MAY 2017
The COMMUNITY NOTICES PAGE 26
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If you have information regarding the whereabouts of the safety equipment which has gone missing from the Woodend to Woodend Beach walkway/cycleway route please see the Woodend Community Association report on page 18 for contact details.
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Cultural Narrative for Te Kura Tuatahi O Pakiaka/ Woodend Primary School Woodend is surrounded by water, forest and mountains. The landscape of Woodend and North Canterbury is the inspiration for this cultural story with the montage (pictured right) on display in the Woodend Primary School office foyer. A strong learning focus in Term 1 was to grow student engagement and understanding of this cultural story. The waterways (Te Hapua and Te Awa) take children in year 0-2 and year 3-4 through the landscape until they get to the Forest (Te Ngahere) in year 5-6. The children emerge from the forest in year 6 (the woods’ end - the end of early Primary school) and in year 7-8 begin to climb the great heights of the Mountains (Te Maunga) as they prepare for secondary school and the beginning of the next chapter. For more from Woodend Primary School see page 22