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SOUTHERN VIEW .kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>April</strong> 4 <strong>2017</strong> 9<br />
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Your Local <strong>View</strong>s<br />
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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