We’ve been advised by the Covid-19 authorities that under the Auckland level 2 alert system rules that will come in to place next week, 31 August 2020, Mapura Studios would not be able to operate with more than 10 people in the studio at any one time. This includes students, caregivers, tutors and other staff.

Your health and safety and that of our staff comes first and so we have decided that we will continue to run Zoom classes for a few more weeks and will not re-open the studio until the week of Monday 28 September.

By that time we hope that the limits on gatherings will be eased and that the risks in Auckland to people’s health will be clearer.

There are only 4 weeks left of term 3 and given that we can’t re-open until the limit of 10 people has been relaxed, it seemed that it would be preferable to have a 12 week term in Term 4 with no breaks (hopefully) than to start for possibly a couple of weeks, have a term holiday break and then re-start.

It’s not an ideal situation and I know that some of you will be disappointed that face to face classes will not re-start for another 4 weeks, but we will continue to stay in touch by phone, Zoom and other social media. Your tutors and other staff are here to help and support you.

Re-open week of 28 September 2020

Term 4 will run for 12 weeks and end on Friday 11 December 2020

Fees: We sent the term 3 invoices out in good faith and with the expectation that we would be running a full 10 weeks. Unfortunately this is not now the case.

You are not expected to pay for any classes that you could not attend due to the Covid-19 lockdown.
Many of you have already paid your invoice.

We will give you credit in your term 4 invoice for the number of weeks you were not able to attend due to Covid.

For those of you who have not yet paid, our preference is that to save us extra work we can be consistent, that you pay the full term 3 invoice and again we’ll give you credit in term 4.

If you don’t wish to do this please contact Alex – alex@mapurastudios.org.nz

If you have any queries please get in touch:

Alex – alex@mapurastudios.org.nz, 022 0454 391

Diana – diana@mapurastudios.org.nz, 021 2418975

Sacha - sachaarmel@hotmail.com 021 332 192

Diana McPherson

Director