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10 Tuesday <strong>January</strong> <strong>29</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
FREE Education<br />
for 16-19 Year Olds<br />
SPORTS<br />
NOR’WEST NEWS<br />
Walking into Community College<br />
North Canterbury, you instantly get<br />
the feel that this place is different to<br />
school.<br />
Students in chef outfits are busy<br />
preparing food before their busy café<br />
day. The barista machine hums as<br />
students fine-tune their coffee-making<br />
skills.<br />
Sports students head off to the gym<br />
for their daily workout and Emerge<br />
prepares for a day orienteering on<br />
mountain bikes.<br />
Out the back, equine students are<br />
busy on the yard working with college<br />
horses.<br />
All this is free if you are aged 16<br />
to 19 years. Imagine achieving a<br />
qualification, without having to pay<br />
school fees,<br />
uniform and<br />
stationery costs.<br />
The current<br />
secondary<br />
school system<br />
does not always<br />
work well for<br />
all students and<br />
for some with a<br />
more practical nature, an alternative is<br />
needed.<br />
Community College provides “Handson”<br />
experiences and support by tutors<br />
in real-life situations.<br />
Literacy and numeracy are embedded<br />
in these real-life learning experiences.<br />
Offering small classes and basing<br />
EMERGE<br />
HOSPITALITY<br />
EQUINE<br />
ph: 03 313 5874<br />
txt: 0<strong>29</strong> 770 5423<br />
e: faye.gread@comcol.ac.nz<br />
www.comcol.ac.nz<br />
NCEA around vocational training is<br />
obviously a recipe for success at the<br />
Community College North Canterbury<br />
in Rangiora. Students are able to<br />
graduate with NCEA Levels 1 & 2 and<br />
gain credits towards Level 3. New<br />
Zealand Certificates in Foundation<br />
Skills, Sports and Recreation, Equine<br />
and Hospitality are on offer.<br />
If you are serious about reaching your<br />
goals, the college is<br />
serious about helping<br />
you achieve them.<br />
In the words of a<br />
parent “The College<br />
is such a wonderful<br />
environment that<br />
encourages success”<br />
-If you are thinking<br />
of leaving school and<br />
still want to complete your NCEA the<br />
Community College North Canterbury<br />
is now taking enrollments.<br />
Reimbursement for travel costs<br />
available.<br />
Phone 03 3135874 or drop in to<br />
discuss the opportunities that are<br />
available to you.<br />
What are your plans this year?<br />
Here’s some great FREE EDUCATION at<br />
COMMUNITY COLLEGE<br />
NORTH CANTERBURY<br />
New Zealand Certificates in Foundation Skills Level 1 & 2<br />
NCEA Level 1<br />
New Zealand Certificate in Hospitality Entry Skills<br />
(Café) Level 2<br />
NCEA Level 1 & 2<br />
New Zealand Certificate in Equine Skills Level 2 & 3<br />
NCEA Level 1 & 2<br />
NCEA LEVEL<br />
1 & 2<br />
SPORT & RECREATION<br />
FREE<br />
Education<br />
FOR<br />
16-19<br />
YEARS.<br />
New Zealand Certificate in Foundation Skills in<br />
Sport, Recreation & Coaching Level 2<br />
NCEA Level 1 & 2<br />
Achieve with us!<br />
DETERMINED: Hollie Tribble riding at the Oceania BMX Continental<br />
Championships last Saturday.<br />
PHOTO: DUSTY ROAD PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
Hollie pedals to third at<br />
Oceania BMX champs<br />
• By Jess Gibson<br />
NORTH Avon<br />
Christchurch BMX Club<br />
rider Hollie Tribble has<br />
made her mark at an<br />
international level.<br />
Hollie, 8, who lives in St<br />
Albans, finished third at<br />
the Oceania Continental<br />
Championships last<br />
Saturday in Te Awamutu,<br />
where she competed<br />
against riders a year older<br />
than her.<br />
The event for nineyear-olds<br />
was won by<br />
Cambridge rider Beth<br />
Walker. More than 500<br />
riders competed at the<br />
champs – eight of them<br />
from the North Avon<br />
Christchurch club.<br />
Hollie qualified after<br />
finishing eighth at the<br />
national competiton in<br />
New Plymouth last year,<br />
in spite of suffering a big<br />
crash during the race.<br />
Earlier this month,<br />
Hollie competed at the<br />
South Island BMX Titles<br />
in Dunedin, where she<br />
won all of her seven races<br />
and the overall event for<br />
girls aged seven to nine,<br />
defending her 2018 title as<br />
the top South Island rider<br />
in her category. Hollie<br />
CHUFFED: Hollie Tribble receives her trophy for<br />
finishing third in the ‘girls aged nine’ section.<br />
PHOTO: HAYLEY GROVES<br />
started riding at age four<br />
after her mother Hayley<br />
Groves took her to watch<br />
a national competition in<br />
Hornby.<br />
“She decided then that<br />
she wanted to be a BMX<br />
rider, so she tested us until<br />
she could get a BMX bike<br />
and go to training,” said<br />
Ms Groves.<br />
Hollie said her favourite<br />
part about riding is<br />
“travelling around New<br />
Zealand” with friends from<br />
her club. The Elmwood<br />
Normal School pupil will<br />
soon have to balance three<br />
to four days of training a<br />
week.<br />
“Training is after<br />
school so sometimes<br />
homework can be a<br />
challenge, but Hollie tries<br />
to complete her homework<br />
before school each day by<br />
getting up early,” said Ms<br />
Groves. •More sport p12
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