Home Away From Homework Club

Home Away From Homework Club is featured in this edition of North and West Melbourne News, with a special article about Jack Yang who started with the Homework Club in Grade 4, and is now a key supervising staff member. Check out page 7.

The Spring edition of North and West Melbourne News has hit the streets. This edition is packed full of interesting stories and interesting people who call North & West Melbourne home.
Lilly the Lamb is our front page story. Why doesn't she like grass?
Artistic endeavours from Iranian playwright Mammad Aidani, Neo Ceramics and Lucy Guerin Inc
The News reports on local businesses Le Bajo Milk Bar, Small Batch - Roastery & Cellar Door and Lisa-Marie Parker Vocal Studio
Plus lots about dogs, our first ever "Spot the Difference" for school holiday distraction, The Centre: Connecting Community in North and West Melbourne Inc.'s 2020-21 Annual Report, news on what will replace Spring Fling Street Festival in 2021, looking back on local history, plus all the courses and activities on offer through to the end of the year.
Our volunteer team of distributors are busily getting 7700 newspapers into local letterboxes. Of course, the paper is online too: http://centre.org.au/nwm/latest_edition/ and you can check out to back issues.
The newspaper is created entirely by volunteers and we encourage new people to get involved in all aspects. DM to express your interest.

Do you want to give back to the community by helping kids with their homework? We are currently looking for volunteer tutors for our Homework Clubs in North Melbourne and Altona.
Please message if you might have a couple of hours to spare each week.

Home Away From Homework Club will be part of the wide range of kids activities on as part of the Spanish Language Fiesta. Learn some Spanish, make some art, eat some food! What more could a kid want this Saturday, between 10am and 4pm. https://bit.ly/38jyxmV

Hola!! Kids also can learn Spanish at the Spanish Language Fiesta. 👧🏻🧒🏼 La Ventana Spanish Language School will teach the little ones Spanish using a fun and easy play-based approach, sure to spark a keen interest in learning a foreign language. Nos vemos! 😁

Home Away From Homework Club will start for 2020 this week on Wednesday 5 February at our North Melbourne venues and on Thursday 6 February at Altona North. We look forward to seeing you there!

If you are a primary or secondary student that would like some help with your school work or you know someone that would like to help tutor, please email us at [email protected]

Have a great week!

Congratulations to Maddy McCarthy, our Homework Club volunteer. Maddy has just been accepted as a student into Medicine at the University of Melbourne😊

Welcome back for term 4, we are in the home stretch. We will run through to the week of 27 November, so relax and have fun.

Term 3 has now started and winter is well underway. Rug up and stay warm and dry and keep up all the good work.

Term 2 is now underway and going well and we have some excellent new volunteers at Altona North and North Melbourne. Welcome to Ashlea, Pamela, Amali, Christine and Christina. Thank you to everyone. Our talented tutor and playwrite Rosemary John has directed the play Monash in Love and War at Chapel off Chapel. Congratulations Rosemary. On till this weekend. Bookings at https:/chapeloffchapel.com.au

Volunteers needed to help tutor the awesome students of the North Melbourne, West Melbourne and Altona North communities.

To find out more, please visit our homepage and Sign Up today!

Your contribution will help make a difference to the future of these kids :)

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