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Sunday’s Advent Fair is gift from the heart

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8 November 2010 – for immediate release

Sunday’s Advent Fair is gift from the heart

The parents of students from one of Auckland’s smallest schools pour their hearts and souls into the Titirangi Rudolf Steiner School’s Advent Fair, which draws thousands of visitors for a very special day of magic, music and celebration.

When the Advent Fair takes place at the Titirangi Rudolf Steiner School next Sunday 21 November, items lovingly handcrafted will range from advent calendars and organic Christmas baking, to gumnut people, acorn mice, star babies, walnut shell boats and wagons, cork rafts and people, crocheted butterflies, and felted headbands for young children.

Every item will be completely unique, inspired by nature, and created by parents of the 175 students that attend the Titirangi Rudolf Steiner School’s nursery, kindergarten, primary or high school, many of whom have gathered weekly since the start of the year to make items for Sunday’s fair.

“We use things from the natural world around us – shells, nuts, acorns, and natural fibres in simple but beautiful ways,” says school parent Melanie Ryder. “It’s something that you won’t see anywhere else.”

“We invite everyone to come and enjoy what the Advent Fair offers,” she continues. “There are dozens of stall holders, field games, musicians and a fairy queen and bazaar just for children, and while the fair is an important fundraiser for our school and its new high school, we also do it because it’s a something precious of ourselves that we can gift to the wider community, at this wonderful time of the year.”

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The School, which embraces the holistic principles of the Rudolf Steiner philosophy, teaches children from nursery age to high school, approaches study as a journey through the tenets of ‘goodness’, ‘beauty’ and ‘truth’.

The goal is for the child to emerge as an adult who is balanced in body, soul and spirit, and poised to achieve a happy, healthy, successful and well rounded life.

“We enable students to enjoy learning, and to develop maximum motivation and interest in all they do,” says Peter Patterson, the high school’s head teacher.

“The world is changing quickly, and we need to provide young people with opportunities to develop their creativity, initiative, flexibility, and participation in the world.”

A curriculum that provides intensive bursts in a broad range of disciplines in the sciences, crafts and technologies, humanities and arts, Peter says, will provide a broader experience base from which to choose a future direction for tertiary study or whatever path in life the young person chooses.

The Advent Fair has been held at the school since 1989 and is an important fundraiser for the independent school funded by a registered charity, which also organises the monthly Titirangi Village Market and has a number of festivals on its calendar, as well as the Matariki Creative Community Day.

www.titirangi.steiner.school.nz

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THE ADVENT FAIR

Titirangi Rudolf Steiner School’s Advent Fair is a delightful festive day for the entire family.

• Create your own advent wreath, Christmas crackers and rainbow-dipped candles

• Music – plenty of live music from fabulous local musicians in the courtyard

• Café – with espresso coffee and scrumptious home-made fares

• Secret world of magic and wonder just for children (aged under nine) to explore in the kindergarten grounds – Fairy Queen, Children’s Bazaar, Children’s Café, Puppet Plays, Face Painting and Go Fishing!

• Also featured are exquisite advent calendars, homemade Christmas baking (with organic and gluten free options), the very popular designer clothes seconds’ boutique and a wide range of stallholders, not to mention classic fair essentials like the White Elephant, raffles, games on the field and much more.....

This wonderful event will be held on Sunday, 21st November, from 10am-3pm Rain or Shine At Titirangi Steiner School, 5 Helios Place, Titirangi. (Two minutes from the village - follow the signs from the Titirangi Round About)

SCHOOL OPEN DAYS

The Titirangi Rudolf Steiner School will hold an Open Day on Wednesday 17 November:

• School Open Day (Nursery to High School) at 3.30pm

• High School Shadow Day – a unique opportunity for interested students to participate in the classroom and experience the curriculum first-hand. 8.30am - 3pm

Please phone the school office (09) 817-4386 to register your interest in attending.


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