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Speaker 1: You've come to chat about one of my most beloved

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Speaker 1: childhood influences, Harold the Giraffe.

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Speaker 2: Harold the Giraffe is also one of my childhood influences.

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Speaker 2: He's been around for thirty years and more. So it's

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Speaker 2: really cool. Nowadays we see mums and dads coming into

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Speaker 2: the van after schools to have a bit of a

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Speaker 2: peak because they want their childhood oh near me re enlightened.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so he's still around.

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Speaker 2: He's still around, he's still working pretty hard. So the

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Speaker 2: Mid and South Canterbury classroom goes Glenavy to Require and

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Speaker 2: then across Mount Hart to Mount cook In all the

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Speaker 2: way down to twice or so. We go pretty far

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Speaker 2: across the region and we love that we can make

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Speaker 2: such an impact on those kids.

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Speaker 1: How many schools is that?

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Speaker 2: So about sixty five schools we had across the year.

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Speaker 2: We booked them a year in advance to make sure

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Speaker 2: that everything's nice and organized and that we use the

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Speaker 2: transport companies wisely. They volunteer their time to move the classroom,

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Speaker 2: so we have it pretty well mapped out.

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Speaker 1: There'd be a lot of kids too, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: About eight thousand or more per year in the district.

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Speaker 1: Eight thousand kids.

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Speaker 2: Yep, eight thousand kids get to come to the classroom

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Speaker 2: in mid and South Canterbury and it's about two hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifty thousand across fifteen hundred primary schools nationally.

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Speaker 1: Is it the original trailer that was?

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Speaker 2: It's been upgraded and about twenty twenty two we had

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Speaker 2: a bit of a truck and classroom upgrade and.

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Speaker 1: That about times. Do you still have the staples though?

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Speaker 1: Do you still have kids enchanted by the starry sky roof?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely and asking for all the different colors.

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Speaker 1: Yes. And Tam the freaky human where you can pull

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Speaker 1: all loop yeah, her him.

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Speaker 2: I think it was a bit of gender neutralism way back.

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Speaker 2: Even to be fair, I think it was a her,

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Speaker 2: but it was a Tam.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. You were never quite sure, but it was always

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Speaker 1: confronting when the teacher started pulling Tams biaks out. Oh

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Speaker 1: my god helped pour Tim the horror.

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Speaker 2: A lot of it nowadays is done with a digital screen,

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Speaker 2: which is great. It means we can update the program

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Speaker 2: and fit it to what the schools are needing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So the schools get some information from our educators before

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Speaker 2: they go and they get to choose about what the

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Speaker 2: focus can be for their classroom session, so that it

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Speaker 2: links well to what children already learning or what school

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Speaker 2: needs out worth. If they're looking at positive relationships or friendships,

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Speaker 2: those sorts of things are important. That's what the educators

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Speaker 2: focus on.

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Speaker 1: Did you replace the carpet I mentioned there's been a

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Speaker 1: lot of sweaty feet roll through there over the years.

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Speaker 2: It's definitely a sock smell. But mccarbett gets cleaned every

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Speaker 2: couple of terms.

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Speaker 1: Generous helping a greens remedy correct stretch shoes off at

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Speaker 1: the door policy. I remember that.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting too though they know exactly what to do

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Speaker 2: as soon as they've been into the classroom. Once their

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Speaker 2: shoes off, they're in there, they're sitting down and they

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Speaker 2: are they are in trance. They are so excited.

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Speaker 1: Where do all those skills? Where does all that discipline

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Speaker 1: go when they.

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Speaker 2: Get home, correct even back into the classroom to be here.

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Speaker 2: I think it is that magic of the starry roof

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Speaker 2: the magic of Harold and his persona. It brings and

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Speaker 2: has brought. And I think parents like you say we're

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Speaker 2: hyping that up at home. You know, it goes home

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Speaker 2: in the news that are and say Harold's coming, yes,

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Speaker 2: and then parents go, oh, so cool, what do we see?

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Speaker 2: What's happening in the classroom?

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Speaker 1: That is the best word to use. Magic, It really is.

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Speaker 1: So this is part of the Life Education Trust. What's

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Speaker 1: the actual point of Harold? What we what are we

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Speaker 1: delivering here? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Well, the whole Life Education mission is making sure we

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Speaker 2: are getting children and young people and tahi, we're getting

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Speaker 2: them to make positive choices. So we work in those

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Speaker 2: primary schools, as I said, around relationships, healthy food choices.

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Speaker 2: We all know about healthy Harold. And then we also

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Speaker 2: work into secondary schools as well. We have a smart

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Speaker 2: money program and behind the scenes program as well, which

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Speaker 2: is often done outside of the classroom and on the stage,

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Speaker 2: which is really cool.

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Speaker 1: Those life skills that I feel should be part of

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Speaker 1: school anyway half the time, to be fair, that's.

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Speaker 2: Right, and it does just enhance what the classrooms are

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Speaker 2: already doing. I think bringing Harold and our specialist educators,

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Speaker 2: they are trained teacher, they come on board and they

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Speaker 2: just really engage those children and the messages that Harold

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Speaker 2: is giving.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so Harold could use some help.

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Speaker 2: Harold, could you some help? So we have got two

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Speaker 2: trustees stepping down this year some change in jobs for them,

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Speaker 2: and we're just looking at finding some new trustees, so

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Speaker 2: people with an interest in some governance, giving back to

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Speaker 2: the community, people who want to be part of the

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Speaker 2: Harold Journey. That is a meeting once a month. It's

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Speaker 2: very well organized. It's you know, short, sharp and on

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Speaker 2: to the point, which is great. And it's also just

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Speaker 2: having some more volunteers locally. We just want some friends

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Speaker 2: of Harold who might better come and help us at

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Speaker 2: things like Children's Day, if we're having the Christmas parade,

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Speaker 2: we're doing a local fundraiser that we've got some more

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Speaker 2: hands on deck to come and help.

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Speaker 1: Mind us for the big guy when he's out in

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Speaker 1: the be out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and to be fair, a minder is quite important.

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Speaker 2: He came out at the school I and had a

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Speaker 2: wander around and he was literally mobbed by hundreds of children. Understandable,

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Speaker 2: he does need a minder. He's got very large feed

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Speaker 2: in a very long tail and a very long neck

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Speaker 2: which is hard to manage with a large group of

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Speaker 2: children swarming around all the time. So yes, the minders

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Speaker 2: for Harold just some volunteers to help at community events.

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Speaker 2: And then Afinian was also interested to look at becoming

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Speaker 2: a trustee to get in touch with us about that.

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Speaker 1: I imagine it's pretty rewarding stuff.

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Speaker 2: It's great. It's a really nice feeling when you're out

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Speaker 2: there with Harold and being his minder and you can

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Speaker 2: see all the high fives being given. Last year's Children's Day,

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Speaker 2: produce pals donated lots of fruit and he gave that

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Speaker 2: out and the joy on those children's face is getting

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Speaker 2: fruit from Harold who's been at their school giving them

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Speaker 2: the healthy Harold message was pretty exciting. It was really nice.

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Speaker 1: Keeping in mind too that Life Education Trust and Harold

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Speaker 1: up to all of our local skills. This is all

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Speaker 1: free too, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're not funded by the government. Each child

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Speaker 2: cost about twenty four dollars to go through the classroom

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Speaker 2: just for associated with that ye and schools only pay

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Speaker 2: seven dollars per child, So the rest of that is

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Speaker 2: funded by us applying for grants, doing fundraising donations. We

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Speaker 2: also have an opportunity where you can become a friend

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Speaker 2: of Harold and donate a certain amount each month or

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Speaker 2: year or whatever suits within that budget and that goes

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Speaker 2: directly into our community stays with Mid South Canterbury great

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Speaker 2: directly to getting those children through that classroom, keeping that cost.

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Speaker 1: Low and what a flex being able to claim that

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Speaker 1: your beast buds with Harold.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty cool. The kids obviously know that Harold

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Speaker 2: is one of my best buds. So he's got a

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Speaker 2: bit of street credit our house.

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Speaker 1: To be fair, he's got a street creed every week everywhere.

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Speaker 2: Yea.

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Speaker 1: So how do we connect if we if we're in

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Speaker 1: a position to help you out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, great, So there's a Facebook page you can look up.

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Speaker 2: So if you just like look up Life Education Mid

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Speaker 2: South Canterbury or if Edmund at life ed mc dot

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Speaker 2: org dot nz, that'll connect you with Jill. She's our

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Speaker 2: coordinator and she will be able to touch base with

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Speaker 2: you about lots more information what's required and have somebody

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Speaker 2: from the Trust be in touch to check to you.

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Speaker 1: Yay, Harold, thanks for coming by King Wall, No problem,