Bay Harbour: March 16, 2016

Wednesday March 16 2016
BAY HARBOUR
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ENTERTAINMENT: Redcliffs School’s student leaders have
organised lunch time concerts so the pupils can sit around and
watch their peers perform. The concerts take place every Friday.
FINAL PRODUCT: Flox
and Wongi created
these murals on some
of Akaroa Area School’s
buildings.
GETTING CREATIVE: Akaroa
Area School buildings were
brought to life after street artists,
Flox and Wongi, visited the
school. The artists ran workshops
with the pupils, and created
murals with stencils and spray
paint. The project was part of
this year’s Artists in Residence
which brings creative people into
schools to share their skills with
the pupils. It ties in with Akaroa’s
initiative to celebrate and make
use of its local environment and
create ways to visually reflect
the school values. “We’re very
fortunate to be able to work with
Flox and Wongi on these projects
which will not only enhance our
school environment but provide
a context for integrated learning.
This event marks the beginning
of a drive to bring our physical
spaces to life by celebrating our
environment, our vision and our
values,” principal Ray Bygate
said.
Music
everywhere
MUSICAL: Governors Bay School pupils
have been making the most of their
lunch times having organised musical
entertainment. Music lessons are up
and running, and the pupils have begun
playing for their peers in a relaxed way
at lunch times.
Remembering Feb 2011
GREEN FINGERS: Sumner School pupils Aurora Garner -Randolph and
Naomi Dana were among a number of pupils to take part in Oderings
School Gardens’ Show. Sumner was just one school that took part
in the event held at Woolston Workingmen’s Club, and it received a
silver award for the pupils’ efforts. The pupils had to create a 3m by
3m garden installation. Sumner’s entry was based around a fictional
character in a picture book they wrote and developed as part of the
back story for the garden. The story is about ‘Margaret’ who lives at
Taylors Mistake where she surfs and swims in the morning, collects
shells along the beach and waters her garden in the afternoon before
she has for a snooze in her deck chair. The pupils made a bach at the
beach and created Margret, a life- size stuffed doll. They built their own
planter box and made strawberries out of clay to decorate their garden.
Paper mache seagulls were included as they are an essential part of
any seaside landscape and a worm tower helps to provide compost for
the garden beds.
RUBY MOORE ,12, ELLA
WILLCOX, 12, AND
LACHLAN ROW, 12
The February 2011
earthquake came as a huge
shock to everyone and the
days afterwards were a
struggle.
Thousands of homes
destroyed, 185 deaths and
damaged and shocked faces
everywhere you looked. At
Mt Pleasant, everyone was
sleeping on the field in tents.
Some for three weeks.
Every year since, even
though we had mainly recovered
from the earthquakes,
we have held the Day on the
Hill and slept on the field
again, as a testament to the
earthquake and what we
went through. This year’s
event was held on February
27.
Five years later, and we
don’t need to think about
the past as much now. These
events, however, are for
fun, and have food trucks,
movies, live music and more.
This year was no different.
For five years running, this
event has become bigger and
better and it would be great
to think that next year will be
even better that it already is.
FUN: Andie Scheiwe (left) Eliza
Anderson and Scarlet Wright have a go
on the water slide at Mt Pleasant’s Big
Day on the Hill.