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The News
Thursday June 26 2014
Students support Malawi
Rangiora New Life School’s World Vision committee Olivia Reed (left), Chloe Bendall-Brown and Kelsea Haynes.
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Rangiora New Life School students have been doing their bit for World Vision. Student community service leader Chloe BendallBrown says the school has raised more than $5000 to assist with World Vision’s 40 hour famine to assist children in Malawi. She says students held a movie night, where they sold food and watched a film, collected donations on High Street and at Rangiora New World, held a sausage sizzle at the Warehouse and held a mufti day at the school last Friday, with students dressing up as their favourite movie character. Another sausage sizzle was due to be held at the school this week, before the final amount raised would be known. ‘‘It’s a really good effort from the students. It’s all part of our Christian commitment to the commun ity.’’ Chloe says the school’s World Vision committee is also planning a canned food appeal later in the year and will collect Christmas boxes at the end of the year as part of ‘‘Operation Christmas Child’’.
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Chris Johnson with her grandson Max Knight (6) at Rangiora New Life School.
Long association gives new life Chris Johnson has noticed a lot of changes in more than 20 years at Rangiora New Life School. The office administrator is about to turn 70, but has no plans to retire. ‘‘I haven’t really made up my mind yet. I have such fun here.’’ Her association with the school dates back more than 20 years to when four of her own children became students at the year 113 school and she joined the staff as a volunteer. Two of her grandchildren have since attended the school, including sixyearold Max Knight. ‘‘My youngest daughter was fiveandahalf years old and now her son Max is at the school. ‘‘We were in the church building when I first started, in an office which was four square feet. It was very small and there two administration staff, a photocopier and a computer.’’ The principal when Chris first started was Brian Seatter, who left the school in 2000, before
returning to the role in 2012. Chris started at the school before it became a state integrated school. ‘‘I started off in a voluntary capacity because they couldn’t afford to pay me. Then I did the second hand uniforms for a while and eventually I got paid. ‘‘I’m 100 per cent behind Christian education and this school. It wasn’t cheap to bring your kids here in the early days. But now that we get the government funding more people can afford to send the kids here and there’s some super teachers here.’’ In those days there were just 94 students, ‘‘so we added four’’. Now the school has capacity for 420 students. ‘‘It’s a nice size. I like the smaller schools. The big kids look after the little kids and it’s much more family orientated.’’ The present school administration building used to be a house and the reception area was the kitchen, she says.
Mufti day boosts famine effort Rangiora New Life School students raised money for World Vision’s 40 Hour Famine on Friday with a mufti day, dressing up as their favourite movie characters.
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