Southern View: April 11, 2024

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Thursday April 11 2024
Quinoa makes for
SCHOOL OPEN DAYS
Papanui High School
Our School, Our Success, Our Responsibility
“Our aim is simple... to provide the best
education possible for every student.”
At Papanui High School positive
relationships are at the forefront of
what we do. Connecting through a
responsive local curriculum we provide
an opportunity for all students to learn
in a productive and future-focused
environment.
The opportunity to learn from an
innovative and broad curriculum is
critical to providing a pathway that meets
each student’s individual needs. Papanui
High School allows for a greater range
and flexibility in subject choice including
the utilization of the secondary/tertiary
interface. This reinforces the philosophy
underpinning personalised learning and is
strongly supported by understanding our
students’ interests, passions, talents, and
ultimately their career aspirations.
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learning to take place, it has to be
implemented in such a way that students
will be highly engaged. The school
does this in a ‘forward thinking’ way by
creating learning environments that allow
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and achieve. Papanui “PRIDE” is what
we represent, and we demonstrate this by
having young adults leave our school as
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appropriate qualifications and social skills
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All that we do here is reinforced by
positive relationships, an ethos of caring,
cultural responsiveness, inclusion, and
high expectations. The school highly
values the connectedness between
curricular and co-curricular learning
and forming partnerships with our
wider school community. We have a
philosophical understanding that the
holistic development of the student is
critical to individual success.
The school is working hard to
consolidate recent initiatives to ensure
sustained and continuous improvement.
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school for more information.
We look forward to welcoming all
prospective students and their families/
whānau to visit our school at our Open
Evening on Thursday 23rd May.
delicious, light and
tender meatballs
Quinoa & Chicken Meatballs in a
Tomato Sauce
Serves 4
GLUTEN-FREE quinoa is a great
addition to these chicken meatballs, as it
acts as a binding ingredient, helping to
hold the meatballs together (in place of
the usual breadcrumbs that most recipes
use for this purpose) producing lovely
light and tender meatballs.
Ingredients
Meatballs
1/2 cup Alison’s Pantry Quinoa, plus
extra to serve
400g chicken mince
1 small onion, grated
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1/4 tsp dried chilli flakes
1/4 cup chopped parsley, plus more for
garnish
1 medium courgette, grated
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1/3 cup Alison’s Pantry Pinenuts, toasted,
to garnish
Tomato sauce
2 tbsp olive oil
1 small onion, finely diced
500ml tomato puree
Method
• Place quinoa in a fine sieve and rinse
under cold running water for 1 minute.
Cook rinsed quinoa in a pot of boiling
water for 12-15 minutes until tender to
the bite. Drain well and set aside to cool.
• Preheat oven to 200°C. In a large bowl,
place chicken, quinoa, onion, garlic, chilli
and parsley. Squeeze excess moisture
from grated courgette; add courgette to
the bowl. Season with salt and pepper
and mix well to combine.
• With damp hands (to stop the mixture
sticking), take one tablespoon of mixture
and roll into a ball. Repeat until you have
24. Place meatballs on a baking tray lined
with baking paper, leaving space between
them. Bake for 20 minutes until lightly
browned and firm.
• At the same time, heat oil in a saucepan.
Add onion and cook over a medium heat
for 5 minutes. Add tomato puree and
simmer for 10 minutes. Taste and adjust
seasoning with salt and pepper.
• Once meatballs are cooked, transfer
them to the tomato sauce and gently stir
to coat. Scatter with parsley and pine
nuts and serve with extra cooked quinoa
or pasta, and vegetables or a green salad,
as preferred.
Tip: Make sure you use a fine sieve to
rinse the quinoa otherwise the tiny
grains of quinoa will fall through the
coarse holes in the sieve and be lost down
the sink.
– This recipe was created by Julie Le Clerc
for Alison’s Pantry
ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY COLLEGE
OPEN MORNING
Meet staff and
students and see
the college in action
TUESDAY 14 MAY
9am to 12pm
Papanui
High School
OPEN NIGHT
Thursday 23rd May 6.30pm
The evening will consist of an address from the principal and student
representatives, followed by guided tours of the school’s facilities.
30 Langdons Road | www.papanui.school.nz
Phone: 03 352 6119
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69 Middlepark Road, Sockburn, Christchurch
Phone: 03 348 7010 | www.stc.school.nz