spring 2022
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Margaret’s College Old Girls’ Association 3
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Remembering Mary Ager
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Our sad farewells Hiatt and
5 Alumni Profile – Marewa Sutherland 6 Pre-School 7 Junior School 8 Centre for Innovation 9 Middle School 10 Independent Schools’ NZ Award 11 Boarding 13 Sport 14 The Arts 16
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Profile – Deenie Roche 4 Alumni Profile – Marianne
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Remembering Pam Wauchop
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Regional events 18 Out & About – Parent drinks, Family events 19 Out & About – Cranmer Lunch, Senior Ball 20 Foundation 21 Bridge Tournament 22
Alumni Hargreaves
In girls’ schools, students are intentionally equipped with the knowledge and skills required to overcome social and cultural gender biases, and in doing so, actively break the stereotypical norms that define women in society. This is achieved through an education and co-curricular programme that rewires the implicit biases that so often limit women.
Now up again to 49.2 per cent, New Zealand is one of only two OECD countries to achieve gender equality in parliament.
frequently attributed to the under-representation of women in senior leadership roles.
The last election ranked New Zealand at number five in the world for women’s representation in parliament, at 48.3 per cent, up ten points from the previous election.
Research shows unequivocally that girls thrive in an all-girls environment; they do better academically, socially, and emotionally. In a girls-only setting, girls participate more freely in discussions, are more competitive and take more healthy risks with their learning — skills that are advantageous for life success.
Data from a US study shows that girls’ school graduates are more likely than co-ed school counterparts to be involved in political activities, demonstrate social and political agency, and be supportive of societal improvements. They are more likely to be change-makers.
Fitzsimmons, T.W., Yates, M. S., & Callan, V. (2018). Hands Up for Gender Equality: A Major Study into Confidence and Career Intentions of Adolescent Girls and Boys. Brisbane, Qld: AIBE Centre for Gender Equality in the Workplace – The University of Riggers-Piehl,Queensland.Tiffani Ph.D. (2018) Fostering Academic and Social Engagement: An Investigation into the Effects of All-Girls Education in the Transition to University - Higher Education Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles
Diana Patchett, Executive Principal
A study by the University of Queensland found that confidence levels for girls in single-sex schools matches that of boys, while girls in the general population consistently demonstrate lower confidence levels than boys. In other words, the study found that a girls’ school provides the environment for their students to develop and maintain innate confidence and healthy self-belief. And it is confidence, or a lack of confidence, that is
Opening Remarks
Our Spring edition of Evergreen offers affirmation that St Margaret’s College is purposefully building girls’ confidence, conviction and self-belief, making sure that our girls have the skills and knowledge to speak out and to break down barriers, empowering them to learn, live and lead.
This would be no surprise to anyone familiar with the benefits of single-sex education for girls. Clearly, there is something inherent to the girls’ school environment that better prepares women for high-level leadership.
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A new chapter has also been opened in Australian politics with a record number of independent female MPs recently elected. Much has been said about this exciting wave of forthright, trailblazing, smart women; many of whom are graduates of girls’ schools.
So what is it about a girls’ school education that ignites in young women the determination, inspiration and motivation to lead? What gives them the courage and grit to be change-makers?
New Zealand was the first country in the world where women won the right to vote and it’s now a leader for gender parity in politics.
Girls’ schools provide significant leadership opportunities — 100 per cent of the leadership positions (not just 50 per cent) are held by girls. The power of mentoring and role modelling provided by past students also provides girls with invaluable leadership development opportunities.
which is disappointing however we do know that Covid affected many of those who had intended to be present. Regional events in other centres of the South Island will be held in the next few months so we encourage to you
After delaying the Cranmer lunch until the end of July, we had a lovely gathering with a smaller than usual group of about 55 ladies, a reflection of illness. Those who did attend enjoyed guest speaker Diana Gunn and the wonderful food that the College catering team provided, made even better with a glass of wine hosted by our generous Executive Principal and SMCOGA Patron Diana Patchett.
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Enjoy this edition of Evergreen.
St Margaret’s College Old Girls’ Association
at the end of October is looming and with last year’s groups postponed until this year we anticipate a large combined event and much activity around the College over the weekend of 28-30 October. Do come if it’s your reunion celebration and reconnect with friends, and take the opportunity to look around your school, which provides a standard of facilities and education that is the envy of many. I often hear Old Girls saying they wish they were at school now!
St Margaret’s College Old Girls’ Association Annual General Meeting Tuesday 1 November 2022, 6pm St Margaret’s College Staffroom 12 Winchester Street, Merivale, Christchurch
Co-hosted with Christ’s College, events have been held in Auckland, Wellington and the Hawke’s Bay, with Margaritas events in Auckland and Dunedin. Again, numbers attending have been lower than in the past
We hope that Spring has sprung wherever you live in New Zealand after what has been a pretty average winter on both the weather and health fronts for many – but a great one for the skiers. It can only get better now with longer days and more warmth on the horizon. For our members who receive this in the Northern Hemisphere what a hot summer you’ve had.
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With best wishes on behalf of the committee
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Susan Mohammed, SMCOGA President
Her role as a crisis advocate at Women’s Refuge has helped her in her current role and she believes everyone can benefit from volunteering in roles like these. Volunteers are enrolled on a 50 hour training programme before having contact with families,
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Unlike many areas of law, family law requires a lot of time in court, and Deenie relishes persuading judges with her arguments. But the family law system is overburdened, due to a lack of family lawyers and insufficient court time.
Deenie was interviewed by Sienna McEwan (left) and Lauren Healey (right).
an internship through the Women’s Refuge, and is now a senior solicitor at Cuba Family Law. She specialises in family violence and care of children, and more recently in the area of mental health. She loves her job, but she doesn’t lose sight of the fact that her work brings her into contact with people who are experiencing the worst time of their lives. She says:
“There needs to be more junior lawyers in family law –it’s not seen as glamorous or as well paid as other areas of practice, but with a significant review of how the law works in New Zealand in the pipeline, it’s a great time to come in. Some might think it’s depressing, but I really believe what we’re doing matters.” Deenie says.
Having spent a semester in the US while at university, Deenie is now weighing up the possibility of living overseas, but for now she is enjoying what she does, and has just completed her training to be a Lawyer for the Child, ensuring children in family law matters have a lawyer to advocate for them.
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“Violence is endemic in New Zealand and there is no easy fix. Perpetrators and respondents to protection orders are not necessarily bad people, they don’t always know that there is another way.”
and this provided Deenie with valuable experience in meeting new people and seeing things from an alternative perspective.
are key, and Deenie’s firm supports its employees to see a therapist every six weeks, as well as encouraging a good work-life balance. She also gets great support from the other lawyers at her firm when she needs it.
Deenie is a proponent for studying law as a means to pursue a range of different career options. “You don’t have to be a lawyer and there are lots of opportunities for law graduates. The secret is, no one has it figured out, and you don’t have to decide right now.”
Deenie is now a member of the governance group of the Women’s Refuge, which has responsibility for strategy, finance and operations. The Women’s Refuge often comes to Deenie direct when a woman requires legal support, as her training means that she knows how to speak with people in crisis and to get them the results they
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Deenie Roche didn’t set out to be a lawyer while studying the International Baccalaureate at St Margaret’s College in 2012-13. It was during her fourth year of law school, and while volunteering as a crisis advocate at the Wellington Women’s Refuge that she saw first hand the difference to families in crisis in having a really good lawyer who understands their situation and can help them navigate the courts
“It’s satisfying to close a file and know you helped a family. Things might not always go the way you thought, but you are giving someone the tools to get to where they want to be, to help them come to an agreement that they can live with so that they can go on with their lives.”
Marianne says her early work as a dental nurse taught her patience and opened her eyes to a different world. Becoming a textile artist took her into a wonderful world of visual art while the arts festivals introduced excitement, entertainment, challenge and reward. With WORD, she combined all these different skills.
A two year City & Guilds Creative course in embroidery subsequently opened a new world for Marianne.
“Knowing that what you are doing makes a difference to people’s lives is the best reward. Hearing speakers talk about personal experiences, issues, politics, and seeing people come out of a session knowing it has changed something in their lives is what drove me to continue doing it. Being able to bring issues out into the open in a safe environment is really important.”
“I think there’s a resurgence of interest in textiles at the moment and it’s being accepted more into mainstream art practice. Patchwork and quilting have always had a large following and exhibitions are well attended.”
“Running events in a world where months, years of planning can suddenly be irrelevant, can be demoralising. But, there are solutions to be found, and with technology there are different options available now than there were in the post-earthquake era.
“Sourcing the money to enable arts to happen is always a challenge which many people are oblivious of, and working on a shoe-string budget to make giant things happen has been one of my biggest challenges.
“The rewards, though, are the amazing people you meet. Whether it’s an actor, dancer, writer or artist, most of them will be able to recount the moment that they knew they had to follow this path.
Marianne and her three sisters all attended SMC, continuing the St Margaret’s family tradition set by their 95-year-old mother, Bet Godfrey .
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She also worked for the Christchurch Arts Festival before taking over as Executive Director of WORD Christchurch in 2010 – a role she only retired from in 2022. This year she received a MNZM (Member of the
Aside from pursuing her own art, Marianne was President of the Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū for nine years and is still a member of the Executive Committee.
“Being in the arts is a passion that drives and inhabits you and gives you the greatest pleasure.”
Alumni Profile: Marianne Hargreaves
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In 1990, the NZ Embroiderers Guilds were involved in making four stage curtains for the newly-built Globe Theatre in London. Marianne made the boar on the Adonis panel. Other highlights include: exhibiting at The Barbican in London in 1996; coordinating the Women’s Suffrage Commemorative Wall Hanging (involving over 100 women) that now hangs in the Christchurch Town Hall; and receiving a grant to travel to UK and USA to visit textile artists.
“I was always attracted to textiles and when I came back to Christchurch as a dental nurse, I began weaving with a table loom, something creative to do after work. Once I had our two sons, and realised I didn’t have the time needed to concentrate on weaving, I started patchwork because it was easily portable.”
But those more recent years have not been without challenges, including the Christchurch earthquakes and the Covid pandemic.
St Margaret’s College Old Girl Marianne Hargreaves’ creative flair started at an early age, when she and her sisters made everything from paper dolls’ houses, embroidery samplers, clothes and even their wedding
New Zealand Order of Merit) for her services to the community as an artist and administrator.
surprise that after seven years as a school dental nurse when she left school, Marianne returned to the arts.
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The sports and exercise nutritionist co-founded PURE Sports Nutrition and traces her path back to her rowing days at school (2002-2005), where SMC had a clean sweep in Maadi across consecutive years.
“In Year 13, I rowed for the New Zealand U21 academy. During this time, I saw Kat Darry for nutrition advice on how to fuel through the fairly heavy training and racing load. Kat was just so inspiring to me during very casual consultations at her dining room table. Her small children were running around the house, and have now themselves come through the sporting ranks at SMC and beyond which blows my mind.”
“We soon worked out the science was important for performance, but just as much so was the taste and usability of the products. So we essentially ‘test drove’ our products with every athlete we could find. By the time we brought our products to market, we already knew that they performed – which is a large piece of the puzzle,” Marewa recalls.
PURE’s main markets are Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and United Arab “It’sEmirates.awild ride starting your own business. We went in very fresh with high energy to do what we needed to do to succeed. As the business continues to grow, experience and expertise drive our decision-making process so it’s very different from the early days.“
A pure stroke of brilliance
After a gap year at St Margaret’s College in Edinburgh, Marewa enrolled at the University of Otago to study the new BAppSc degree – Sports and Exercise Nutrition.
Little did Marewa Sutherland (Kraak) realise that her formative years rowing at St Margaret’s College would have such a profound effect on her life.
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“My brother, Simon, and I were heavily into cycling when I finished university and really struggled to find nutrition that was easy to get in, especially when racing. After a year of obsessively researching, we saw a gap for nutrition with a higher level of quality.”
Thus PURE sports nutrition was born.
We started with one hydration range and we now have around 50 products across three sister brands.“
Life is a juggle for Marewa today. Three children and co-owning PURE feels like a circus at times, however she maintains her active life fuels her energy and drive.
She is also unequivocal in encouraging young women to pursue their dreams.
“Don’t be afraid of giving an idea you have a go, pick up the phone and don’t be afraid to make mistakes. Most success stories sound glossy but you can be assured there will most likely be many failures along the way. There are so many knowledgeable people around, so don’t be afraid to reach out and get insight into what interests you.”
At the outset, PURE was predominantly aimed at endurance athletes. However, its natural ingredients have attracted a large customer base of generally active people wanting to lead healthier lifestyles, including young Outsideathletes.NewZealand,
Marewa Sutherland
“We literally started our business in the garage, before sneaking into a commercial kitchen at night. From stickering bags to sales, marketing and dispatching, it was all us in those early days. Ten years on, we now have an in-house factory that manufacturers and
The tamariki look forward to their celebration of learning during their time at our St Margaret’s College Pre-School. The tamariki wear the korowai cloak and with their key teacher look back through their portfolios and share favourite learning moments.
Sarah Bradley, Director of Pre-School
Pre-School
Our inquiry topics change each term depending on tamariki interests, parent and whānau aspirations and teacher Throughobservations.achild’snatural curiosity a love of learning develops. The Pre-School programme promotes tamariki to ask questions, explore and to challenge Tethemselves.Whāriki, the New Zealand Early Childhood Curriculum, acknowledges the holistic way children learn and develop and so we plan for the physical, cognitive, spiritual, social and emotional characteristics of each child. The preschool environment is set up to support these learning outcomes.
More traditional ways we celebrate at the Pre-School are birthdays, reaching new milestones, whole school events such as Book Week dress up day and transitioning to school.
Our excursion to the glow festival was a great success in Term 2 and the tamariki really enjoyed the puppet
The highlights in our celebrations this year have been our ‘Messy Play’ morning. The teachers set the scene for a morning of tactile exploration tamariki came prepared to enjoy the outdoor transformation. Water, bubbles, mud and a giant unicorn made it a fabulous event.
The teachers also notice when tamariki have been developing new learning dispositions such as persisting with a difficult task or showing kindness to a friend and Maggie Bear are another way that the children’s achievements are celebrated.
show telling a story of Matariki. For some of our tamariki being on a bus was just as exciting as the show and for some it was their first ever bus ride.
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In the Pre-School we enjoy celebrating the children’s learning in a variety of ways.
“Science is simply the word we use to describe the method of organising our curiosity.” Tom Minchin
Earlier in the year, the Year 4, 5 and 6 classes were fully immersed in an inquiry study of Antarctica. Michelle and the classroom teachers delivered a programme of science experiments to illustrate the challenges of life in this extreme environment. The girls learned why icebergs float as they created density towers experimenting with a range of liquids of varying thicknesses and masses. They learned about the behavioural and physical adaptations of Antarctic animals through the creation of a blubber glove which they submerged into ice cold water. The girls were amazed that their blubber- gloved hands could withstand the freezing temperatures!
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Our younger learners are also loving their science lessons. Year 2 has been studying animals and Michelle presented the class with a selection of teeth and feet to
explore. They learned about categorising living things with the acronym, MRS C GREN, as well as the features of the teeth of herbivores, omnivores and carnivores. The girls loved exploring these items and it was exciting to watch their curiosity and high-level questioning skills develop.
The Year 5 class is currently studying Sustainable Energy Sources and recently, teacher Betsy Ryan was excited to have the support of the science faculty as she gathered resources to enable the girls to learn about a range of energy-related scientific principles. A quick trip up to the Science Faculty to borrow a piece of pvc pipe resulted in Betsy being given lots of fantastic resources including personal solar cells enabling the girls to conduct their own experiments. The Year 5 girls are so engaged in this science and it’s fantastic to watch their reading and writing skills develop further as they communicate this complicated science.
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There have been times over the past two terms when I have pinched myself as I see the high level of science occurring in the Junior School. We are so lucky to have access to the secondary Science Faculty. Together, the Junior School team and the Science Faculty make a fierce team committed to inspiring our young ākonga to develop curiosity about how our world works. Class teachers work alongside science specialist teacher, Michelle Brennan who both leads science classes and provides support to the Junior School team through planning and brainstorming of ideas. She has worked with each teacher to plan and deliver engaging science through class inquiries.
We feel so fortunate as a Junior School to have access to the resources and expert teaching of the Science Faculty. We love the opportunities we have to use our different educational strengths to collaborate with our secondary colleagues. Our Junior School ākonga are so fortunate to benefit from this partnership.
Bridget Compton-Moen, Head of Junior School
Augmented reality (AR) is the integration of digital information with the user’s environment in real time. Unlike virtual reality (VR), which creates a totally artificial environment, AR users experience a real-world environment overlaid with generated perceptual ARinformation.isbeingapplied to a range of learnings at SMC, including Year 7-8 mathematics, helping students to visualise, understand and estimate Commonwealth Games athletics records. In Year 3, it has been used to completely immerse girls underwater off the Kermadec Islands, northwest of Aotearoa, introducing them to marine life and the effects of pollution. Supported by the Blake Trust NZ, the headsets have opened the eyes of our students in wanting to become kaitiaki –guardians of the sea.
Linda Chong says: “Caitlin’s passion is clothes and she has been experimenting with green screens to promote her reversible blazer. Taking a green screen image and overlaying this with her colour palette, Caitlin has been able to mimic the colours of the fabrics she has selected
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Guided by it’s mission to be “pioneers that change education, by transforming teaching and learning as active leaders, and rethinking what is possible”, our Centre for Innovation faculty is continually challenging the status quo.
Audrey Campbell says: “SMC has been intentional in allocating time for our Centre for Innovation faculty staff to explore how impactful technology can support teaching across the board, ensuring we are preparing our girls for the future world of work. Often students access this learning as a result of their current teacher’s personal passion for technology, but we have the resources not only to engage students through our own classes, but to provide tailored professional development to staff across SMC, so that they can make technology relevant to their own teaching.”
The faculty is engaged in a number of programmes currently across a wide range of subject areas.
for her clothing range, to create engaging content for “TheInstagram.ability to move from being a discerning consumer of information to a creator of compelling information is key to our teaching.”
SMC’S Engineering, Problem Solving and Innovation teams have grown from two teams in 2019, to seven in 2022, with our older students mentoring our younger teams. EPro8 stretches students’ minds but is also stretching teachers’ professional development. Tasks require students to work cooperatively in groups to build complex structures within a set time limit, requiring collaboration, determination and a flexible mindset. The teachers leading this programme are learning alongside students in this space.
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Key to this is the way in which the Centre uses impactful technology. Using the SAMR model –substitution, augmentation, modification, and redefinition – Linda Chong, Audrey Campbell and Nicole Lloyd are helping students and their fellow teaching staff to find novel and immersive uses for technology, at the same time fostering young problem-solvers and innovators.
Caitlin is a Year 13 student studying textiles and enrolled in SMC’s project based learning course Project X.
Pioneering new technology with impact
Green screens
It was with great joy that each tutor group hosted four or five junior school students. A range of activities were planned and developed for this time and it was a wonderfully heartwarming experience.
This term we held the first ever Middle School tutor groups combined with the Junior School tutor groups. Whilst this has been a regular event for our Middle and Senior School to join together, this is the first time we have included our little sisters.
At times we forget the uniqueness of our community, and it is wonderful to have these moments to remind ourselves. We experience the joy and excitement of the youngest students who are bubbling with enthusiasm.
Kathryn Gray, Head of Middle School
Our Middle Schoolers are eager to learn and share their skills. They are fun to be around and have great energy.
These characteristics and opportunities make St Margaret’s College a very special place, more than just a place of learning but a place to belong, a place to join in and a place to take flight.
Ma te tuakana te teina e totika, Ma te teina te tuakana e totika
The older will lead the younger and the younger will lead the older.
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Our tutor groups meet together daily, and twice weekly for an extended period of time to work in a multi-level group. This is an important part of our pastoral care system. The groups spend time talking, playing games, sharing kai and collegiality.
activities where students followed the dance moves on screen to mindful colouring and story book sharing, the 25 minute session was a highlight for us all.
All around the College you could see the beaming smiles of the students involved. From “Just Dance”
Independent Schools’ NZ Awards
Lead by Deputy Head of Middle School, Lisa Williams, the programme has a focus on each student learning
Diana Patchett, Executive Principal, says, “This prestigious award recognises Lisa’s innovation and drive in heading our acclaimed Rite Journey programme. The programme has produced remarkable results for our girls, adding an important layer of self-awareness and appreciation at a time in their lives when they may feel awkwardly caught between childhood and young womanhood.”
Year 10 can be a challenging one in schools. It’s a time when students may lose their focus and engagement and when many other factors play a significant role in girls’ personal development. At St Margaret’s College, the Rite Journey means students are engaged and challenged throughout the year.
Lisa Williams
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Looking ahead, we are eagerly planning for a full upgrade of Kilburn House. The first stage of installation is taking place over the 2022/2023 summer break. Rooms will have a complete new fit out of furniture to achieve a more modern and sustainable living environment, appropriate for our girls’ needs. We look forward to sharing the progress of this with our community.
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Boarding
With Covid bringing so much disruption and isolation over the past two years, more recently we have really enjoyed being able to open the boarding house once again for combined dinners, day school friends visiting, dinner swaps with Christ’s College and parent events. Boarders’ chapel service at the start of each term have also been reinstated. A feeling of normality is Inreturning.Term3we welcomed new international students with many of our boarding girls taking on the role of ‘buddy’ to help them settle into life at St Margaret’s College. It is a rich experience for everyone to have such cultural diversity in our boarding houses. The friendships formed across nations open so many
Deanne Gath, Director of Boarding and International
possibilities for our young people as they spread their wings beyond SMC in future years.
Sport
St Margaret’s College is so very proud of our wāhine toa who have represented not only SMC but New Zealand on the world stage.
We have the following athletes who are on the brink of New Zealand selection: Cara Mustchin – named in the NZ U20 Touch squad as a trialist Ashlyn Koce – named as a reserve for the NZSS Netball team Molly Williams, Mezzy Surridge & Sorell Shand –named in an extended squad to attend a Junior Black Sticks camp to select trialists
100 years, members of the New Zealand team have been wearing the silver fern, a symbol that represents our national sporting hopes and dreams. The silver fern became a symbol of bravery, sacrifice
Jemma Burrowes and Grace Farrell were selected into the New Zealand U19 Women’s Rowing Eight and competed in Italy at the 2022 World Rowing U19 AChampionships.well-deserved fifth placing for these young athletes.
Jemma Burrowes and Grace Farrell –
The silver fern has been accepted as a symbol of New Zealand’s national identity since the 1880s. To Māori, the elegant shape of the fronds stood for strength, stubborn resistance, and enduring power. To Pākehā, the fern symbolised their sense of attachment to their Forhomeland.morethan
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Helen Belcher, Director of Sport
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Milo Neil – Fencing
SMC girls wearing the Silver Fern
in Sydney at the Oceania and Australian Cadet (U17) Fencing Championships and was selected in the New Zealand team that competed in the Commonwealth U17 Fencing Championships in London from 9-20 August.
and allegiance when the New Zealand Army wore it during the Boer War at the turn of the 20 century.
Brie has been selected into the New Zealand U18 Sprint Kayaking team and will be competing in the Asia Pacific Cup in Japan from 29 September – 2 October.
Emily was selected into the New Zealand U19 development team and played in the Australian State Volleyball Championships coming away with first place.
Katherine competed at the New Zealand Junior World Orienteering Championships in Portugal in July. She will also be contesting the Australian Schools Championships in Sydney in September.
Ivy was in the New Zealand U17 women’s team who travelled to Jordan in June to participate in the Women’s FIBA Asia Cup. Qualifying at this tournament they then travelled to Hungary and competed against the world’s best U17 basketballers in the Women’s FIBA World Cup.
Lucia Gale – Tennis
Ruby Young – Tennis
Emily O’Connor – Volleyball
Trinity Mackley-Flutey Emily O’Connor
Brie Cox – Canoe Sprint
Ruby has been playing as a member of the New Zealand Junior team and competed at B2 Oceania Junior Championships in Sydney.
Trinity Mackley-Flutey – Softball
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Anna Babington – Orienteering
Ivy Brown – Basketball
Trinity has been selected into an extended Junior White Sox squad for 2022. The squad has been split for trips to Australia and Trinity will attend games during September and October.
Anna Babington has gained selection into the New Zealand Schools Orienteering team competing in the Australian Schools Championships in September.
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Lucia was selected to represent New Zealand in the U15 Tennis team and competed in the Australian teams event in July. Our New Zealand team placed 5th overall.
Katherine Babington – Orienteering
Over four shows, the whole production team brought everything to the stage, leaving us all inspired and proud of their achievement.
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The Arts
In Visual Arts we have four talented junior students selected for the annual ‘Art Stars’ Exhibition. The Exhibition is a spectacular display of Christchurch’s student art with their stunning art available to be purchased from the public. This is the first year that ‘Art Stars’ have had a Junior School section, and we are so proud of our SMC girls for their achievement and recognition for their work.
Alongside this production, there were other moments of celebration on the stage as students performed at the annual ‘Twilight Concert’. With a feeling of spring, the stage was alive with twinkling lights and colourful flowers, and the air of ‘new things’ was abundant!
Matariki, up-beat musical numbers, and a poignant Vincent Van Gogh inspired routine.
As we look forward to the rest of the year’s programme which includes celebrating our visual arts students through end of year exhibitions, and experiencing the hard work and wonderful choreography of our senior dance students for their ‘Retrograde’ dance show, we are delighted to see that our art students have not just ‘taken flight’ this year, but are truly soaring as they aim high in their quest to enrich their experiences and engage with the arts at SMC.
We continue to be amazed by our students’ achievements so far this year, with a significant number of awards and recognition coming from this year’s Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival participants, including songwriting awards, best student director, winning essay entries, costume designs, and various acting awards at both regional and national level. Outstanding work from our girls, who represented the College with such professionalism and enthusiasm.
The night featured Jazz, Choirs, Rock Bands, and Orchestra, to an incredibly moving drama piece from our winning Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival performers, and capping off the evening with some wonderful dance numbers, drawing inspiration from
Laura Hewetson, Arts Facilitator
The stage was set. The lights were bright. Our hearts were full as the time had come! This term saw our Senior Production of ‘Little Women’ brought to life by a double cast of incredible students. With two hours worth of dialogue, richly performed with American accents, beautiful period costume pieces, and a simple yet striking set, ‘Little Women’ was an absolute delight. Thank you to our Supporting Partner, Mainland Capital. Portraying a tight-knit family, with very different personalities, hopes and dreams, the audience was taken on a journey of love, sacrifice, forgiveness, friendship and all the complex emotions and actions of being a family during the American Civil War. In every sense of the word, our cast formed their own family, igniting new friendships and becoming their own little whānau. Older cast members took the younger under their wings, and displayed beautiful leadership and encouragement – a true reflection of our ‘Big Sister / Little Sister’ culture at St Margaret’s College.
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About Auckland regional event Wellington
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Out & regional event
Hawke’s Bay regional event
Year Group Parent Drinks
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Father/Daughter Breakfast
Autumn Family Festival
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Senior Ball
Out & About Cranmer Lunch
We offer a sincere thank you to our past and present supporters. Together we can continue to create a legacy for the future, ensuring generations of girls are empowered to learn, live and lead.
One of our recent gifts came from a younger member of the Old Girls’ Association who graduated from university last year and joined the workforce. She was delighted to give back to a fund that recognises and acknowledges the hard work and talent of the SMC teaching staff: “They helped shape me into the person
Whatever the reason for giving, we are truly appreciative. No gift is too small and each time you donate your generosity is felt widely throughout our College both now and into the future.
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I look forward to meeting many of you at future events.
Erin Reeve, Foundation Manager
I am today through ongoing support and never giving up on me”.
We are currently in the midst of our 2022 Annual Appeal, and it has been encouraging to see so many of our supportive community donate to two amazing causes. The tradition of generosity at St Margaret’s College must never be underestimated.
The Foundation’s Annual Appeal has also seen generosity from older generations within our community. One of our delightful grandparents has kindly donated to the state-of-the-art playground –the first of its kind in New Zealand – planned for the Middle and Junior School. They strongly believe in the value of play and are pleased to contribute to this amazing playground that will benefit the girls, including their granddaughter in Year 5.
It is a privilege to champion the work of the St Margaret’s College Foundation. Since joining the staff of SMC in July I have been constantly impressed by the many and varied ways that our community supports the College.
We are fortunate that the SMC community is ambitious, dynamic and engaged, and the Foundation is excited about the opportunity to build on this to assist the College’s mission to grow empathetic, confident and connected global citizens.
#2465 Jeanette McMurtrie (Gilbert) 82 years
#11089-14 Julia Rockell 24 years
#5215 Nicola Love (Thomas) 63 Years
#1696 Nancy Newland (Hulme) 95 years #1745 Helen Bradbury (Orchard) 86 years
Bridge Tournament
#1290 Mary Ager 104 years
#2063 Valerie Scowen (Bowen) 90 Years
#1597 Cecily Wright (Gillanders) 96 years
#1864 Virginia Hunt (Clayton) 95 years
#2271 Adrienne Adair died August 2021 86 years
#4063 Christine Regnault 71 years
#1894 Gwen Parton (Maffey) 94 years
#1951 Jennifer Babington (Gardiner) 88 years
#4360 Vicki Matthews (Kendall) 60 years
#3637 Angela Brott (Blackie) 73 years
#2598 Diana Manson (Morten) 79 years
#2476 Marion McCree 86 Years
#1620 Rosemary Doyle-Smith (Packer) 91 years
#2677 Anna Brinson (Winskill) 84 years
#1674 Jean Cowie 94 years
#4953 Rosemary Poland (Williams) 54 years
#5324 Elizabeth Sanders (Miller) 62 years
Our Sad Farewells
#2070 Dorothy Godkin (Gifford) 92 years #2076 Marilyn Dempster (Johnson) 91 years
#1376 Pamela Wauchop (Mower) 100 years
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#4020 Anne Askin (Farmer) 71 years
#1489 Jean Hudson 97 Years
#2084 Juanita Saxby (Neale) 81 years #2236 Rose Anderson (Erikson) 80 years
#3086 Annette Gee-Taylor (Scholefield) 82 years
#1993 Rowa Sturman (McCrostie) 93 years
#7615 Olivia Harvey (Ward) 37 years
#3033 Jenny Clibborn (Horton) 80 years
#2601 Barbara Musgrave 82 years
#1863 Dawn Webster (Clark) 92 years
Hiatt and IntroducingCoAnna Hiatt
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I grew up with a vegetable garden and had no idea that many people hadn’t, not to mention that they didn’t know where to even begin establishing one. I’m Anna Hiatt from Wanaka and I established Hiatt and Co, helping people all over New Zealand with bespoke edible garden consultations face to face or online. I also sell gorgeous edible garden boxes that contains seasonal seeds and all you need to get growing.
Success to me is one less plastic bag of lettuce on the shelf in the supermarket by helping others grow and pick you own salad greens fresh for the table – no matter how little or large their space. Everyone has room to grow something even if it’s a window sill garden filled with gorgeous micro greens.
Old Girls
I have had a colourful variety of professions since leaving St Margaret’s College. After completing my studies in Sports and then Massage Therapy, I set up my own massage therapy clinic, following on from that I moved into floral design which led to Pure Chaos – Floral design, where I specialised in flowers for weddings and events. I then studied event management and have had more than 10 years working in the event industry mainly on international sporting events. Covid came – events died (as did all my contracts) and this gave me the chance to take a breath and reset for the future. Thanks to Covid Hiatt & Co was born.
Innately we all knew that we should be growing our own. For me it’s all about helping busy beginner gardeners get growing. It’s not about being completely self-sustainable – (that is so hard) but just small steps with what’s achievable with the limited time most people have.
Not only am I passionate about getting people growing but I am also passionate about making these edible gardens look gorgeous so people are proud of them. I love edible flowers, bee attracting flowers, and fruits like strawberries are woven all through mine.
Travel played a large part in her life, she spent three years during her thirties working as a nanny in New York before visiting other areas of the United States and Canada. She also travelled to Europe where in England one of her highlights was a visit to Buckingham Palace for a garden party, standing at one stage close to the Queen. During a road trip from New South Wales to Melbourne as a girl the family experienced the Black Friday bushfires, Mary and her siblings spread ice cream on their faces to cool down.
Mary passed away peacefully aged 104 years young on May 2, 2022. She was a treasured aunt and great aunt.
Remembering Mary Ager
Mary Elm Ager was born on September 15, 1917 in Wairoa, Hawke’s Bay. Her family moved to Christchurch in 1926 and after a couple of years the family moved to Rangiora where her father, Theo, became manager of the Farmers Trading Company and later deputy Mayor of Rangiora. Mary started St Margaret’s College as a boarder in 1935 and in 1936 became a Prefect and a Head of House Prefect. Her duties included lining the girls up to walk crocodile fashion to and from school and ironing the younger girls’ uniforms each day. While Mary was at SMC she was involved in a school production of ‘Iolanthe’ in which she played the Fairy Queen.
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After leaving school Mary joined her father working for Farmers for a total of 35 years.
Her early school years were at Sumner school – she graduated to St Margaret’s senior school in the mid 1930s. She and her best friend Lorrie Archibald (née Dawe) would catch the tram from Sumner into Cathedral Square and walk the remaining few blocks to St Margaret’s in Cranmer Square. Pam made friends for life during her time at SMC. And she would return to the school as a committee member of the Old Girls’ Association, and as Vice President for the Golden Jubilee year in 1960.
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Pam continued to play tennis at the Elmwood Club, but she also took up bridge. She and her partner Yvonne Shepherd were formidable players – right up until a couple of years ago.
Remembering
Pam was born in Christchurch in 1921 – the first child of World War 1 returnee, Billy Mower, and his wife Ivy.
The 1950s were the family years – with picnics, camping trips and parties with friends and neighbours in Glandovey and Ilam Roads.
Pam Wauchop
A debutante in 1938, she caught the eye of the handsome young Hal Wauchop, and in 1941 they became engaged.
She grew up in Sumner, a sporty girl, a swimmer, a runner and a tennis player – sports she continued for much of her life.
Hal had enlisted in the army, and Pam joined the Women’s Auxiliary Airforce (WAAF) in 1942. They married while Hal was on a week’s leave in 1942.
With the children reaching independence, Pam opened her own business – a craft gallery in the McKenzie and Willis Arcade. The family home became a gallery in its own right as choice pieces became too irresistible to sell!
Her legacy to her family – alongside the beautiful house and garden she has created in Maidstone Rd –has been – and continues to be her everlasting curiosity and her enduring interest in the world around her.
Pam Wauchop (nèe Mower) passed away peacefully May 16, 2022. Pam was at St Margaret’s College in the mid 1930s and was featured in the Spring 2021 edition
She resigned from the WAAF at the end of 1944 to have the first of her four children in 1945.
of Evergreen magazine when she turned 100 years old. You can read about Pam’s life as written by her family here.
Pam and Hal had their first big overseas adventure in 1968, just as the world was turning on its head. They saw first hand the riots in Los Angeles and Paris. They also saw Miles Davis up close at the Village Voice!
“Then we were faced with the big decision of whether to go back to New Zealand or should we go back to England. We didn’t have children at that stage so we could please ourselves. But we wanted to start a family so we decided to return to New Zealand – I have no regrets about that decision.”
Norman’s climbing reputation preceded him and in 1955 he was part of a successful expedition to climb Kangchenjunga, the world’s third-highest mountain
A woman ahead of her time, Enid (whose surname was then Hurst) studied English Literature at the University of Canterbury after attending SMC in the early 1940s with long-time friend Bet Godfrey (mother of Marianne Hargreaves). The pair had been together at Fairleigh Kindergarten, Fendalton School, and today they’re still good friends, keeping each other company at Old Girls events.
It was at university that Enid met husband Norman, who was studying civil engineering.
The couple went on to have two daughters; one who lives in Christchurch, the other in Nelson, both are full time Whilecounsellors.theyweregrowing up, Enid went back to part-time teaching – at Avonside Girls’ High School for six years followed by 14 years at Cashmere High School. In those latter years, she took on more of a counselling role and returned to university to get a formal qualification as a “Icounsellor.lovedit.Iwas ambitious for the youngsters and I wanted to help them identify their strengths. Not everyone is academic and they needed help to broaden their horizons beyond that to realise their potential. My advice to young people today is still the same. Go as far as you can with whatever skills you have.
Today, Enid still lives independently, has a wide group of friends who drop in, loves reading detective thrillers and biographies. She’s a big fan of John le Carré, Germaine Greer, and Kiwi biographer Rebecca Macfie. But her all-time favourite author remains Shakespeare.
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And so began a romance which survived Enid moving to Auckland for a year and then England for another year before Norman joined her.
Enid Hardie is extraordinary. It’s a privilege meeting her.
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“I was looking at a noticeboard and trying to decide whether I’d keep going with hockey, which I’d played at school, or do something different. Norman persuaded me to join the tramping club.”
“We married in 1951 and lived in Kent – I was teaching at St Christopher’s School for Girls in nearby Beckenham and Norman spent five years working in London as a structural engineer.”
“When I was growing up, my father wanted me to join his business as a typist. But I didn’t want to do that.”
Enid Hardie
A thoroughly modern woman
and the highest unclimbed peak. Kangchenjunga was not climbed again for 22 years and only then by an Indian Army expedition.
After that expedition, Enid joined Norman in Nepal where she and a friend were responsible for sourcing supplies for Sherpas to take up the mountain.
But it’s when you look at the photos on her fridge that you get a glimpse into Enid’s earlier life – as a woman who loved tramping in her younger years, and was unafraid to take on new adventures. The neatly ordered pictures are a mix of family and friends including Sir Edmund Hillary with Enid’s late husband Norman, also a mountaineer. There’s another of Enid and Norman at Everest base camp in Nepal.
The St Margaret’s College Old Girl is 95 years old, quick of mind, slight of build, and interested in everything around her. She belongs to a book club, her favourite TV programme is the current affairs show Q&A and Te Ao and she’s a big fan of broadcaster Kim Hill.
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a little trek down memory lane with some of their classmates. Current and past students alike may well be looking for information, or photos, of relatives that attended the school before them, sometimes being able to trace back as many as four generations here at SMC.
For an archivist, yearbooks going back to nearly the beginning of the school give a glimpse into the life of students here at SMC, the big snow of 2012, the rebuilding of the school after the shakes of 2010 and 2011, uniform styles through the years, sports teams, records of staffing, some pictures of the early years. As our school has evolved across the years, so has our yearbook. From very dull 99% text to the bright and colourful publications of today. From A5 booklets to A4 nearly 2cm thick productions that show off the achievements of the year for everyone that gets a copy. So many times past yearbooks have yielded valuable information about a person or team or activity that I have been questioned about. Questions I am always happy to answer especially if it involves a walk down a path that leads to the wonders of yearbooks.
Vickie Ward, Archivist
Yearbooks – why do we have them? Who are they for? Who looks at them? Why do they look at them? Who decides what is included – because something has been in there for the last 100 years, is it still relevant today? I believe the answers to those questions change depending on the perspective you are asking them from. As a parent you go through the yearbook looking for evidence that your child has been in school and contributing in a relevant way to committees, clubs, performing arts, academically, arts, sport, or whatever took their fancy for that year.
As a current student you might look for that same evidence or just check out your friends and what they were up to and maybe even see if there is something that might interest you for the coming school year. Is that another role a yearbook has – advertising activities? A Year 13 student that has just left, if anything like my recent leaver, might be quite happy to file their yearbook away without so much as a glance at the glossy pages as they focus firmly on their future prospects. A past student might come to the college to find the yearbooks relevant to their time at SMC, and take
From the Archives
I hear it time and time again, “I am so tired,” “I hardly slept at all,” or “I couldn’t sleep because I was worrying about…” Every time the words of the Psalmist come to mind.
Feelings of tiredness and anxiety seem to have engulfed many of us and that is understandable given what has been (and is) going on in the world today, it can be hard to see a way through. However, even making the smallest of changes can improve our outlook and wellbeing, looking at how much sleep we are getting, noticing the things that bring us joy, appreciating feeling the spring sunshine on our faces, the wind in the trees and the birds singing. Slow down, breath, smell the roses, enjoy the ride, life is a precious gift to be Blessingscherished.andaroha
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In Closing
Rev. Steph Clay, Chaplain
“It is but lost labour that we haste to rise up early, and so late take rest, and eat the bread of anxiety. For those beloved of God are given gifts even while they sleep.”
These words of wisdom from Psalm 127 form part of ‘Night Prayer,’ from the Anglican New Zealand Prayer Book, the content of which is taken from scripture and lived experience of a relationship with God.
How many of us burn the candle at both ends, trying to fit everything we think we need to do into the day, then get anxious about all the things that we haven’t managed to get done? This then has the ability to rob us of peace, sleep and can impact our life the next day.
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