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Students use the Weeklies to connect to community Broadgreen Intermediate students in Room 3 have been using the Waimea and Nelson Weeklies to become more engaged with their local community. Photo: Matt McCrorie.

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$155,370* Kitset Pricing from: Matt McCrorie When local teacher Shaz Murray prepared to head back to school after weeks in isolation, she had several goals. Getting students off their screens and connecting with each other were the main ones, but more than that, she wanted to get her students connected to their local community. It wasn’t until the first week of Alert Level 3, when she was reading the Waimea Weekly, that she thought of a way to engage her students with their community. For the term, Shaz’s class, Room 3 at Broadgreen Intermediate had been focusing on the importance of being connected to your local community. Shaz says that one of the topics her students have been studying is ‘How community newspapers have helped the community throughout and after the lockdown.’ So, Shaz picked up a stack of Waimea Weekly and Nelson Weekly papers, and got her students reading. They focused on community-based articles. “A lot of our learning has been around local community stories in the papers, and getting the students connected to ‘the place where they stand’ which is their local area, and the community papers have been a great way to do that.” The whiteboard in Room 3 is covered in comments the students have made about how community papers have been helpful during the Covid crisis.

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