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Teachers honoured at national awards
Kerry Larby
Glen Taylor
Duncan Ferguson
Janet Kingsbury
by christine de felice
Four local teachers have done their colleagues, their students and their city proud by being presented with ISNZ Honours Awards for 2017. The teachers are Kerry Larby and Duncan Ferguson from St Andrew’s College, Janet Kingsbury from Rangi Ruru Girls’ School and Glen Taylor from Medbury School, all these schools being members of ISNZ (Independent Schools of New Zealand). The teachers were nominated by colleagues at their respective schools, with their nominations subject to a rigorous adjudication process. Kerry’s award was for Service to Social Science & Geography,
Duncan’s was for Service to Music, Janet’s for Service to Music and Glen’s for Service to Physical Education and Sport. According to the ISNZ requirements for the award, to be eligible for nomination the teachers must have served five years in an ISNZ Member School, have demonstrated commitment and dedication to the students (not necessarily in a classroom context) and they must be a role model for students and enhance the values of independent schools. A total of eight awards were given out at the ceremony in Auckland in May, with the other four awards going to teachers from Auckland schools.
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Duncan Ferguson joined St Andrew’s College eight years ago, bringing with him a broad set of talents. Having a strong background and training in classical, jazz and music technology has enabled Duncan to develop an innovative curriculum where all students are enabled to succeed, no matter what. When he started at the college, some students were achieving at a national level, but overall the numbers of students taking music were falling; under his direction, the college has seen significant growth in every area of music. This has included many more students achieving NCEA levels in music
because of a more flexible course structure he implemented, and students gaining scholarships every year since 2012, apart from 2016. His 2013 student, Ben Murray, was Top Scholar for New Zealand. “I also introduced a music technology course, where students learn how to run a recording studio,” Duncan says. More recently he and his students have spent many hours putting together the musical production Best of 100 years of St Andrew’s to mark the school’s centenary, which he says was an “enormous production”. Duncan describes his ISNZ Award as an “honour for St Andrew’s”. continued on page 2
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The other music teacher to receive an award, Janet Kingsbury, has been the Director of Music at Rangi Ruru since 2003. She and her team provide musical opportunities for the students both inside and outside school, with Rangi Ruru music being a highly respected and valued part of the city’s music culture. The award came as a surprise to Janet. “I never expected anything like that to happen and it was a real privilege to be amongst other exceptional teachers.” She is described as a passionate and enthusiastic teacher, with one of her students saying in her feedback on Janet’s Performance Review: “Apart from Mozart, no one knows more about music than Mrs K.” Many of her students have achieved Music Scholarships and Scholarship Awards including a Top Scholar Award in 2015, as well as outstanding NCEA results. Janet says in receiving the award she was “representing Rangi and all of its amazing teachers”. “And it couldn’t happen without the work the girls do. If it wasn’t for them, their work ethic, their abilities, their time, as teachers we wouldn’t be able to impact on them and the development of their musical abilities in the way that we do.” Glen Taylor joined Medbury School 10 years ago this July. At the time he started, there was no co-ordinated sports programme at the school, with individual teachers running sports and physical education classes. Also, there were limited outdoor education programmes. Not only has Glen developed a Physical Sports & Education programme, with each boy’s progress being assessed in the physical education curriculum, he has also
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introduced many new sports to the school. “When I started at Medbury we had many of the core sports, but now this has increased tremendously to include triathlon, cycling, polo, surfing and golf. The boys enjoy coming to P.E. and learning different skills.” Medbury School rugby, football, hockey and cricket teams continue to compete strongly in the club competitions on Saturdays, Glen says, with more than 90 per cent of boys in Years 5 to 8 representing the school. Glen says receiving the ISNZ Award was “a bit of a surprise”. “I felt deeply honoured. It supports what’s happening at Medbury. The boys are enthusiastic and there’s a huge input from staff. I’m just the one who puts it all together – it’s a massive team effort.” As head of the Social Studies department and senior Geography teacher at St Andrew’s College, Kerry Larby has been a role model in leading a project focusing on developing curriculum, assessment, reporting and pedagogy across both the preparatory school and Years 7 to 10 in the secondary school. The challenge for her was to inspire teachers to make learning engaging and meaningful for their students and to encourage departments to gain clarity and a shared understanding about progress and achievement for students in the subjects they teach. Kerry strongly believes that character is as important as intellect and uses psychological science to understand why students learn and what makes them achieve their potential. Many of her students have achieved outstanding results in NCEA and New Zealand scholarship awards.
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Orchestra and community in tune
by christine de felice
Every Thursday evening, barring holidays, while many local residents are settled comfortably at home, a group of enthusiastic instrumentalists are filling the Fendalton Community Centre in Clyde Road with beautiful music. Members of the Garden City Orchestra, they come together every week to practise tirelessly under the baton of conductor Beth Cohen. These are not professional musicians; rather, they are a diverse group of music lovers, who play for the sheer enjoyment of it, and for the camaraderie of belonging to a group of likeminded people. Coming from all parts of Christchurch and a variety of backgrounds, they range in age from the youngest at10, to the oldest, a clarinetist who is in his 80s. Currently, the orchestra has about 40 members, and the numbers are continually growing, president Jan Moody says. Instruments cover the full orchestral range of wood, brass, strings and percussion, and the only criteria for joining are the ability to play an instrument and to enjoy playing it, Jan says. “Nobody is ever turned away.” The Garden City Orchestra was formed in 1999 by John Emeleus, who was its first conductor, with some of the original members coming from the Risingholme Orchestra. The second conductor to take up the baton was Patrick Shepherd, the third was Nick Carson, and Beth, the current conductor, has been with the orchestra for four years. Before moving to New Zealand six years ago, the American-born conductor had enjoyed a highly successful musical career there. With a Master’s degree in orchestral conducting, which she gained at the University of Wisconsin after graduating in music from Brandeis University in Massachusetts, she spent 30 years as a conductor and music educator in New York. Her playing abilities cover a diversity of instruments including piano, cello and trumpet, though she says conducting is what she enjoys the most. Since settling in this country she has
the Garden city Orchestra playing at the celebration of the founding of the christchurch shandong Art and cultural Association.
conducted a number of orchestras including the Christchurch School of Music Camerata Strings and ISO Orchestras, the Canterbury Regional Schools Orchestra and the Auckland Victorious March Concert Band. Since she joined the Garden City Orchestra, the repertoire has been expanded. “It was a different repertoire when I started,” Beth says. “They were playing easy versions of the classics and lighter popular music. The repertoire is now much bigger. I pushed it to a bigger repertoire to extend them.” She says there are now more violas and first and second strings, which are needed for the more romantic compositions, and the
musicians’ playing ability and the quality of the music has improved. What both Beth and Jan emphasise, though, is that this is very much a community orchestra, which anyone who plays an instrument can join. At the same time it is an international orchestra, with members from China, South Africa, Australia, the United States, England and Japan all part of the lineup. “It’s a good opportunity for non-native New Zealanders to enter the mix,” says Beth. The musicians don’t just play for their own enjoyment, though. The Garden City Orchestra performs three concerts a year
for the public, with guest ensembles often included in the programme. The next one, their Mid-Year Concert, is being held on Sunday, June 25 at the Avonhead Primary School. Starting at 2pm, the programme includes the very complex Symphony No. 1 in B Flat major by Robert Schuman, Beethoven’s Egmont Overture and a Fauré composition. With tickets costing only $10, Beth says it’s their way of bringing music to the community, making it “accessible and economically attainable”. Tickets will be sold at the door.
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Maths & art come together at Maths Craft 2017 If you enjoy craft, then you probably enjoy mathematics too – you just may not know it yet. So, this Sunday you have the opportunity to discover the maths behind craft and the craft behind maths at Christchurch’s first Maths Craft Day. Armed with knitting needles and origami paper, a team of academics led by University of Canterbury mathematicians Dr Jeanette McLeod and Dr Phil Wilson have gathered to kick off a national Maths Craft tour to uncover the beautiful maths behind the art. “Maths is often overlooked as a subject of beauty and imagination, with many people viewing it as boring, irrelevant and downright unpleasant,” Dr McLeod says. “However, by using craft as a medium, from clothing to ancient Greek art, we aim to introduce adults and children alike to a new and fun way of engaging with mathematics.” Aimed at adults as well as budding mathematicians and younger crafters, the Christchurch Maths Craft Day will be held in the Great Hall and the Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities in UC Arts at the Arts Centre on Sunday, June 18. The day will include three public talks: Associate Professor Clemency Montelle, Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury: The symmetry of a sari and other mathematical properties of your clothes you didn’t know about Professors Bernd Krauskopf and Hinke Osinga, Applied Mathematics, University of Auckland: Chaos in Crochet and Steel Senior Lecturer Patrick O’Sullivan, Classics, University of Canterbury: The Measure of All Things: Myths, Maths and Other Aspects of Greek Art (to be held in the Teece Museum) “We have partnered with the University of Canterbury’s College of Arts, including the Classics department, and hope to promote the mathematics behind the ancient artefacts
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in the Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities, which opened recently. Patrick O’Sullivan’s talk in particular is aimed at this,” Dr Wilson says. Dr O’Sullivan’s illustrated talk will focus on how the ancient Greeks incorporated numbers, ratios and proportions into their poetry, architecture and visual arts: from Homer’s great epic poem on Troy, The Iliad, to iconic buildings such as the Parthenon and sculpture from the ‘High Classical’ period (c.
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450-400 BC). Examples of ancient Greek artworks from the Logie Memorial Collection in the Teece Museum, which embody some of these concepts, will feature in this talk. “The Greeks constantly altered and extended such formulas to
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enhance the emotional and psychological impact of their art and poetry: humanity, no less than maths, was the measure,” Dr O’Sullivan says. Following the success of the inaugural 2016 Maths Craft Festival at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, which attracted almost 2000 people, the Maths Craft team was this year awarded $120,598 from MBIE’s Unlocking Curious Minds fund to expand Maths Craft. Dr McLeod and Dr Wilson, together with other academics and PhD students, will be touring New Zealand this year, raising interest in maths through their quirky brand of maths outreach. UC senior lecturer Dr McLeod, who has knitted and crocheted various mathematical objects from Möbius strips to intricate coral-like hyperbolic planes, is keen to share her passion for maths as the language of science. While she’s usually dealing with combinatorics, in particular, asymptotic enumeration, Latin squares, graph colouring and random graphs, she is also an accomplished crafter and crocheter. “Through these events, we’re keen to show people how maths underpins almost every aspect of today’s society. Whether it’s used in crafts, technology, business, science, social science or education, maths is vital,” she says. Also a senior lecturer in UC’s School of Mathematics and Statistics, Dr Wilson is more usually found working in theoretical fluid dynamics and mathematical modelling in biology and industry. “It’s amazing seeing people realise that maths is everywhere,” he says. Maths Craft Day, free entry, all welcome, 10am to 5pm on Sunday, June 18, in the Great Hall at The Arts Centre, 2 Worcester Blvd Christchurch.
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Mentors giving youngsters a chance to make it
by christine de felice
Matching young people that haven’t had the best start in life with mentors that can offer them friendship and support as they grow up is the role of the Bryndwr-based organisation Big Brothers Big Sisters. Manager Matthew Button explains: “It’s about creating new possibilities for young people that didn’t get a decent start in life and don’t have the things you would expect children to have. In the mentoring programme they are given a chance to make it in life, to do well because of the support their mentors give them.” The organisation works with schools, social workers and community agencies to identify young people that would benefit from the mentoring programme, Matthew says. The mentors are all volunteers and cover a wide range of ages, from 18-80. “The average age is 30-35, and we also have a lot who are in their 20s. But we are always looking for retired folk – they are extremely gracious with the young people,” he says. “They are often what the young people need, especially if they have no grandparents in their life. These older mentors show an interest in them, teach them skills, and spend time with them. “Mentoring is not about solving their problems, it won’t change everything. It’s about giving them rich quality time, showing them they are worth something and making them feel a bit special. That builds their selfconfidence, so they can lift their head up a bit.” Mentoring is about “starting something”, Matthew says. “You don’t know what will happen. It could be something small, like them visiting the beach for the first time, or something profound. One example of that is a young person who had been living in a home where there were drugs. Their mentor had been supporting them for eight years, and that
experience resulted in the young person moving out of the drug situation and training to be a teacher.” Before entering the programme, prospective mentors are carefully screened, and once accepted, they undertake a training programme before being matched with a young person the organisation believes will be a good fit. “It can take some time to find the young person who is best matched with the mentor, and once that happens, it’s important for the mentor to stay alongside the young person for as long as possible, as it is that long-term commitment that brings the most benefits,” Matthew says. For the first year, the mentor spends one to two hours a week with the young person. Sometimes this is in a school setting, but usually the pair meets after school or at the weekend, when they go on an outing. After a year the situation is re-evaluated, and if it is working well, the two continue their relationship. Over the next few years the time spent with each other reduces, with the young person leaving the programme when they turn 18. If the mentor then wishes to continue in the programme they are re-matched with another young person. The Big Brothers Big Sisters organisation originated in New York 112 years ago and from there it spread around the world. It has been in New Zealand for almost 20 years. The Christchurch group developed out of the North West Mentoring Trust, with Matthew being the trust board’s first employee in 2004. The trust was rebranded as Big Brothers Big Sisters in 2007. There are currently 125 mentors supporting young people across Christchurch, and the organisation is always looking for more. “We are very keen to recruit mentors in the older age group in particular, as they have so
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some streets as cars take ‘short cuts’ to avoid main roads and the increase of heavy vehicles using residential streets. The board is working with council traffic engineers to manage residents’ concerns and attempt to come up with solutions.
Park/Reserve/Berm maintenance There has been an increase in complaints from residents regarding the untidy mowing (leaving longer grass on edges of parks and The key functions of a community board playing areas), infrequent mowing resulting in long, unsightly berms and the increase of are to: • Represent and act as advocate for the weeds and litter in planted ‘garden’ berms. interests of its community. • Consider and report on all matters Clearwater Reserve, Lake Roto Kotahu referred to it by the council, or any Reserve, the Groynes The community board recently had a site matter of interest to the Board. • Maintain an overview of services visit to Clearwater Reserve, Lake Roto Kotahu provided by the council within the Reserve and the Groynes. Members were impressed with the results from ongoing work community. • Prepare an annual submission to the to improve the water quality of the Otakaikino council for expenditure within the Stream. Issues around the maintenance of the waterways and walkways, vandalism and community. • Communicate with community accessibility were also discussed. organisations and special interest 2017/18 Annual Plan groups within the community. The community board held a couple of Examples of recent issues the Fendalton- drop-in sessions for the public to come and Waimairi-Harewood Community Board talk to them about what they would like to see in the Council’s Annual Plan for 2017/18. has been dealing with include: The information gathered from local residents was taken into consideration when the Board Changing traffic patterns Residents are continuing to raise concerns made their submission to council on May 16, regarding the impact of changing traffic 2017. The community board requested the patterns. These include increased traffic on council consider the following projects: • Traffic safety outside of schools The board supports the introduction of school safety measures including speed signage, zones and crossings and wish to see funding increased to speed up
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The 2017 Christchurch Art Show opens this Thursday, June 15, with the opening gala event giving art lovers the opportunity to get their first look at the works on display. “The artists show what they believe are their most impressive works on opening night, so it’s a chance for people to see them first and purchase if they wish,” creative director Kate Morrison says. The Top 10 Artists will also be announced at the event. These 10 signature pieces of
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artwork have been specially created for the Lawson’s Dry Hills People’s Choice Award 2017 and will be revealed for the first time on Thursday night, and available for purchase. Host for the evening will be broadcaster Chris Lynch, and visitors will enjoy wine, cheese and nibbles and live music as they view the artworks. The event starts at 7.30pm and tickets can be purchased through Ticketek or on the Christchurch Art Show website, chchartshow.co.nz. They cost $40 each.
On the following three show days – Friday, June 16, Saturday June 17 and Sunday, June 18 the show will be open from 10am-7pm Friday and Saturday and 10am-4pm Sunday, so there are plenty more opportunities to see the works and talk to the artists. “Hundreds of artists from all over New Zealand have thousands of works in the show and are here to engage with the public in Christchurch,” Kate says. “We have art from $50 to $6000 and many Christchurch artists will be here, along with artists from all over New Zealand. This is a visual extravaganza that we feel encourages people to develop an interest in original New Zealand art.” This year’s show is the fourth annual show and Kate says the organisers are finding that more and more people in Christchurch are becoming aware of it and going to view and buy work. “The show is constantly changing as works sell and move on, with the artists then replacing them with new pieces. It’s worth it to come out for another look in the weekend after viewing the first time on opening night.” Show day tickets can be purchased on the Christchurch Art Show website. They are $10 each with a discount for Gold Card and student ID holders.
BE IN TO WIN A DOUBLE PASS TO THE CHRISTCHURCH ART SHOW We have 10 double passes to give away for the art show. They can be used on any of the three show days – Friday, June 16, Saturday, June 17, or Sunday June 18. It’s easy to enter. Simply email giveaways@starmedia.kiwi with Art Show in the subject line. Entries close at noon on Thursday, June 15 and winners will be notified by phone. Tickets will be held at the Art Show door for the winners. To be eligible for the draw, please include your name and a daytime contact phone number.
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Fellowship for renowned author, composer Award-winning author and composer Dr Philip Norman of Christchurch has been given the $100,000 Michael King Fellowship to create a history of New Zealand composers and their work from the start of European settlement to present day. Dr Norman will use the fellowship to complete a lifetime of work studying New Zealand classical music identifying influential composers, works and performances, and tracing key developments through the decades. “In the 1890s, when composer Alfred Hill was influential, concert goers would queue for hours to hear his latest work performed,” Dr Norman said. “Music was the primary form of entertainment so people were hugely interested in anything new and there was a great depth of activity and performance. “The type of music composed also changed over the decades. The formation of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (NZSO) in 1946 inspired orchestral and instrumental composition. Prior to that people mostly composed for choirs, individual singers or pianists because that’s who the performers were,” he said. The book will complement the biography, Douglas Lilburn: His Life and Music, which won a Montana Book Award in 2007. Dr Norman has compiled three editions of the Bibliography of New Zealand Compositions including biographies of some 120 New Zealand composers and descriptions of 4000 of their works. He has co-authored, edited or contributed to numerous other books and publications on New Zealand music. From 1980-1991 he was the principal music reviewer for The Press in Christchurch writing more than 700 reviews. Dr Norman has also composed more than
250 works, from orchestral, chamber music and opera through to choral works, musicals and ballet. He composed music for Footrot Flats, New Zealand’s best-selling musical, and for the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s successful Peter Pan, which is shortly to have a repeat season in Perth. Established in 2003 and administered by Creative New Zealand, the Michael King Fellowship was renamed in recognition of the late Michael King for his contribution to literature and his role in advocating for a major fellowship for New Zealand writers. The fellowship is available to established New Zealand authors of any literary genre with a significant publication record. It is offered biennially for writers working on a major project that will take two or more years to complete.
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Innovative construction to push boundaries The University of Canterbury recently signed a contract with Dominion Constructors for a state-of-the-art building in the university’s new Science precinct that will push the boundaries of multi-storey timberframed construction in New Zealand. Vice-Chancellor Dr Rod Carr said he was proud the latest Science precinct building would be built using innovative timber technology that the university’s academic researchers developed and are teaching UC engineering students to use. “The University of Canterbury has always been at the forefront of using timber as a building material, and this building presents the opportunity to showcase the innovation developed at the centre of our own campus,” Dr Carr said. The new Science precinct began with the construction of the $55 million Biological Sciences laboratory building before the Christchurch earthquakes and the refurbishment of the former Zoology building. By completion, more than $300 million will have been invested in the precinct, from university funds, Crown Capital contribution and insurance settlements. Announcing the last building in the Science precinct, UC Learning Resources executive director Alex Hanlon said: “It’s an exciting time for us to be able to see the central building join up the pieces that together make the Science precinct, and I’d like to thank the team for working so hard to get us to this point. “This is leading-edge construction. Buildings already exist that use some of this technology, but this will be the very first multi-storey, all timber ‘moment’-framed building in New Zealand, and potentially in the world.” A moment frame is a two-dimensional series of interconnected members that uses rigid connections. It can resist lateral and overturning forces, is more flexible than other options, and allows larger movement in earthquakes.
Scheduled to be completed in 2019, the new building will house UC College of Science staff and postgraduate students. It will replace the von Haast building, which is currently being prepared for demolition. The design was driven and developed by a team from UC, BECA, and architects Jasmax. It uses laminated veneer lumber, or LVL, which has incredible strength. “The team wanted something that was not only environmentally friendly, but utilised the university’s extensive knowledge, especially the research of Professor Andy Buchanan in pre-stressed timber and multi-storey timber buildings,” BECA structural engineer Andre Kirstein said. After researching structures in Auckland and overseas, particularly tall timber buildings in Canada, the team consulted builders and developers that were implementing similar technology. A timber supplier advised on the cost benefits and construction options.
“Essentially, we took the theory and went out into the field for the hard practical knowledge before developing something that we believe marries the best of both worlds. The final design utilises much of what Professor Buchanan developed, with a little adaptation,” Mr Kirstein said. “Across the building, we’ve designed a four-storey moment frame, which uses this stressed system, but using a similar system along the length of the building would have pushed the boundaries of construction technology too far, so we have cross-braced it longitudinally instead.” The project will demolish the old building, but maintain the 1960s-era basement, which does not meet current codes. The team devised an above-ground system with foundation loads that could be accommodated by the basement without significantly strengthening it. “This is why we’ve braced a number of
bays rather than using one big cross-brace, and used moment frames to reduce lateral forces at foundation levels. It’s enabled us to spread the load evenly across the whole basement,” Mr Kirstein explained. “Most timber buildings have a thin layer of concrete on top of the timber floors to help with what we call the diaphragm action between structural systems. But we’re not doing that, we’re using the timber itself to distribute the load.” The team undertook significant research to complete the design for a building that steps out ahead of current design codes in other ways too, such as acoustics and fire performance. “Professor Buchanan is a leading force in this, touring the world presenting papers on fire performance within wooden buildings, so the team also tapped into his experience, and other international research,” Mr Kirstein said.
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