8 Tuesday <strong>January</strong> <strong>30</strong> <strong>2018</strong> Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi St Bede’s starts upgrade • By Julia Evans CONSTRUCTION HAS started on the multi-million dollar revamp of St Bede’s College. Work includes replacing the catholic school’s chapel and Grimes block classrooms, as well as earthquake strengthening and extending its performing arts centre. The college also has plans to build a new 750m 2 sports pavilion and gym adjacent to the existing hockey field. The chapel will cost $3.5 million and the St Bede’s Old Boys’ Association is rallying to raise $1.5 million. The balance will be met by a $1 million grant from the Society of Mary and $1 million from the school’s board of proprietors insurance. The college has been without a chapel since 2012, converting an old science building to use for mass. The chapel was repaired following the September 4, 2010, earthquake, but was ultimately claimed by the February 22, 2011, earthquake, after being deemed irreparable. The expansion of the performing arts centre, which will be beside the new chapel, includes a new foyer and toilet area. It will take up part of the space which the assembly hall had occupied before it was demolished. The rest of that space will be taken up by the new chapel. The proposed Grimes building will contain two floors of teaching space for art and cooking classes with toilets and a foyer. It will be built on an old tennis court. The new sports pavilion has space for two classrooms, changing rooms, bathrooms, first aid space, storage, an officials’ room, and a weights and gym area. SKILLS: Chloe Jenkins and Marisol Hunter were Rangi Ruru’s lifesaving leaders last year. RANGI RURU Girls’ School year 9 students will be getting into the pool to learn lifesaving skills. Lesley Joyce who heads the lifesaving programme at Rangi Ruru said the students will take part in a compulsory programme. “The skills our girls learn are both valuable and can be life saving and it’s for this reason it’s compulsory for all year 9s to take part,” she said. At this level, they learn basic water safety and lifesaving skills, including resuscitation SCHOOLS WORK: Construction has started on the revamp of St Bede’s College. Students learn how to save lives in the pool and ocean which leads to the bronze star award. With a shortage of volunteer lifesavers on beaches around the country, Ms Joyce said encouraging young people to take up lifesaving is even more important. “We are fortunate to have a school pool at Rangi Ruru and indeed it wasn’t until 2014/15 that the Royal Lifesaving Society saw an increase again in the number of awards being given out in Canterbury, with the earthquakes having damaged so many pools around the region,” she said. NOR’WEST NEWS Rangi Ruru, St Margaret’s score above average results for NCEA STUDENTS FROM around the country have been waiting with bated breath to log into their NCEA accounts to check their exam results. St Margaret’s and Rangi Ruru students performed well above the national average pass rate of 89.4 per cent for level 1, 92.5 per cent for level 2, 87.6 per cent for level 3 and 93.9 per cent earning university entrance. At St Margaret’s, 99.3 per cent of students achieved level 1, 100 per cent got level 2, 99 per cent got level 3 and 97.9 per cent achieved university entrance. At Rangi Ruru, 99 per cent of Juliet Collins students achieved level 1, 97.5 per cent passed level 2, 94.8 per cent achieved level 3 and 93.1 per cent got university entrance. At level 1, 98.1 per cent of certificates were endorsed with 66 per cent excellence and 32.1 per cent merit. At level 2, 86.1 per cent achieved an endorsement, 40.5 per cent got excellence and 45.6 per cent merit. And 78.4 per cent of level 3 certificates were endorsed, with 39.6 per cent gaining excellence and 38.8 per cent merit. Rangi Ruru assistant principal-curriculum Juliet Collins said the results were very pleasing but not unexpected. “We know our students well . . . so working alongside them closely means there are no surprises for us or them in these outstanding results,” she said. Ms Collins also cites ongoing professional upskilling for teaching staff as crucial to students’ NCEA results and overall performance. “When you consider that the jobs many of these girls will have at the end of their education don’t even exist yet, you can appreciate how important it is for us as educators SPEAK UP Imagine having the confidence to speak up in your work place, to present your thoughts in a clear and confident manner. 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