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• By Chris Barclay<br />
THEY MIGHT not stand out<br />
riding to and from school on<br />
the roads of New Brighton or<br />
Avondale, but Amelia Sykes and<br />
Shaylah Sayers are already on the<br />
fast track to successful cycling<br />
careers.<br />
After dominating their respective<br />
categories at the track national<br />
championships inside Cycling<br />
New Zealand’s flagship velodrome<br />
in Cambridge, the talented teenagers<br />
made a smooth transition to<br />
the age group road race national<br />
championships in Hokitika.<br />
Sayers, who lives in Avondale,<br />
capped an unbeaten debut season<br />
as a competitive cyclist by securing<br />
the under-15 time trial and road<br />
race on the West Coast over Anzac<br />
weekend, to boost her national<br />
title haul to eight.<br />
The 13-year-old only joined<br />
the Canterbury Track Cycling<br />
development programme last<br />
November, so her progress has<br />
been remarkable.<br />
“I was talking to one of my<br />
coaching colleagues and we were<br />
trying to think: ‘Has an under-15<br />
bike rider ever dominated and<br />
won everything in the under-15<br />
women’s grade?’ And for the life<br />
of us we couldn’t think of anyone<br />
in the past 20 years,” said Sayers’<br />
coach Terry Gyde.<br />
• Turn to page 5<br />
DOUBLE TIME: Amelia Sykes defended her under-19 time trial title at the age group road race national championships.<br />
PHOTO (right): GRANT HARRIS PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
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JOURNEY: The Bridge hub was a vision that started six years ago from an earthquake-damaged church. The hub has a cafe which served coffee and<br />
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East MP Poto Williams<br />
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• By Emily Moorhouse<br />
AFTER SIX years of labour,<br />
perseverance and patience, The<br />
Bridge hub has finally opened its<br />
doors to the public.<br />
Saturday marked the official<br />
opening of the community facility<br />
in South New Brighton, an event<br />
the trust chairwoman said was<br />
“surreal.”<br />
The hub, at Bridge St, is owned<br />
and operated by The Bridge South<br />
Brighton Trust which is made up<br />
entirely of volunteers.<br />
“It was just wonderful to have an<br />
opportunity to thank so many of<br />
the volunteers, supporters, funders<br />
and the community and officially<br />
open,” TBSBT chairwoman Lisa<br />
Tregenza said.<br />
“It’s been quite a journey over<br />
quite a few years.”<br />
Because the hub was yet to have<br />
their code of compliance<br />
signed off by the city<br />
council, the opening was<br />
an invite-only event, with<br />
guests who had contributed<br />
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The opening started with<br />
a dawn blessing which<br />
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followed by another blessing to<br />
welcome the guests onto the land.<br />
Christchurch East MP Poto<br />
Williams, who contributed to the<br />
funding of the hub cut the ribbon<br />
and gave a speech as well as <strong>May</strong>or<br />
Lisa<br />
Tregenza<br />
Lianne Dalziel and Tregenza.<br />
Guests were then invited to view<br />
the different spaces such as the<br />
cafe, gallery, courtyard,<br />
hall that fits 150 people<br />
and wellness rooms. There<br />
was also a planting of a<br />
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The project was first<br />
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“It feels a little bit surreal because<br />
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“It’s very much seeing our vision<br />
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The trust is currently organising<br />
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Tregenza said they have already<br />
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‘I blacked out a metre before the line’<br />
• From page 1<br />
While Sayers will now take<br />
a well-deserved break, from<br />
competition at least, Sykes has<br />
her sights set on the track cycling<br />
junior world championships in<br />
Tel Aviv, Israel, in August.<br />
A year 13 student at Avonside<br />
Girls’ High School, Sykes, 17,<br />
defended her under-19 time trial<br />
title in Hokitika and also claimed<br />
the road race. Those victories followed<br />
on from five gold medals<br />
on the boards in Cambridge in<br />
mid-March.<br />
Sykes was dominant in the<br />
time trial, completing the 15km<br />
endurance test more than a<br />
minute clear of her closest<br />
challenger.<br />
The road race was a tighter<br />
affair, with Sykes edging Seana<br />
Gray (Te Awamutu Sports) in<br />
a sprint finish at the climax of<br />
a 97.5km circuit around Lake<br />
Mahinapua.<br />
“I was holding on for dear life.<br />
I don’t know where I found that<br />
sprint, but I did,” Sykes admitted.<br />
“I blacked out a metre before<br />
the line, I threw everything at it,<br />
I didn’t even know where the line<br />
was.”<br />
She was now looking forward<br />
to preparing for Israel after<br />
Covid-19 prevented New Zealand<br />
sending a squad to last year’s<br />
junior world champs in Egypt.<br />
“I’m so stoked to be selected<br />
for that. I think we’ll have a really<br />
good opportunity to get in there<br />
and hopefully have a good TP<br />
(team pursuit),” she said.<br />
Sayers also cruised to the<br />
top of her time trial podium,<br />
timed 29min 36.95sec, well clear<br />
of Southland’s Poppy McIvor<br />
(30min 17.92sec).<br />
Sayers, who is also a keen<br />
mountain biker in Bottle Lake<br />
Forest Park, made light of<br />
blustery conditions that<br />
impacted on the race against the<br />
clock.<br />
“I actually quite like those conditions,<br />
it didn’t freak me out too<br />
EASY RIDER:<br />
Talented junior<br />
cyclist Shaylah<br />
Sayers continued<br />
her stunning<br />
domination of<br />
the under-15<br />
class nationally<br />
with time trial<br />
and road race<br />
triumphs on the<br />
West Coast.<br />
PHOTO:<br />
CANTERBURY<br />
TRACK CYCLING<br />
much,” she said.<br />
Sayers, McIvor and<br />
Canterbury’s Jesse Thomson had<br />
to be separated by a photo finish<br />
after all recording 1hr 3min 25sec<br />
in the road race.<br />
“That was really close. It was<br />
really good, there were quite a few<br />
attacks. Everyone was really on<br />
form,” Sayers said.<br />
“The sprint from the corner<br />
was longer than I thought it was, I<br />
just had to keep going.”<br />
Possible closure of<br />
New Brighton Rd<br />
riles up Zervos<br />
• By Emily Moorhouse<br />
NEW BRIGHTON Rd’s<br />
future remains unclear, but a<br />
community board member is<br />
making a bid to stop any decision<br />
to close parts of it.<br />
Coastal-Burwood Community<br />
Board member Jo Zervos said<br />
a regeneration plan suggests<br />
changes to routes on New<br />
Brighton Rd, but the plan has<br />
been signed off and a decision is<br />
yet to be made on what<br />
these changes will be.<br />
Zervos said while<br />
nothing is confirmed,<br />
there is a possibility<br />
certain sections of the<br />
road, such as Cresswell<br />
Ave to Bassett St, Bassett<br />
St to Anzac Dr,<br />
Anzac Dr to Wainoni<br />
Rd and Bower Ave to<br />
Hawke St, may be closed.<br />
“I don’t know what’s going to<br />
happen or when it’s going to happen,”<br />
Zervos said.<br />
The board requested pricing<br />
to repair and future-proof these<br />
four sections of New Brighton Rd<br />
in 2020, but because there was<br />
no funding allocated to carry out<br />
pricing this has not been done.<br />
Zervos, who has failed to get<br />
answers on the road’s future,<br />
asked for residents’ thoughts<br />
via the New Brighton Facebook<br />
Jo Zervos<br />
•HAVE YOUR SAY: Share<br />
your views on New Brighton<br />
Rd’s future. Email emily.<br />
moorhouse@starmedia.kiwi<br />
and keep responses to 200<br />
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group about the potential closure<br />
of these sections of New Brighton<br />
Rd. She received more than<br />
400 comments in two days. A<br />
majority of the comments were<br />
strongly opposed to closing<br />
sections of the road.<br />
City council head of<br />
transport and waste<br />
management Lynette Ellis<br />
said no decisions have<br />
been made on closing New<br />
Brighton Rd.<br />
“The New Brighton Rd<br />
connection at the Pages Rd<br />
bridge is being considered<br />
as part of the bridge renewal<br />
scheme development and will<br />
[be] consulted on once investigations<br />
have developed sufficiently,”<br />
Ellis said.<br />
Zervos said it would be a<br />
shame if parts of the road were<br />
closed, as it brings people to the<br />
area.<br />
“I’ve used it my whole life, it’s<br />
really direct,” Zervos said. “For<br />
New Brighton’s future, I think it’s<br />
really essential to actually keep<br />
the road open.”<br />
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chains and their sound effects,<br />
and yet they are only 1/14th the<br />
size of the real thing.<br />
But that doesn’t stop scores<br />
of keen radio-controlled model<br />
trucking enthusiasts from turning<br />
out on the fourth Sunday of each<br />
month to drive their pride and joy<br />
on the RC Haulers club site with<br />
their multi-use scale roads in the<br />
red zone on the corner of New<br />
Brighton Rd and Brooker Ave.<br />
The club has installed on-site<br />
200m of concrete roads, also built<br />
to scale, complete with road signs<br />
and garages to reverse into or<br />
store spare trailers in.<br />
RC Haulers club secretary<br />
and co-founder Kris Heslin, of<br />
Halswell, who doesn’t drive trucks<br />
professionally, said the club has a<br />
strong following both nationally<br />
and internationally.<br />
“The attraction is to be creative<br />
and share a passion for trucks, I<br />
can tinker around at home and<br />
then come out and have a bit of<br />
fun,” he said.<br />
He said a radio controlled<br />
model truck might cost over<br />
$1000 to outfit.<br />
“But 80 per cent of the fun was<br />
in making it, and customising it<br />
how you want it to look and then<br />
(Clockwise from above), RC Haulers club members check connections on<br />
their 1/14th scale model trucks as they prepare for another day out. Club<br />
member loads up his scratch built trailer unit. Secretary and club co-founder<br />
Kris Heslin, of Halswell, guides his truck and trailer unit carrying a large<br />
working scale excavator, past another road train.<br />
sharing it with everyone,” he said.<br />
On show were many semitrailer<br />
trucks, light trucks, cranes,<br />
a working dirt processor, diggers<br />
and excavators.<br />
All were intricately detailed<br />
and created from model kit sets<br />
or scratch built to replicate the<br />
original long haulers and the<br />
loads they carry.<br />
There is even a M1 Abrams<br />
tank and a police car.<br />
While marveling at their<br />
detail, the many spectators on<br />
hand couldn’t help but notice<br />
the sheer size of these model<br />
trucks.<br />
They are big; with some road<br />
train outfits well over 1.5m long.<br />
All motor around the scale<br />
roads, crossing over a bridge or<br />
driving through the tunnel to<br />
deliver their loads into garages<br />
or one of two scale quarry sites at<br />
the venue, all while making the<br />
appropriate noises on cue.<br />
They start up, they idle, and<br />
then move away, forward under<br />
power or reverse complete with<br />
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at the touch of a button<br />
But unlike the high speeds of<br />
radio controlled racing cars and<br />
off-road racers, these replica<br />
trucks and excavators also move<br />
at the correct scale speed – about<br />
walking pace.<br />
Members said they must plan<br />
their journeys because they do<br />
strain under the loads carrying<br />
tanks, excavators, other trucks<br />
and cars, or even scale houses on<br />
their trailers.<br />
Heslin said some of the loads<br />
can weight up to 14kg.<br />
“They do get loaded down and<br />
you certainly feel the weight, especially<br />
when they go up over the<br />
bridge and don’t quite make it.<br />
“Trying to make it more realistic<br />
is all part of the fun,” he said.<br />
Enthusiast John Sanders built<br />
a copy of his own house to be<br />
transported by his truck and trailer<br />
unit, just because he wanted to<br />
make something different.<br />
Heslin said there was no age<br />
limit, the club welcomes people<br />
to go along and try their hand at<br />
driving one of the trucks..<br />
• See the video on<br />
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(Clockwise from left), Brendon McFarlane (left)<br />
watches as Jace Kemp, 8, operates a digger model<br />
while the pair clear rubble at the RC Haulers site.<br />
A scale model M1 Abrams tank. One of the many<br />
garages on the site, and the club’ has installed<br />
200m of concrete scale roads which are also<br />
used by the public to help teach children to ride<br />
bicycles and scooters.<br />
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More housing choice<br />
is the way forward<br />
Population growth, housing issues – including affordability – and climate change<br />
are prompting a re-think of some of Ōtautahi-Christchurch’s planning rules.<br />
Our proposed plan change<br />
We need to build a wider variety of homes,<br />
and more of them, to suit our changing<br />
housing needs.<br />
For lower emissions – and future generations<br />
– we must build upwards, particularly in and<br />
around our commercial centres within easy<br />
reach of work, school and the shops.<br />
Belfast<br />
Where we’ll grow<br />
Prestons*<br />
The proposed Draft Housing and Business<br />
Choice Plan Change creates a number of<br />
residential and commercial zones in the city<br />
and enables more and higher housing to<br />
be developed. Developments may still be<br />
subject to a resource consent.<br />
Bishopdale<br />
Papanui<br />
Shirley*<br />
Check out our interactive maps* to find out<br />
what the proposed changes mean for you and<br />
your property. Visit ccc.govt.nz/haveyoursay<br />
(Draft Housing and Business Choice Plan<br />
Change).<br />
Merivale<br />
Ōtakaro Avon River<br />
The Government wants<br />
us to grow up!<br />
Church Corner<br />
Riccarton<br />
Ōtakaro Avon River<br />
City<br />
Centre<br />
Linwood<br />
We’ve been given direction<br />
by the Government to enable<br />
more housing.<br />
Hornby<br />
Barrington<br />
Sydenham<br />
This means in most urban residential<br />
zones of the city people will be allowed<br />
to build up to three houses per section,<br />
and up to 12 metres high (three storeys,<br />
depending on building design) without<br />
a resource consent.<br />
Even greater building development –<br />
both residential and commercial – would<br />
be allowed within and around the central<br />
city and suburban commercial centres.<br />
To find out more about the Government<br />
legislation visit<br />
ccc.govt.nz/enablinghousing<br />
Key<br />
North Halswell<br />
City Centre Zone: unlimited height<br />
High Density Zone: 32 metres enabled (10 storeys, depending on building design)<br />
High Density Zone Precinct: 20 metres enabled (six storeys, depending on building design)<br />
Town Centre that may emerge into a Metropolitan Centre: 20 metres enabled<br />
(six storeys, depending on building design)<br />
Town Centre: 20 metres enabled (six storeys, depending on building design)<br />
Local Centre (Large): 14 metres (four storeys, depending on building design)<br />
Local Centre (Significant): 20 metres enabled (six storeys, depending<br />
on building design)<br />
Medium Density Zone Precinct: 14 metres enabled (four storeys,<br />
depending on building design)<br />
Rest of the city – Medium Density Zone– enables at least 12 metres<br />
(unless Qualifying Matters apply).<br />
*For areas outside of the vacuum sewer wastewater constraints only.<br />
* You may need to view these maps at a different time if demand is high.
Thursday <strong>May</strong> 5 <strong>2022</strong> 9<br />
Our growth challenge<br />
Changing the way we do things is challenging but it also brings opportunity.<br />
Our climate is changing, the population is growing and there’s increasing pressure on our infrastructure and environment.<br />
For the sake of future generations, we need to make good decisions now about how and where we grow so our city remains<br />
a great place to live and do business, and that we are well positioned to respond to climate change and population growth.<br />
Indicative illustration only: Medium Density<br />
Residential Standards (3 units and 12 metres max.)<br />
Indicative illustration only: High Density Residential<br />
Zone (20 metres max.)<br />
Indicative illustration only: High Density Residential<br />
and Commercial Zones (20 metres max.)<br />
Growing in the right places<br />
While we must follow the Government’s direction, we’re proposing that<br />
some areas have qualities, known as Qualifying Matters. This means the<br />
rules enabling increased development would not apply, or would be<br />
limited, and development remains subject to resource consent approval.<br />
This could be because of their significant heritage or character value, or<br />
because of specific hazards like rockfall, erosion, tsunami or flooding.<br />
Planning ahead is way smarter<br />
We have the water and wastewater pipes in place for additional housing<br />
in most parts of the city, but there are some areas where we may not<br />
have the capacity to service more homes.<br />
Ōtakaro Avon River<br />
We propose adding a district-wide engineering provision to the<br />
District Plan which will require anyone wanting to develop land to<br />
check water and sewer network capacity with us prior to planning<br />
a new development. Call us on 03 941 8999 or 0800 800 169.<br />
Coastal hazards – preparing for change<br />
We’re already feeling the impacts of climate change. We need to plan<br />
now for the effects of coastal hazards on our communities, infrastructure<br />
and environment, so that we are ready for what we will be facing in<br />
the future.<br />
We’re proposing changes, via our Draft Coastal Hazards Plan Change,<br />
to avoid an increased risk of harm to people and property from coastal<br />
hazards such as flooding, tsunami, and erosion.<br />
Protecting our Residential Heritage Areas<br />
We want to protect the special heritage in some of our residential areas.<br />
Through a separate Draft Heritage Plan Change we’re proposing to create<br />
11 Residential Heritage Areas, which have buildings and features that<br />
are collectively of significance to Christchurch’s heritage and identity.<br />
This means there will be less intensification enabled than in standard<br />
residential areas.<br />
The plan change also proposes adding around 65 buildings, items and<br />
building interiors to the Schedule of Significant Historic Heritage.<br />
Protecting our Character Areas<br />
We’re also proposing changes to the 15 Character Areas in the city,<br />
with these to become Qualifying Matters. Character Areas are residential<br />
neighbourhoods that are distinctive from their wider surroundings,<br />
and are considered to be worthy of retaining.<br />
While some infill development will be allowed, the Council will have<br />
more flexibility in declining a resource consent where the design of<br />
a new house, or changes to an existing house aren’t in keeping with<br />
the Character Area.<br />
Protecting our trees<br />
We know trees are important to people and they play a vital role in<br />
helping tackle climate change.<br />
We’re working on ways to ensure that new housing development does<br />
not come at the expense of the city’s tree canopy. This includes seeking<br />
Financial Contributions from anyone wishing to develop land and who<br />
does not retain or plant 20 per cent tree canopy cover on a site. We’ll<br />
use these contributions to plant more trees on Council owned land.<br />
We propose further protecting trees by making the list of protected<br />
trees in the current District Plan a Qualifying Matter.<br />
Have your say<br />
We welcome your feedback on our Housing and Business Choice,<br />
Coastal Hazards, Heritage, and Radio Communication Pathways<br />
draft plan changes from 11 April until 13 <strong>May</strong> <strong>2022</strong>. This will help us<br />
shape the draft changes needed to bring our District Plan in line with<br />
government direction, ahead of formal consultation before 20 August.<br />
ccc.govt.nz/haveyoursay
10 Thursday <strong>May</strong> 5 <strong>2022</strong><br />
HABITAT: City council urban rangers install a bug hotel at Horseshoe Lake.<br />
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Bug hotel a bid to<br />
boost bee population<br />
A BUG hotel shaped like<br />
a whare has been installed<br />
at Horseshoe Lake,<br />
Burwood, to help boost the<br />
population of native bees.<br />
City council urban rangers<br />
made and installed the<br />
hotel in the lake’s regeneration<br />
area of the Ōtakaro<br />
Avon River Corridor in a<br />
bid to establish more colonies<br />
of native bees.<br />
In turn, the bees pollinate<br />
native plants, including<br />
manuka, kanuka and<br />
pohutukawa.<br />
“We’re helping the native<br />
bee population by building<br />
a home so they can do<br />
their job more easily. They<br />
have to compete with the<br />
honey bees so want to give<br />
them a bit of a head start,”<br />
city council community<br />
partnerships ranger Courtney<br />
Reid said.<br />
The hotels are filled with<br />
flax, pinecones, bamboo<br />
and other natural products<br />
which the bees can use to<br />
establish their habitat.<br />
Said Reid: “We’re supporting<br />
from the bottom<br />
up. So if we establish more<br />
habitats for insects and<br />
bees, that helps increase<br />
the number of native<br />
plants and trees in the<br />
area, which then attracts<br />
more native bird life.”<br />
The area around Horseshoe<br />
Lake was a food<br />
resource site for Māori, so<br />
the rangers thought it was<br />
fitting to have the hotel<br />
shaped like a whare.<br />
“Staff handmade these<br />
wonderful structures in<br />
their spare time and also<br />
made use of resources<br />
that were already here in<br />
the OARC, it’s all natural.<br />
Even the paint is made<br />
from ochre.”<br />
The whare is the first in<br />
a number of hotels being<br />
installed.<br />
There are at least another<br />
six which will be placed<br />
in different parts of the<br />
OARC over the coming<br />
months, including one<br />
in Adventure Ave and<br />
another at the intersection<br />
of Linwood Ave and Avonside<br />
Drive.<br />
“It will take a while for<br />
the bees to make their<br />
home, so it won’t be until<br />
after winter that we start<br />
seeing them going in and<br />
out of the whare and other<br />
hotels,” Reid said.<br />
“We want to bring a<br />
public awareness to native<br />
bees and plants in this<br />
area, but we also just want<br />
to encourage people to<br />
get out and explore the<br />
OARC.”<br />
Growing shrooms at fungi<br />
farm ‘complicated but fun’<br />
AN INITIATIVE to grow<br />
mushrooms at the fungi<br />
farm in the Avon River<br />
Corridor regeneration<br />
area has been labelled<br />
“complicated but fun”.<br />
The project is being led<br />
by the Riverlution Collective<br />
and Richmond Community<br />
Garden. Spokeswoman<br />
Hayley Guglietta<br />
said it will take a couple of<br />
years to fully establish the<br />
fungi populations in the<br />
area.<br />
“They’ve got to have the<br />
right amount of sunshine,<br />
water and heat – they need<br />
moist, warm soil,” she said.<br />
“It’s complicated but<br />
fun.”<br />
Autumn is the best time<br />
to grow fungus and since<br />
the farm opened last July it<br />
has seen button and oyster<br />
mushrooms pop up and<br />
shaggy clumps of lion’s<br />
mane sprout from trees.<br />
“We’ve still got a lot<br />
of inoculating to do and<br />
there’s different methods of<br />
getting the spores in, such<br />
as in-ground mulching,<br />
mushroom compost and<br />
logs,” said Guglietta.<br />
“They all have their<br />
particular likes. The birch<br />
bolete mushrooms enjoy<br />
being near the birch trees<br />
for instance.”<br />
There are workshops<br />
WHOPPER:<br />
It will take a<br />
couple of years<br />
for the fungi<br />
populations to<br />
become well<br />
established.<br />
PHOTO:<br />
NEWSLINE<br />
on site each month where<br />
people can learn the<br />
process of mushroom<br />
inoculation.<br />
This might involve<br />
drilling holes into logs,<br />
cutting wedges into a<br />
stump or mixing spores<br />
into a food source such as<br />
woodchips.<br />
The fungi farm on<br />
the corner of Evelyn<br />
Cousins Ave and River Rd,<br />
Richmond, also features<br />
mushroom-themed<br />
sculptures and art.<br />
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Invisible harmful substances like a high<br />
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Even bad smells can cause discomfort or<br />
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however as winter approaches, we start to<br />
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SCHOOL OPEN DAYS<br />
Tena Koutou, Talofa<br />
lava, Afio Mai, welcome<br />
to Marian College<br />
‘A centre<br />
of creative<br />
excellence’<br />
Hornby High School<br />
We are a family school built on Catholic<br />
faith and values with the vision of<br />
empowering our students to be confident,<br />
committed, faith-filled learners, enabling<br />
them to fulfil their potential and to<br />
contribute to the common good of society.<br />
The staff and students are resilient and<br />
have managed the challenges of Covid-19<br />
and hybrid learning well. We are proud<br />
of our students who have continued<br />
to achieve in academic, sporting, and<br />
cultural areas.<br />
2023 is going to be a big year for us as<br />
we farewell our Barbadoes Street location<br />
and move into our new home on Lydia<br />
Street, Papanui mid-2023. You can check<br />
out the innovative plans and follow the<br />
progress of the build on our website.<br />
We look forward to meeting you<br />
during our Open Day. Bookings are<br />
essential and can be made on our<br />
website.<br />
Open Evening<br />
Wednesday 18 <strong>May</strong><br />
6pm - 8pm<br />
There will be an opportunity to<br />
meet the staff and have a guided<br />
tour of the school.<br />
Commitment, Achievement,<br />
Resilience, Respect.<br />
180 Waterloo Road, Hornby<br />
Ph 03 349 5396<br />
www.hornby.school.nz<br />
Haere mai! Talofa lava!<br />
Welcome!<br />
You are invited to<br />
Marian College<br />
Thursday 19 <strong>May</strong>, 2 - 6.30pm<br />
Tours will begin on the hour with the<br />
Principal’s Welcome.<br />
Bookings essential<br />
www.mariancollege.school.nz/openday<br />
exec@mariancollege.school.nz<br />
03 385 8449<br />
When choosing the right school for<br />
our tamariki we often go by the ‘feeling’<br />
we have when we visit, as much as by the<br />
programmes that schools have on offer.<br />
The world demands fewer people who can<br />
do repetitive tasks and more people who<br />
can think creatively and critically. That’s<br />
why our vision, our aspiration, as a school<br />
is to be ‘A centre of creative excellence’<br />
in everything that we do, whether visual<br />
arts or chemistry, volleyball or music,<br />
management or curriculum organisation.<br />
In doing this we haven’t forgotten the<br />
importance of the strong relationships that<br />
we build with all of our students, and the<br />
importance of individualising learning<br />
pathways so that we come as close as we<br />
can to meeting every individual student’s<br />
needs. Hornby High School’s feeling is<br />
one of positive relationships that support<br />
learning. Students often comment that<br />
we feel like whānau, like family. Visitors<br />
without exception comment on the calm<br />
learning focussed environment that they<br />
see and feel when they visit our learning<br />
spaces. This all takes place within our<br />
amazing new facilities that are allowing<br />
us to develop a new curriculum crossing<br />
old subject boundaries and catering for<br />
individual needs, that support student<br />
passions, and help our students to grow<br />
their heart for their community. The<br />
growing list of student achievements<br />
support our students’ opinions that we<br />
offer a wide range of sporting and other<br />
activities for them during their time at<br />
school. And we expect nothing but the<br />
next from every student, we expect every<br />
student to create the best version of<br />
themselves that they can be. We emphasise<br />
our values, promoting the ethos of<br />
kindness, of manaaki. I personally invite<br />
you to come along and meet with our<br />
skilled staff, and the amazing young people<br />
who make Hornby High School such a<br />
wonderful place to be.<br />
Robin Sutton, Tumuaki
Thursday <strong>May</strong> 5 <strong>2022</strong> 13<br />
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Villa Maria College has served the<br />
Catholic community in Christchurch for<br />
over 100 years. The College was established<br />
by the Sisters of Mercy as a Catholic school<br />
for girls in 1918, and in 1981 Villa Maria<br />
became an Integrated School providing<br />
education with a Special Character. It is the<br />
vision of Catherine McAuley, founder of<br />
the Sisters of Mercy, that is implemented,<br />
tested and challenged in all our education<br />
at Villa Maria. It is this Mercy character<br />
that makes Villa Maria special, and we<br />
seek to live the Gospel values and infuse a<br />
Catholic culture with our Mercy charism,<br />
throughout all aspects of College life.<br />
The staff at Villa Maria are committed<br />
to creating life-long learners and nurture<br />
each girl and her academic needs. We<br />
are extremely proud of our academic<br />
success. NZQA data shows that Villa Maria<br />
Villa Maria College<br />
students consistently perform well above<br />
the national average for all New Zealand<br />
schools. Striving for excellence is part of<br />
the College culture, and girls are guided<br />
and supported to set goals and achieve<br />
their potential. Our smaller class sizes are<br />
a significant advantage, and our teachers<br />
are specialists in their field and passionate<br />
about educating girls.<br />
In an all girls’ environment, girls are<br />
taken seriously. They can work through<br />
the challenges of adolescence safely and<br />
they thrive and excel with strong female<br />
and male role models to inspire them. The<br />
family atmosphere at Villa Maria College<br />
is no accident. Students are encouraged<br />
Better Than Before<br />
Shirley Boys’ High School<br />
to look after each other and give back to<br />
the life of the College. All students are<br />
placed in one of our six Houses, designed<br />
to encourage camaraderie and a sense<br />
of belonging between students across all<br />
year levels. Each House is led by a Head<br />
of House who oversees the pastoral care<br />
of the students. The entire staff work in a<br />
caring fashion to help students through<br />
their teenage years. It is this deliberate<br />
focus on the whole person that makes Villa<br />
Maria a safe and secure place of learning.<br />
Cultural opportunities play a significant<br />
role in the life of a Villa Maria girl. We offer<br />
a vibrant cultural programme, where girls<br />
can seize opportunities to develop their<br />
musical interests, or be part of our Kapa<br />
Haka or Pasifika Group.<br />
Villa Maria offers more than 30 different<br />
sports, so there truly is something for<br />
everyone. Students are encouraged to<br />
participate in sport, whether they strive<br />
to become elite athletes, or just want to<br />
have fun. Through sport, girls make new<br />
friends, learn new skills, and live a healthy<br />
lifestyle. This is central to our inclusive<br />
philosophy at Villa Maria College.<br />
With a full and vibrant College<br />
experience, balancing academic study and<br />
the many co-curricular activities on offer, it<br />
is a pleasure to watch our students develop<br />
from Villa girls into confident and caring<br />
young Mercy women.<br />
We invite you to take a Villa virtual<br />
tour and see our classrooms in action via<br />
our website at www.villa.school.nz<br />
Shirley Boys’ High School – Ngā<br />
Tama o Ōruapaeroa is a school of 1200<br />
boys that serves the eastern suburbs of<br />
Christchurch. It has a rich history, which<br />
continues to develop at our new site at<br />
Ōruapaeroa. We have a purpose-built<br />
school with first-rate facilities designed<br />
to support the learning of boys. Although<br />
our current site is new, we still focus on<br />
the traditions, customs and values of a<br />
school that has proudly been part of the<br />
community since 1957.<br />
Our staff are expert in the learning<br />
needs and strengths of our akonga.<br />
Teachers deliver high quality teaching<br />
and learning based on the New Zealand<br />
curriculum. The learning is challenging,<br />
engaging and fit for boys. It is directed<br />
by the teacher in a calm and ordered<br />
environment. Our focus and our kaupapa<br />
is on developing positive and strong<br />
relationships, with a goal of producing<br />
high levels of academic and personal<br />
achievement in academic, sporting,<br />
cultural and service endeavours.<br />
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that are designed to prepare them for<br />
success at and beyond school. The<br />
desired outcome for our boys is that they<br />
enjoy school and find it a positive and<br />
rewarding experience. We support this<br />
with our core values of Respect, Whānau,<br />
Belonging, Character and Better Than<br />
Before. These values contribute in<br />
making our school strong across all<br />
areas. Through living and demonstrating<br />
these values, our boys will continue<br />
to learn and grow, and will be positive<br />
role models, contributing citizens and<br />
respectful Shirley Men.<br />
Shirley Boys’ High School is committed<br />
to preparing young men to succeed in<br />
their world. We provide learning that<br />
is designed to enrich boys and prepare<br />
them for success. It is our belief that all<br />
boys have the capacity and the support<br />
to achieve personal success, and we<br />
encourage them to be Better Than Before.
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17. Meet (9)<br />
18. Warning sound (5,4)<br />
19. Common bird (7)<br />
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Latte, 11. Surrender, 12. Mariner,<br />
13. Tuatara, 14. Scald, 16.<br />
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27. Redundant, 28. Ideal, 29.<br />
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star, 7. India, 8. Garbage, 9.<br />
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