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Tuesday <strong>February</strong> 7 <strong>2017</strong><br />

ews<br />

SOUTHERN VIEW<br />

ashion<br />

Gardening<br />

• By Caitlin Miles<br />

HAS ANYBODY seen Jade?<br />

The play horse is missing from<br />

Charleston Reserve.<br />

There seem to be some<br />

confusion over a missing horse<br />

otoring<br />

that is supposed be with its<br />

partner, Charlie, in the reserve<br />

in Waltham.<br />

Charleston Residents’<br />

Association chairman John<br />

Hoskin said his wife saw it leave<br />

the reserve on the back of a city<br />

council truck in 2015 and hasn’t<br />

seen it since.<br />

“It’s completely and utterly<br />

asty Bites<br />

lost,” Mr Hoskin said.<br />

The city council said it<br />

returned a horse a year ago,<br />

after it was repaired at a cost<br />

LONELY:<br />

Charleston<br />

Residents’<br />

Association<br />

chairman, John<br />

Hoskin, with the<br />

lone Charlie horse.<br />

PHOTO:<br />

GEOFF SLOAN<br />

Play horse still missing<br />

from Charleston Reserve<br />

of $1200.<br />

However, there is still one<br />

missing.<br />

The horses were affectionately<br />

named Jade and Charlie by local<br />

school children in the early<br />

2000s.<br />

One was named Jade because<br />

of the close proximity the<br />

reserve has to Lancaster Park,<br />

formally called Jade Stadium.<br />

Its partner, Charlie, was<br />

named to symbolise the area.<br />

Mr Hoskin said he hopes Jade<br />

is replaced by the city council<br />

or Linwood-Central-Heathcote<br />

Community Board – but in<br />

the meantime if anyone sees<br />

the horse, phone the residents’<br />

association on 389 35 84.<br />

New learning space for<br />

Cashmere Primary<br />

• By Caitlin Miles<br />

SPACIOUS: One of the learning spaces where pupils and<br />

teachers are able to easily move around.<br />

CASHMERE PRIMARY School<br />

officially opened its new learning<br />

space when the school opened<br />

for the first time this year.<br />

The learning space is the<br />

equivalent of 10 classrooms, in a<br />

two-storey building, with five on<br />

each floor.<br />

It has been built on existing<br />

school ground and is part of the<br />

Ministry of Education’s move to<br />

make more open plan learning<br />

spaces in schools around Canterbury.<br />

The school entered the<br />

programme in 2014.<br />

Principal Gavin Burn said the<br />

new learning spaces are very<br />

different from the traditional.<br />

“The idea here is that the<br />

environment has a variety of<br />

spaces and uses and that the<br />

children are able to use these<br />

in ways that best support their<br />

learning,” Mr Burn said.<br />

The building replaces three<br />

classroom blocks that were demolished<br />

last year to make room<br />

for the new learning spaces.<br />

It has four teachers and four<br />

homerooms on the ground floor<br />

and five teachers with five homerooms<br />

on the first floor.<br />

The pupils were excited to explore<br />

the open plan classrooms<br />

and use the new learning space.<br />

“It’s pretty cool, I like the<br />

different areas and I like the<br />

colours of the building. I like<br />

that it’s all open so I can easily<br />

move around and learn with my<br />

teachers and my friends,” said<br />

year 6 pupil, Louise.<br />

A year 3 and 4 teacher said<br />

the space makes it easier to<br />

communicate with other<br />

teachers and the impact it will<br />

have on the pupils.<br />

“I’m really enthusiastic about<br />

the positive impact this will have<br />

on our students, both socially<br />

and academically. It’s quite<br />

humbling and I feel very lucky<br />

to be working in our school right<br />

now,” she said.<br />

The learning space will allow<br />

for further role growth at the<br />

school.<br />

HamisH soutHcott<br />

oney<br />

My art covers a broad range of mediums, including<br />

sculpture, printmaking, mixed media, and<br />

furniture and I typically create one off pieces. I’m<br />

passionate about sustainability, so where possible<br />

I use reclaimed materials. I believe salvaged<br />

materials have an inherent beauty that should be<br />

showcased.<br />

In New Zealand,<br />

we’re fortunate<br />

to have a rich<br />

landscape, that is<br />

the envy of many.<br />

These artworks<br />

draw on our diverse<br />

landscape and looks<br />

at the burden that<br />

society has and<br />

High relief sculptures for the continues to have<br />

wall by Hamish Southcott.<br />

on this beautiful part<br />

of the world. Our actions<br />

today, have far reaching<br />

consequences tomorrow!<br />

I sought to reflect these<br />

contexts in artworks that<br />

convey the present and my<br />

hopes for positive change in<br />

the future.<br />

tania Bostock<br />

My Paintings are Strong, deliberately imperfect,<br />

and beautiful.<br />

For me painting is emotive, and a great deal of<br />

time and thought goes into each creation.<br />

I am drawn to texture and contrast, and my<br />

process consists of straightening and perfecting,<br />

then pushing the<br />

paint in a freer,<br />

Textural painting by Tania Bostock.<br />

less controlled<br />

manner. I find<br />

both approaches<br />

necessary,<br />

working<br />

multiple<br />

with each.<br />

in<br />

layers<br />

Tania Bostock has<br />

lived in Nelson for<br />

ten years. She<br />

has always had<br />

an interest in<br />

art, and because<br />

of the success<br />

of her paintings<br />

it was a natural<br />

progression to<br />

become a fulltime<br />

Artist.<br />

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Detail image of Southcott’s work.<br />

Detail of the paint patina on Bostock’s work.<br />

11 <strong>February</strong> – 8 March<br />

Full Circle<br />

Tania Bostock<br />

Hamish Southcott<br />

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