Te Aratu Trust Puawaitanga Homegroup

All gardens are magical! Grow your own. 🥰❤️🌱🥔🌽🥦

Keeping active during" lockdown" is the best way to keep happy and not feel "Blue" and sad.
Baking and eating is also a feel good activity... but when you over do the carbs, time to get out and get moving!
MH was able to get out and enjoy the sites and sounds, exercising by walking around the block in Mamaku and making new animal friends in Level 2.

A sad occassion for Te Aratu Trust to farewell Andrew Helsby at St Michaels Church in Rotorua yesterday.

Many lovely stories of Andrews childhood made us chuckle. His family were keen to share the brilliance of the Andrew they knew and loved.
It was nice to step into their lives with their son, brother and grandson. It made the day less sad and more bearable.

Their love of him was evident and their faith strong that he was now at peace with his world was humbling.
My hopes and prayers go out to anyone who is struggling with life and encourage them to reach out and speak up, there is always someone willing to listen.

ON THE BUSES
We are all trying our best to keep the community free of Covid. Great to see the bus companies being responsible and people getting behind them. Keep it up Rotorua. Don't believe the haters, we can beat this by all looking after each other.

KEEP WELL AND STAY WELL
It's that time of the year when we should be looking after our physical wellness as well as our mental wellness.
Regular check-ups are essential for maintaining good health. Keeping an eye on our weight and blood pressure can ensure we stay well. Many thanks to the lovely Nutritional Nurses at Ngongotahaha Medical Center.
DS was very pleased with his weight loss due to increased physical exercise clearing forest undergrowth in Sunnybrooke.
"Best part of my day is working outside and hearing the native birds above me, it's wonderful. God has given me everything I need. It doesn't get any better than that".

Te Aratu Trust provides opportunities to recycle and up-cycle bits and pieces, odds and bods and allow our students to let their creativity go wild!

Trash2Treasure is a program that you make crafts for yourself, others or even sell!

Princes Gate Hotel with it's beautiful Kauri timber features, lead light windows, welcoming open fire place and gorgeous wooden piano was the perfect hostess for these tired and cold travelers.

It's fantastic to be in Level 1 and our students are attending programs and courses regularly now.

One of our new programs is History Tours. Visits to local areas of interest with deep emotional ties for some of our people. A lovely walk down memory lane.

The past few weeks have had our students visit the Ngongotaha Rail Trust, the Jean Batten Memorial statue at the Rotorua Airport an the beautiful iconic Princes Gate Hotel.

Tena koutou katoa nga mihi

Good morning everyone. Wonderful to know that we will be moving into Level 2 on Thursday.

However, Lindsay ia waiting for clarification on social ,distancing for our service because we may not be able to pick anyone up or run classes.

As soon as he knows we will phone you.

Otherwise the Staff can't wait to welcome you all back.

Good morning everyone, I hope all your Mothers had a tremendous day yesterday.

We are on deck at the Trust today. I will catch up with you all this morning. We are getting closer to Level 2 and we can't wait to see you all.If you have any concerns, message me or phone have a great day.

Gizzy Local have had this wonderful local initiative brought to our attention. It may just serve up a dose of inspiration for others looking around for interesting ways to help boost our local businesses

CPS (Civil Project Solutions) have dreamt up a pretty cool initiative. Their hearts are going out to all of the local businesses and people in need within our community.

Until we shift into level 2 & perhaps even beyond, every day they are buying lunch for each staff member from a different eatery in order to help support them. Each employee is rostered on to have a turn at choosing a business & ordering lunch each day.

They've also encouraged each staff member to contribute an amount each week for the next few months into a fund to go towards a local charity/organisation doing good in our community.

Russell and Gretchen have said that for every $1 donated they will donate $2. Each month the money will go to a different local charity.

They're such awesome people with so much heart ❤❤❤

Thanks Huia Holden for sharing!

If you've heard of any businesses or groups doing cool stuff, let us know x

Good morning Puawaitanga I hope you are all well and keeping busy. I will be contacting you all this morning to try and answer any questions you may have with a general catch up.I am so proud of how you are all dealing with the lockdown situation and organizing your daily activities.

If you have had any thoughts on your goal for this term we can discuss them this morning.

Have a great day everyone.

Stan and the Earth force - Someone Is Praying For You

Children are gods gift to us all, they make us laugh, cry, giggle, smile, as a whole or in pieces they are the most precious extensions of us all. Hugs and kisses to all the children of the world.

We'll share you, beautiful girl 😍

Good morning everyone. Great to see some of you last week and able to help you to continue with your studies. Always fabulous to hear about your progress with your workbooks and Diaries. I can't wait to read the Anzac stories and how you are keeping busy during these times.

Please post some of them Mahia and Julie.

Have a great day everyone.

Christopher and Montana enjoying lunch in Mamaku while looking at a possible Distant learning Certificate in Horticulture and feeding the scraps to the pigs, my friends next door.

Level 3 is the beginning of all sorts of new beginnings.

This is a photo from Rochelle at Pukehina where she lives.

Te Aratu Trust Puawaitanga Homegroup updated their address.

Tena koutou katoa nga mihi.
Good morning everyone. Apologies for not posting this week. Staff are back at work preparing for the new term and how to manage social distancing once you all return.
Informing you all that I will be returning for the new term as will Stuart Griffiths. I will remain the Homegroup Tutor of Puawaitanga and Stuart will be the Homegroup Tutor of Tukua.
Some of you would have received your activity packs yesterday. I hope you find something in them that may help keep you engaged. The glue sticks and coloring pencils have been ordered but as of yesterday had not arrived.
Lindsay has informed us that we will not be returning before the 14th of May. If there are any changes, we will post it on our page.
Please continue to use our page to connect and post your progress with your activity packs.
Have a great day everyone.

Day 22 REACH OUT
Get up, get moving, get thinking and do something!
Many of you are playing games online with each other which is great. But how about furthering your education while you have plenty of time, learn to play an instrument or sing!
Thanks for your posts.Loved your baking and recipe Chloe. Lets see more of what you're doing and keep connected.

Day 21 REACH OUT
Happy Birthday Ivan Rumming
It's wonderful having you in our Homegroup. Have a great day with your family in your little bubble.