Southern View: July 02, 2019

12 Tuesday July 2 2019
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Go-ahead for new playground
• By Kim Thomas
OAKLANDS SCHOOL pupils
are getting a new playground
thanks to years of fundraising
activities such as discos, sausage
sizzles, and gala days.
The school’s board of trustees
outgoing chair Clive Keylard
said the Parent Teacher Association
and the board recently
agreed to pay for a new $180,000
playground for junior pupils.
The board is contributing 60
per cent of the cost from money
saved over eight years in anticipation
of the redevelopment.
The PTA is paying the remainder.
Mr Keylard said the playground
will replace one removed
for a new classroom and an
existing one that is more than
15-years-old.
He said the school was currently
being redeveloped.
The Ministry of Education
paid for buildings, including
construction of three new buildings
and refurbishment of existing
1960s-era classroom blocks,
but not for other facilities such
as playgrounds and landscaping,
he said.
PTA president Michelle Blake
said the group was thrilled to
contribute a large portion of its
savings from fundraising activities
towards the playground.
OUT AND ABOUT: Oaklands School pupils on the existing
playground. From left – Esther Vincent, 7, Greer Western, 7,
Ethan Pietzner, 5, Jessie Braithwaite, 8, and Ollie Braithwaite, 6. ​
“We have saved all our money
for the last four or five years in
anticipation of the redevelopment
happening.
“We wanted to put our money
towards something significant
that would enhance the school
environment and that students
would enjoy. The playground
definitely fits the bill,” Mrs Blake
said.
Mrs Blake said the group
raised its contribution for
the playground through
annual community gala days,
and regular sausage sizzles,
discos, raffles, and selling used
school uniforms.
Any money raised over the
next few years would fund items
for the redevelopment not paid
for by the ministry, she said.
The redevelopment is expected
to be complete by the end of
2020.
Oaklands School principal
Margaret Trotter said pupils
had a say in the design of the
playground with school council
members voting on the most
important components to be
included.
The playground will be
installed in term 4.
• By Jess Gibson
A BUSINESS started by a group
of Cashmere High School
students aims to liven the streets
of Christchurch with artistic
road cones.
Christchurch Cones was
launched at the Young Enterprise
Scheme market on Monday,
hosted by Ara Institute of Canterbury.
Year 13 student Tamara
Hill said the group “wanted to
make something that could
make the city beautiful
again.”
“We’re going to get people from
the community and our school to
design and paint the cones themselves
and then they’re going to
be put in people’s gardens and
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ARTISTIC:
(From left)
– Tamara
Hill,
Cassandra
Ayers
and Tang
Klinklum
of
Cashmere
High
School.
Cashmere students’ bid
to make city ‘beautiful’
around the city,” she said.
YES sees senior secondary
school-aged entrepreneurs set up
and run real businesses over the
course of a year.
Other ideas at the market included
a mental health cook book
and biodegradable alternatives to
plastic.
Common themes among
many of the projects like tackling
issues of sustainability, mental
health or exploring social enterprise.
Students will now work on
their marketing campaigns, sales
and producing an annual review
over three months.
The top six teams to emerge
from Canterbury will go on to
compete at the regional finals in
October.