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Classic Flyers and YMCA partnership
Date: 4 October 2012
Classic Flyers and YMCA
partnership bringing aviation to after school.
Classic Flyers aviation museum and Tauranga YMCA have forged a partnership aimed at bringing a unique set of fun and educational aviation themed programmes to YMCA holiday and after school programmes.
The partnership kicks off next week with the first ever sleepover in the Classic Flyers Museum as part of the YMCA Holiday programme. Another component of the partnership will kick in next term following Child Youth and Family approval for Classic Flyers to become a new host centre for YMCA’S After School Care Programmes.
“Classic Flyers has dedicated an ideal space inside one of the hangars for an After School Care centre,” says YMCA CEO Ric Balfour. Other YMCA After School Care centres from around town will be rotating into the Classic Flyers space each week to access the museum and aviation themed activities.
The new centre will offer great tools and resources including – laptops, model kits, flight simulators, real aircraft, guest speakers and a Virtual Classroom accessible by all of the YMCA staff and students.
Mr Balfour says, “We are so excited about this partnership and the potential it has to bring to life all sorts of fun and education opportunities in Classic Flyers” adding that “we have developed a long term plan that includes a whole range of new programmes designed to make aviation more accessible to Tauranga students, so watch this space!”
For parents who are interested in their children joining in the sleepover there are still some spaces available. Museum Education Director Margit Barreras explains, “the sleep over will include a torch light exploration of the museum at night as well as activities during the day.”
More information and applications for
enrolling children in the Holiday or After School Care
programmes are available from the YMCA Tauranga Head office
on Devonport road.
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