Prefab buildings in the quad of Christ College, hired to replace damaged classrooms that are unsafe to enter.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "69 Worcester Street. Languages International Building".
Diggers on the former site of St Paul's School, now demolished. A sign reads "St Paul's School, open at our temporary site, 102 Champion St, Edgeware".
Principal of Banks Ave School, Murray Edlin, and Canterbury Primary Principals Association president, John Bangma, discuss the issue of earthquake damaged schools in property repairs funding shock.
Christchurch principals say schools' recovery from Tuesday's earthquake will focus more on emotional issues than infrastructure.
A Christchurch kapa haka group took to the stage in Auckland today, surprising organisers who didn't expect they'd be able to perform after last month's earthquake.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Lyttelton School".
A photograph of the gates of Halswell School.
An aerial photograph of Avonside Girls High School.
Damage to the Christchurch School of Music building.
Damage to the Christchurch School of Music building.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "6 September, 2011. St Paul's School, Gayhurst Road".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "St Michaels School, 249 Durham Street".
A banner on the fence of Burwood Primary School expressing the student's appreciation for the efforts of the civil defence, fire service, volunteers and council workers with a banner on their school fence. On each heart-shape note is a personal message from the students.
On September the 4th 2010 and February 22nd 2011 the Canterbury region of New Zealand was shaken by two massive earthquakes. This paper is set broadly within the civil defence and emergency management literature and informed by recent work on community participation and social capital in the building of resilient cities. Work in this area indicates a need to recognise both the formal institutional response to the earthquakes as well as the substantive role communities play in their own recovery. The range of factors that facilitate or hinder community involvement also needs to be better understood. This paper interrogates the assumption that recovery agencies and officials are both willing and able to engage communities who are themselves willing and able to be engaged in accordance with recovery best practice. Case studies of three community groups – CanCERN, Greening the Rubble and Gap Filler – illustrate some of the difficulties associated with becoming a community during the disaster recovery phase. Based on my own observations and experiences, combined with data from approximately 50 in-depth interviews with Christchurch residents and representatives from community groups, the Christchurch City Council, the Earthquake Commission and so on, this paper outlines some practical strategies emerging communities may use in the early disaster recovery phase that then strengthens their ability to ‘participate’ in the recovery process.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "St Michaels School, 249 Durham Street".
Heavy snow is forcing schools to close across the country. It's a double blow for Canterbury students who have already lost weeks of precious school time due to the earthquakes.
Mark Wilson is the Principle of Cashmere High School.
A muddy patch on the grass at Halswell School.
A photograph of the Cathedral Grammar School Main Block.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Unlimited Paenga Tawhiti secondary school, High Street".
An aerial photograph of St Paul's School in Dallington. The photograph has been captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "St Pauls School, 17 Gayhurst Road, suffered badly from liquefaction in the September earthquake. This area is all red zoned".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Avonside Girls High School".
Damage to the Language School International building on Peterborough Street.
Paul Norris is from The New Zealand Broadcasting School at CPIT.
Historical images of the Engineering School,taken from above circa 1962.
A cordoned off area in Christ's College where bricks from the heritage buildings have been removed and stacked. Scaffolding can be seen on the building in the distance and a prefab building to the right which was being used as classrooms while the buildings are still unsafe to enter.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Portaloos at the Heathcote Valley 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.