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PAGE 6 Wednesday <strong>November</strong> <strong>28</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
BAY HARBOUR<br />
Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
News<br />
Principal goes for swim at school fair<br />
Event raises $30k in spite of weather<br />
• By Louis Day<br />
REDCLIFFS SCHOOL still<br />
managed to raise more than<br />
$30,000 at its fair on Sunday<br />
in the face of wet and windy<br />
weather.<br />
School principal Rose<br />
McInerney, who went for a swim<br />
in the dunk tank, said there was<br />
still more money to come.<br />
“We had two amazing cubby<br />
houses at the fair and because we<br />
couldn’t paint them at the fair<br />
because of the weather, they still<br />
have to be finished and auctioned<br />
off on Trade Me, so they will<br />
potentially bring in another<br />
$5000,” said Mrs McInerney.<br />
More than 2000 people<br />
attended the fair and were treated<br />
to a wide variety of sideshows and<br />
activities, such as mini golf, dunk<br />
the teacher, mini jeep trucks and<br />
a horizontal bungy.<br />
Pupils opened the fair by<br />
performing kapa haka and<br />
singing choir songs.<br />
“Our (pupils) were incredible,<br />
I think they got about 4min of<br />
singing without rain and sung<br />
their little hearts out for another<br />
20min in the rain.”<br />
Mrs McInerney said the money<br />
raised would go a long way in<br />
improving the experience of<br />
pupils at the school.<br />
“Some of it will go towards<br />
additional teaching resources to<br />
provide extra opportunity for<br />
our students and some of it is<br />
definitely going to go towards the<br />
outdoor areas and seating for our<br />
new school.”<br />
Mrs McInerney said the fair<br />
could have quite easily been<br />
a failure if it were not for the<br />
resilience of the community.<br />
“For our school community<br />
and the wider community to get<br />
behind the school fair and come<br />
along out in the wind and rain, I<br />
just think it speaks volumes about<br />
who they are.”<br />
SPLASH: Redcliffs School pupils celebrate after dunking their principal Rose McInerney in the<br />
dunk tank. (Below) – The pupils then jumped into the tank for a swim.<br />
FUN: Mini<br />
jeeps, mini golf,<br />
horizontal bungy<br />
and bouncy<br />
castles were all<br />
on offer at the fair.<br />
SCORES: A<br />
penalty shootout<br />
was one of the<br />
many sideshows<br />
on offer at the fair.<br />
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