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PEGASUS POST Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>October</strong> 9 <strong>2018</strong> 11<br />
SCHOOLS<br />
SPECIAL<br />
CELEBRATION:<br />
Avonside Girls’<br />
High School<br />
head student<br />
Emma van<br />
Grinsven with<br />
100-year-old<br />
former student<br />
Beryl Newman<br />
celebrating the<br />
school’s 90th<br />
anniversary. <br />
AGHS celebrates 90 years<br />
AVONSIDE GIRLS’ High School<br />
celebrates 90 years of girls’<br />
education this year.<br />
To commemorate this special<br />
anniversary the school held a<br />
birthday party and a had a special<br />
visit from 100 -year- old past<br />
student Beryl Newman.<br />
The celebration started in true<br />
party spirit with a carnival style<br />
celebration at lunch time.<br />
The day featured party food,<br />
music, a bouncy castle, facepainting,<br />
games, visits from<br />
Party Ponies and stilt walkers.<br />
The party was followed by a<br />
commemorative assembly on the<br />
front lawn.<br />
Mrs Newman, who was a<br />
student at the school in 1931 cut<br />
a birthday cake with head girl<br />
Emma van Grinsven.<br />
Students also had the opportunity<br />
to listen to stories from past<br />
students Patricia Turner, Patsy<br />
Wardell, Vicki Summerfield and<br />
Sandy Kent.<br />
Te Wai Pounamu past principal<br />
Reihana Parata talked about the<br />
lives of students who boarded<br />
with her and attended Avonside.<br />
The assembly ended with a<br />
fashion parade of past uniforms<br />
and a slice of birthday cake.<br />
Children in New Brighton<br />
were kept busy last week trying<br />
their hand in crafts, sports and<br />
baking.<br />
More than 80 children took<br />
part in the Youth Alive Trust<br />
holiday programme.<br />
They baked “salt dough<br />
creations,” learnt new<br />
gymnastic skills at Taiora: QE<br />
II Recreation and Sport Centre<br />
and visited Inflatable World.<br />
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