae te wā hei whakanuia i ngā ākonga e ako ana i raro i te maru o Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu. Ānei te pitopito kōrero mō tō tātou pō whakanuia.
Whaia te iti Kahurangi, ki te tuohu koe me he maunga teitei, this whakatauki is about perseverance and endurance; refusing to let obstacles get in your way while striving to reach your goals and it perfectly describes our Rangatahi who are studying through Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu.
On Thursday, December 1st, we celebrated and acknowledged our 12 Rangatahi who are studying through Te Kura. They each received a taonga to acknowledge their own unique and individual learning journeys. Each taonga was hand woven with harakeke from Takahanga Marae and represents the woven relationship between the student, Te Kura and Te Hā o Mātauranga. Learning comes with many challenges and these Rangatahi have definitely faced their fair share. We acknowledged all our learners for their determination, perseverance, resilience and the self-discipline that they have shown throughout the year. We also must highlight their hard work and dedication towards reaching their goals; they have been working towards NCEA Literacy and Numeracy Level 1 this year with some great results. Achievements come in many forms and there were many achievements to celebrate amongst the group with students achieving a range of accomplishments such as Literacy, Numeracy, NCEA Level 1 and some achieving NCEA Level 2.
“Mā te huruhuru, ka rere te manu”.
Jess Mill - Kaitautoko Ākonga
Lateral Youth Pool Party
2nd Dec 2022
Lateral Youth has finished up the year and celebrated with a pool party! Luck of the draw meant when they showed up they had the aquatic centre to themselves. The group had a great time hanging out at the pool playing water basketball and practicing shooting hoops! Lateral Youth is open to all high school aged students - yr7 and up - and runs every Friday night during the school year. Lateral Youth will be back up and running on the 10th Feb 2023 5pm-7pm at the Scout Hall.
Cycle Sense
1st Dec 2022
Cycle Sense from Waimakariri visited Kaikōura from the 28th November - 1st December. They delivered an on road safety programme to x75 year 5-6s from Kaikōura Primary School, Suburban School and St Joseph’s School. The programme included:
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How to fit helmet correctly
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Safety check bike and helmet
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How to bike safely on the road with traffic
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Perform left and right hand turns
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Bike control
