Western News: August 13, 2019
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WESTERN NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>August</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2019</strong> 5<br />
Zone changes impact Hillmorton High<br />
•From page 1<br />
Year 7 to 8 pupils living in<br />
Oaklands, Halswell and Knights<br />
Stream will instead have to enrol<br />
at Hillmorton High in year 9.<br />
Up to 40 out-of-zone spaces<br />
may be available for year 7 and 8<br />
pupils.<br />
Parent Karen White, who was<br />
planning to send her daughter<br />
to Hillmorton High next year,<br />
said she is not happy with the<br />
decision.<br />
“I think that<br />
parents should<br />
have the right<br />
to choose where<br />
their children go<br />
to school because<br />
every child is<br />
an individual<br />
Ann<br />
Brokenshire<br />
and will learn<br />
differently,” she<br />
said.<br />
Mrs White started up a<br />
petition last week calling for<br />
one-zone enrolment zone for<br />
year 7-<strong>13</strong> and for more robust<br />
consultation with families and<br />
the community before the new<br />
zone is implemented.<br />
She has also called on other<br />
parents affected by the decision<br />
to email MoE Canterbury<br />
education director Coralanne<br />
Child to provide as much<br />
feedback as possible.<br />
Her views are backed by<br />
BIG CHANGE: Intermediate school-aged children have<br />
been excluded from Hillmorton High School’s planned new<br />
catchment zone.<br />
PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER<br />
another parent, Sandra Hargrove,<br />
who was in the process of<br />
applying for an out-of-zone space<br />
for her son.<br />
She said the general feeling<br />
in the community is one of<br />
disappointment, right through to<br />
anger, and her son was looking<br />
forward to attending Hillmorton<br />
High.<br />
Principal Ann Brokenshire<br />
said the school is “somewhat<br />
disappointed” because it is<br />
running a middle school for year<br />
7 to 10 pupils, but it understood<br />
the MoE’s perspective.<br />
“We don’t necessarily agree but<br />
we understand it and we have<br />
accepted it,” she said.<br />
Up until now the school, which<br />
became years 7 to <strong>13</strong> in 2014<br />
following the closure of Manning<br />
Intermediate, has not had a zone.<br />
Ms Brokenshire said secondary<br />
school principals have done<br />
a huge amount of work after<br />
the earthquakes to ensure<br />
all students have access to a<br />
reasonably close secondary state<br />
school.<br />
Mairehau, Papanui, Riccarton<br />
and Burnside high schools, as<br />
well as Linwood College and<br />
Haeata Community Campus,<br />
will also have changed or new<br />
enrolment zones by January 1,<br />
2020. Burnside High’s amended<br />
zone now covers the area around<br />
the airport.<br />
Parent Nicki Payton said she<br />
is lucky to have got her son into<br />
year 7 at Hillmorton High last<br />
year.<br />
She said her son has only been<br />
at the school for two months, but<br />
there has been an “astounding<br />
progression” in his well-being,<br />
confidence and learning.<br />
Hillmorton High’s roll is<br />
currently at 90 per cent capacity,<br />
with nearly 900 students, but the<br />
redevelopment of the school is<br />
master-planned to cater for 2000<br />
students.<br />
As part of its redevelopment,<br />
construction of a 22-teaching<br />
space two-storey building is<br />
expected to begin early next<br />
month.<br />
The project is estimated to take<br />
12 months to complete and cost<br />
$10 million to build.<br />
Debbie Mora<br />
decides not<br />
to stand for<br />
Riccarton seat<br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />
DEBBIE MORA will not contest<br />
the city council’s Riccarton<br />
Ward in October’s local body<br />
elections.<br />
Last month, <strong>Western</strong><br />
<strong>News</strong> reported Ms Mora was<br />
considering putting her name<br />
forward to stand against<br />
Catherine Chu, Peter Laloli,<br />
Anthony Rimell and John<br />
Connelly.<br />
It came after long-serving<br />
city councillor Vicki Buck<br />
announced she would retire<br />
from the role earlier this year.<br />
But Ms Mora, who has served<br />
on the Halswell-Hornby-<br />
Riccarton Community board for<br />
the past six years, has confirmed<br />
she will be seeking re-election<br />
for the Halswell Ward as a<br />
community board member.<br />
“I had considered very<br />
seriously to stand for council.<br />
However, after some valuable<br />
discussion with others I now do<br />
not wish to run in the council<br />
race this term as this may split<br />
votes and it is really important<br />
to get the right people around<br />
the council table,” she said.<br />
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