Lyttelton Primary Opens
March 31, 2019
Lyttelton Primary School throws open its classrooms for parents, children and the local community. A new building and new approach to education with modern learning techniques in a modern learning environment. After years of disruption following the earthquakes followed by the merger of Lyttelton Main and Lyttelton West schools, local pupils have a new school and theatre and an exciting future.
Stills courtesy Mel Morris.
Farid makes a whistle stop tour of Nelson to speak with schools and community groups about Compassion and forgiveness. A survivor of the massacres at two Christchurch mosques in 2019, Farid is campaigning for March the 15th to be recognised as a day of compassion. He wants those who died to remembered for their love and not the hate visited upon their community by a lone gunman. In this video Farid speaks to:
For generations, the ancestral rock art of the Arowhenua people has been owned by others, with the land and limestone caves held in private ownership as part of a Gould family farm. Now after more than 170 years, Te Rūnanga o Arowhenua has purchased back the land and full access and ownership of their ancient taonga.