Tea Time at Harold’s place

Life Education’s Harold the Giraffe practises his high tea etiquette.

Ōhaupō’s Community Sports Centre will host a fundraiser for Life Education New Zealand next month.

Waipa King Country Life Education Trust requires more than  $200,000 a year to maintain educational initiatives across the region – and on July 12 it will  be raising funds via a high tea.

Life Education’s Harold the Giraffe practises his high tea etiquette.

Mascot Harold the Giraffe, and  friends Nicky Wise and Abby Miles, plan to  charm children and  caregivers at Harold’s High Tea.

Children and adults will be invited to don their finest attire and join Harold for an elegant high tea experience.

The event will feature disco dancing, colouring activities and a lucky prize draw — plus the opportunity to engage in a reading session with the author and illustrator of Harold’s Spots.

“We are excited to host Harold’s High Tea as a fun-filled way to support the invaluable work of the Waipa King Country Life Education Trust,” said Wise and Miles, the trust’s teachers who are involved in teaching life skills to local school children.

“Through our Life Education programmes, we empower tamariki with essential skills to navigate life’s challenges and make healthy choices.”

Wise and Miles love to work with the children of the region’s primary and intermediate schools, teaching them how to look after their bodies with good nutrition and good decisions, and also teaching about how to be good friends with lots of ideas about how to work together and be a great community member.

Waipa King Country Life Education Trust members are volunteers. The trust funding  pays for two classrooms and  educators, who last year visited more than 50 schools and taught lessons to almost 9000 students.

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