MARCH 2018 296 BROOKLYN TATTLER what’s happening in your community 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] Brooklyn Tattler is published by Brooklyn Community Centre 18 Harrison Street, Brooklyn Printed by Pivotal 2 MARCH 2018 BROOKLYN TATTLER BROOKLYN TATTLER MARCH 2018 3 BCA UpdATE UPDATE 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 4 MARCH 2018 BROOKLYN TATTLER SCHOOL TIps FOR PARENTS BRAI 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 u 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 u 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 u 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.