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community market W! COMMUNITY DINNERS NE Wellington Water School Tips for Parents Exhibition Coexistence School News Brooklyn History IN THIS ISSUE Community Market 2-3 From the Coordinator 4 School News 4 From the Councillor 5 School Tips for Parents 6 Residents’ Association 7 Community Dinners 8 From the Library 9 Wellington Water 10-11 What’s On 12-13 Resource Centre News 14 Upstream 15 Friends of Owhiro Stream 17 Moriah Kindergarten 18 Exhibition Coexistence 19 Brooklyn History - Part 2 20 Brooklyn Scouts 20 Brooklyn School 21 Community Groups 22-23

Thank You! To Sam Donald for our cover photo this month: The launch event for the Vogelmorn Community wood-fired outdoor oven.

Next month there will be a new team producing the Brooklyn Tattler. Thank you for your support over the last two+ years with the new look Tattler. Kay, Karen and Jenny

April 2018 copy due no later than 5pm Friday 23 March Email your contribution to [email protected]

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Centre hall. Jenn is an accredited yoga year blocks. Not coincidentally this is also the from the instructor and runs a gentle but strong from the length of the elected members’ term. class, guaranteed to get you moving. All There are huge complexities in the running of coordinator levels welcome. $5 drop in. BYO mat. councillor a city, and it’s unlikely we will ever be able to brooklyn community centre & Email: [email protected] BRIAN DAWSON look hundreds of years ahead with any degree vogelmorn hall ph 384 6799 WELLINGTON CITY Wild Workouts are after a new fitness of confidence, but we must be prepared to set [email protected] COUNCILLOR Lambton tutor to run their twice weekly boot aside politics at least occasionally and attempt ANZAC Day As we move into autumn Ward 027 413 5809 to stretch our vision far more afield than camps at Vogelmorn Hall. If you’re an [email protected] plans are well underway for the Brooklyn early riser the 6am starts on Mondays and is usually the case. ANZAC Day remembrance service Wednesdays could suit you. Contact Duck Planning for the Long Term Some recent processes have tried to do which this year falls on a Wednesday. As Patten on 027 528 6833 for details. One of the (many) things I that. Let’s Get Wellington Moving is one in previous years the service will start at like about Zealandia is the bold example (although how successful it is has 10:30am but will be held on the Brooklyn scope of its vision. Zealandia doesn’t have a yet to be determined) as is the Our City Community Centre grounds instead of School News five, ten or even twenty year plan. Their goal Tomorrow process coming from council. Brooklyn School, followed by morning tea in Wow, what a fantastic summer we’ve been stretches an ambitious five hundred years The task however is for us all. the Community Centre hall. Afterwards the having compared to last year. It’s great that into the future, meaning everything they So what is your vision for Brooklyn in a traditional wreath laying ceremony will take our kids are getting so much outdoor time do and every decision they make is measured hundred years? In fifty? Looking well place at the WW1 memorial on Sugarloaf with just a bit of rain now and then to cool against this extremely long yardstick. beyond our own lifetimes invites us to put Hill just off Mitchell Street where a bugler things down and it’s lovely to hear them out At council our stick isn’t anywhere near aside our personal self-interest (and maybe will play the last post. Please join us for this in the playgrounds having lots of fun. This as long. While we are currently looking at even our biases) and think about the world annual event which attracts up to 500 people term is a long one but with Easter being early our Long-Term (meaning ten year) Plan, our grand and great grandchildren will and involves many local community groups this year there is a break in the second half of in reality we focus on a maximum of three inherit. I encourage us to make the effort. including the Brooklyn Scouts, Guides, term with schools taking an extra day off on Brownies, St Johns and Salvation Army. the Tuesday to ensure everyone gets a rest. Special thanks to Phillip Bolton for his work The highlight of this term for older students Tree Structure Assessments e Solu Target Pruning/Formative re ti in coordinating this event and to Mark at Brooklyn and Ridgway is the school T on ES s Farrar and the funding team at Wellington camps in March. Years 5 and 6 at Ridgway Pruning/Crown Reduction L M t City Council who made our grant possible. are off to Forrest Lakes at the end of the Reshaping/Dead Wooding R d month and are currently busy fundraising. Crown Lifting/Tree Thinning Root A Yoga We now have regular weekly yoga Over at Brooklyn the Year 7 and 8s ferry Pruning/Root classes in Vogelmorn Hall and Brooklyn down to Teapot Valley at the beginning Mananging/Hedging Community Centre. Ming Janssen runs of the month where they will do a walk of Tree Planting/Tree Removal her Koha Yoga group on Tuesday mornings the Abel Tasman. To prepare for this they Specialist/Tree Risk from 9:15am to 10:30am at Vogelmorn have been going on some lengthy walks on Assessment Reports Hall. Ming’s teaching is inspired by various Fridays during February. Once they return Stump Grinding yoga styles, mostly Kundalini and Vinyasa it’s the turn of the Year 5 and 6s who are off Maintenance Planning flow. Her classes are a combination of to Palm Grove camp in Paraparaumu. Programs for All Four Seasons stretches and flowing movements with Storm Damage breath and strength development. Email: Brooklyn School are undergoing final Tree Surgery [email protected] designs for their building renovations and Full Public Liability Insurance Merrist Wood College, UK Ridgway School are currently in the consent 021 2094365 / 04 562 8907 City & Guilds NPTC If you prefer a weekend session, then try and licence phase for their sandpit upgrade. [email protected] NZQA Arborist Jenn Thompson’s Vinyasa Yoga class on www.armestrees.co.nz Horticulture Arboriculture Tem One finishes no Friday 13 April for all Saturday mornings from 10:30am to our schools. 11:30am in the Brooklyn Community

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stuff falls down. LEGO also has its own their previous offer to engage helping kids robotics and coding kits, including a new with the community on WeDo 2.0 line for primary school kids. improvements to this intersection. get interested We have asked for clarification on uu Talk about and test your bodies – how whether they are in fact open strong are we? How do our muscles work? in science to the communities views. If we want our children to understand Why do we need a skeleton and bones? the world, then understanding science is Have a look at the My Incredible Body app. GWRC are about to consult further on the proposed Brooklyn Bus Hub very necessary. Lots happening in your uu Let them play (educational) games on in Cleveland St. Those nearby considered to neighbourhood Wellington Water Ideally children should become effective the computer - Google’s Made with Code, be immediately affected will be sent a letter are seeking feedback on a new water and critical thinkers, and there is no for example, has a project where your with details of the proposal. Please contact reservoir to replace the one on Bell Rd. better way to achieve this than having budding fashion designer can design a us if you want details or have concerns. We had a meeting to discuss consultation them participate and engage with and dress with LED lights. with our community and there will be an We are seeking to have a mobility park discuss concepts and ideas developed uu Watch TV together - Bill Nye, the info session at the Brooklyn Community added to Cleveland St and this is supported by scientists to help us understand the Science Guy, and Mythbusters are on Centre on 25 March. We will also hold a by the business owners. world we live in. Science boosts children’s Netflix and YouTube. Common Sense workshop in April to discuss what could Stage 2 of the bike track project at curiosity, creativity and critical thinking. Media has a list of science shows for kids happen with the old reservoir site. Vogelmorn Park needs your support. Head At St Bernard’s we have positively of all ages as well. We received an email from WCC stating to http://bit.ly/2GrlRdd for details. encouraged science learning over the Andrew Pozniak, Principal, they have engaged consultants to prepare Our next Meeting is Tuesday March 6 , last year (and will continue for two St Bernard’s Primary School, Brooklyn construction documents for the Cleveland, 7:30pm at St Mathews, Please come and more years) by participating in Otago Ohiro, Todman intersection. This contradicts share your thoughts. University’s education support services which delivers first class professional development to our teachers. Since Otago University got on board, our children have been busting their guts to get into more and more science concepts through decent experimentation. Some great ways to bring science to life for Wizz Theatre Academy is all about your kids are: fostering a lifelong love of theatre in OSCAR approved for young people, developing the integration ages 5-13 uu Cooking with them: it’s science in of dramatic skills and of course having fun! action! You melt, change, mix things; use •before/after school care energy to cook and consume energy when Enrol now for 2018 Musical Theatre or •holiday programmes you eat; the food affects your body and Drama after school classes. Class sizes are limited so get in quick! Suitable for •affordable your brain….. talk with your kids about ages 5 to 18. Offering the opportunity to what’s going on – and discover together sit Trinity College examinations. •pick up/drop off available online. MentalFloss.com has a roundup of 10 edible science experiments. For more information please txt, call or St Bernards School Hall email Imogen at 027 272 7023 or uu Playing lego and technical lego and [email protected] 40 Taft St meccano with them. We all use physics [email protected] to hold stuff up and physics explains why

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Fringe always offers something a little Keen to meet a few more people from the bit different. For the whole family there’s Chalk the Walk at the Wellington in your community? library Waterfront. If you like storytelling, give We’d love you to join us for our upcoming Mondays at 4.30pm. We’re also hosting Eamonn Marra’s show a go. I thoroughly series of five community dinners. Each one marimba classes on Wednesdays at 5.30, enjoyed his story at last year’s LitCrawl event will offer a scrumptious affordable meal, plus there’ll be a Fringe Festival showing ‘True Stories Told Live’. Marra is a comedian and a speaker or activity. by Kosta Bogoiesvki on 21-23 March. so of course his story was funny but it also was a reflection on the way we treat others The first one will For contacts and more info visit and what it says about ourselves. be Sunday 25 our website. March 4-7pm. We Ridgway Bike Track True story fans have got to read the hope to see you there! The project to build an asphalt books from The Moth! The Moth is a Register your interest at bike track around the corner at series of live shows in the US where people vogelmorn.nz/whats-on. Vogelmorn Park is taking a giant step Tēnā koutou katoa tell true stories. Selected stories have been Thanks to Wellington City forward as work begins on site. Stage The afternoon rush can only mean one thing published in ‘The Moth’ and ‘The Moth Council for their support to 2 to build a pump track and skills area - school is back! It’s lovely seeing so many presents All These Wonders’. You can also run the series. requires community support. familiar, young faces again and hearing hear recordings of these live shows on their about their summer holidays. Brooklyn kids podcast, available on Spotify, iTunes, and Theatre & music Head to http://bit.ly/2GrlRdd to see details are avid readers and we love being asked for any podcast app. Sign up for drama and musical theatre of the Givealittle fundraising campaign. suggestions for new books to read. Whether classes suitable for ages 5-18 with Imogen Ngā mihi, You can also email [email protected] you have a child who’s “read everything” Prossor’s Wizz Theatre Academy on Alicia and the team at Brooklyn Library if you want to get involved in the project. or is in a bit of a reading lull, the Brooklyn team can help! With free reserves for children and young adults, it’s no hassle to www.kidsathome.co.nz request books from the other branches. 0800 543 728 What’s on in March? It’s a month of festivals! We’ve got the programmes for Writers & Readers and Fringe ready for you to browse. Writers & Readers has an unbelievably amazing line-up of authors - Cory Doctorow, Paula Morris, Hera Lindsay Bird, and Bill Manhire to name just a few! From politics to poetry, there’s something for everyone. Works by the speakers have been flying off the shelves so you better get in quick if you want to do some pre-festival reading. Adult cardholders can place a reserve on an item Our team is recruiting! for $2 or $1 with a Gold Card/Community Enquire about becoming an Educator Services Card. Not sure what to read? or Nanny with Kids at Home today! There’s a gallery of selected works by the •Low Ratios (1:4) •Set your own hours •Free Administration service • Regular playgroups and events speakers on the new catalogue homepage.

8 MARCH 2018 BROOKLYN TATTLER BROOKLYN TATTLER MARCH 2018 9 WELLINGTON WATER COMMUNITY INFORMATION AFTERNOON an important part of serving Wellington So why not use the existing site? moving on and off site via Bell Road - and REPLACING THE region’s basic water needs after a significant The existing reservoir needs to stay in service potentially other roads in the area.Measures earthquake. The region’s water network is while we construct the new reservoir and will be put in place to manage and where BELL ROAD WATER vulnerable and could leave parts of the city there is no other water storage option for possible limit effects as much as possible, RESERVOIR without water for up to 100 days after a big the Bell Road such as restricted working hours shake and needs to be improved. supply zone. Community Information and efficient loading and route The existing Afternoon planning. Over the next 30 years Wellington Water site is also too Wellington Water invites is investing in infrastructure and initiatives For residents overlooking the site, low to service you to this special to reduce water restoration times to 30 information session on views will be temporarily disrupted the Aro zone. days. This includes Wellingtonians storing the Bell Road Reservoir by construction. But, in the long- Replacement project. enough water to be self-sufficient for the How will it term the project will enhance their first seven days. affect the Sunday 25 March vistas.Detailed assessments of all Wellington Brooklyn Community impacts and how we’ll manage Centre, 11am-2pm Key facts about the Bell Road Town Belt? them are being completed as part project The proposed new reservoir will To build and This is an opportunity to of the consenting process. And operate the find out more, ask experts be a fully covered 10 million litre capacity questions and learn we are working closely with the structure, sufficient to cater for forecast proposed community and residents. 3D view of proposed final landform after how to be involved. population growth and water demand out reservoir in the backfilling and prior to landscaping wellingtonwater.co.nz Next Steps In July 2018, to 2115. Wellington Wellington Water plans to Like other parts of the Wellington region, Town Belt, we lodge an application with the Wellington the Bell Road water supply zone which need approval from the Wellington City City Council for an easement under the serves parts of Brooklyn and Mount Cook Council under the Wellington Town Belt Wellington Town Belt Act, which will be is vulnerable to seismic activity. The Bell Act – which involves public consultation. followed by a public consultation process Road water reservoir, which feeds the zone, We will need to meet strict conditions, including an open day, submissions and is more than 100 years old and no longer ensuring the Town Belt is protected public hearings. seismically resilient. and enhanced, carrying out detailed assessments of impacts and how we will Brooklyn Residents Association Working with Wellington City Council, mitigate them. recognise this as an opportunity to Wellington Water is proposing to replace The main impacts will be temporary due to improve the resilience of Wellington’s the existing reservoir with new seismically extensive earthworks required to position water supply system. We know that resilient structure and new, resilient pipelines. 3D view of completed and cover the reservoir, truck movements on there will be impacts on the Brooklyn The project also provides the opportunity reservoir on the excavated site and off site and the removal of some of the community during construction and there to amalgamate with the Aro water supply will be opportunities to express concerns The preferred proposed site for the new existing vegetation. The reservoir will be zone, served by equally ageing and through the consultation process. reservoir is at Upper Bell Road, near the fully covered and once completed the site vulnerable infrastructure. intersection of Bell Road and Heaton will be landscaped and within five years, BRAI are keen to hear your views about We want to ensure the water needs of Terrace within the Wellington Town Belt. completely restored. Overall, we believe the the proposed reservoir, the construction both Bell Road and Aro zones can be We investigated a range of possible sites, project will deliver a net benefit to the Town and about what will happen with the adequately met in the case of a significant selecting Upper Bell Road because it meets Belt, with the removal of the old reservoir existing reservoir site. BRAI committee earthquake, and to reduce disruptions all criteria including the right elevation, and working in collaboration with the members will be at the info session during network available and community to restore and enhance the site. on the 25th of March and will host a maintenance and undeveloped land, How will it affect residents? workshop in April to hear the community’s repairs. Projects like proximity to the The main impact will be noise and traffic thoughts. Get in touch by email to: Bell Road are also water zones. from the earthworks and heavy vehicles [email protected]

10 MARCH 2018 BROOKLYN TATTLER BROOKLYN TATTLER MARCH 2018 11 what’s on at your what’s on at brooklyn community centre vogelmorn hall & green 18 Harrison Street Cnr Mornington and Vennell

To book Brooklyn Community Centre for classes, groups or events contact To book Vogelmorn Hall & Green for classes, groups or events contact Euan Harris on 384 6799 or [email protected] Euan Harris on 384 6799 or [email protected] ALZHEIMERS Meet in the RSA Room on the 4th Wednesday of the month AFTER-SCHOOL WELLINGTON 10am - 12pm. Contact Jodie on 938 8943. Tuesdays 3:15-4:15pm. After-school music and motion for 5-8 ROCKING year olds. Contact Moya on 021 050 3075. POPPING BODS BROOKLYN Next monthly meeting Wednesday 7 March at 7:30pm in the RSA GARDEN CLUB Room. Contact Barbara on 389 4307. Fridays 9am - 2pm. Contact Mel on 022 510 1987 or Baby Sensory [email protected] or www.facebook.com/ Brownies Mondays 6pm-7:30pm school terms. Contact Margaret 389 3028 classes babysensorywellington Childcare Before & After-school Care & Holiday Programmes. Phone Adam Mondays 10-11am & 7-8pm. Wednesdays 10-11am. Programmes Hendry 385 0089 or [email protected] Feldenkrais First class free for beginners. Contact Toni on 475 3355 or CRAFT Crafters social group. Fortnightly on Thursdays 10am-1pm. [email protected] CONNECTIONS Contact Louise email: [email protected] Fiona Haines Wednesdays 3:30-7:30pm during school terms. Contact Fiona Saturdays & Sundays at 6pm depending on class numbers. Dance on 021 721 020 or [email protected] indian cooking Contact Anu at [email protected] Kardio Power Mondays 5:40 - 6:10pm Patricia 383 9371 or 027 297 6049 Ekkaallam Tamil Christian worship and service. Sundays 10am-12pm. Church Contact Robert [email protected] or 027 858 9916 Free form dancing in the dark! Koha entry. KANIKANI Wednesdays fortnightly at 8pm on 7 & 21 March, 4 & 18 Jazz (Grade 3) - Tuesdays 4 - 5pm Hip Hop - Tuesdays 5 - 6pm WELLINGTON April. Facebook: @kanikaniwellington JAZZ & HIP HOP Contact Fiona on 476 7046 or 021 721 020. KOHA YOGA Tuesdays 9:15-10:30am. Contact [email protected] QUARTERLy Brooklyn Market Saturday 24 March, 2 - 5pm. MARKETS Contact 384 6799 or [email protected] Spirit Thursdays 4:45-7pm & Sundays 9:15-11:30am. Beginners Wed 5:30-6:15pm & Thurs 5-5:45pm Adult Taekwon-do Club Contact Brett Kraiger via email: [email protected] FAMILY FIT Beginners Wed 6-7pm & Thurs 5:30-6:30pm Kardio Power Stretch & Tone Mondays 6:10pm-6:40 Patricia on 383 9371 or 027 297 6049 KARATE & FITNESS Wed 7:30-8pm. Stretch & Tone Thurs 6:30-7pm. Contact Patricia 383 9371 or 027 297 6049 Learn the art of drawing and cutting with the Japanese sword. Wellington Iaido Tuesdays 6-7pm & Saturdays 3-5pm. Cam 021 263 0351 PORSE Wednesdays 9-11:30am during school terms. Contact Lyn Coutts [email protected] facebook.com/wellingtoniaido Playschool 801 6814 or email [email protected] ROCKING Fridays at 11:30am. Music and motion for 3 & 4 year olds. WELLINGTON Martial Arts Group Saturdays 10am - 12pm. POPPING BODS Contact Moya 021 050 3075 or [email protected] NAGINATA Contact Alice at [email protected] St John Cadets Tuesdays 6:30-8pm school terms. Carol 0274 321 204 or 388 3838. A new fitness tutor needed for 6am boot camps on Mondays WILD WORKOUTS & Wednesdays. Contact Duck Patten 027 528 6833. Tuesdays 9am-12pm or Wednesdays 8pm. Open to all ages and ability. Tuesday evenings 7:30-8:30pm. Table Tennis Tables, bats and balls provided. Inquiries Philip on 934 7445 Zumba or email: [email protected]. Contact Beth at: [email protected]

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Contact Ferne McKenzie on 389 1433 or [email protected] “Local Agent, Local Knowledge” Music for under 3 year olds. Mondays at 10am in the RSA Room. GET THE BEAT Contact Lois McConnell on 973 1650. Call Katie to hear about this Mondays 10am-11:30am. Postnatal workouts. month’s special offer! KANGA Hannah 021 030 6981 http://www.facebook.com/ TRAINING Ray White Leaders in Real Estate Licensed under the REAA 2008 KangatrainingWellingtonCentral/ T. 04 894 3717 M. 027 248 2061 E. [email protected]

VINYASA Saturdays 10:30am with Jenn. All levels welcome. $5 drop in. YOGA BYO mat. Email: [email protected] BROOKLYN TATTLER MARCH 2018 13 WHAT’S on upstream

the prospect of a long dry summer and a host of recently planted trees St Matthew’s Church and shrubs to nurture. The trees were 96 Washington Ave “How can such small movements make such a big difference?” numbered and a group of enthusiastic Phone 022 538 1030 water bearers each took responsibility brooklynresource Help yourself: friends of for a particular batch. [email protected] Learn to move with more Plastic bottles, normally destined ease, balance and power Central Park for recycling at best, were put to very effective use by cutting the ends Wednesdays 9am-4pM We had a off, punching holes in the lids and great turn out to our first Wednesday Circle upending them into small hollows at our new venue, and a few new people. Next Working Bee Sunday 25 March dug out just above the trees. The water The space is warm and friendly with easy, poured into the cut end filtered straight flat access and parking close by. Thank you Upstream meets from 10am-12 on the last Sunday of every month. Join us in Central down to the roots rather than running off St Matthew’s Church for welcoming us and down the slopes. We also made sure the for your support during our transition. Feldenkrais® classes in Brooklyn Park at The Jetty - enter the park through Mondays 10am and 7pm, the main gates at the bottom of Brooklyn plants were mulched to shade the ground. Wednesdays 10am at the Vogelmorn Hall WEDNESDAY CIRCLE If you know anyone Road and follow the signs along the path If bark mulch wasn’t available, we simply For more details contact Toni: placed long grass cut from nearby around who’d like a day out, encourage them [email protected] or 475 3355 leading upstream for a few hundred metres. to come along. Nominal charge to cover Everyone welcome! the plants. The technique was so successful Individual lessons are also available that some of us started bottle planting in costs depending on what you take part in. Where did my paint go? Moturoa Stream See also www.feldenkrais.org.nz our home gardens as well! 10:30am:Morning Tea Noon:Lunch is home to native fish, koura (freshwater For more information, contact Lynne on 1pm:Arthritic Exercise 1:30-2:30pm: crayfish) and other freshwater life. So it’s 027 6311160 or at [email protected] Speaker 2:30pm:Afternoon Tea upsetting to occasionally see signs of pollution SPEAKERS WEDNESDAYS 1:30-2:30PM in the stream, such as the recently seen paint 7 March: Natalia’s Quiz scum. Clearly, someone had cleaned out paint 14 March: Ashley Joy (from Zealandia): brushes into a storm water drain, which then CARPET NZ’s Wildlife History discharged into the stream. That’s bad news 21 March: Maya Hasan: Refugee & for the freshwater life because the oily residues Searching for Employment can suffocate fish and insects and carry lAyER 28 March: Please ring Jenny on 022 538 heavy metals into the system, perhaps all the Installation of new or 1030 if you can fill this slot way to the harbour, where Moturoa Stream second hand carpets. eventually flows out. If you’re able to assist as a guest speaker Relays, repairs and or volunteer driver please contact Jenny. It’s easy to avoid this kind of water pollution maintenance. Two elderly attendees from Ohiro Road by cleaning paint brushes in the laundry sink All materials can be and Irwell Rest Home (Island Bay) require (which will be treated because it drains into supplied. transport to and from the venue. the sewage system) or in a bucket that you We wish to broaden our programme of tip onto or bury in your garden. See more at Free quotes activities offered in the future to encourage gw.govt.nz/the-problem-with-stormwater or Call John at more locals to attend. We’d love to see gw.govt.nz/save-the-drain-for-rain or gw.govt. Atkinson Flooring on more new faces - anyone is welcome to drop nz/easy-steps-to-keep-the-water-clean by for any length of time. 0274 426 915 Absolutely, positively re-purposing or 04 381 2216 Jenny Swan, Co-ordinator Our creative brains kicked into action with

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on Nine to Noon, a young woman being interviewed Would your child was doing Masters’ research into why some older restoration plantings were benefit from being failing, suffering ‘canopy collapse’, i.e. older plantings all dying at once, before the in a smaller class, in a caring under planting was ready to friends of take over. Catholic environment? This is not canopy collapse as the result of possum owhiro stream browsing, as reported by Forest & Bird in 2015, but as a result (possibly) of one Goodness me - March already - summer species being planted all at seems to have only just begun, and soon it once, with not enough supporting species. will be planting season again! Plants do like company, and maybe, like people, it is better if varied! Every year, FOOS volunteers struggle to Janet Campbell get all the plants we have available into the for Friends of Owhiro Stream ground, and inevitably end planting the last of them in October, which, when we get a hot dry spell as we did last year, can be a bit disastrous. THIS YEAR, however, we intend to start earlier - maybe April - so as to get everything off to the best start possible. In the meantime, St Bernard’s School Brooklyn has: we will be doing our best at our second- Saturday-of-the-month working bees to save § Average class sizes of 16. previous plantings from various rampant weeds § Excellent academic results. which will have inevitably sprung up over this § Teachers able to pay closer attention to each child’s needs warm summer. This month’s on Saturday 10 and support every child to grow intellectually, physically, March, 10.00 - 12.30 at an as yet to be chosen emotionally and spiritually. site somewhere down the stream.) § A state-integrated, un-zoned, decile 9 Catholic primary There are restoration groups all over New school with on-site before and after-school care. Zealand, all doing their best to improve We encourage families to come find out more about our school. the water quality of streams and wetlands, We welcome children at all levels from Years 1 to 8. and habitats for birds and insects, and To learn more about our school, please contact us on www.stbernards.school.nz they have collectively been working and [email protected] or 04 389 9377 40 Taft St, Brooklyn gathering knowledge for many years, but there is still much to learn about the best

route to restoration. Only this morning,

BROOKLYN TATTLER MARCH 2018 17 ENVIROSCHOOLS WHAT’S ON Moriah Kindergarten Joins Enviroschools Program Exhibit Local preschool, Moriah Kindergarten, themselves help plan, design and implement REGISTRATIONS has recently joined sustainability projects. the Enviroschools OPEN The program has five ion Coex program and is on its theme areas: Living way to becoming an Landscapes, Zero Waste, Envirokindy. Energy!, Ecological iTwos yearstence ago, local Brooklyn resident, Enviroschools’ stated Building, and Water Jill Oakley initiated a unique project - to aim is ‘to foster a of Life. bring an inspiring international outdoor generation of people As a city kindergarten art exhibition to Wellington. who instinctively think Moriah focused on Living and act sustainably’ - an honourable goal, Exhibition Coexistence, curated by Landscapes first, connecting children with but how does it play out in the day-to- Raphie Etgar from the Museum on the the natural world and exploring urban day reality of a kindergarten? ‘It affects Seam in Jerusalem, promotes the message sustainability. Children now separate everything,’ explains teacher Chandra of peace and tolerance between people waste, feed compost worms, take out Littlewood, Moriah’s Envirokindy around the world. recycling, and plant gardens. lead. ‘Planning, purchasing, teaching COEXISTENCE runs March 1 - 22 at - everything is done with the goal of Natural materials like shells and plants Waitangi Park, on Wellington's waterfront. guiding the children to connect with their have been incorporated into play. Plastic It is a free admission exhibition featuring 44 environment, learn about it, consider bags are gone, creatively replaced by individual panels 3mx5m in size including a impact, and make changes.’ She says Hoki Mai Peke - fabric bags made by the new artwork by a Wellington artist. a huge benefit of the program is the children. They have also visited Central The exhibition serves as the focal point way it ripples out to kindy families, the Park to plant new trees, and Oriental Bay for other activities on the theme of bnujfc.co.nz immediate community and the wider for a beach clean-up. coexistence; workshops, seminars, round world as children become kaitiaki of their Head teacher Heidi Greenwood says the table discussions and children’s activities. Season Starts own environments. program has had an immediate impact; Come and hear Raphie Etgar speak 7/8 April 2018 Launched in 2001, Enviroschools is she hears it in the children’s conversations. about Coexistence Exhibition at 6pm on described as a kaupapa, a program, and ‘When you have kids talking to each other, 6 March at St. Peter's on Willis. It's free a movement for change. It is grounded not just to adults, about changing their admission. Be part of the conversation, BNUJFC welcomes in Maori perspectives and follows a whole- environment, you know the teaching is engage with local art and artists of all ages school/centre approach in which the children really working,’ she observes. exploring the way we can live together in both boys and girls our differences with peace and harmony. 5-14 years Wednesdays 3.30-5pm Come prepared to think about what you After- @ St Bernard's School, Taft St can do in the wider Brooklyn community of all abilities Does your kid love chess? school around this important theme! New junior chess group starting this term. 1st Kicks Junior All abilities welcome, ages 8-12 The Brooklyn Community Centre is keen Try your first session free - $60 per term to support and facilitate local initiatives Sundays 9am-10am Chess in Contact Ivan Moss - that emerge from this event. Brooklyn [email protected] or 021 417 025 coexistencewgtn.com

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Further to the Maori made for new settlers. occupation from part 1 For our readers information, of last month’s Tattler, Early here is how these the track connecting transactions came to being. the top of Hargreaves MĀORI The New Zealand Company Street to the sealed (who had no idea of what path between Dorking IN the country offered), held Road and Prince of a Land Ballot Auction of Wales Park is the only Brooklyn 100,000 acres in London on As many of you are aware Brooklyn School Stage 3: Replacing the current Kiwi evidence remaining of 29 July 1839. Prospective received $3.5 million from the Ministry of village (the classrooms closest to Harrison the original tracks the Ngatiawa hapu cut emigrants could purchase one acre sections, Education for significant redevelopment. Street) with a new block. for better access to and from their mahingo- or more wealthier people could buy 100 Over the past year the Ministry, school Stage 4: Repair and upgrading of the kai. This is the track outlined in the next acre sections. It is not known the price paid and architects have been working through administration block. paragraph. for these lots. When they arrived in NZ, detailed plans. Although timing is still to Preliminary plans are on the school website, It is still largely original and unmodified. the settlers approached Governor William be confirmed, we expect building work to and displayed on a noticeboard outside When the first white settlers arrived in Wakefield to lay out country sections, in start mid-year, and it will be in four stages: Room 5 near the Washington Avenue the area in 1841, they cut a further path this case, in Ohiro. When the white settlers entrance. We will use the Library and Stage 1: An extension to the existing hall redeveloped Hall for classrooms during which descended a spur from the top of first arrived, including Wakefield and his and an additional exit for the library construction. Once contractors have been the eastern hills in a northwest direction party, they had no idea the land was in Stage 2: Takahe block increased by the appointed we will be able to provide more to what is now Nairn Street park. This was Maori ownership, and simply staked their equivalent of three to four classrooms, details on timing of the phases and likely practically the same route Bell Road takes claim on land, causing resentment among creating innovative learning environments impact on the school and community. today. The new settlers continued to use the the various tribes. “Native Track” (as they referred to it) from Footnote: As discussed in a past story, the Omaroro Gardens (this track is largely there are two separate localities, unrelated Brooklyn Food unchanged today since these times). to each other, Ohiro, and Owhiro. The Market open 7 days latter only encompasses the bay on the The three tribes became friendly with the south coast and the part of Happy Valley new settlers quite rapidly, and the settlers northwards to the present school. utilised the tracks cut by the Maori to find land for themselves.Unfortunately relations Next month’s story will tell you more on soured when the hapu got wind of the land the beginnings of the Community Centre, transactions the English Land Company due to celebrate its 75th Jubilee in 2022. Pea straw bales - last chance Brooklyn Scouts has been raising funds through the sale of pea straw bales. We’re now down to our last 50 bales! Sourced from the weevil-free Manawatu, pea straw is the ideal mulch for your thirsty garden. 2 bales for $50; 4 bales for $90, additional bales $20 each. Brooklyn Food Market open 7 days Pick-up and delivery options available. shop 8 – 57 Cleveland street Email [email protected] opposite CariBe CoFFee

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After-school Junior astro turf at Tanera Park, 8 Scouts 11-14yrs, Venturers No 83 bus at railway station. years to explore, learn and and contribute to the care Chess Wednesdays 3.30- Tanera Crescent. Just turn 14-18yrs. Contact Gillian socialise with a parent or of Central Park. 19 March Titahi Bay. 5pm @ St Bernard’s School, up on practice day http:// Boyes 972 9904 or family member. Morning [email protected] Exit bus before it goes up Taft St.Does your kid love brooklyngeckoshockey. [email protected] sessions available at Capital Gloaming Hill beside sea. Vogelmorn chess? New junior chess weebly.com Montessori, Camrose Grove, Brooklyn Smallbore Walk around foreshore or Community Group group starting this term. Kingston. Visit montessori. Brooklyn Local Rifle Club Ages 14+ over hill. 9.10 No 8 bus, Volunteer-run group based All abilities welcome, ages school.nz/playgroup or email Sundays 4.30pm-6pm mid- 9.44 train. Arrive Porirua at Vogelmorn Bowling 8-12. Try your first session History Group [email protected] March to early October at 10.05. Bus to Titahi Bay Club, 93 Mornington Rd. free - $60 per term Next meeting 2pm Sat the Royal Tiger Range, 131 10.33 (Gloaming Hill). Shaolin Gao Can Workshops, rehearsals and Contact Ivan Moss - 24 March at Brooklyn Russell Terrace, Newtown. Mun Nam Pai Chuan events. For what’s coming [email protected] or Library. Everyone welcome. To join contact Dianne (GCMNPC) Kung Fu School. up or to enquire about hire, 021 417 025 Chris Rabey 3849293 CATS PROTECTION [email protected] Grain on 0274 449 641 WELLINGTON Wellington Swords Club visit vogelmorn.nz or email Brooklyn Brownies, [email protected] Visitors are welcome Building, 2 Tanera Cres. [email protected]. Guides and Pippins or Sharon Macintyre 027 www.bsrc.org.nz Contact Rob Young on 021 to meet the cats at our Vogelmorn Tennis Pippins 634 4455 or evenings 388 408521 or wellington Brooklyn Table friendly shelter from Club Welcomes players of Nicola Burdon 971 1265 8088 sharonmacintyre42@ @shaolinkungfu.co.nz Tennis 9am-12pm Tuesdays 12pm - 4pm on Saturdays all ages and abilities. Join Brownies gmail.com and 8pm Wednesdays. We and Sundays. We’re at 29 St John Penguin and our social, family-friendly Margaret 389 3028 Brooklyn Mainly welcome new members of Vancouver St (off Montreal Youth Division club. Club days, competitive Brooklyn Guides Music Fun affordable 30 all ages and ability. Tables, Grove) in Kingston. Phone Penguin Program 6-8 yrs. play, professional coaching. Kathryn Marsh 802 5049 minutes, for parents or care bats and balls provided. 3899668. www.cpl- Karen 389 4060 vogelmorntennisclub.com Brooklyn Food givers to enjoy with their Phone Philip on 934 7445. wellington.org.nz Youth Division 8-18 yrs. call in, or email secretary@ Group Local food and pre-schooler(s). Morning Carol 0274 321 204 vogelmorntennisclub.com Brooklyn Toy Library Friends of Owhiro community. Working Bees Tea provided. www.stjohn.org.nz Rear prefab at Capital Stream Working bees on Wellington Swords Monday evenings 5:30- Wellington Reformed Montessori School, the second Saturday of the Turbine Talkers Club Tanera Bowling Club 7:30pm weekly at the Church 34 Harrison St. Camrose Grove, Kingston. month 10am-12:30pm. Toastmasters Club Vicki Lamb 970 7496 evenings Brooklyn Orchard, end of Rachel 022 407 9652 Open during school terms. Contact Martin on Your local chapter of [email protected] Harrison St. St Matthews’ brooklyntoylibrary@ 389 8995 or email: Toastmasters International. Tanera Bowling Club thebrooklynfoodgroup@ Co-operating Parish hotmail.com [email protected] Tuesdays 7pm-9pm 8 Tanera Cres, Brooklyn gmail.com or 96 Washington Ave. brooklyntoylibrary.org.nz Lions Club Help build fortnightly in Venue hire: maximum 150 www.facebook.com/ Lynne 027 248 9349 St Matthew’s Church lounge. BrooklynFoodGroupNZ your community and make people. $15 hr casual. BROOKLYN NORTHERN Brooklyn Walkers new friends along the way. Caroline 027 229 3623, Party hire rate negotiable. Christian 021 651 892 Brooklyn Garden UNITED JUNIOR Meet Monday mornings Vicki 022 033 0031 $150 weekend night. Club Meets 1st (except public holidays) [email protected] FOOTBALL CLUB BNUJFC Predator Free Wednesday 7:30pm from outside Brooklyn Library. http://6879. Winter season resumes 7th Brooklyn March to October at Phone Susannah 384 7412 Hello Kaka, toastmastersclubs.org SCOTTISH DANCING Meets April. Registrations goodbye rats! We’re looking Brooklyn Community or Clare 384 9054. Upstream – Friends Wednesdays 7.30pm from currently open. Enquiries for volunteers to host traps Centre. New members and of Central Park February to October, to [email protected] or 5 March Waikanae Beach on their properties. If you’d visitors welcome. Contact Next working bee 25 March. St Marks Community Hall, visit www.bnujfc.co.nz to Waikanae via river like to help email Barbara on 389 4307 Last Sunday of the month Basin Reserve (free parking). walkway. 8.40 No 7 bus, predatorfreebrooklyn@ Brooklyn Scouts 10am-12pm at picnic No experience or partner Brooklyn Geckos 9.14 train, 10.18 bus to gmail.com Hockey for Kids Scout Hall, Harrison St. Waikanae Beach. table next to the big bridge. necessary; wear soft shoes; Scouting is for boys and RATA PLAYGROUP $5 per night. Ring Elaine Years 1-4 and new entrants. 12 March Eastbourne to Calm Come along for great Fridays 4-5pm at the girls who love adventure. Days Bay 9.38 No 7 bus, 10.07 and nurturing place for conversations, meet new 389 3597 or Juping 970 7568 Brooklyn Bowling Club Keas 5-7 yrs, Cubs 7-11yrs, babies and toddlers 0-3 people, fab morning tea

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