| 30/04/2008 |
It was a pleasure to run this course for such a dedicated group of people. This was the first course that St Francis has run in their new premises. We had a bigger turnout than expected so the room…
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Balclutha 4-Day Self-Awareness Course
| 31/03/2008 |
In March we went down to Balclutha and ran a four day Self-Awareness course. It was a great success; in fact, so much so that we are returning in May to run another community course and run a self-awareness/anti-bullying…
Read more...Kiwi Family Trust in Antarctica
Last year the wonderful people in Antarctica had their Christmas breakup celebrations.
The Women’s Soiree is an annual event where women entertain the community on ‘ice’. This year the event was scheduled for December 15th. The evening begins with…
October 2007 – Takaka Camp
| 01/10/2007 |
This camp was fantastic. We stayed at Collingwood Campgrounds in a house that slept 12. We had 8 boys (ages 9-12) and 3 adults. It was full-on! Despite the rain for the entire time we were there, we did…
Read more...Kidz Wired for Success
| 15/09/2007 | to | 30/09/2007 |
Wiri Central School proved a wonderfully exciting 2 weeks together as we journeyed through the main five themes and support material for Kool Kidz with all pupils from Year 4 up, though the younger students all had a WITS session too. The pupils and staff are so motivated to overcome anti-social behavioural incidences with some awesome school-wide management strategies which Kool Kidz was able to enhance with a fresh slant. Kids were encouraged to engage their Wiri Wits: walk away, ignore, tell someone and make ‘I’ statements when resolving conflict. Key potential problem emotions like anger, bullying, depression, grief and loss, stress and loneliness were analysed, identifying causes, symptoms and management plans including people we can trust to help us.
Read more...April 2007
Parkview: Wonderful start to 2007, trialing more new material on ‘what we feed our bodies and minds’! Kids very responsive as always to the ideas especially the health experiments and the NZ Hero poster work so they all have a…
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| 19/02/2007 | to | 23/02/2007 |
Belfast Rotarians ‘led the way’ by sponsoring the KOOL KIDZ Programme to Belfast Schools’ Year 7 & 8 pupils February 19-23. Ninety children from three classes enjoyed a full weeks’ learning together; being challenged to adapt more…
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We are very grateful for Lions Ferrymead’s generous support in providing the purchase of a wireless Data Projector for use in the KOOL KIDZ Programme and for the wider Trust’s needs. It was great to have 4 of the…
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