Nor'West News: October 02, 2018

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Tuesday October 2 2018
SCHOOLS
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Environment award finalist
TECH SAVVY: Charlotte Leatherland, Honor Forbes, Lily
Henderson-Walshe, Masha Pospolitak, Mel Leatherland, Reed
McHugh, Lucy Eyre-Walker, Jessika Sanders and Kate Brown
with their Robocup robots.
Selwyn House pupils
taste success with robot
• By Ashleigh Monk
A SPECIALLY programmed
robot has once again led Selwyn
House School pupils to success.
Year 6 pupils Charlotte
Leatherland, Honor Forbes,
Lily Henderson-Walshe, Masha
Pospolitak and Mel Leatherland
finished second in the junior
theatre category of the national
Robocup competition.
The robot, which the girls programmed
themselves, performed
a pyramid-building play.
Year 8 pupils Reed McHugh,
Jessika Sanders, Kate Brown and
Lucy Eyre-Walker won the senior
rescue section of the regional
Robocup competition.
The senior rescue required the
pupils to programme a robot to
follow a broken line.
The year 8 group battled it
out in the national competition
against 17 other teams and,
while they did not place, teacher
Simon Christie said they did an
“amazing” job.
ROSETTA BROWN has
developed a passion for the
environment – and that passion
has earned her a place as one of
three finalists in the Keep New
Zealand Beautiful Awards.
The Rangi Ruru Girls’ School
student is a finalist in the young
legends category of the annual
awards, which is for young Kiwis
who have been recognised for
their contribution towards creating
a sustainable future for New
Zealand.
Rosetta, 16, is an integral member
of the Rangi Ruru sustainability
executive, a leader of the
school’s environment club and
an editor of Bloom, a well-being
journal, that highlights sustainable,
healthy habits to help follow
students feel good and function
well.
She has also played a part in
establishing source separation
of waste at Rangi and the coordination
of the school’s reuse
depot over the past two years.
These initiatives have allowed
Rangi to significantly reduce
waste to landfill – by 58 per
cent within the school community
and 62 per cent within the
school’s boarding community
– and helped the school become
carbon neutral in 2017.
“It is important to me that we
don’t just talk about sustainable
behaviours, but that we get stuck
in and make a difference through
actions and a collective approach.
We all need to consider our role
as consumers and think carefully
about the life-cycle and impact
of products we buy. In doing this
we can be proactive in disrupting
the traditional take-make-waste
model,” Rosetta said.
For principal Dr Sandra Hastie,
Rosetta’s short-listing came as no
surprise.
“Inspiring others through her
commitment, drive and passion
to help keep New Zealand beautiful,
Rosetta is a highly respected
GREENER
PASTURES:
Rosetta Brown,
16, has been
nominated in the
young legends
category at
the Keep
New Zealand
Beautiful
Awards.
servant leader within our community,”
she said.
Burnside High School student
E Wen Wong has also been
nominated for the young legend
award, and “mower man” Bryan
Fairbairn has been nominated for
the tidy Kiwi award.
The Margaret Mahy Playground
was nominated for the
Kiwi’s choice award.
The awards ceremony will be
held in Auckland on October 26.
Annie
6TH TO 13TH OCTOBER 2018
ANNIE is filled with humour and heart
and features some of Broadway’s most
memorable musical numbers, including
“Little Girls”, “It’s the Hard Knock Life”,
“Easy Street”, ‘Maybe”, “I Don’t Need
Anything But You” and the legendary
anthem of optimism, “Tomorrow”.
The show remains one of the
biggest Broadway musical hits
ever. It ran for 2,377 performances
after it first opened, and has been
performed in 28 languages and has
been running somewhere around
the world for 40 years.