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• By Chris Barclay<br />

THEY MIGHT not stand out<br />

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Avondale, but Amelia Sykes and<br />

Shaylah Sayers are already on the<br />

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After dominating their respective<br />

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New Zealand’s flagship velodrome<br />

in Cambridge, the talented teenagers<br />

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championships in Hokitika.<br />

Sayers, who lives in Avondale,<br />

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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 />

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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 />

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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 />

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the volunteers, supporters, funders<br />

and the community and officially<br />

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Tregenza said.<br />

“It’s been quite a journey over<br />

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Because the hub was yet to have<br />

their code of compliance<br />

signed off by the city<br />

council, the opening was<br />

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guests who had contributed<br />

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such as funders, volunteers<br />

and tradespeople.<br />

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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an abandoned and earthquake-damaged<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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Thursday <strong>May</strong> 5 <strong>2022</strong> 5<br />

‘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 />

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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 />

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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 />

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really essential to actually keep<br />

the road open.”<br />

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part – right down to the lugs and<br />

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 />

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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 />

PHOTO: NEWSLINE<br />

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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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 />

SCHOOL OPEN DAYS<br />

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 />

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environment. Our focus and our kaupapa<br />

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relationships, with a goal of producing<br />

high levels of academic and personal<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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