Overview of Courses
Main
Adult Programme
Southland Education runs a programme of weekly classes in a variety of
arts. These courses are open to all persons past school age. Currently
classes are available in Art, Drawing, Patchwork, Dressmaking,
Upholstery, Yoga, Jewellery, Spanish and Digital Photography.
Each term several weekend classes are also on offer. Recent subjects
include Mosaics, Felting and Upholstery.
Suggestions are always welcome on new courses required by the community. Persons interested in tutoring are asked to post a CV to the Manager, Southland Education, WEA Building, 100 Esk Street, Invercargill.
Create
your own Eden Workshops
A new addition to the programme has been the introduction of Create Your
Own Eden workshops. Topics covered include No Weed gardening,
Composting, Worm Farming, Re-cycling. The popularity of these courses
has encouraged the organisation to consider running a spring series and
an autumn series each year.
These workshops are run in collaboration with Invercargill City
Council and Wastebusters.
Kidzart
The ever popular Kidzart programme runs twice a year at the
end of terms 1 and 3. About 20 workshops are on offer including
Freaky faces, Beastly Bugs, Leadlighting, jewellery and much
more – each lasting two hours. With all materials provided in
the course fee it is a great opportunity for children to try a
variety of arts at minimal cost
Flyers for this programme are distributed to schools about one
month before the end of the school term.
This programme is supported by the Community Trust of Southland
Other Programmes
Sadly the Pre-school Parent Support Programme at Newfield
Kindergarten Southland Education, which has provided a series of
Art/Craft workshops, has been closed due to cuts in Government
funding.
Opportunity has been provided for Persons with disabilities in
the field of Music with a new course entitled “Upbeat.” This
course has been run in conjunction with Idea services. Tutor
Natalie Hughes inspires the students in music appreciation and
enjoyment.
Also in collaboration with Idea services, art classes and
gardening classes are on offer for persons with disabilities.
These courses are made possible with funding from COGS