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Trust gives a real life history lesson

Primary school students have been given a heck of a history lesson and from this weekend it’s open to the public. The Dramatix Theatre Development Trust – made up of locals – has built a reputation for its Anzac Experience, formally called Lest We Forget, held each year around Anzac Day. But this year they’ve added a new dimension with night tours of a World War trench, as well as a history lesson for primary schools. Organiser TJ Ramsay says the school tours, which are running this week, have been a huge hit. “It’s very real and very scary for them, but they come out pumped and the teachers tell me they want to learn more when they get back to school, so that’s what it’s all about.” The new night-time Trench Tours at Founders Heritage Park are R16 and will be held this Saturday and Sunday. They are the third part of the living history event with the Anzac Experience to start on Anzac Day. This year it will feature a reconstruction of the Tapawera Training Camp, complete with drill and kit inspections. Booking for the night tours are essential and are $10 per person. For bookings or information, email dramatix@dram atix.co.nz

Daryl Page sitting in the trench at Founders Heritage Park before the Trench Tour this weekend and the Anzac Experience on Anzac Day. Photo: Andrew Board.

School being ‘strangled by stealth’

Salisbury School in Richmond is under threat from a “sneaky and underhand” strategy by the Minister of Education Hekia Parata, aimed at “strangling the school by stealth”, according to Nelsonbased Labour MP Maryan Street. Last week the Nelson Weekly revealed that Salisbury School’s roll is falling at an alarming rate, with just 17 students left and wheelchairs mobility scooters walker/canes electric beds and hoists lift assist chairs bathroom solutions incontinence products daily living aids/products

another four expected to leave at the end of this term. That represents a significant decline, with the roll falling from 71 at the same time in 2011 to 43 in 2012 and just 21 last year and Maryan says she is shocked by those numbers. “I went to the school’s last barbecue for the season last Thursday and discovered what the roll was now. I was very shocked,

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simon@waimeaweekly.co.nz especially as it was blindingly obvious that if the school was given the chance to respond to the huge list of people wanting to get into the school, the roll would be

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