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14 Tuesday <strong>June</strong> <strong>11</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Riccarton<br />
students<br />
to perform<br />
Grease<br />
ONE OF the most popular<br />
musicals for high school<br />
students to perform will take the<br />
stage this month.<br />
Riccarton High School will<br />
present the classic Grease.<br />
The well-known 1971 musical<br />
follows 10 working-class<br />
teenagers as they navigate the<br />
complexities of peer pressure,<br />
politics, personal core values,<br />
and love.<br />
The school’s head of drama<br />
Charles Grubb said it is a fun<br />
musical and has a nice story<br />
showing although people are<br />
from different parts of society,<br />
it doesn’t mean they can’t get<br />
along.<br />
The lead role of Danny will<br />
be played by Yea Rin Park while<br />
Sandy will be played by Carmen<br />
Holdaway.<br />
About 80 students are involved<br />
in the show including the<br />
student band and operating the<br />
technical equipment.<br />
Mr Grubb said the show was<br />
chosen because it was popular<br />
staff and a good show about<br />
finding your identity.<br />
The musical will be held <strong>June</strong><br />
26, 27, 28 at 7pm and 2pm and<br />
7pm, <strong>June</strong> 29, at the Riccarton<br />
High School hall.<br />
•Tickets can be purchased<br />
from the school office or at<br />
www.riccarton.school.nz<br />
Plastic-free challenge for ‘Eco-Warriors’<br />
• By Kim Thomas<br />
OAKLANDS SCHOOL pupils<br />
were challenged to pack rubbishfree<br />
lunchboxes last week in an<br />
initiative aimed at benefiting<br />
both pupils and the environment.<br />
Rubbish-free lunch week was<br />
organised by the school’s community<br />
problem-solving group<br />
the “Eco-Warriors”.<br />
All week they recorded numbers<br />
of people with lunchboxes<br />
free of plastic waste.<br />
If more pupils had rubbish-free<br />
lunches than when the initiative<br />
ran late last year, the school will<br />
hold a mufti-day.<br />
Isis McKenzie, 10, is one of the<br />
Eco-Warriors.<br />
She said the group wants to<br />
encourage and educate students<br />
to cut down on the amount of<br />
plastic they bring to school.<br />
The ultimate aim is for Oaklands<br />
School to become completely<br />
rubbish-free.<br />
“We hope students will see how<br />
easy it is to bring less plastic in<br />
their lunchboxes and it might get<br />
them thinking about the other<br />
plastic they throw away. Rubbish<br />
and plastic makes a big impact<br />
on the oceans and its sea life. It’s<br />
killing sea life and making some<br />
species endangered or extinct.”<br />
Oaklands School deputy<br />
principal and Eco-Warrior<br />
leader Caroline Martin said the<br />
rubbish-free lunchbox initiative<br />
was one of a number the group<br />
had done or were planning to<br />
improve the environment of their<br />
SCHOOLS<br />
school and the wider Halswell<br />
community.<br />
Last year the Eco-Warriors<br />
were involved in a clean-up day<br />
at Westlake Park in Halswell.<br />
They were making a video<br />
about how plastic damages the<br />
environment and how to minimise<br />
waste.<br />
They created an environmentally-friendly<br />
school mascot<br />
called “Nutty the Eco-Warrior”<br />
and resources about sustainability.<br />
The Oaklands School campus<br />
WESTERN NEWS<br />
CHALLENGE: Carys<br />
<strong>Western</strong>, 9, Isis<br />
McKenzie, 10, Charlotte<br />
Waldeck, 9, and<br />
Dominic Bunn, 9, with<br />
their rubbish-free<br />
packed lunches. <br />
is currently being redeveloped.<br />
A number of new buildings<br />
were being constructed and refurbishment<br />
of existing buildings<br />
will begin in 2020.<br />
Ms Martin said the Eco-<br />
Warriors and other students were<br />
thinking about ways to make<br />
their redeveloped school more<br />
environmentally-friendly.<br />
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