And a very happy New Year! And we are delighted to say that details of our first 2009 courses are very nearly ready to be displayed.

There are no seminars planned for January BUT the good news is that the planning for April 2009 is well under way. Email information will be sent out after Christmas and everybody on the mailing lists will receive registration forms by mid February. If you are not already on our mailing lists - but would like to be - please email your contact details to info [at] holidayseminars [dot] co [dot] nz and we will make sure you don't miss out.

Jean is now back from her travels with tall tales about life in Vilnius, Riga and Tallin - not to mention Moscow and St. Petersburgh. Really, Auckland must seem quite tame after all the excitement.
The Holiday Seminars Trustees had their Annual General Meeting last week and came to a number of important decisions. The bad news is that the next seminar will not take place until early 2009. The good news is that it will be action packed with fun for everyone.
Keep in touch in the meantime and have a great Labour Weekend.

A great time was had by all at the senior Achieving Potential Seminar which finished yesterday. High Achievement Awards were distributed to James Davison, Maxwell Finan-Jenkin, Sophie Gilderdale, Christopher Jury, Kirstin Mayes, Caleb Adam, Lucas Flynn, Hayley Smith, Lianne Voon, John Andrews and Kyle Sutcliffe.
Senior prizewinners were: Anthony Kamphorst (Auckland), Molly Mackenzie (New Plymouth), Jacob Tomlinson (New Plymouth) and Paige Hawkins (Pukekohe).
Yael Ben Tal and Solomon Klinger - both from Auckland - were our Supreme Medal Winners.

We have just enjoyed a very successful Junior Achieving Potential Seminar. The following students did extremely well and were awarded High Achievement Certificates: JULIA BARUGH, COLE BROWN, LOUISE BLACKMORE, CAMERON FREEBAIRN, ZENOBIE HALLIWELL, MAX HARDER-BARFOOT, SARAH HOCKINGS, MACKENZIE KIERNAN, ISABELLA MELTZER, SHERIDYN NEALE, KATE POOLE, MAX POOLE, BEN SAMSON, BASTIAN VAN DER SCHAAF and KAYDE SCHAAFHAUSEN. Our Junior Prizewinners were: BRAEDYN FREEBAIRN (Palmerston North), MARCUS GROUND (Otorohanga), EMILY PEARSON (Puhoi), JOSEPH MELTZER (Dannemorra, Auckland), CHRIS POOLE (Epsom, Auckland) and ALEXUS KAING (Manurewa, Auckland). Our two Supreme Medal Winners were: RA KUCHLEIN from Coromandel and HANA DRYSDALE from Napier.