An entry from Gallivanta's blog for 12 December 2012 entitled, "Old School, New Times".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "George Ridgen (8) and his second cousin Amelia Ridgen (6), pupils at Greendale School, with a book 'The Octopus Tree', copies of which were donated by Boulcott School in Wellington after the earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "George Ridgen (8) and his second cousin Amelia Ridgen (6), pupils at Greendale School, with a book 'The Octopus Tree', copies of which were donated by Boulcott School in Wellington after the earthquake".
A protest sign painted on a fence shows a bulldozer labelled "Govt." driven by a woman (presumably representing Education Minister Hekia Parata) running over a sheep labelled "Chch schools", next to the words "Every time you close a school you have to build a jail - Mark Twain." The photographer comments, "Due to the earthquakes in Christchurch and parents leaving the area to give their children a quieter and more education friendly life a lot of the local schools especially in the East of Christchurch are to be closed or amalgamated. This was a decision by the government without consultation with any other authorities. Mark Twain actually said 'Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail'".
Four years after the Christchurch earthquakes, English language student numbers are still only just over half what they were before the 2011 quake.
Services to Schools offers support to New Zealand educators, through advisory services, professional development, literacy programs and the supply of non-fiction, fiction, picture books and graphic novels to New Zealand schools. Earthquake related information can be found in the archived instances from September 2010-
The topic of ‘resilience’ thinking seems of late to have superseded that of ‘sustainability’ thinking. Sustainability means simply that which sustains and lasts but has taken on many different subtle nuances over the last 20 years since it came into common parlance with the Bruntland Report of 1987, which sought to clarify the definition. However, resilience ‘speak’ has become hot property now, especially highlighted since Christchurch experienced a natural disaster in the form of several large earthquakes from Sep 2010 until most recently in December 2011. Many people comment on how resilient people have been, how resilient the city has been, so it seems timely to investigate what resilience actually means and importantly, resilient to what and of what? (Lorenz, 2010). This essay will look at the concept of systems and resilience, definitions and theories will be explored generally and then these concepts will be more closely defined within the context of a particular system, that of Somerfield School located in the western suburbs of Christchurch.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Portaloos at the Heathcote Valley School".
An incomplete map showing the location of schools relative to new subdivisions.
High school students listening to a performer at the Re-Entry concert.
An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Christchurch Boys High School".
Remains of the Cranmer Centre, formerly Christchurch Girls High School (1878 - 1986).
An aerial photograph of Christchurch Boys High School on Te Kura Street.
High school students listening to a performer at the Re-Entry concert.
A page banner promoting an article titled, "The state of our schools".
High School students setting up the Re-Entry concert on Gloucester Street.
A photograph of emergency management personnel standing outside a school in Christchurch.
A photograph of an AWA Trails poster on the gates of Wainoni School. The poster on the right identifies this spot as Location 1 on the Wainoni Trail. The photograph was taken at the launch of the Wainoni AWA trail at Wainoni School. All Right? posted the photograph on their Facebook page on 2 September 2015 at 3:56pm.
The plight of Earthquake victims in Christchurch has struck a chord with the pupils at an Auckland school. More than 300 pupils at Pasadena Intermediate, in the suburb of Point Chevalier, have donned the Canterbury colours, raising money to help a school down South recover from the disaster.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Felled trees at the Heathcote Valley School".
A skip and Port-a-loos outside the Cathedral Grammar Girls' Preparatory School.
A photograph of the damaged Christchurch Boys High Radio Shack building.
A photograph of the damaged Christchurch Boys High Radio Shack building.
The entrance way to St Bede's College on Main North Road. The photograph has been captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "St Bedes College was co-sharing with Marian College".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Christ's College on Rolleston Avenue".
An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Linwood Intermediate, McLean Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Halswell School shows few signs of the earthquake damage it suffered in September 2010".
A photograph of the damaged Christchurch Boys High Radio Shack building.
A photograph of the damaged Christchurch Boys High Radio Shack building.
A photograph of the damaged Christchurch Boys High Radio Shack building.