Experience EITs FREE school holiday workshops.  For Year 11/12/13 school students (or 15-18 years old). You don’t need to be at school to take part.

Monday 8 July 

MODERN BUSINESS

In today’s ultra-competitve world, discover what it takes to be a biz-whiz and how accounting, management and marketing helps companies get ahead.
9am – 12pm 

EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHING – THE FIRST STEPS
If you are passionate about young children, and their development, this could be for you. Find out how you could take on an incredibly rewarding career as an early childhood teacher.
9am – 11.30am

PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
If you want to get a feel for what a job in the primary industries is all about then join us for a half day of practical workshops.
9am – 12pm

PRIMARY TEACHING – THE FUN-DAMENTALS
Do you remember your favourite teachers?
Find out the fun-damentals of primary teaching and what makes a great teacher.
9am – 11am

STYLING
Lip Style
In this taster workshop you will create a lip balm to take home and learn about the curative properties of the ingredients.
9am – 11am

SPORT AND EXERCISE
Sport and Exercise – Teaching games for understanding (TGfU) is one way to get athletes to develop problem solving skills while playing sport that can transfer into other parts of their life. Come to a session and partake in a neuromuscular warm up, TGfU activities, cool down and recovery that
will encourage you to think about your own instructing skills and learning styles.
9am – 11am |

HAIRDRESSING – TEASE TO PLEASE
Teasing, curling, pinning and shampooing are all essential parts of a hairdressers art. Try your hand at creating hairstyles on our practice mannequins and each other.
9am – 12pm

Tuesday 9 July

DATA AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
Turning data into gold – analytics is changing the world. Choose your dataset and make some discoveries of your own, and see how organisations are using analytics or decisionmaking and strategy development.
9am – 12pm 

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
Get a taster of programming as you learn how to make your own game for use on all devices.
9am – 12pm

ROBOTICS
Programme and use drones and VEX robots, and affordable Raspberry Pi’s and Arduino’s, to experience and consider automation and the future of work.
9am – 12pm

SCREEN PRODUCTION
Many of the big movies use the green screen to create their scenes. Experience the magic of the green screen and sample a taste of the movie world.
9am – 12pm

SOCIAL WORK
Social work is about working with individuals and families to build safe and strong communities. Come along and experience some of the skills you need to be a great social worker.
9am – 11am

NURSING
Come and spend time in our simulation lab and learn a few basic nursing skills such as vital signs and injections.
9am – 11am

VISUAL ARTS AND DESIGN – CREATING THE HYBRID
It’s time to stretch your imagination and vision!
Your brief is to blend/hybridise two or more differing ‘images’ to compose a new creation of your choice.
9am – 12pm

MAKE-UP – HASTINGS
Learn how to choose and apply foundation correctly and how to create the perfect lip.
9am – 11am

Wednesday 10 July 

BARBERING
Interested in a career in barbering? Come and experience some simple barbering skills in our modern salon.
9am – 11am

VET NURSING
Get up close to our animals and learn how to look after them and some basic facts about working in the animal industry.
9am – 11am

MAORI STUDIES
Knowledge and understanding Māori language, customs and culture are key to Aotearoa’s history and identity. Come and explore Te Reo Māori through art and games.
9am – 12pm

Register your interest for a FREE Taster programme here or call 0800 22 55 348 for more information.
Priority spaces for Year 12 and 13.