Sport Hawke's Bay

This year, we’re embracing the theme “The Wonderful Outdoors” for Play Week 2024!

We invite everyone across Aotearoa to discover the joy of play in the great outdoors. Whether it’s a box, a hose, or a tree, play is all around us—waiting to be explored!

Play Week Aotearoa 2024 celebrates the immense value that play brings to our tamariki, whānau, and communities. It provides us with the freedom to explore, take risks, and learn through experience. Through play, our tamariki develop vital skills in problem-solving, creativity, and resilience. They form new friendships, learn to embrace mistakes and cultivate a lifelong love of being active.

Let’s get outside and enjoy the wonders that nature has to offer.

Come have a fun social round every Tuesday evening at the Original Hawkes Bay course in Flaxmere.

All skill levels welcome. These sessions are about learning and growing as a player with friendly folk. If you are newish or have never played disc golf before we have some loan discs for people to borrow.
Also a good chance to come and hear what is happening with Disc Golf in our area and what plans the club has moving forward.
Meet at Hole 3's basket (by the lake) at 17:30pm.
There will also be the opportunity to become a member of the Hawkes Bay Disc Golf Club and buy a 2024 bag tag.
See you out there.

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For children 12 months (or crawling) to 5 years. Tumbling Tots is a fun and interactive programme for parents and caregivers and their children to work one-on-one covering the fundamental movement skills that are important to the motor development of a child’s physical, cognitive, and social growth. With structured activities and children learning at their own pace, our Tumbling Tots facilitators support parents and caregivers by sharing various techniques for them to use here at our programme, as well as in their own home.

Accessibility: Suitable for all.

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Nexia Blast In the Park is Hawkes Bay's biggest and best annual Guy Fawkes event!

Held in the Havelock North Village at Anderson Park, this family community event is run by Havelock North Primary School as one of their main fundraising events.

It's a night of live entertainment for the whole family with picnics, food trucks, fun stalls for the kids, bouncy castles and a magnificent Fireworks display at 9pm!
Purchase your tickets online before 9am Tuesday 29 October, and you are in the draw to win the opportunity to flick the switch and launch the fireworks finale! (Ts and Cs apply - click here.)

Ticket options (buy online before 4:30 PM Friday 1 November)

$35 FAMILY PASS includes 2 adults and 2 children 16 years and under (price increases to $50 at the Gate)
$15 ADULT ticket age is 17 years and over (price increases to $20 at the Gate)
$5 CHILD age is 16 years and under (price increases to $10 at the Gate)
TODDLER 3 years & under are FREE but require a ticket for entry

PLEASE NOTE: Tickets will be more expensive if you purchase at the gate.

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Grab a rock from your backyard, some paint and help Rawiri and Skippy the rock snakes grow!
Rawiri and Skippy are family fun community art projects we can all get involved in!
Located in Nelly Jull Park in Waipawa, you will find Rawiri the Rock Snake whose life began in the previous school holidays.
Just down the road in Adeane Park in Waipukurau, you will find Skippy the Rock Snake, a distant relative of Rawiri.
Get creative and paint a rock in any way that you would like then visit Nelly Jull or Adeane Park and add your masterpiece to Rawiri or Skippy to help them grow. We're looking forward to seeing how long they can get during Play Week!