Nor'West News: June 12, 2018

8 Tuesday June 12 2018
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NOR’WEST NEWS
Your Local Views
Lend a hand at Northcote School
Northcote
School
principal
Justin Perriam
talks about
volunteers
making a
difference in
pupils’ education
AT NORTHCOTE School we
are so lucky to have a number of
new community initiatives that
we want to share with you, as
well as some that we’d love you
to be involved in.
On May 21, with the
assistance of Neighbourhood
Links and Te Ora Hou Ōtautahi,
a community breakfast club
was launched in the Northcote
community. This has been in
development for some time and
we were excited with the first
breakfast in the multi-purpose
room at Northcote School.
The numbers attending were
higher than expected, catering
to about 30 people on Monday,
and 50 on Wednesday, which is
evidence that the community
needs a programme like this.
Although it is situated within
the school, this is a community
programme and everyone is
welcome. It is supported and
run by a team of volunteers from
LEARNING: Parent helpers and volunteers from the Salvation
Army help Northcote School pupils in the vegetable garden.
the community, alongside staff
from Neighbourhood Links.
Also this term, we have
started our reading mileage
programme, which is designed
to provide pupils with the
opportunity to read more often.
Currently, we have about 12
community members coming
into our school to read daily for
15min with some of our pupils.
This is already showing great
results with pupils displaying
increased enthusiasm and
commitment to improving their
reading ability.
Again this is something we
could not offer without the
support of the greater Northcote
and Redwood community.
Another initiative we have
running at the school is our
vegetable garden programme.
We have parent helpers, along
with members of the Salvation
Army who come in on Tuesday
afternoons and work with
pupils to prepare a meal, which
includes some of the produce
grown in our own garden.
We are currently looking
for people to help lead this
programme, so if this sounds
like you then please get in
contact with the school.
We have two year 10 students
from Papanui High School
who are running after-school
netball sessions on Thursday
afternoons as part of their
Duke of Edinburgh awards. It
is a great way to see our young
future leaders giving back to the
community.
There are always plenty of
opportunities for us all to
become involved in our local
communities and when we do
so, the benefits for our tamariki/
children can be great.
•The breakfast club
runs on Mondays and
Wednesdays at Northcote
School on Tuckers Rd from
8-8.45am. If you’d like to
volunteer and help prepare
the food, please give us a
call on 352 9371.
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Readers respond to an article
about the Papanui-Innes
Community Board asking the
education minister to include
Shirley and Richmond in the
enrolment zone for the new
school at QE II
Craig Orr – Geographically
speaking, it would make sense
to change the zones and utilise
Mairehau High School to service
the majority of that
area and add rooms
if needed. It looks
to be a well underutilised
facility and
is in a sensible place
for the area. Anyone
from say the east
side of Marshland Rd goes to Shirley/
Linwood, and west goes to Mairehau,
maybe it’s not that simple but something
will have to change to find a
balance.
Angela Toomey – Why does
this have to be do hard? Why is
the MoE being so tunnel visioned?
Why can’t they see it’s time to be
innovative? For a community already
ravaged by forces beyond their control
and looking to build hope and
positivity for the youth and families
in Christchurch, the earthquake was
a leveller. Christchurch has been
fractured. The MoE has a prime opportunity
to help bring communities
back to health, mental and physical,
in their attitude to these new schools.
Don’t lose that opportunity MoE.
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