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16 Tuesday <strong>December</strong> 4 <strong>2018</strong><br />
Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
News<br />
CENTENARIAN: Dorothy Perkins (middle in red) marked her 100th birthday<br />
on Friday with family who travelled from Dunedin, Invercargill, Tauranga and<br />
England.<br />
Dot celebrates<br />
100th birthday<br />
at Edith Cavell<br />
KIDSTUFF<br />
Play, laugh, learn. These are the essential<br />
ingredients for a successful Pre-School<br />
education. These crucial early years are to be<br />
nurtured, shaped and cherished as your child<br />
takes their first steps in education.<br />
Research states that play may be the single<br />
most important things that humans do. “Our<br />
play based learning approach supports your<br />
child as they begin their exciting journey as a<br />
lifelong learner” says Principal Scott Thelning.<br />
Cathedral Grammar Pre-School teaches the<br />
children of tomorrow, today.<br />
At Cathedral Grammar Pre-School your<br />
whole family is welcomed into the wider<br />
embrace of the Grammar community<br />
including whole school fun and functions,<br />
services and support as well as smooth<br />
transition to the Junior School and links to the<br />
SOUTHERN VIEW<br />
Cathedral Grammar<br />
Pre-School located within<br />
the heart of the city<br />
Prep School.<br />
In Cathedral Grammar’s purpose built<br />
Pre-School, taught by qualified teachers, your<br />
child will discover by curiosity, investigation<br />
and exploration. Our low child/teacher ratios,<br />
ensure your child’s quality individual and<br />
group learning.<br />
Every advantage is taken of our central<br />
city location to extend our ‘campus’ from the<br />
Botanic Gardens to the Canterbury Museum,<br />
The Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o<br />
Waiwhetu to the Christchurch Transitional<br />
Cathedral, from Tūranga (Christchurch<br />
central library) to the emergency services.<br />
Being an inner city Pre-School also gives<br />
you a wonderfully easy opportunity to engage<br />
in your child’s learning if you are working in<br />
the CBD.<br />
Your child will develop essential<br />
foundations in literacy and numeracy. He<br />
or she will enjoy the benefits of specialised<br />
facilities, subjects and staff including Art,<br />
Physical Education, Yoga and Chapel.<br />
When children feel good about themselves<br />
and their abilities, they are able to take flight<br />
and explore, discover, take risks and play,<br />
laugh and learn effectively and successfully.<br />
“Self-esteem is at the core of this development<br />
process” Thelning says.<br />
Every day is an open day at Cathedral<br />
Grammar Pre-School. Contact Lydia<br />
Hemingway to arrange a personal<br />
tour on 03 365 0385 or hemingwayl@<br />
cathedralgrammar.school.nz.<br />
DOROTHY Perkins celebrated her 100th<br />
birthday on Friday.<br />
She was joined by family and friends<br />
from Dunedin, Invercargill, Tauranga<br />
and as far away as England at Edith Cavell<br />
Lifecare and Village in Sumner.<br />
Miss Perkins received letters<br />
congratulating her from the Queen, Port<br />
Hills MP Ruth Dyson and several people<br />
living on Stewart Island. She was the<br />
district nurse on Stewart Island from 1965-<br />
1972, where she would look after seasick<br />
ferry passengers, newborn babies, the<br />
elderly, and accident victims.<br />
Miss Perkins became famous<br />
throughout the community for driving<br />
what relatives described as a “green army<br />
jeep” to see patients across the island.<br />
Her cousin Robert Overton said Miss<br />
Perkins was often on call 24 hours a day as<br />
she was the only nurse on the island.<br />
“She had to be a bit of everything there.<br />
There wasn’t even a doctor on the island.”<br />
Before she was the district nurse on<br />
Stewart Island, Miss Perkins worked at<br />
St Helen’s Hospital in Sydenham, Dee St<br />
Maternity Hospital in Invercargill and was<br />
also matron at the Lumsden Maternity<br />
Centre.<br />
After seven years of service on<br />
Stewart Island, Miss Perkins retired in<br />
Christchurch but continued to care for<br />
family and friends.<br />
“Dot has been the lady who has moved<br />
where the need has been to look after<br />
people. She looked after both my wife’s<br />
parents and my parents before they passed<br />
away,” Mr Overton said.<br />
Miss Perkins was driving people to<br />
church, getting her own groceries and<br />
looking after herself in her Redcliffs home<br />
ROYAL TREATMENT: Dorothy Perkins<br />
was all smiles after receiving a card<br />
from the Queen.<br />
until Christmas last year, when she moved<br />
to Edith Cavell Lifecare and Village.<br />
Mr Overton said Miss Perkins would<br />
always put the needs of other people before<br />
her own.<br />
“Dot never wanted to be a worry. If she<br />
fell at two in the morning she would wait<br />
till six to call the buzzer. One day she had<br />
a fall in the garden so she shuffled into<br />
a bush and did some weeding while she<br />
waited for help to arrive. She’s not one to<br />
cause a fuss.”<br />
Start<br />
it!<br />
Pre-School<br />
Here, it all begins<br />
Located in the CBD and offering 20<br />
hours ECE. Our Pre-School balances<br />
play with stimulating young minds,<br />
all while fostering values and instilling<br />
good habits. Specialist art, music<br />
and PE teachers take weekly lessons,<br />
nurturing and extending children’s<br />
early talents.<br />
Let’s talk about your child’s<br />
journey. Telephone 03 365 0385
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