Selwyn Times: June 06, 2018
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8 Wednesday <strong>June</strong> 6 <strong>2018</strong><br />
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Helping kids to get active<br />
A TEAM that aims to promote physical<br />
activity is making a difference in schools<br />
across the district.<br />
“<strong>Selwyn</strong> physical activity activators are<br />
working with existing community<br />
leaders to influence change and create<br />
opportunities,” <strong>Selwyn</strong> Sports Trust’s<br />
Mike Wilson said.<br />
To find out what the community<br />
wanted, the project started by engaging<br />
pre-schools and parents, primary and<br />
secondary schools, Lincoln University’s<br />
sport scholarship programme, clubs like<br />
Waikirikiri Sport and the district council.<br />
The pilot programme began<br />
at Clearview Primary and Rolleston<br />
Christian School in 2016, engaging more<br />
than 700 pupils with a variety of physical<br />
activity opportunities.<br />
Four ‘activators’ are currently engaging<br />
with 7700 students across 27 schools<br />
in the district. Mr Wilson says the<br />
Jacqui Gibbs<br />
Chamberlain<br />
– Leap of Faith<br />
In these works I challenge my doubts and beliefs<br />
that anything is possible, that dreams really do come<br />
true. There is also a plunge into the unknown subtly<br />
represented in these paintings, a leap of faith into what<br />
cannot be seen, what lies beneath, what hides around the<br />
corner.<br />
All we need to do is to take that risk, the first step, and<br />
surrender to the unknown. Then the real adventure<br />
begins.<br />
My studio overlooks the sea and influences the way<br />
I think and create. Its forever changing moods, one<br />
moment calm and serene, the next rough and unforgiving,<br />
always with the freedom to do as it pleases, being<br />
accountable to no one. The constant ebb and flow of the<br />
tides with its contrasting colours and textures incites<br />
both peacefulness and restlessness in my moods and<br />
creativity. It is the joy and the fun that the ocean delivers<br />
to us that I have tried to capture in these works.<br />
SPORT: Pupils<br />
at a Rolleston<br />
physical activity<br />
leaders training<br />
day.<br />
programme has made a significant<br />
impact.<br />
“They have helped to build connections<br />
that will have a long-term impact on<br />
participation in physical activity for our<br />
young people,” he said.<br />
Organisations like Sport Canterbury,<br />
Sport Start and Coach Developers have<br />
given the activators platforms to build<br />
momentum.<br />
Since last year, the team has organised<br />
‘fundamental movement skills’ and ‘sport<br />
spectacular’ events, reaching hundreds of<br />
pupils and students. It has also delivered<br />
fundamental skills days and organised<br />
a weekly sports module in <strong>Selwyn</strong>.<br />
Hororata School principal Marty<br />
Gameson said having an activator at his<br />
school has been a success.<br />
“The students themselves love her, and<br />
she is super-encouraging, positive and<br />
makes it fun for the kids,” he said.<br />
A Leap of Faith is about taking that risk, not waiting or<br />
you may be waiting all your life. In the end we may only<br />
regret the chances we didn’t take, the relationships we<br />
were afraid to have and the decisions we waited too long<br />
to make. Go on, take the leap!<br />
About Jacqui: an artist of figurative subjects with life<br />
and energy, Jacqui lives and paints on an isolated farm<br />
in Port Levy, Banks Peninsula with her husband Chris<br />
and daughter Phoebe. While Jacqui’s subject matter<br />
is invariably the human form, it is secondary to her<br />
exploration of form, structure, movement, colour and<br />
texture.<br />
Come and meet Jacqui at the opening of her latest works:<br />
Little River Gallery, 9th <strong>June</strong> at 11am. Leap of Faith runs<br />
until 4th July.<br />
www.littlerivergallery.com<br />
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