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January’s Summer School was highly anticipated after a Covid 2020 year and the excitement of having our new Community Hub building as the venue. Both Class Leaders and participants were impressed by the new surroundings. This year we had approximately 325 enrolments in Summer School. For the past three years enrolments have averaged around 375 […]
2020 showed us just how important it can be to have online skills and so many of us joined in – some enthusiastically, others perhaps a bit concerned about safety.
Each year on Safer Internet Day the world comes together with a shared vision of making online experiences better for everyone.
Aqualink Nunawading and Aqualink Box Hill are offering discounts on memberships for the month of February.
Get started on a FAB Living membership this February and pay no joining fee, a saving of $60.
So begins another year! I hope that 2021 will be easier than last year for all of us.
One piece of good news is that the new Nunawading Community Hub has been officially open to the public since 6 January.
It is certainly an amazing building with lots of lovely natural light and space – so different from our previous accommodation! We have ample storage space for our equipment, which is more than we had anticipated. It is going to be a pleasure to be in such a lovely environment.
All classes being offered this year are listed on our website at u3anunawading.org.au/courses-activities/
You will be able to enrol from 9am on Thursday 21 January if you were a financial member in 2020.
We are offering two Online Training sessions to show you how to enrol using the new membership system. The sessions are scheduled for:
Use this link to join in either session:
https://zoom.us/j/98104045985?pwd=c1pFcFVscVo4Tld1bngyUlV5Q1FkQT09
As there is a limit of 100 people per session, please make sure you join in 10 minutes before the session start.
If you can’t make these times, the sessions will be recorded and you will be able to watch them at your leisure – or remind yourself of the process again.
In this edition of Update, three of our members share their varied experiences of Covid-19 Lockdown.
Class Leader Carl Di Giovine entertains us with his ultimate decision not to travel overseas, Class Leader Jasmine Teen shares her very poignant story of coming to terms with Covid and Member Betty Au tells of mastering technology to stay connected and keeping busy with jobs she had been putting off.
Finally, after a long wait, the new Nunawading Community Hub is opening in January! On Tuesday 8 December half of our Committee of Management had their first official tour of the new Hub, and on Thursday 10 December, we began moving in. Pictured here are some of the Committee taking a well-earned break from unpacking.
Due to Covid restrictions numbers allowed into the Hub at present are strictly limited and you cannot enter without an appointment. The first opportunity U3A members will have of visiting the Hub will be when they attend Summer School classes.
You can now see the classes we are offering in 2021 on the Courses and Timetable pages.
The information about our classes is based on NO COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS being in place at the time the class is being offered. Changes to times and venues may need to be made by 21 January 2021, when enrolments open and Covid-19 restrictions for Term 1 are known. The main alterations will relate to social distancing and the number of members who will be able to participate in a particular class.
In Update #10, we asked members to tell us about how they managed to get through this most ‘unusual year’ so that we could produce a special edition newsletter.
Unfortunately, we only received two submissions by the published deadline. So, instead of producing a separate newsletter, we include the stories from Bev Clarke about creating a family cookbook and June MacDonald about an act of kindness that spurred her into action, here.
However, after some prompting by various Class Leaders, we did receive some late entries, which we plan to publish in the new year.