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SOUTHERN VIEW .kiwi<br />

Tuesday <strong>April</strong> 4 <strong>2017</strong> 9<br />

Latest Christchurch news at www.<br />

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Hard copy dictionaries still relevant in schools<br />

Ferrymead<br />

Rotary Club<br />

member Barbara<br />

Crooks talks<br />

about the value<br />

and importance<br />

of hard copy<br />

dictionaries in schools<br />

It’s a developing debate –<br />

dictionaries in traditional<br />

book form against the ethereal<br />

internet.<br />

It’s a poser that crops up each<br />

year for Ferrymead Rotary<br />

members and several schools.<br />

For some years now<br />

Ferrymead Rotary has supplied<br />

colourful illustrated dictionaries<br />

for year 4 children in some local<br />

schools.<br />

This year, 160 dictionaries<br />

in total were given to Bromley,<br />

Te Waka Unua and St Anne’s<br />

schools.<br />

Each child is given a dictionary<br />

to use at school and eventually to<br />

take home.<br />

In most schools, they are used<br />

as a class set until the end of the<br />

year when the children are able<br />

to keep them.<br />

The schools say that if the<br />

dictionaries were given to the<br />

children at the beginning of the<br />

year, there would be none in the<br />

classroom by the end of the year.<br />

As a result, children who came<br />

to the school during the year<br />

would not have a dictionary to<br />

work with.<br />

In spite of the growing lure of<br />

technology and computerised access<br />

to information, teachers say<br />

the hard copy dictionaries are<br />

still valued and used alongside<br />

the internet.<br />

For some children, the dictionary<br />

will be the first book they<br />

have ever owned.<br />

Ferrymead Rotary hopes these<br />

dictionaries will help launch the<br />

children on a lifelong reading<br />

journey.<br />

Ferrymead Rotary is assisted<br />

in providing the dictionaries by<br />

the Lorna and Bill Boyd Trust.<br />

The trust offers all Rotary<br />

clubs in New Zealand subsidised<br />

dictionaries to give to low-decile<br />

schools.<br />

If you want to come along<br />

and see what we get up to at<br />

Ferrymead Rotary, you would be<br />

very welcome.<br />

For more information, call Kai<br />

Tovgaard on 384 9485.<br />

Have your say on this week’s Soap Box and Rise Up<br />

comments. Email noah.graham@starmedia.kiwi<br />

WELL READ: This year, the Ferrymead Rotary Club donated 160<br />

dictionaries to pupils at Te Waka Unua, Bromley, and St Anne’s<br />

schools.<br />

We said:<br />

The proposed<br />

construction of four<br />

two-storey units at 23<br />

Studholme St has some<br />

residents worried the<br />

development will ruin<br />

the family-friendly<br />

neighbourhood<br />

You said:<br />

Jennifer Riley – I’d hardly<br />

call four two-storey town<br />

homes “intensive development.”<br />

Families come in all shapes, sizes<br />

and budgets. Diversity in our<br />

neighbourhoods is a strength<br />

and should be encouraged.<br />

Ishty Fulop – Get a grip,<br />

idiots. Christchurch needs the<br />

infrastructure.<br />

We said:<br />

I feel so bad for the staff,<br />

permanently traumatised<br />

because of one person’s actions.<br />

Rick Ives – It’s only going<br />

to be a matter of time before<br />

pubs and dairies start arming<br />

themselves in order to<br />

defend their staff and<br />

livelihoods.<br />

Charmaine Hicks-Paul<br />

– This is getting ridiculous. I<br />

love this bar and the staff are<br />

awesome. My heart goes out to<br />

you guys. Kia kaha.<br />

Julie Van Meer – It was<br />

always on the cards, even 25<br />

years ago. It is very wrong to take<br />

away from the character of the<br />

old street, but it has all changed.<br />

Even the trees have gone, my old<br />

house has three other houses on<br />

the property now.<br />

Andrew Palliser – Clearly<br />

the majority of people are happy<br />

to live in multi-storey units,<br />

otherwise there wouldn’t be the<br />

UNITS: The red outline gives a rough idea of the height of the<br />

four two-storey townhouses proposed for 23 Studholme St.<br />

demand to build them in the first<br />

place.<br />

William Hutson – Build<br />

housing but keep it in character<br />

with the properties around<br />

them . . . plus they make<br />

properties either side cold and<br />

dark usually.<br />

Graeme Palmer – There<br />

appears to be a glut of houses<br />

in Christchurch. So why build<br />

more?<br />

Sonja Waine – Multilevel<br />

units are ruining streets<br />

everywhere.<br />

A man shot his way into<br />

The Brickworks bar on<br />

Centaurus Rd in Cashmere<br />

on Wednesday night,<br />

forcing a staff member to<br />

their knees as the tills were<br />

emptied in the robbery<br />

You said:<br />

Kathryn Thompson – This<br />

is getting seriously dangerous.<br />

Someone is going to get killed.<br />

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