{"id":861,"date":"2015-03-06T20:54:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T07:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brainbunny.co.nz\/?p=861"},"modified":"2015-03-06T20:54:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T07:54:58","slug":"term-one-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brainbunny.co.nz\/index.php\/term-one-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Term One Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_852\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brainbunny.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/Shona-M.-McNeil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-852\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-852\" alt=\"Photo of Shona\" src=\"http:\/\/brainbunny.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/Shona-M.-McNeil-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brainbunny.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/Shona-M.-McNeil-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brainbunny.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/Shona-M.-McNeil-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shona McNeil<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a busy start to the year, over here at Brain Bunny HQ! In January, I was asked to run a creative writing class for adults at <a href=\"http:\/\/mix.org.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mix<\/a> in Lower Hutt.\u00a0The class was great fun, and I was really impressed with all the creative\u00a0ideas\u00a0that came out of it. We also had a\u00a0fantastic trial class at the Churton Park Community Centre, for children wanting to try out Brain Bunny classes.<\/p>\n<p>Then we were straight into term one with regular afterschool classes in Karori and Churton Park, and we\u00a0welcomed our new Churton Park tutor, Shona McNeil.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Shona\u00a0hails originally from Scotland, where she wrote the book for Whisky Galore a Musical! to launch Pitlochry Festival Theatre\u2019s 2009 Homecoming Season.\u00a0This was so successful, it was brought back in 2011 for their 60th anniversary. She\u00a0has also written educational and religious plays for BBC Radio Scotland, and currently writes music and lyrics for Little Dog Barking Theatre Wellington, where she is also an award-winning puppeteer.<\/p>\n<p>Shona is a fantastic addition to the Brain Bunny team, and we&#8217;re very happy to have her teaching classes.<\/p>\n<p>Coming up in the middle\u00a0on the 15th\u00a0March, I have another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cecwellington.ac.nz\/courses\/982-writing-for-children\" target=\"_blank\">Writing for Children<\/a> workshop for adults\u00a0at the Wellington High School\u00a0Community Education Centre. If you&#8217;ve always wanted to write books for kids, but aren&#8217;t sure where to start, this is the course for you!<\/p>\n<p>And finally we&#8217;ve got some exciting things in the works for the\u00a0April school holidays and for term two, which we&#8217;ll be announcing very\u00a0soon!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Writing!<br \/>\nHelen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a busy start to the year, over here at Brain Bunny HQ! In January, I was asked to run a creative writing class for adults at Mix in Lower Hutt.\u00a0The class was great fun, and I was really impressed with all the creative\u00a0ideas\u00a0that came out of it. We also had a\u00a0fantastic trial class&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/brainbunny.co.nz\/index.php\/term-one-update-2\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainbunny.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainbunny.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainbunny.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainbunny.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainbunny.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brainbunny.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"https:\/\/brainbunny.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainbunny.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainbunny.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainbunny.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}