Term 1 Classes at Epsom Community Centre
🌟 Dive into 2024 with Community Classes at Epsom Community Centre! 🌟
Join our Term 1 Programme starting in February 2024, offering a variety of classes for all skill levels.
🎨 Drawing for Beginners
Join Alba to master the basics of drawing, exploring various techniques and materials like pencil, charcoal, and pen. Perfect for both new artists and those brushing up their skills.
🖌️ Watercolour for Beginners
Discover the charm of watercolours with Alba. Learn essential techniques and color theory basics. Suitable for complete beginners.
💪 Pilates
Rose's Pilates classes offer a balanced approach to mind and body wellness, ideal for improving flexibility, posture, and strength.
🕺 Adult Jazz
Experience the joy of dance! Our Adult Jazz class offers a mix of lively sequences and music styles, welcoming dancers of all levels.
Exciting New Workshops:
🎨 Watercolour Techniques Workshop
Enhance your skills in this 3-hour workshop focusing on special watercolour techniques like color mixing and negative painting. Open to all levels.
🎨 Introduction to Watercolour Workshop
A beginner-friendly workshop introducing the fundamentals of watercolour painting. Also great for those looking to revisit the basics.
✨ Why Choose Epsom Community Centre?
• Located at 202 Gillies Ave, Epsom.
• Friendly, welcoming environment.
• Iconic heritage building.
• Plenty of free parking.
🖱️ Enrol now: Epsom Community Centre - www.epsom-community-centre.org.nz...
📖 Learn more in our digital brochure: www.epsom-community-centre.org.nz...
Join us at Epsom Community Centre for a chance to learn, create, and connect. See you there! 🎉
Live Q&A: Garden maintenance with Crewcut
This Wednesday, we are having another Neighbourly Q&A session. This time with John Bracewell from Crewcut.
John Bracewell, former Black Caps coach turned Franchisee Development Manager and currently the face of Crewcut’s #Movember campaign, knows a thing or two about keeping the grass looking sharp—whether it’s on a cricket pitch or in your backyard!
As a seasoned Crewcut franchisee, John is excited to answer your lawn and gardening questions. After years of perfecting the greens on the field, he's ready to share tips on how to knock your garden out of the park. Let's just say he’s as passionate about lush lawns as he is about a good game of cricket!
John is happy to answer questions about lawn mowing, tree/hedge trimming, tidying your garden, ride on mowing, you name it! He'll be online on Wednesday, 27th of November to answer them all.
Share your question below now ⬇️
Message from PM Luxon
Yesterday marks one year since the National-led Government took office and immediately got to work on reducing the cost of living, restoring law and order and delivering better health and education.
The achievements we’ve made in just one year are thanks to the resilience and determination of everyday New Zealanders.
There’s a lot more work to do, and I know many Kiwis are still doing it tough. But we have made real progress to ensure that Kiwis keep more of their hard-earned money, feel safer in their communities, can access life-changing medicines and treatments, grow their businesses, can benefit from critical infrastructure, and to help our kids achieve at school. Here are just some of the highlights from our first year in Government:
• Inflation has dropped to 2.2%, bringing relief from mortgages
• 83% of New Zealanders have received tax relief, putting more money in their back pockets
• Wages are growing faster than inflation, putting more money into Kiwis’ budgets
• 40,000 families have received FamilyBoost childcare payments to help reduce their childcare costs
• Delivered a 30% increase in Police foot patrols and a 60% decrease in ram raids
• Invested $604m in Pharmac to deliver up to 26 new cancer treatments
• Slashed the regulations holding back farmers
• Progressed the Fast Track Approvals regime to get stuff built, fast
• Led eight trade missions, delivered three trade agreements and resolved 16 barriers to trade because more Kiwi products on shelves overseas means higher incomes
• Cracked down on gangs and banned gang patches in public
• Progressed our plan for tougher sentences for serious criminals
• Banned cell phones in classrooms
• Required an hour of reading, writing and maths a day for our students
• Put in place structured literacy and maths from Term 1 next year so kids can grow the skills they need to succeed
• Invested $16.7b into health and set ambitious targets for shorter waits in the emergency department and for surgery.
My Government was elected on a promise to improve the lives of New Zealanders in the areas that matter most to them. We’re making good progress and I’m committed to keeping our promise with bold action that delivers positive results for all New Zealanders.
Thank you,
Christopher
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Calling All Puzzle Masters! Can You Solve This?
When John was six years old he hammered a nail into his favorite tree to mark his height.
Ten years later at age sixteen, John returned to see how much higher the nail was.
If the tree grew by five centimetres each year, how much higher would the nail be?
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