Bay Harbour: March 15, 2017

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Wednesday <strong>March</strong> <strong>15</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

News<br />

Learn more about wetlands<br />

with interactive questions<br />

• By Noah Graham<br />

THE AVON-Heathcote Estuary<br />

Ihutai Trust is using a new way<br />

to get people wandering around<br />

the Charlesworth Wetland<br />

Reserve track.<br />

The trust is trialling a questionnaire<br />

about the reserve’s<br />

local flora for the community to<br />

answer as they stroll around the<br />

Wetland Edge Walk.<br />

Trust co-ordinator Tanya<br />

Jenkins said people will have to<br />

locate signs around the reserve<br />

which correlate to 20 questions<br />

inside a pamphlet about a particular<br />

plant within the reserve.<br />

She said it appealed to people<br />

both young and old.<br />

“It is absolutely fun . . . Who<br />

doesn’t want to be a detective?”<br />

Mrs Jenkins said it was a great<br />

way for the community to enjoy<br />

a 30-minute walk, while also<br />

learning something new about<br />

the place they live in.<br />

She said there are a range of<br />

questions which help people<br />

understand how certain plants<br />

are cared for or why they look<br />

the way they do.<br />

The questionnaire is the first<br />

of its sort in Christchurch tracks,<br />

she said.<br />

Mrs Jenkins said walking<br />

tracks in the North Island had<br />

started using an interactive element<br />

to their walks which had<br />

worked “really well,” so it was<br />

about time Canterbury gave it<br />

a go.<br />

She said a family had trialled<br />

the questionnaire and loved it.<br />

“The parents enjoyed the trail<br />

CHALLENGE:<br />

Parents Glenda<br />

and Martin<br />

Carson with<br />

son Josh, 10,<br />

and daughter<br />

Ashlyn, 8,<br />

trial the new<br />

questionnaire<br />

at the<br />

Charlesworth<br />

Wetland<br />

Reserve.<br />

as much as the children. The<br />

discussions after each question<br />

by all four of them was fabulous<br />

to see.”<br />

The map and quiz are placed<br />

in a waterproof display holder in<br />

the reserve car park on Charlesworth<br />

St.<br />

OUR LADY Star of the Sea<br />

School pupils donned different<br />

countries’ colours for their<br />

cultural day last week.<br />

Year 8 student leaders Lucy<br />

Walker, Rio Simpson and<br />

Frances Dougherty organised the<br />

day and divided the school into<br />

three countries, where pupils<br />

had to wear outfits representing<br />

either the United States, Brazil or<br />

Ireland.<br />

The pupils were asked to<br />

donate a gold coin and played a<br />

“fun-style of Olympics,” which<br />

included a variety of team sports<br />

in the afternoon, all to raise<br />

money for the year 7 and 8 camp<br />

later next month, principal John<br />

Kane said.<br />

He said it was a wonderful<br />

day for the school to celebrate<br />

cultural diversity.<br />

SCHOOLS<br />

INITIATIVE: Lucy Walker (left), Rio Simpson and Frances<br />

Dougherty organised the school’s cultural day.<br />

Pupils in international colours<br />

“We have many nationalities<br />

represented at our school and it<br />

was a colourful way for the children<br />

to recognise that diversity.”<br />

Mr Kane said more than $200<br />

was collected and it was one of<br />

several activities to fundraise for<br />

the trip.<br />

“Our student leaders did a<br />

wonderful job co-ordinating the<br />

day . . . it is always pleasing to see<br />

students show innovation, awareness<br />

and an empathy for others,”<br />

he said.<br />

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