little DAY OUT

Westmere school is located on the corner of Larchwood St and Garnet Road in Westmere.

Here is a snapshot of the programme – download copy here

Hosted by Mike McRoberts

Starting at 12noon (gates open at 11:30am) here are the performances in order

• The Westmere School Choir
• Westmere Marimba Band
• AD/BC
• The Darlings
• Don McGlashan
• Steve Abel
• Peter Urlich auctions tickets to the final of Dancing with the Stars
• Dave McArtney’s Pink Flamingos
• The Bads
• John Bowring from Bayleys auctions vasectomy and Private Chef
• Jordan Luck Band

Not So Silent Auction
Some items will be auctioned live by Bayley’s auctioneer, John Bowring from the main stage. You can still download an auction list here.PDF format auction list

But make sure your silent bids are in on the fabulous items that have been kindly donated to the school. Silent bidding is situated under the Super Top, bidding closes at 5pm sharp.

Remember it’s all for the hall!

Huge thanks to all our sponsors here and here and helpers who volunteer to make this all possible. LDO 2008 Programme download copy here

Are you ready, are you steady, are you go? Hat, Shirt, and Jandals..

Tomorrow is the 3rd biennial Little Day Out festival so grab what you need and get down to Westmere school. Only 1 sleep to go now – here is last minute checklist:

1. Tickets
You will have already bought tickets for your family and friends at a discount right? …

C’mon, you can get them at the school office until Friday at $20, kids under 12 are free. 13yrs to 19yrs and senior citizens are $10. On the day it’s $25…

2. Cash.
Bring cash, HEAPS of it as we are not a bank. There will be a limited EFTPOS facility on the day and a coupon system for buying the tempting and delicious food and drink on hand. No one likes queues, so make it easy on yourself and raid the money jar for change in advance.

3. T-Shirt.
Go styleeeee, be there, wear the gear.

This is our big chance for Westmere school to grab the attention of the local community and have them engage in a debate about the hall.

We want people to come along and have their say, the more the merrier, so do your bit to promote the event.

4. All Weather Gear
Be prepared for the elements. Bring sun cream, jerseys, brollies and raincoats, who knows when the weather will change?

5. Possie
Rugs, cushions, deckchairs…Gates open 11.30. Come and grab a good spot early, but then you may want to move around and talk to your friends. Maybe grab a wee bit of space later for a lie down to digest the wonderful food and recover from all of those silent auction bids.

5. Voice
You can warm up your vocals in support of the School Choir, the first act on at noon. The Marimba Band follows and it’s all go from there. Remember the auction is “not-so-silent” – we expect loud involvement and hot competition at 2.45 for the Dancing with the Stars tickets and again at 4.45 for the vasectomy and private chef.

6. Dancing Shoes (Performers) – Mike McRoberts from TV3 will be the compere.
Bring these, or do your barefoot thing with:
The Bads,and The Darlings,
The Jordan Luck Band, and Dave McArtney’s Pink Flamingos
Don McGlashan and Steve Abel and friends.

Google the LDO website for links to sound or video files if you want to know more about individual performers. And especially don’t forget the legendary or, as well as high school band AD/BC performing their ‘Classic Rock for the New Curriculum’.

7. The Kids!
Oops, nearly forgot. There’s plenty of entertainment for all ages. Bring some gold coins.

For the littlies there’s a fairy grotto and the chance to sit in a real fire engine. Your children can cream pie or wet their teacher and Dad…you’re up for water bomb touch. Mum prepare for hair braiding, a face paint and the nails too….you will look loooooovely!

8. The Food
Need that one last reason to help you make up your mind? How about the latest food selection is from ka pai mussels, who provide bbq flamed wok mussels, prawns, scallops, in their shell, with sauces, garlic & sweet chilli, coconut cream curry with fresh coriander,

and much, much more, … along with hungarian bread, ice cream spiders, fruit kebabs, great salads and more.

And stay tuned for programme details or any other last minute updates like the Auction.

Monty Betham and Nerida Jantti are dancing up a storm for Plunket on ‘Dancing with the Stars’.

In last week’s show they were voted into the top 3 after dancing a fiery rumba. Tip: Click on the photo link of Monty at left if you want a much larger size photo!

Thanks to ‘TVNZ and Dancing With the Stars’ for the photos.

Monty and Nerida are very excited to be joining in the fun at Westmere School’s Little Day Out this saturday.

They will be dancing after Peter Urlich and Hayley Holt.

Monty’s chosen charity is Plunket and the money raised throughout the show will go towards helping Plunket to expand and grow their services in communities such as Family Centres, Parenting Education and Car Seat Rental schemes

Help Monty to help Plunket give children the best start in life.

Text Monty to 8981 or call 0900 89 814 to Vote for Monty!

Update: If you missed Monty and Nerida at the Little Day Out- watch this video as the Dancing With the Stars pair join Matt, Dayna and Vicki in the Studio! on Video HUBTV with Studio 2

If this is your first visit to the LDO website you may notice that the “home” page keeps changing. This is because the entire site is built using a blog based system. Here are 5 quick tips for getting around the site quickly now there are 30 “plus pages” live. Enjoy.

1. At present home is set to display the last 10″ posts” and a post here is a shorter news item or more detail for say the performers, media (video & sound files) , gallery (photos)

2. You may also just look at the performers related stories by clicking on that category. Sometimes a “post” is in more than one category.

3. The menu items at the top of the page mostly link to “fixed” web pages although some of them like the Auction page have changed quite often so that page should have been a post “category” but we have made it easier by noting the last edit date at the top of that page.

4. If you want to find things really quickly you can use the google this website form on the right hand sidebar of this page. You can check out the Gold sponsors there as well.

For example you can also see the last 15 “posts”on the sidebar like this

• LDO TV Ad in the news Wednesday Herald & Auckland City Harbour News stories
• LDO Radio Ads with Dave and Don There are 3 radio ads for LDO – featuring Dave McArtney, Don McGlashan and Jordan Luck
• LDO Tshirts for the Kids Tshirts – sorry orders all closed now!
• What is all the fundraising actually for? Most important – some background objectives and plans
• Kai Time at the Little Day Out Quick update on food items
• TV Ad for LDO by kidpower The famous TV ad on Triangle, online here elsewhere
• Latest Auction List – Download now The auction list has changed quite a lot check the auction page for the latest version – (poster link) also
• AD/BC – Classic Rock for the New Curriculum High School band AD/BC
• What a Line Up! Performers summary
• LDO on the radio (Jordan Luck) The first radio ad
• The Bads Brett Adams and Dianne Swann
• Do Good and Feel Great. Helpers needed. A newsletter
• Steve Abel Confirmed for LDO Performer background and media links for Steve
• Dave McArtneys Pink Flamingos Performer background and media links for Dave
• The Darlings Performer background and media links for Darlings – Jackie Clarke, Callie Blood, Wayne Bell

5. If you really want to keep up with the website – use the Entries RSS at the top right or the or read this note first * What is an RSS feed and why would I use one?

The quick answer is here or click the link for more detail then click on the orange icon.

“RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts. An RSS document (which is called a “feed” or “web feed” or “channel”) contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text.”

Sorry bout that last tip, but RSS is the way of the future, now and it is the easiest way for you to see the latest updates when they happen – like the next newsflash which will be in less than an hours time. (And many of you already use RSS which is great.)

In todays’ New Zealand Herald, Westmere School gets a mention and a video link for the TV Ad that was filmed with Jordan Luck and the seniors under the heading

“School’s big effort for Little Day Out” (+video)”

An Auckland primary school has taken the unusual step of making a TV ad to promote its fund-raising music festival.

Singer Jordan Luck, who will perform in the festival, and about 20 Westmere Primary students star in the 30-second ad for the school’s Little Day Out event on Saturday.

The commercial opens with Luck reflecting on “gigs you just never forget”.

“You hear the screaming, the yell of the audience, it’s just amazing….”

Special thanks to Lisa Mein and Anna Verboeket of Speak No Evil for much behind the scenes work on making this story happen.

To read the full Herald story go here

But wait there is more…under the heading – Little Day Out gets big support – the Auckland City Harbour News in Stuff published a great photo of 3 year 6 boys from Westmere School.

Leo Drake-Rogers, Josh Hickey and Isaac Ah Kuoi-Atmore in their Little Day Out Tshirts talking about the Little Day Out. Go Senior school!

“A new second stage on the school’s back field will host activities organised by a committee of senior students.

Year 6 student Isaac Ah Kuoi-Atmore, 10, has organised a dance competition, a Weet-Bix-eating competition, Westmere Idol and a cream-the-teacher stall.

But fellow organiser Josh Hickey, 10, says the most popular event by far will be wet-the-teacher.

For $2 spectators can throw balls and try and soak their favourite, or least favourite, teachers.”

To continue reading that story in Stuff go here.

Listen (controls below) to check out the Little Day Out radio ads as played on Classic Hits radio stations.

As promised here are the other two LDO radio ads featuring Dave McArtney and Don McGlashan . We have also included the link to the first ad with Jordan as well. Special thanks to these three performers for their continued support.

Click on the audio icon below to listen to Dave.
LDO on the Radio Ad with Dave McArtney Radio featuring Dave McArtney (Ad is 30 seconds – 1.2mb)

Click on the audio icon below to listen to Don.
LDO on the Radio Ad with Don McGlashan Radio featuring Don McGlashan (Ad is 30 seconds – 1.2mb)

Click on the audio icon below to listen to Jordan.
LDO on the Radio Ad with Jordan Luck Radio featuring Jordan Luck (Ad is 30 seconds – 1.1mb)

The radio ads were produced by Images & Sound.

Go here TV Ad for LDO by kidpower if you missed the TV Ad update information.