Dyer Street School Graduation 18th June 2013

Dyer Street School graduate 14 families on the Computers in Homes programme.

With Honourable Tariana Turia there to present the parents with their awards, the gleam on their faces said it all.

A lovely husband and wife attended the programme as they both felt the need to learn about digital literacy to help their 5 children with their education.  The wife stated in her speech "My husband and I began to use these classes as our date night as it was the only time we didn't have our children".

An amazing bunch of parents and a great tutor Kristine Saunders (also the school librarian) helped make the programme a huge success in the school.

Dyer Street School in Training

Commenced 26th March 2013.  Dyer Street School are storming through their classes to become computer savvy users.  They struggled at first to fill their allocated numbers, but once the families of the school were better informed of the programme, they were all keen to begin.
Dyer Street School has been in training for 6 weeks for class 1 and 5 weeks for class 2.
Kristine Saunders has been teaching the class at a rate that is not intimidating to the participants.  We have a mixture of race, gender and age group within the classes as well as comedians.  Kristine had one aunty (who looks after a child 50% of the time as her mother is on evening shift work), when she was handed a task - typing out a cookie recipe, she said to Kristine "do you have anything harder then this?", coming from an aunty who had next to no skills in digital literacy.
We have others walking in saying "Kris, you know I only come to eat those yummy biscuits you bake for us aye?".
The sense of humour amongst these members is so catchy, I found myself giving them a ribing as well.
I look forward to when this school graduates which is:

Dyer Street School
Computers in Homes Graduating Parents Celebration
Venue:   Dyer Street School Hall
Date:      18th June 2013
Time:      6.00pm

Dyer Street School - Lower Hutt

Kia ora koutou,

2013 has started off great.

I would like to welcome my new Computers in Homes School Dyer Street School. 
Dyer Street School are allocated 15 places for Computers in Homes.  They will be commencing training in at the end of March and will be running through the School Holidays.  Good luck to all the fanau/whanau/families who will take part in our programme.