Southern View: August 13, 2019

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Name for planned Linwood pool
TE NGĀI Tūāhuriri has gifted
a special name to Linwood’s
planned $22 million pool
complex.
The community facility will
be known as Te Pou Toetoe:
Linwood Pool, and is set to open
in late 2021.
City council head of recreation,
sports and events Nigel Cox said
the name reflects both the local
environment and the passing of
knowledge.
“The term pou is a reference to
both the building itself, and to
the way we pass knowledge from
person to person and generation
to generation,” Mr Cox said.
“The toetoe comes from the
clusters of toetoe and vegetation
originally found in the area on
the sand dunes near Ihutai (the
estuary).”
The concept designs for the
pool were approved by the
Linwood-Central-Heathcote
Community Board in May
following extensive community
engagement.
The planned facility will be
adjacent to Linwood Park and
include a multi-use 25m lane
pool, which will feature a deepwater
area, a family spa pool,
learn to swim pool and a pool for
toddlers, complete with a water
deck.
Community meeting rooms
and a kitchen are also part of the
design.
“Food has traditionally been a
great reason for people to connect
socially, and the bookable kitchen
will be a major point of difference
that Te Pou Toetoe has for the
community. When integrated
with our outdoor gathering area
and picnic tables, the kitchen will
let the community come together
to prepare and eat food in a way
you don’t always get in a public
space.”
The outdoor community
space will connect the facility
to Linwood Park and include a
picnic tables, tennis and multiuse
courts and cycle stands.
GIFTED: Te Pou Toetoe Linwood Pool has been chosen as the name for Linwood’s new
$22 million pool complex, which is set to open in late 2021.
Zone changes impact Hillmorton High
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Year 7 to 8 pupils living in
Oaklands, Halswell and Knights
Stream will instead have to enrol
at Hillmorton High in year 9.
Up to 40 out-of-zone spaces
may be available for year 7 and 8
pupils.
Parent Karen White, who was
planning to send her daughter
to Hillmorton High next year,
said she is not happy with the
decision.
“I think that parents should
have the right to choose
where their children go to
school because every child is
an individual and will learn
differently,” she said.
Mrs White started up a
petition last week calling for
one-zone enrolment zone for
year 7-13 and for more robust
consultation with families and
the community before the new
zone is implemented.
She has also called on other
parents affected by the decision
to email MoE Canterbury
education director Coralanne
Child to provide as much
feedback as possible.
Her views are backed
by another parent, Sandra
Hargrove, who was in the process
BIG CHANGE:
Intermediate
school-aged
children
have been
excluded
from
Hillmorton
High School’s
planned new
catchment
zone.
PHOTO:
MARTIN
HUNTER
of applying for an out-of-zone
space for her son.
She said the general feeling
in the community is one of
disappointment, right through to
anger, and her son was looking
forward to attending Hillmorton
High.
Principal Ann Brokenshire
said the school is “somewhat
disappointed” because it is
running a middle school for year
7 to 10 pupils, but it understood
the MoE’s perspective.
“We don’t necessarily agree but
we understand it and we have
accepted it,” she said.
Up until now the school, which
became years 7 to 13 in 2014
following the closure of Manning
Intermediate, has not had a zone.
Ms Brokenshire said secondary
school principals have done
a huge amount of work after
the earthquakes to ensure
all students have access to a
reasonably close secondary state
school.
Mairehau, Papanui, Riccarton
and Burnside high schools, as
well as Linwood College and
Haeata Community Campus,
will also have changed or new
enrolment zones by January 1,
2020. Burnside High’s amended
zone now covers the area around
the airport.
Parent Nicki Payton said she
is lucky to have got her son into
year 7 at Hillmorton High last
year.
She said her son has only been
at the school for two months, but
there has been an “astounding
progression” in his well-being,
confidence and learning.
Hillmorton High’s roll is
currently at 90 per cent capacity,
with nearly 900 students, but the
redevelopment of the school is
master-planned to cater for 2000
students.
As part of its redevelopment,
construction of a 22-teaching
space two-storey building is
expected to begin early next
month.
The project is estimated to take
12 months to complete and cost
$10 million to build.
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