OSCAR Awards 2009

Every year the OSCAR Awards recognise and celebrate diversity and extraordinary accomplishments in the OSCAR sector. The awards process starts off with Regional OSCAR Awards which may be awarded in the nine regions. The winners of these awards are then finalists for the National OSCAR Awards, which will be awarded at the National Conference in May next year in Wellington.

The award categories are

• Outstanding OSCAR Programme Award
• Family Award
• Youth Award
• Best New Programme Award
• Supporting Organisation Award
• Individual Award

Nominations close on Friday 4 December. Check out our website for more information and to download the nomination forms.
http://www.oscar.org.nz/awards/default.asp

Gerry and the Crocodettes - NZ children's entertainment group

Gerry and the Crocodettes are a new and exciting NZ children's entertainment group. In the January 2010 school holidays they are doing their second North Island Tour. They are from Motueka and only began performing regularly just over a year ago. They have already been termed “New Zealand’s answer to The Wiggles" and as “an international act.”
Don't miss out, check out more information about the colourful singing and dancing costumed Gerry and The Crocodettes on their website www.thecrocodettes.com

OSCAR Week Winners 2009

Congratulations to all the fantastic winners of OSCAR Week 2009.
This year’s OSCAR Week Challenge was Kaleidoscopic Colour and we had over 6000 children nationwide participating challenge. The winners were Gracefield OSCAR from Lower Hutt, who won a $200 School Supplies voucher, and the runners up were Bizzy Buddyz from Whakatane, who won a $100 School Supplies voucher.
We also had two colouring competitions, an individual one and a group one. We had a huge number of entries for both competitions. Check our out website for the winning entries and the fantastic spot prizes we gave out as well.
http://www.oscar.org.nz/oscarweek/2009.asp

New Blog

Welcome to the OSCAR In The Regions blog.This blog is for our OSCAR Advisors to communicate with the OSCAR sector. They will post regularly to keep you up to date with what is happening in the sector nationally and in your region.