Weekly Sessions for Young Tamariki

Outreach Music Sessions

** We’re all booked out for Term 3, full-time registrations! However, we do have Wait List and Casuals List spaces open. Sign up to our mailing list, here, and we’ll send you more info **

We run 30-minute, weekly, music sessions, for young tamariki and their whānau, in six different venues, around Ōtautahi/Christchurch.

Our sessions are an Outreach Music programme, as we work with community-based organisations, in a suburban setting, to help connect local whānau with the organisations, and their mahi. We also charge a nominal fee of $30 per child, per term. Both of these considerations help with our kaupapa/purpose to make our sessions accessible and affordable to all.

The sessions are bilingual Māori and run to the same format, with the same waiata, each week, for the whole term. Our whakaaro/reason for this is simple… tamariki learn through repetition, and we believe the consistency in keeping to the same music set each term, helps both child and caregiver to learn the kupu/words and actions for the waiata. We believe it helps to solidify the reo/language that is being introduced, too – which is always so awesome to hear being sung by the tamariki!

Under the current Covid climate, we have opted to take a cautious approach, to keep all whānau safe. We now require whānau to pre-register before the term begins and have limited the number of whānau at each session. The whakaaro behind this is to enable us to continue running the sessions if there is a move back into the Red Light setting (we are currently in Orange Light). We also continue to encourage physical distancing and ask all adults to wear masks in the sessions. We will continue this model until the end of 2022, and will reassess, if necessary, for 2023.

To pre-register, we have an Outreach Music mailing list that you can sign-up to, here. Any updates on our sessions and registration information will be sent directly to those subscribed to this mailing list. We no longer offer the ‘Drop-in’ format that we used to, however, from Term 3, all subscribers who are interested in joining our Casuals List, will be sent links to pre-purchase a ‘Casuals spot’ at any of our sessions, next term.

Our theme for next term is TEDDY BEARS!  Tamariki will be invited to bring along their favourite teddy bear/soft toy.

Don’t forget to sign-up to the mailing list to get all the info on pre-registering, and updates on our sessions. If you have any questions, please contact us, here.