Community News

By Christine Gillard | Posted: Friday June 8, 2018

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Electronic Music Afterschool Programme:
PYDT are looking for young people to be part of a fresh, exciting Electronic Music Production programme at the Te Koru Youth Centre. If you're interested in learning how to make your own Music on computers in a fun, social environment at a cool Youth Centre, this is the place for you! If you would like more information about this programme, please email studio@pydt.org, or give Tom a call on 0210503237.

While we have a big focus on Music and Technology here at PYDT, our main focus is professional, holistic youth work. We put a lot of emphasis into our programmes and run them to the highest standard, but they are always seen as simply a point of leverage for us to connect with and support the young people who come through our programmes. 

We have already had an amazing response from the parents who currently send their young people along, so much so that we have had parents tell us that they are astounded by the change in behaviour their young person has had while at home. Parents have also expressed their excitement that their young person is surrounding themselves with people who have their best interests at heart, rather than loitering around local businesses and causing problems.

This musical endeavour is just one of the many programmes we run here at the centre, including our widely endorsed Leadership Training Course for schools, Holiday Programmes, after-school Youth Hangout spaces, Disability Youth Groups and so many others!

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We here at PYDT are stoked to announce that registrations for our July OSCAR Holiday Programmes, Pirates and Cruisers are now open!

The programmes will be running from Monday the 9th to Friday the 13th of July, with Drop Off open from 8:30am and and Pick Up open from 3pm each day. Pirates is designed for those in Years 1-6. Cruisers is designed for those in Years 7-8. 

The pricing of the programmes will be as follows:$35 per child, per day.  $140 one child, all 5 days.  $120 per child for all 5 days when 3 or more children from the same family are registered in either programme.

We are WINZ approved, which means there may be an opportunity for parents to seek financial assistance from Work and Income if money is a barrier. We have some absolutely fantastic activities lined up for the week. For the Pirates these include Shark Making, boat building, trips to Foster Park (Rolleston) and the Antarctic Centre, and our Cruisers will be getting busy with heading to Flipout, the floor is lava, ten pin bowling, a giant nerf war and loads of other great activities!

After our online success of the April holiday programmes, our registrations are to be completed online, from any device which can access the internet! Head over to pydt.org to get your family signed up today.  Or if you would prefer to register in person, then feel free to head down to the centre (1a Harewood Rd, Papanui) and one of our team will help you out! We think we run the best value Holiday Programmes in town, not only do we provide you with a great, safe place in which you can be confident in the care of your young people while you work, but we make a concerted effort to engage with your young people and get to know what makes them tick. If you are seeking child-care for the upcoming holidays and haven't previously had the chance to try one of our programmes, there could not be a better time to get involved and see what we're all about!

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PAPANUI HIGH SCHOOL TERM 3 2018 - NIGHTCLASSES

With winter upon us why not take the opportunity of longer evenings to take up a new hobby, learn a new skill, meet some new people and have fun at the same time. Join one of Papanui High School’s exciting range of Adult and Community Education Courses for Term 3 beginning from 30 July. We have a wide range of courses to choose from and guarantee you will find something to appeal regardless of age or interests.

We offer classes in Languages, Astronomy, Tui-Na (Traditional Chinese Massage), Woodwork, Dressmaking, Art, Cooking, Yoga, Pilates, Ukulele, English for Speakers of other languages, Photography and more. For further information and enrolment in these or any of our courses please visit our website www.papanui.school.nz or email rpb@papanui.school.nz or telephone our office on 352070.

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Bishopdale Blood Drive

Where: Bishopdale Reformed Church, 90 Highsted Rd

When: Wednesday 27th June: 3:00pm - 6:30pm

Your one donation can SAVE up to THREE lives.

Booking your appointment to be a Lifesaver

I definitely recommend booking an appointment to give blood – appointments help to minimise your time away from work or home and help us to know how many people (and what blood types) are coming in and when to expect you. Here’s how to book your appointment…

• Download our app
• Go onto our website Donate Blood at Bishopdale
• Call 0800 GIVE BLOOD (0800 448 325)
• Contact me, Jules if you have a couple of people interested as I can book you in as a group (343 9086 or jules.askin@nzblood.co.nz )

Eligibility Criteria

Please read the attached Blood Donor ELIGIBILITY Criteria to check if you are eligible to give blood on Tuesday 7th Nov. Or, use this link to do a quick eligibility quiz Am I Eligible? .

If you have recently been overseas, please follow use this link for the Donating After Travelling map to see if there is a stand-down period for the country you just visited Donating After Travelling Info (or email me with the dates and countries you went to and I will check).

A few important things to remember…

• Please eat & drink plenty before you come along to donate (at least 1.5 litres of water)
• Remember to bring your donor card (which can be accessed on your donor app – download from the App Store or Google Play) or photo ID (driver’s licence, passport, student ID, etc).