Nor'West News: July 20, 2023
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Thursday <strong>July</strong> <strong>20</strong> <strong>20</strong>23 3<br />
School celebrates with<br />
kite-making and kai<br />
• By Briar Allen<br />
WHĀNAU HAVE been invited<br />
along to celebrate Matariki at<br />
Redwood Primary School.<br />
The school will host a range of<br />
activities from 11am to 2.30pm<br />
tomorrow for pupils, family and<br />
caregivers.<br />
Principal Nick Gunn said the<br />
school has run events in the<br />
past to celebrate Matariki and,<br />
even though the holiday landed<br />
before the school term started,<br />
they still wanted to mark the<br />
occasion.<br />
“We will have a range of<br />
activities but one of the main<br />
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ones is kite-making and flying,<br />
which involves the children<br />
making a small kite and flying<br />
it around a course that visits<br />
a post that represents each<br />
one of the stars that make up<br />
Matariki.”<br />
Gunn said there will also be<br />
shared kai with veges and fruit<br />
from the school garden used to<br />
make soups, muffins and cake.<br />
“It is really important to<br />
celebrate Matariki as it is a time<br />
to reflect and plan ahead as<br />
well as recognise our treaty. It<br />
provides a chance for the whole<br />
school to come together and<br />
learn.”<br />
FUN AND GAMES: Redwood<br />
Primary pupils Ryder (left) and<br />
Tyrell learn about a marae.<br />
Left – Teacher Kirsty Fletcher<br />
helps pupil Ollie with a<br />
traditional string game.<br />
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Gunn said the school is<br />
always looking to improve its<br />
Matariki celebration.<br />
“Our lead teacher Lynda<br />
Selwood, supported by a team<br />
of teachers within the school,<br />
are always planning the<br />
activities and getting new ideas<br />
to improve and evolve the event<br />
each year.<br />
“It is a great opportunity for<br />
families to spend time with<br />
their kids and enjoy being at<br />
the school and getting involved,<br />
especially now we have<br />
Covid-19 more under control.<br />
We love having family and<br />
community involvement.”<br />
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Students devise plan<br />
to make streets safer<br />
VILLA MARIA College students<br />
and staff have come up with a<br />
plan to make the streets near the<br />
school safer.<br />
Deputy principal Mike Baugh<br />
said the plan started with senior<br />
students and the student council<br />
raising concerns about their<br />
safety when<br />
travelling to<br />
school.<br />
“Our<br />
concerns<br />
revolved<br />
around the<br />
speed limit on<br />
Yaldhurst Rd,<br />
as well as the<br />
lack of signage<br />
indicating<br />
Mike Baugh<br />
there is a school zone and a speed<br />
limit change and the narrow<br />
congestion on Brodie St due to<br />
parking on either side,” he said.<br />
They have been working with<br />
the city council’s community<br />
travel advisor George Booty<br />
to develop a travel plan that<br />
improves road safety and<br />
encourages the whole school<br />
community to use active modes<br />
of transport to get to and from<br />
school.<br />
Baugh said even though some<br />
people may have issues with<br />
a speed limit change, it will<br />
improve safety for their students.<br />
“It will make a significant<br />
difference and we will continue<br />
to promote traffic and students’<br />
safety around the school.<br />
Students’ safety is our first<br />
priority.”<br />
Baugh said they presented<br />
their travel plan to the Waipuna<br />
Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton<br />
Community Board, the city<br />
council and Waka Kotahi NZ<br />
Transport Agency, which came<br />
back with some suggestions.<br />
These included promoting<br />
‘Park and Stride’, which involves<br />
parents parking and dropping<br />
their children off so they can walk<br />
the last bit to school, instead of<br />
dropping them right at the front<br />
gate, to help ease congestion.<br />
Said Baugh: “(The plan<br />
included) adding more signage to<br />
indicate the speed limit change<br />
on Yaldhurst Rd from 60km/h<br />
to 50km/h, with the city council<br />
and transport agency looking<br />
into changing the speed limit to<br />
30km/h during school hours.”<br />
Baugh said Brodie St will not<br />
be altered in terms of parking. He<br />
has been informed the changes<br />
will be made late <strong>20</strong>23 to early<br />
<strong>20</strong>24.<br />
He also said it was nice they got<br />
a response so quickly.<br />
“It has been an overall<br />
positive experience, especially<br />
for the students who were<br />
involved as it showed them that<br />
they could voice these issues and<br />
be listened to.”<br />
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