Minischool Vacation Care ~ January
2016
These January holidays, we returned back to Minischool vacation care early on the 4th due to popular demand.
The past few weeks have been filled with picnics, races, painting, making movies and dances, dressing up, building, creating, fun and games and a few crazy times. Welcome back to all of our vacation care children and welcome to some new faces here on holiday and newly arrived on island.
At the same
time as vacation care, we were very fortunate to be able to run 2 weeks of ballet
and jazz dance classes for 3-13 year olds.
Visiting
ballerinas Abbey and Lara Wilkinson had been working with their own teachers at
Noosa Performing arts factory to choreograph and teach the younger set.
30+ children
were signed up for the dancers who learned amazing strength, exercises and
skills during the fortnight. We learned that dancing can be fun to dress up and
move to music but also so much more.
There was a
fantastic comradery formed between the classes as Abbey choreographed and taught
an incredible 6 classes and 6 dance
pieces over the space of 2 weeks. These new found skills were displayed to a
packed uniting church hall full of siblings, parents, grandparents, friends and
neighbours.
It was an
amazing effort showcasing a need for more creative arts classes on Norfolk
Island.
Minischool
Director and coordinator of the dance classes explained to the parents during
the concert that we are very fortunate to sample many activities on Norfolk
Island, but sporting team events and clubs can be a constant in the children’s
lives here yet creative arts are fewer and further apart in time frames and
choices than sporting choices. Abbey explained that the strength taught in
Ballet is the basis for all types of skills, not just dance.
The
program of the dance concert was as follows.
3+ Ballet~ Frozen
classical piece
6+ Ballet ~
Beethoven 5 secrets
9+ Ballet~
Skrillex music
Contemporary
Ballet solo by Lara Wilkinson
3+ Jazz group
~ Uptown Funk
6+ Jazz
group~ Afro Circus
9+ Jazz
group~ The nights
Contemporary
Ballet solo to ‘Lost boy’ by Abbey Wilkinson
We hope to
bring Abbey and Lara back for more summer workshops next year.
In the
meantime, for anyone wanting ballet classes to continue throughout the year,
please register your interest with Teresa Langusch on 57986
Can all 2016
preschool enrolment forms please be returned to determine your places, first in
first served for the days of your choice.
The
Preschool graduation afternoon tea party will be held at Minischool 4pm
Wednesday 27th of January. This will be followed by one of our
favourite final events, the teacher/ student dinner out.
We farewell
our 2014/2015 (even two from 2013) pre-schoolers and wish them all the very
best as they transition to kindergarten. We know you are all ready and can’t
wait to see you in uniform and when you pop back and see us.
