Everyone is invited to join us to support our awesome students performing their hearts out on the big stage in a wide variety of Amplify Bands! Saturday 2nd August from 2pm- 4pm at A Rolling Stone, 579 Colombo Street, Christchurch Central City. Free Entry!
We made some more amazing memories at our holiday programmes. Check out these photos for some of our highlights!
Pukeko – Years 4-6 Photo Album
Piwakawaka – Years 6-9 Photo Album
Kia ora,
We hope the school holidays are going well. Reminder there are lots of Kidsfest activities in Christchurch to check out!
Latest Newsletter
Grab a coffee and read YAT’s latest Newsletter HERE.
Term 3
Registrations for all our programmes are LIVE for Term 3!! (& Term 4 if keen). Weekly clubs begin on Week 1, starting Monday 14th July. All club plans, brochures and online registration links for Term 3 are on our website.
> Seniors After-School Oscar (School Years 4-9) EVERYDAY with Van Pick Ups 2:45pm – 5:45pm
> Surge (School Years 9 – 13) Mondays 6:30-8:30pm. FREE for teenagers
> #NEW 2025: RISE (ages 12-16) Mondays 6:30pm – 8:00pm. FREE for teenagers
> Basketball Clubs (School Years 1 – 8) Tuesdays
> Kitchen Klub (School Years 5 – 9) Tuesdays 4:00pm – 5:30pm
> Kōtirotiro Girls Club (School Years 1 – 6) Wednesdays 4:00pm – 5:30pm
> Tamatāne Boys Club (School Years 1 – 6) Thursdays 4:00pm – 5:30pm
> Craft Club (School Years 5 – 9) Thursdays 4:00pm – 5:30pm
> Rock Solid (School Years 7 & 8) Fridays 4:00-6:00pm
> Amplify Music Lessons (School Years 1-13) Everyday 3pm – 6pm
> Amplify Band Programme (School Years 7-13) various times by audition
Save The Date: Parenting Seminar on Anxiety
Thursday 28th August 7:00pm at Beach Campus
Free Tickets will be advertised via our social media and website too.
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It begins! Five action packed days of Holiday Programmes over 3 different age groups led by an amazing group of staff and volunteers! There are still spots available in every age, so find out more at: www.yat.org.nz
Amplify School of Music in New Brighton is hosting a series of Music Workshops – keyboard, guitar, electric guitar, stage performance and more!
The workshops for youth (school year 3 and up) – first week of the school holidays.
Something for everyone so head over to our website and book in for some crazy musical fun! Here is the line-up:
Monday – Electric Guitar Workshops – bring your guitar and your pedals (don’t worry if you haven’t got any yet!) and let’s explore the world or electric guitar (workshops for both beginners and intermediate/advanced)
Tuesday – Beginner Keyboard Workshops – get some handy tips from our tutors on how to get started on the keys (keyboards provided – bring your own headphones)
Wednesday – Singer/Songwriter workshops – whether you need help with something you are already working on, or you would like help with how to get started, or you just love singing, let’s explore our voices!
Thursday – Beginner Guitar Workshops – get some handy tips on how to get started on the acoustic guitar (guitars provided)
Friday – RISE and RISEJr. – combine singing and dancing to create a performance piece and then perform it for our in-house holiday programme and your nearest and dearest!
It’s going to be an action-packed week full of beautiful music – don’t miss out!!
Registrations here: https://amplify.mymusicstaff.com/music-workshops
We were so inspired by this video from last nights Neurodiversity Seminar – we hope you are too!
“Across history there has been a tendency for human beings to fear our differences. To equate difference with defectiveness, or even label our differences as disorders. We think that it is time for us to rethink the way we view our differences. We think that it is time for us to recognise that difference represents diversity, and this diversity is vital to our collective wellbeing. The more genetic diversity there is among us, the better we are able to continually adapt to our environment, as it changes and evolves…
Humans think, feel, perceive, process, and experience the world in vastly different ways. This beautiful diversity of human minds with infinite variations, traits, and abilities is known as neurodiversity.
There are minds that sense the most subtle changes in the environment. Minds that have a determined sense of social justice and minds that can create stories in worlds that most of us can only read about. There are minds that seek patterns to process and synthesise. There are minds that crave words, or numbers, or images. There are busy minds, and quiet minds, highly focused minds, and distractable minds. There are minds that think deeply, and feel intensely.
When we value neurodiversity as a form of genetic diversity as part of the biodiversity of planet earth, we start to value our differences, and see that they do not require curing, treating or masking. We see that our differences can be accepted, appreciated and respected. We start to support each other to find a place in this world, and flourish as individuals, while increasing the resilience of humanity as a whole!”
Samson and Bulluss Psychology
We hope you enjoyed tonight’s Raising Neurodiverse Kids Seminar.
We’d love to hear your feedback, by completing a short survey at this link:
https://forms.gle/rEEoDRpJ316nV8xWA
Resources
CLICK HERE for the PDF of all the slides shown tonight.
CLICK HERE for a PDF of more resources about ADHD we’ve put together.
There are lots of websites, with some great tools, resources, and ideas too. Here are some of our favourites:
https://www.altogetherautism.org.nz/
https://sparklers.org.nz/wh%C4%81nau/
Also here’s a link from Listening to Families, which has Videos on various wellbeing topics including ADHD and Autism:
https://www.listeningtofamilies.co.nz/#Topics
Do follow the Mana Ake Facebook page for more updates and resources for parents.
“Poipoia te kākano kia puawai”: “Nurture the seed (child) so that it blooms”.
The Mana Ake & Youth Alive Trust Teams
Students from Ara Institute of Canterbury have just completed the repainting of a community sports gym in New Brighton. Painting and Decorating students took their learnings out of the classroom, to repaint a worn and torn sports gym at Grace Vineyard. The gym is used daily by young people attending Youth Alive Trust programmes, plus many other groups. Trust Manager, James Ridpath said “It was a win, win, win for all! The students needed a place to practise their skills and be assessed by tutors, the gym has had 10 years of wear and tear and really needing a freshen-up, and Resene and Haydn chipped in to provide some of the paint and materials, to promote their products to the students and support our charity work too! Amazing!” The Grace Vinyard Beach Campus building used to be a supermarket over 35 years ago, but is now a community hub and church used by hundreds of people every week. “With advice from Resene and our own creatives, we chose Delta Grey with big splashes of Turbo Yellow. It certainly stands out and the young people said it looks great”. The gym is used by most of their 8 after school clubs, holiday programmes, basketball training, other local schools, alternative education schools, a weekly winter inter-schools table tennis competition, pre-school groups and more! The trust is now applying for funding towards a digital scoreboard as part of the finishing touches.
