First semester 2010

Field Trips
  • Coastal connections
  • Gladstone wines discovery
  • Bonsai making/Otari-Wilton Reserve
  • Wainuiomata catchment area
Health and Wellbeing
  • Introduction to natural therapies
  • Line dancing
  • What the eye reveals
  • Medicine cabinet in your garden
  • Be easy on yourself
Arts, photography, crafts
  • Advanced painting and drawing
  • Coffee and crafts
    • Crochet fingerless glovelettes
    • Make a (different) brooch
    • Mixed media artwork
  • Wood work & wood turning
  • Chinese brush painting
    • flowers & birds
    • landscapes
  • Digital photography
  • Creative digital photography
Great Reading and Creative Writing
  • Playback theatre
  • Discovering contemporary NZ Poets
  • Reading Shakespeare
    • Othello
    • Titus Andronicus
  • William Wordsworth
  • You enjoy reading
    - Why can't I?
Music
  • Music in Shakespeare
  • Opera talk
    – The Marriage of Figaro
  • How to read music (Stage 2)
  • Singing for fun
Exploring and Recording History
  • The heritage sites
  • Putting together Te Ara
    - Encylcopedia of NZ
  • Researching your family history
  • Art history
    - Turner & Constable
Philosophy and World Beliefs
  • Introduction to philosophy
  • Astrology - an introduction
  • Islamic civilisation & religion
  • Judaism on one foot
  • Gandhi, peace & Hinduism
  • Where neuroscience meets religion: recent studies & interpretations
Psychology
  • Psychology of interpersonal attraction
  • Psychology of international terrorism
Science, Environment, Conservation
  • Bicycle maintenance
  • Dinosaur footprints
  • Active undersea mountains of NZ
  • Antarctica and climate change
Languages
  • Chinese for beginners
  • Benvenuiti to Italian for beginners
  • German for Kiwis (beginners)
  • Spanish for beginners
Business
  • Introduction to tax

Second Semester 2009

Field Trips
  • Pencarrow
  • Parrot Ranch, Levin
Health and Wellbeing
  • Massage your mind
  • Happiness, healing and health
Arts and crafts
  • Draw from the right side of the brain
  • Mixed media painting and drawing
  • Paint from the right side of the brain
  • Coffee and crafts
    • Crochet
    • Make a brooch
    • Make a book
Great Reading and Creative Writing
  • Your town our town
  • John Keats – the sensualist
  • Reading Shakespeare – Love’s labour lost
  • Reading Shakespeare – Comedy of errors
  • “To the bitter end”
  • Gift your stories to your family
  • The American crime novel
  • Literature for fun
Music
  • Music appreciation
  • Opera talk – Eugene Onegin
  • How to read music
Exploring History Recording History
  • Homer’s epic poetry
  • Researching your family history
  • Discovering Wellington’s west coast
Religions of the World
  • Shintoism
  • Hinduism
Psychology
  • Introduction to psychology
Science, Environment, Conservation
  • The life history of stars and planetary systems
  • Organic business – tree hugging or future proofing?
  • Environmental ethics
  • Bicycle maintenance
Languages
  • NZ Sign Language – beginners for units 1-6
  • NZ Sign Language – beginners for units 7-12
  • Spanish for beginners
  • Beginners’ Italian
  • Science, environment, conservation