Welcome to the September 2025 Newsletter From The Vines
Housekeeping notices The Vines’ team
- Can you please remember to leave all toys at home? Please do not bring them into the classrooms!! Favourite toys are special and losing them can make life difficult. Bringing toys can also make drop-offs harder, so please, leave them in the car.
- The car park is a dangerous place. Please SLOW DOWN. Children are unpredictable, and they are still learning. They may run out without any notice. We would hate it if someone got hurt.
Te Wiki o te Reo Māori is celebrated the week 14–20 September
This year’s theme is ‘Kia Kaha te reo Māori’. Let’s celebrate and promote te reo Māori and help to secure its future as a living, dynamic, and rich language.
Upcoming events
Te Pou Theatre are having a Whānau Day
https://www.koangafestival.nz/whanau-day-koangafest-2025
A free day for whānau and tamariki to enjoy storytelling, kapa haka, performances, kēmu, kai and more.
- ĀHEA | WHEN
Saturday 13th September, 10am–3pm - KI HEA | WHERE
Te Pou Theatre – 2 Mt Lebanon Lane, Henderson - UTU | COST
Free - ROANGA | DURATION
5 hours - NGĀ WHEAKO | EXPERIENCE
Tamariki, Games, Pūrākau
KAUPAPA | ABOUT
Whānau Day is a free family-centred day celebrating storytelling in all its many forms and inspiring our youngest storytellers with pūrākau from around the world.
This year, Whānau Day features performances Sau e Siva & A Fool’s Company’s Savvy and the Stolen Recycling, a workshop by Atamira Dance Company, as well as our reo Māori waiata, and more! Stories will be shared by Marianne Infante, Turou Takitua, Qiane Matata-Sipu, and more to come! Plus, come along for all ages fun with pukapuka making workshops.
Bring the whole whānau along to experience a day packed full with activities, performances, food trucks, games, workshops, storytelling, and celebrate the return of Kōanga!
This week marks New Zealand Chinese Language Week – a time to celebrate Chinese language learning and the diversity and richness of Chinese languages spoken across Aotearoa.
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September 2025 News From The Vines
