Wednesday 30 June 2021
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Calls for increased bus safety Jenny Nicholson and Charles Anderson A petition for mandatory fitted seatbelts on school buses is growing momentum in the region after two crashes in the space of several months.
The nationwide petition has gained 6,500 signatures in four weeks with local principals throwing their weight behind the movement. “It seems like a no-brainer to me,” says Clifton Terrace School principal Rob Wemys.
In May, several students were left shaken after a vehicle pulled out in front of a school bus on Trafalgar St on its home run. “The recent crash on Trafalgar St at relatively low speed and the bumps and bruises both physically and mentally from that should be
an indicator that seat belts are an essential item,” says Rob. He says students are so good at making sure that other elements of their day-to-day lives are safe, so getting on a bus and putting on a seatbelt should be just “what we do”.
“It has always seemed a strange anomaly to me that we would take up to 60 kids and drive them at speed and hope like hell that they get to their destination in one piece.”
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Nayland choirs hit the right notes Kate Russell It was big wins and big voices all round for Nayland College at the region’s top school choral festival. Two choirs from the school cleaned up all the highest honours at the Nelson-Marlborough regionals of The Big Sing Secondary Schools Choral Competition on June 17 in Blenheim. Out of nine choirs, mixed choir NayCol Chorale and girls’ choir Sotto Voce took out the top three awards between them.
Members from Nayland College’s winning choirs, from left: Ysabella Abel, Isabel Lyttle, Matthew Edgar, Lovinia Pluck, and Will Roddick. Photo: Kate Russell.
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NayCol Chorale won first place in the NZ or Pasifika Composition and Choir’s Choice categories, while Sotto Voce were crowned the winners of the Choral Art Music category. Sotto Voce also came second in Choir’s Choice. NayCol Chorale is led by Nigel Weeks and Sotto Voce is led by Zoe Dee. NayCol Chorale will now go on to represent the school at the Southland Cadenza which will be held in Timaru in August.
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