School Holiday Workshops
Every school holiday the Learning Centres run workshops for children.
The Learning
Centre coordinators help and guide the children to produce exciting projects
using computers.
Previous workshops have included making websites, creating movie promotions,
producing a lifebook and digital scrapbooking.
Previous School Holiday Workshops
School Holiday Workshop Resources
Previous School Holiday Workshops
Finding your Genes Children's Genealogy
The Waitakere City Library & Information Services in partnership with the Waitakere Branch of the
New Zealand Society of Genealogists will be offering free genealogy workshops
for children aged between 8-12 years of age between Saturday 5 July and
Thursday 10 July.
The workshops will take place at the
Waitakere Central Library,
Massey Library,
New Lynn Library and
Glen Eden Library.
The "Finding Your Genes" children's genealogy workshops will provide children
with the skills and knowledge to access relevant genealogy in all its different
formats.
Children will learn about birth, death and marriage certificates and how to
find out information from the certificates.
Children will also be made aware of microfiche CD's and places to visit to
find more information such as Archives New Zealand and the Church of the Latter
Day Saints. "Finding Your Genes" children's workshops will provide children with
the opportunity to construct their own family tree or pedigree chart online.
Only four children will be registered for each workshop due to the
availability of computers at each of the Learning Centres. "Finding Your Genes"
children's workshops are an introduction to genealogy resources available in the
Waitakere Library and Information Services. Students
will have the opportunity to view new children's genealogy resources.
Course Aims
Day One: Who are you? Children's Genealogy Introduction
Workshop
Day Two: Create Your Family Tree
A youth membership will be awarded by the New Zealand Society of Genealogists
to one participant of each children's genealogy workshop.
For more information or to register for the "Finding Your Genes" children's
genealogy workshop please contact the
Learning Centre Co-ordinator at
your local library.
Workshop Timetable
'Run for Mayor' School Holiday Workshop
Waitakere City has a New Mayor!
However, Waitakere Mayor Bob Harvey can rest assured that his job is safe.
The newly-elected 'mayor' will hold the title in name only, being the winner of
the October school holiday workshops 'Run for Mayor' held at the Waitakere
Learning Centres'.
The workshops aimed to give kids an idea of how elections work. They
had to write their own manifesto and use a computer to design their own
promotional material. Prior to the workshop, children filled out a
workbook at home with their parents and consolidated their ideas for their
campaigns.
It was a chance for kids to think about what issues are important to them and
what changes or improvements they would make in their local government if they
had the power to do so.
Their wishes for change covered everything from stopping speeding motorists
and wiping out graffiti to creating work peace and outlawing divorce.
A prize giving ceremony was held at Waitakere Central Library on Thursday 15
November to acknowledge the four branch winners whom were elected winners of
their local library and learning centre branches. They are:
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Hiwote Yimer, Candice Roth, Dulith
Hewage, Erika Tane |
From left to right:
Hiwote Yimer - New Lynn Learning Centre branch winner.
Candice Roth - Sturges West Learning Centre branch winner and
overall winner
Dulith Hewage - Glen Eden Learning Centre branch winner
Erika Tane - Te Atatu Peninsula branch winner
All of the branch winners won a $20 Whitcoulls voucher and Mayor Bob Harvey
game them each a copy of this book 'Westies'.
Candice Roth also won an Apple iPod Shuffle as the overall winner and Mayor
Bob wrote her a personalised letter of congratulations.
Magical Madness Month
The Learning Centres became the hub of magical comic creation over the school
holidays in June. Children came up with imaginative storylines and even
created their own characters. They then used Microsoft Powerpoint to make
their story and add cool animations and sounds. We had some fantastic
comics, check out some of the work the children did below, just click on the
picture.
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By Kenji Kamimura |
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By Arielle Papalii |
Eat Around the World
The theme for the April school holiday workshops was eating around the World.
The children came in and searched the Internet for recipes from different
countries. They then made their very own creative recipe book. Some
of them even made up their own recipes in the style of Roald Dahl's 'Revolting
Recipes'. Plenty of global gourmet fun was had by the kids!
The kids had a great time creating website of their favourite animals.
Check out some of the websites created.
Facts of the Penguins
Dolphins Life
Dogs
Digital Book
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Julia Shearer at Sturges West Learning Centre
creating her book "The Attack of the Killer Lollies" |
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children had a great time making Roald Dahl style stories. They
produced an on-line book in PowerPoint with sounds and animations, and a hard
copy printout. Some "interesting" stories were produced, full of humour,
scary stuff and enough slime and grime to make Roald proud!
Check out
some of the stories created by the kids:
Note: You will need to have
 Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 installed on your computer
in order to view the presentations or alternatively you can download the free
Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer.
Apple Mac OS X 10.4 or later can download the free
ThinkFree Viewer.
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By Hanna Ettles |
By Julia Shearer |
School Holiday Workshop Resources
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