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20 WEDNESDAY 24 April 2013
Top pupils quizzed on knowledge Students celebrated their academic skills with a quiz night battle between Nelson’s top pupils. The Cawthron Academic Quiz night was held last Wednesday at Nelson College for Girls attracting 28 teams made up from representatives from all of the region’s colleges. Organised by the NCG academic committee and the Ministry of Inspiration, a group that advocates for and supports young people in Nelson with high learning potential, co-ordinator Caroline Hoar says the event was huge success. “All of the students who attended had fun challenging their knowledge.” She says the concept of the night was to “celebrate the intelligence and knowledge of our remarkable young people”.
The questions for the quiz night were devised around a range of topics from urban art, international currencies and astronomy, with each team choosing a theme and dressed in costume. Team dress codes varied from slumber parties, road workers, moustaches to rubix cubes, with the winning team the One-zeeeeee’s from NCG and Nelson College, donning one piece pyjama suits for the night. The top team received $300 in Richmond Mall vouchers and coming in close to grab the runner up spots were ‘One Wheel Short of a Unicycle’ in second place and ‘The Superiors’ in third. Riley O’Sullivan-Moffat, 13, says his team were “full of enthusiasm” and that they were having a great time.
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Waimea College students Stuart Gordon, Riley O’Sullivan-Moffat, Liam Thompson and Daniel Leaper participate in the Cawthron Academic Quiz held last Wednesday night. Photo: Sinead Ogilvie.
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Cake deCorating & Sugar Craft, 7-9pm Tues 21 May, 6 wks, $85 CheeSemaking at home, 6-9pm, Liz Downey
Halloumi, ricotta, camembert, quark, Thurs 9 May 2 wks, $95 Parmesan/Gouda, Butter/paneer, Thurs 23 May, $55 Blue Vein, Ghee, Wed 29 May, $55 Cooking maSter ClaSS Style, 7-9pm Tues 21, 28 May, 4 Jun, $60 or $25 per night Cooking around the World, 7-9pm wed 22 May, 6 wks $95 + $15 ingredients/wk
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Chook keeping, Wed 22 May & Sat 25 May tour de coop, $45, Biddy Myers CompoSt-making, 2-4pm, Sat 18 May, Waimarama Gardens Bathroom deSign Tues 14 May, 6 wks, $95, Award-winning designer Connie Charlton
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direCt painting in oilS! Wed 15 May, 8 wks, $95, Ross Whitlock layering teChniqueS, Tues 28 May, 5 wks, $75, Larisse Hall homeWare makeover, Wed 22 May, 6 wks $75, Judith Ritchie
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maChine mania emBroidery, Sat 11 & 18 May, $90. Rowena Lukomska piCture framing, 11-12 May, $99, Lance Trolle printmaking, 18-19 May, $95, Colleen Dallimore moSaiCS, 25-26 May, $99, Elvira Pontier felting aCCeSSorieS, Sat 15 & 22 June, $95, Colleen Plank
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By David Gruschow All of us have had the experience of forgetting things, some of course more than others! We can forget what groceries we really need when we are at the supermarket and equally we can forget people we met and events that happened in the past and their significance. Insofar as we do forget these significant people and events, our lives are the poorer for it. ‘Let we forget’ is one of the key phrases that will be used during our ANZAC commemorations tomorrow. It is a phrase that resonates with increasing numbers of us, at least going by the growing attendances in recent years at dawn parades and other ANZAC ceremonies. We instinctively realise I think that unless we regularly bring to mind the sacrifices made for our nation in the past, we will collectively be the poorer for it. As well, our appreciation of the freedoms we now enjoy may be blunted, and current threats to those freedoms overlooked. I count myself fortunate in this regard as I have been able to visit a number of cemeter-
ies throughout the world where New Zealand service personnel and those from other countries who fell in World Wars I and II are buried. I found it a profoundly moving experience to walk along the lines of headstones or crosses and to read the inscriptions. The vast majority were in their late teens or twenties, from familiar towns, cities and rural areas of our country. That they were prepared to travel far from our shores to fight to preserve the freedom of our country and of our allies, gave rise to a deep feelings of both gratitude and sadness within me. It taught me too a profound lesson about the value in life of generosity, sacrifice, comradeship and even adventure. It seems to me that each generation of us needs to remember and appreciate anew these mainly young people and their sacrifice. Insofar as we do, our country will surely continue to both ‘good’ and ‘great’. Buying a poppy and attending an ANZAC commemoration seems little enough. Lest we forget.
Rewards of learning Having had the privilege of coordinating classes for adults over the past four years, Kathryn Sclater, Community Education Coordinator for Nayland College has got to know the efforts and rewards that go in to and come out of attending courses as an adult learner. She says one of the rewards that comes from choosing to learn something new is that you really do ‘get better work stories’. “It is extremely fulfilling to take time for yourself or household and learning alongside like-minded people in a social setting. It can be so energising and is the best antidote to ‘always working’ being ‘too tired’, or not wanting to go out on a winter’s night.” Whether it’s proudly saying “I made this” when someone comments on the fantastic, unique felt or silk scarf you’ve created, being the only person in your workplace able to communicate with a deaf person, or entertaining friends and family with cheese you’ve made, eggs you’ve grown or new winter dishes you’ve perfected, there’s a community education course or class at Nayland to suit everyone. Art teacher Judith Ritchie offers a new course based on recycling and reinventing old, tired home ware objects. Rowena Lukomska teaches exciting ways to use fabric scraps, threads and fi-
bres and explore machine embroidery techniques and Nelson cake decorating guild members June Walters and Joan Wills are introducing students to the world of cake decorating and sugar craft. The popular cooking classes will have Joc’ Winters students produce a range of taste-exploding dishes from a different country each week and Luke Macann will show students that winter foods are not all about tubas and brassicas but signals a time for warming soups, sumptuous and nourishing stews, earthy roast dishes and hot comforting deserts. Research shows that most people attend classes at Nayland to learn new skills, increase confidence, personal or professional development, to improve health or for social connections. For this reason, Nayland College is proud to continue the tradition of utilising its school resources for adult learning and working with others to achieve quality, regular, informal learning opportunities in the Nelson region. Reap the rewards by signing up for a course this winter! View the FULL list of courses at http://comed.nayland.school.nz or ph: 547 9769 to enrol. Business Update. Adv.