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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER <strong>24</strong>, <strong>2020</strong><br />

Connecting Your Local Community<br />

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St Mary’s<br />

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Page 4 Page 6<br />

Residents’ recycling<br />

habits hitting the mark<br />

• By Bea Gooding<br />

RESIDENTS ACROSS the<br />

western and northern suburbs<br />

appear to be well behaved when it<br />

comes to recycling habits.<br />

An Official Information Act<br />

request by <strong>Western</strong> <strong>News</strong> has<br />

revealed that 16,119 yellow<br />

wheelie bins were rejected due to<br />

contamination across the city between<br />

January<br />

and August this<br />

year; excluding<br />

the lockdown.<br />

The Fendal-<br />

ton-Waimairi-<br />

Harewood and<br />

Papanui-Innes<br />

David<br />

Cartwright<br />

Community<br />

Board areas remained<br />

largely<br />

off the list of the top 10 suburbs<br />

with the most non-collections<br />

per year, in the past three years<br />

– with the exception of Papanui,<br />

Ilam, Hornby and the central city<br />

in <strong>2020</strong>.<br />

Said David Cartwright, of<br />

Keep New Zealand Beautiful and<br />

chairman of the Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood<br />

Community<br />

Board: “It’s reassuring to know<br />

that some parts of the city are<br />

focusing on it.<br />

• Turn to page 3<br />

REJECTIONS: Data obtained from the city council has<br />

revealed the suburbs with the most non-collections due to<br />

contamination in yellow recycling bins.


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Thursday <strong>September</strong> <strong>24</strong> <strong>2020</strong> 3<br />

<strong>News</strong><br />

Offending could result in bin loss<br />

• From page 1<br />

“This presents an opportunity<br />

to start to teach people and to<br />

look at how we are communicating<br />

with those communities to<br />

ensure messages do get through.<br />

“We can get a clear message of<br />

what is right to recycle and what<br />

the best practices are at schools,<br />

libraries, and community groups<br />

like Rotary and Girl Guides.”<br />

Contaminated recycling bins<br />

were more prevalent in Linwood,<br />

Richmond, central city and Addington<br />

per year since 2018.<br />

However, residents in the<br />

southern suburbs of Spreydon,<br />

Somerfield, St Martins and<br />

Opawa received the most gold<br />

stars for recycling bin compliance<br />

out of 30,961 awarded<br />

across the city this year, between<br />

January and August.<br />

The top offending items found<br />

in yellow wheelie bins in the last<br />

three years were soft plastics,<br />

plastic lids, food waste, dirty recycling<br />

and tools and appliances.<br />

Although fines were not issued,<br />

the city council had the power to<br />

remove bins after three repeated<br />

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“The bins around our parks<br />

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to put through towards the Long<br />

Term Plan,” he said.<br />

“If you don’t recycle properly<br />

it penalises all of us, the cost to<br />

dump the waste is borne across<br />

Conditions apply<br />

NASTY:<br />

Food waste<br />

and dirty<br />

recycling<br />

shouldn’t be<br />

placed in the<br />

yellow bin.<br />

the whole city, so it’s really important<br />

that everyone does it.”<br />

“The city council declared a<br />

climate emergency, so we should<br />

be taking every active step to<br />

ensure we’re living the right way,<br />

and not just talk the talk.”<br />

• Recycled junk, page 12<br />

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The exterior and interior<br />

walls, and the ceilings also<br />

needed minor repairs, and<br />

some minor strengthening<br />

work had also been done, the<br />

spokeswoman said.<br />

Access to the building had<br />

also been improved to meet the<br />

building code. Pathways would<br />

be replaced due to changes in<br />

ground levels as a result of the<br />

earthquakes.<br />

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insurance funds, while other<br />

improvements were being<br />

funded by the parish, the<br />

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The Anglican Diocese has<br />

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decade tackling the damage<br />

caused to its buildings by the<br />

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The earthquakes affected<br />

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Thursday <strong>September</strong> <strong>24</strong> <strong>2020</strong> 5<br />

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Sports field lighting given the go-ahead<br />

• By Bea Gooding<br />

Devon<br />

Harding<br />

SPORTS FIELD lighting<br />

upgrades at Halswell Domain<br />

have been given the go-ahead<br />

to promote safer conditions for<br />

players.<br />

The Halswell-Hornby-<br />

Riccarton Community Board<br />

approved the<br />

upgrades at its<br />

meeting last<br />

week, subject<br />

to the Halswell<br />

Hornets Rugby<br />

League Club obtaining<br />

the necessary<br />

resource<br />

and building<br />

consents prior to<br />

installation.<br />

An application for a new<br />

lease to facilitate the rebuild<br />

of the club’s earthquakedamaged<br />

pavilion was also<br />

under way.<br />

Said club president Devon<br />

Harding: “We’re lucky to have<br />

[the upgrades]. We needed<br />

to upgrade the lighting to<br />

improve the standards and<br />

provide a more professional<br />

environment.”<br />

The current lighting needed<br />

to be replaced due to its<br />

aged condition and its poor<br />

illumination resulting in safety<br />

issues during trainings at night,<br />

especially during the winter.<br />

Twelve of the existing poles<br />

will be removed and replaced<br />

with eight new poles with<br />

improved digital LED lighting<br />

technology on both of the club’s<br />

allocated playing fields.<br />

The lights would be used<br />

during training in the evenings<br />

between Monday to Friday from<br />

February 1 to August 31 each<br />

year.<br />

Public consultation on the<br />

proposal earlier in the year saw<br />

the majority in favour of the<br />

upgrades, with 19 out of 23 submissions<br />

in support and believed<br />

in its benefits.<br />

The club’s new $2 million facility<br />

is due to start construction by<br />

the end of the year and will take<br />

about nine months to complete.<br />

The new clubrooms will have<br />

changing rooms, a gym, storage<br />

facilities and would also be<br />

available for members to hire for<br />

events on a regular basis, such as<br />

birthday parties.<br />

Harding said the installation<br />

of the new lights would not start<br />

until the clubrooms were rebuilt,<br />

which was expected to begin by<br />

the middle of next year.<br />

“I think it’s going to be great<br />

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Foodbank to target ethnic communities<br />

• By Bea Gooding<br />

A RICCARTON charity has<br />

taken it upon themselves to<br />

support migrants who have now<br />

become food vulnerable as a<br />

result of the global pandemic.<br />

The Oak Development Trust<br />

has established a new foodbank<br />

service which specifically targets<br />

multicultural communities in<br />

the wider Riccarton area.<br />

The trust worked with groups<br />

from a variety of backgrounds,<br />

such as Korean, Chinese, Middle<br />

Eastern, Filipino, Japanese and<br />

Indian groups to provide ethnically<br />

targeted food parcels that<br />

differed from those usually filled<br />

with staple items.<br />

Trust manager Carol Renouf<br />

said the new initiative filled a<br />

gap in social support services<br />

because migrants did not have as<br />

many options for support compared<br />

to other vulnerable New<br />

Zealanders.<br />

“We were all migrants one day,<br />

and the reality is that they come<br />

here with such high hopes for a<br />

better future, so to them, giving<br />

up isn’t easy,” she said.<br />

“It may look like they have a<br />

lot of money, but they’re struggling<br />

to survive here. So we’re<br />

supporting them through a time<br />

of crisis.”<br />

The trust’s social worker,<br />

Chang Hun Yu, worked with the<br />

Korean Society of Christchurch<br />

to offer support during the<br />

nationwide lockdown and discovered<br />

migrants with working<br />

visas became more vulnerable<br />

during Covid-19.<br />

They were more likely to lose<br />

jobs, did not have access to<br />

WINZ, were paying high rent<br />

and costly international fees for<br />

education which affected having<br />

enough left over for basic needs.<br />

After Yu provided Korean food<br />

parcels for the community, it<br />

inspired the idea behind serving<br />

other multi-cultural groups, and<br />

was able to secure funding from<br />

the Ministry of Social Development<br />

for the initiative.<br />

SUPPORT:<br />

Chang Hun<br />

Yu, social<br />

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Jo Atara<br />

McKenzie,<br />

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GEOFF SLOAN ​<br />

The trust was now providing<br />

parcels with familiar treats<br />

sourced from local businesses,<br />

which meant migrants had<br />

more time to focus on what was<br />

important, such as job seeking,<br />

or supporting families back in<br />

home countries.<br />

Renouf said by building relationships<br />

and addressing issues<br />

that led them there in the first<br />

place, such as help with navigation,<br />

learning English or finding jobs,<br />

they were less likely to come back.<br />

“We set it up so that it’s not just<br />

about giving out food parcels, we<br />

want people to be able to sustain<br />

themselves going forward,” she<br />

said.<br />

“The food parcel is our priority,<br />

so we can give tangibly give<br />

them something that’ll nurture<br />

them to have the courage to<br />

make the next step, like going to<br />

find a job.”<br />

Equipped with the knowledge<br />

of the current pandemic, the<br />

trust was now working with<br />

other agencies to develop a Food<br />

Secure Communities Plan – a<br />

network put in place where organisations<br />

can share resources.<br />

“It’ll be a collaboration with<br />

other organisations who work<br />

with vulnerable people. We<br />

wanted to initiate a plan in place<br />

for when the next pandemic<br />

comes so we know where food<br />

will come from,” said Renouf.<br />

“This includes offering gardening<br />

or cooking skills so people<br />

can make the most of the food<br />

that they’re given and can become<br />

self-sustainable.”<br />

•To learn more about Oak<br />

Development Trust’s new<br />

foodbank, phone Chang<br />

Hun Yu on 021 155 8062


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<strong>September</strong> <strong>2020</strong><br />

Commitment,<br />

Achievement,<br />

Resilience,<br />

Respect<br />

New skills<br />

required for<br />

the 21st<br />

century<br />

Kia ora koutou. Talofa. Kia Orana. Malo e lelei. Bula.<br />

Fakaalofa atu. Namaste. Kumusta. Haere mai haere mai ki<br />

Te Kura Huruhuru Ao o Horomaka. Warm greetings to the<br />

Hornby High School community.<br />

Educators keep talking about creating an education system<br />

for the 21st century. Odd when you think of it because we<br />

are already 20 per cent of the way through the century.<br />

At a Canterbury secondary principals’ meeting last week I<br />

was reminded of this with a presentation from the CEO of<br />

ChristchurchNZ in which we were presented with data on the<br />

Christchurch economy, and in particular what employers are<br />

looking for in employees if they are to create the agile and<br />

productive economy that will be the base for our collective<br />

prosperity. This survey repeated things we have been told for<br />

the past 20 years, that it is not specific subject skills like those<br />

presented in economics (my own subject), or maths, or history,<br />

or whatever, that employers are looking for.<br />

They are looking for employees who can collaborate (work<br />

with others in teams), who can communicate, who can think<br />

creatively and critically.<br />

This is a huge affirmation of the changes we are making at<br />

Hornby High School (for junior students at the moment). We<br />

are putting more time and effort into what we call the “front<br />

end of the curriculum”. This is the part of the curriculum that<br />

emphasises the skills of thinking, of collaboration, the skills we<br />

call the five key competencies: thinking, managing self, relating<br />

to others, communicating with language, symbols and text, and<br />

participating and contributing.<br />

The foundation of our junior curriculum is the development<br />

of these key competencies which have been at the centre<br />

of the New Zealand curriculum for more than 15 years. We<br />

have built into the learning day time that we call “wānanga”,<br />

time in which relationships are key, and in which those key<br />

competencies are both implicitly and explicitly developed<br />

and taught. We are already seeing the benefits of this for<br />

our students. They are increasingly well engaged with their<br />

learning, their focus continues to grow – from an already<br />

high base, I might add. This will provide an ever better base<br />

for those senior years of study, years in which students are<br />

equipped for the rigours of senior study, and the demands<br />

of that essential post-secondary school preparation for<br />

employment and life. This is perhaps the most important part<br />

of “education for the 21st century”. Join us in this journey.<br />

Jayden, Year 8<br />

Ngā mihi nui<br />

Robin Sutton<br />

Tumuaki<br />

Hair-raising fundraiser<br />

On Wednesday,<br />

<strong>September</strong> 9, Hornby<br />

High School staff and<br />

students supported<br />

“Wig Wednesday”,<br />

raising $470.10 to<br />

support Kiwi<br />

kids with<br />

cancer.<br />

Left: Miss<br />

Keene and<br />

Mrs Beer.<br />

Right: Deputy<br />

Principal Mr<br />

Goodfellow.<br />

Mr Stock, Mrs Allan-Fletcher and Miss Aitken.<br />

Alex, Year 10<br />

Volunteers help planting project<br />

The Graeme Dingle Foundation’s<br />

Stars-opoly is all about exploring<br />

opportunities in the school and<br />

community, and learning about<br />

community-based organisations. It<br />

aims to connect young people with<br />

their community by giving them<br />

opportunities to explore resources<br />

and support through interviews and<br />

challenges.<br />

Groups have two hours to complete a<br />

series of challenges across a Monopolystyle<br />

board, designed to simulate their<br />

school journey and connections with<br />

their community.<br />

By questioning organisations, students<br />

are able to define Turangawaewae – “a<br />

place to stand my feet” – and where<br />

they stand in it.<br />

The organisations involved were: Surf<br />

Lifesaving, Family Planning, Volunteer<br />

Canterbury, NZ Police, NZ Fire &<br />

Emergency, Keep Canterbury Beautiful,<br />

St John, YMCA, Christchurch City<br />

Council Regional Parks, Graeme Dingle<br />

What a stunning day we had on<br />

Thursday, <strong>September</strong> 3, planting<br />

trees with Christchurch City<br />

Council for our Hornby High<br />

School Stars<br />

Community<br />

Project!<br />

More than<br />

50 ākonga<br />

volunteered<br />

their time<br />

and energy<br />

to help<br />

re-vegetate<br />

parts of the<br />

Broken River<br />

Run in Wigram.<br />

Community projects<br />

teach our rangatahi the importance of<br />

positive citizenship and giving back. They<br />

also learn valuable skills such as team<br />

Foundation, and Jude Howie from<br />

Hornby High School.<br />

Participating organisations create and<br />

strengthen links with the school and<br />

have opportunities to get to know our<br />

students and how they can work with<br />

them.<br />

Stars is a 12-month interactive<br />

programme that supports, motivates,<br />

work, caring for the land, and how to use a<br />

garden spade!<br />

Many thanks to park rangers Heidi and<br />

Yvette for your guidance, and Sanitarium<br />

Health Food Company NZ for the<br />

sustenance needed to get the job done!<br />

Stars-opoly boosts community links<br />

and reinforces Year 9 students during<br />

their first year at high school.<br />

The Graeme Dingle Foundation aims<br />

to inspire all school-age New Zealand<br />

children to reach their full potential<br />

through programmes that build selfesteem,<br />

promote good values, and<br />

teach valuable life, education and<br />

health skills.<br />

Students explore leadership roles at camp<br />

Every year, Year 13 students, whether<br />

they like it or not, act as role models for<br />

the junior students and are ‘asked’ by<br />

staff to step up into senior student roles<br />

around the school.<br />

Students are often unsure about what<br />

it means to be a role model. Are they<br />

ready to ‘Step Up’ or are they more<br />

comfortable in a supporting role – a<br />

leader is only as effective as the people<br />

who are supporting them.<br />

The aim of the<br />

Next Steps Camp<br />

is to provide<br />

senior students<br />

with a chance to<br />

experience what<br />

it is to be a leader/<br />

role model and<br />

also experience<br />

different styles of<br />

leadership.<br />

Staff are able to<br />

observe those at<br />

camp and will be<br />

able to make a<br />

better informed<br />

choice, from those<br />

who attend camp,<br />

as to what role they<br />

could fill as senior<br />

student leaders/role models.<br />

From the moment the campers assemble<br />

at school the challenges begin, all<br />

Students working their way around the Stars-opoly board.<br />

designed to get them working<br />

together as teams using the<br />

skills they have.<br />

They begin with some puzzles<br />

based at school before using<br />

bus money to get themselves<br />

to camp at Blue Skies in<br />

Kaiapoi. Along the way they<br />

need to find certain locations<br />

and answer questions. They<br />

need to arrive at camp by<br />

a particular time with as<br />

many questions answered as<br />

possible and with change and<br />

receipts that tally up.<br />

Once at camp groups are mixed for each<br />

different activity, showing how you can<br />

work with anybody and that we all have<br />

skills to help with the challenges faced.<br />

Boundaries are pushed and limits found,<br />

all useful things to know for the future,<br />

both at school and beyond.<br />

A highlight of camp is bonfire night.<br />

The impromptu one-minute speeches<br />

provide entertainment for all.<br />

Students continue to be observed back<br />

at school, are they still using the skills<br />

learnt on camp as we begin the process<br />

of choosing our future leaders.<br />

Regardless of what leadership role<br />

or support role they have at school<br />

and beyond, the camp provides a firm<br />

foundation from which the students can<br />

start.


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<strong>News</strong><br />

Event to bring neighbours together<br />

• By Bea Gooding<br />

John Filsell<br />

CHRISTCHURCH residents<br />

will soon be reconnecting with<br />

their neighbours in style.<br />

The city council’s Summer<br />

with your Neighbours event is<br />

due to start<br />

next month,<br />

which brings<br />

people closer<br />

together while<br />

celebrating the<br />

unique and<br />

diverse mix<br />

of each neighbourhood.<br />

A strong<br />

focus this year was for neighbours<br />

to re-establish connections<br />

with each other following the<br />

Covid-19 lockdown.<br />

The event allows residents to<br />

apply for funding to organise<br />

events within their community,<br />

including street parties, neighbourhood<br />

clean-ups, fundraisers<br />

or sports days.<br />

Said John Filsell, city council<br />

head of community support,<br />

governance and partnerships:<br />

“Getting to know your neighbours<br />

creates a greater sense of<br />

community connectedness and<br />

safety.”<br />

Following the 2010 and 2011<br />

earthquakes, he said there was<br />

a “huge swell” of community<br />

connections with neighbours<br />

developing strong relationships<br />

CONNECTING: Neighbourhoods can apply for funding to<br />

organise a street party, clean-ups or sports day.<br />

and supporting each other.<br />

The same could be said for the<br />

current pandemic.<br />

“Due to the Covid-19 lockdown,<br />

people were out in their<br />

neighbourhoods again and<br />

connecting from a distance;<br />

checking on vulnerable people<br />

and making sure they had access<br />

to food,” said Filsell.<br />

“Summer with your Neighbours<br />

events will help bring<br />

people together again and<br />

provide an opportunity to build<br />

on relationships, and even thank<br />

neighbours for their help.”<br />

The event was previously<br />

known as Neighbourhood Week<br />

and was first held in 1998.<br />

After community feedback, the<br />

city council decided three years<br />

ago to extend the event until the<br />

end of summer.<br />

“Weather was often an issue<br />

during October, and by extending<br />

it through to March allowed<br />

events to be held over Christmas<br />

and in the new year when the<br />

weather tends to be better,” said<br />

Filsell.<br />

Last year the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton<br />

Community Board<br />

distributed $4500 in funding to<br />

local events in the city’s west.<br />

• Summer with your<br />

Neighbours starts<br />

October 23 and will run<br />

until March.<br />

Reinforcing links<br />

GETTING to know your<br />

neighbour isn’t just a nice thing<br />

to do – it might help you and<br />

your community meet and then<br />

recover from shocks and crises.<br />

Research suggests wellconnected<br />

communities do<br />

better in the aftermath of<br />

natural disasters, University of<br />

Canterbury Associate Professor<br />

Lucie Ozanne says.<br />

Their members also benefit<br />

from a sense they live in a community<br />

that is well connected,<br />

that cares about itself and the<br />

people in it, the community resilience<br />

expert said.<br />

“There are so many benefits for<br />

the place and for the people who<br />

live there,” she said.<br />

“The literature suggests there<br />

are positives for people’s sense of<br />

belonging, their sense of community,<br />

and even physical wellbeing.<br />

“So, the more we can do to<br />

foster links with other people in<br />

our neighbourhoods, the more<br />

people will feel they are somewhere<br />

that people care, and will<br />

help them and the wider community.”<br />

Ozanne welcomed the city<br />

council’s Summer with your<br />

Neighbours programme as a<br />

good way to help neighbourhoods<br />

reinforce their links.<br />

The programme will this year<br />

focus on re-establishing connections<br />

following the Covid-19<br />

lockdown.<br />

Applications were still being<br />

processed, but it was anticipated<br />

street parties, neighbourhood<br />

clean-ups, fundraisers or sports<br />

days would be in the mix.<br />

Such events would help reaffirm<br />

pride in the community<br />

while introducing people to each<br />

other, and establishing new social<br />

links.<br />

Associate Professor Billy<br />

O’Steen, an expert on community<br />

and civic engagement, said community<br />

events could help foster<br />

stronger neighbourhoods.<br />

They could help break-down<br />

social isolation by introducing<br />

people to their neighbourhood,<br />

and by encouraging people to get<br />

to know each other.<br />

“The key is, people need to<br />

make it work. We all have a responsibility<br />

to make the effort to<br />

support each other, and make the<br />

effort to be known to each other.”<br />

People responded to the<br />

shock of the March 15 terror<br />

attacks by wanting to be part<br />

of events and gatherings<br />

that demonstrated a sense of<br />

community.<br />

Gatherings could help restore<br />

community links post-lockdown<br />

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Leaders in Learning<br />

WINTER TOURNAMENT WEEK<br />

After the disappointment of the<br />

cancellation of the traditional national and<br />

South Island Winter Sport Tournaments,<br />

it was a real pleasure to see some of the<br />

Burnside High School winter sport teams<br />

compete in regional competitions over the<br />

original Winter Tournament Week dates,<br />

Monday 31 August - Friday 04 <strong>September</strong>.<br />

and Year 9A teams both competed in<br />

the SISS Junior Netball Championships<br />

at the Hagley Netball Centre. They had<br />

a wonderful two days of weather for this<br />

tournament and gained some valuable<br />

experience playing Netball at this level of<br />

competition.<br />

Left to Right:<br />

Vy Prachaktam, Katrina Too<br />

Our Badminton teams had a very<br />

successful week with both the<br />

Premier A Boys and Girls teams<br />

winning the Canterbury Secondary<br />

Schools Senior Badminton Team<br />

Championships. The Badminton<br />

success didn’t stop there with the<br />

Boys Junior Doubles Team also<br />

winning the Canterbury Secondary<br />

Schools Junior Championship.<br />

This year, the Year 13 Drama class took on<br />

the momentous challenge of Lord of the<br />

Flies adapted by Nigel Williams as their<br />

public performance production. The play<br />

that started back in March, finally took<br />

the stage on August the 19th & 20th and<br />

due to two sold-out performances, a third<br />

show was added to the 21st.<br />

Both the Burnside High School Boys and<br />

Girls 1st XI Hockey teams competed in<br />

the South Island Premiership Hockey<br />

Tournament here in Christchurch. The<br />

standard of hockey at this tournament<br />

was amazing, and the<br />

level of sportsmanship<br />

and skill displayed by our<br />

teams was outstanding.<br />

The Girls 1st XI placed<br />

7th and the Boys 1st XI<br />

placed 11th.<br />

Sue Petrie<br />

LORD OF THE FLIES<br />

Tom Giddens<br />

Our two Sport Climbing<br />

teams had two fantastic<br />

days at the Christchurch<br />

YMCA Adventure<br />

Centre, competing in the<br />

South Island Secondary<br />

Schools (SISS) Sport<br />

Climbing Championships,<br />

ultimately placing just<br />

outside the top three in<br />

the Mixed Competition.<br />

The Netball Year 10A<br />

Goal Attack Bella Moala,<br />

Goal Shoot Paige Eder<br />

The Netball A team and the Ice<br />

Hockey team hit the road travelling to<br />

tournaments in Timaru and Dunedin. The<br />

Netball A team competed at the South<br />

Island Experience Netball Tournament<br />

in Timaru, and our Ice Hockey team<br />

competed in Dunedin in the SISS Ice<br />

Hockey Tournament. Both teams had<br />

great tournament experiences and agree<br />

that being able to compete with teams<br />

from outside their normal competitions<br />

was a real thrill, and the highlight of their<br />

season.<br />

What a way to finish. Many thanks go to<br />

the team behind the dream that became<br />

reality.<br />

Noah Hartley Year 13<br />

With all three nights sold out, the scene<br />

was set and there was only the show to go.<br />

With the accumulation of an amazing<br />

ensemble cast, some spectacular student<br />

directing, and a terrific tech crew, the<br />

show went off without a hitch and despite<br />

COVID-19’s best efforts, the Year 13’s got<br />

their final dance on the mighty Aurora<br />

Centre stage - and what a dance it was.<br />

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<strong>News</strong><br />

Play time for kids planned on streets<br />

SOME LOCAL streets could be<br />

temporarily closed to traffic and<br />

turned into play areas in a series<br />

of pop-up events funded by the<br />

Government.<br />

The city council has received<br />

a grant of just over $39,000 for<br />

the Play Streets initiative.<br />

The project is being led by<br />

Sport Canterbury’s Healthy<br />

Families Ōtautahi Christchurch<br />

team, and transport consultancy<br />

ViaStrada with support from<br />

the council.<br />

There will be 12 Play Streets<br />

events held around the city. A<br />

street will be temporarily closed<br />

to traffic and the local community<br />

will be invited to scoot, bike<br />

and play safely.<br />

Play Streets is designed<br />

to encourage kids to be active<br />

and creative while boosting<br />

social connections between<br />

neighbours, and recognising the<br />

importance of play to children’s<br />

lives and community well-being.<br />

Council urban development<br />

and transport committee chairman<br />

Mike Davidson said many<br />

children were able to use their<br />

local street more during the<br />

Covid-19 lockdown.<br />

Many decorated pavements<br />

with chalk art, played sport and<br />

rode their bikes.<br />

“By introducing the Play<br />

Streets concept in Christchurch<br />

we hope to give families the<br />

opportunity to experience the<br />

streets free of traffic for a short<br />

time, and make them a lively<br />

shared space for learning and<br />

connecting.”<br />

Children will be able to walk,<br />

bike or scoot around the<br />

street and will be encouraged<br />

to bring play items out of their<br />

homes and garages to share with<br />

friends and neighbours.<br />

Sport Canterbury’s Healthy<br />

Families Ōtautahi Christchurch<br />

play systems innovator Adam<br />

Gard’ner is thrilled the project is<br />

going ahead.<br />

“Providing temporary closure<br />

on some streets to allow neighbourhoods<br />

and communities<br />

to use the space to connect and<br />

play can contribute to longer<br />

term well-connected and safe<br />

individuals, whānau, neighbourhoods<br />

and communities.”<br />

ViaStrada Ltd senior transportation<br />

engineer Gemma Dioni<br />

said streets “are a resource that<br />

are available to us all, and closing<br />

them for a few hours on a weekend<br />

will give the kids a chance to<br />

play freely and actively outside<br />

their front door in a safe and fun<br />

environment.”<br />

Each event would last for<br />

between two and four hours and<br />

ACTIVE:<br />

Closing<br />

some streets<br />

temporarily<br />

for two to<br />

four hours will<br />

allow children<br />

to play and<br />

connect<br />

with others.<br />

PHOTO:<br />

NEWSLINE<br />

the timing will be arranged with<br />

the community.<br />

There will be temporary restrictions<br />

on vehicle movements<br />

through the street for residents,<br />

as vehicles are not permitted to<br />

travel through a road closure<br />

(except for emergency vehicles).<br />

Locations will be finalised over<br />

the coming weeks. Play Streets<br />

will be held from December <strong>2020</strong><br />

to February 2021.<br />

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<strong>News</strong><br />

Harnessing creativity<br />

from recycled ‘junk’<br />

Myriad groups<br />

help keep our<br />

community moving.<br />

Reporter Bea<br />

Gooding speaks<br />

to Creative Junk<br />

co-ordinator<br />

Christine Jackson<br />

about the<br />

importance of<br />

sustainable creativity<br />

What does Creative<br />

Junk do, and how did<br />

it come to be what it is<br />

today?<br />

Originally set up in<br />

1981, we service a demand<br />

for affordable materials<br />

that are used to promote<br />

creative, imaginative<br />

play and events in the<br />

community — for<br />

children, their families,<br />

artists, designers, crafters,<br />

cosplayers, wearable art,<br />

early childhood services,<br />

schools and a variety of<br />

other organisations.<br />

Our motto — Recycle,<br />

Reuse, Rethink — reflects<br />

the organisation’s ideals<br />

and its ethical and<br />

environmental stance.<br />

We are now looking to<br />

expand our outreach to<br />

more actively embrace the<br />

environmental side of our<br />

values<br />

What are the issues that<br />

your charity is currently<br />

facing, and what is being<br />

done to overcome them?<br />

Our biggest issue at<br />

present is funding, it’s been<br />

affected nationwide for<br />

everyone by the Covid-19<br />

crisis, so we here at<br />

Creative Junk are trying<br />

to become more selfsupporting.<br />

We have our “spare parts<br />

boxes” which raises money<br />

for us, with schools or<br />

anyone wanting creative<br />

goods all over the country,<br />

these boxes are posted to<br />

them. We have also held<br />

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materials for projects<br />

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The best thing people can<br />

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•Get in touch with<br />

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