Waiouru's new teachers

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 9, Issue 412, 12 November 1991, Page 6

Waiouru's new teachers

BY

JO

HOWIE

Two new teachers started at Waiouru Primary this week. Mr Murray MacGibbon is the new deputy principal and Miss Wendy Colville is a new senior teacher in the junior department. Murray has had 23 years' teaching experience and has recently come from a two-teacher-school at Kutarere. There he spent three and a half years teaching the Standard Two to Form Two class. "I have had a lot of

experience teaching at the Intermediate level. It's a challenging age group, and a group that I enjoy," Murray said. Tm also looking forward to teaching in a larger school, with a bigger staff." He said Waiouru has always appealed to him. He loves the Central Plateau region and has fond memories as a boy fishing on the Tongariro River with his father, who was a country teacher at the time. He said he looks forward to settling in Waiouru for

some time. Wendy Colville was the assistant principal at Kokohuia Primary School, a bi-lingual school in Wanganui. She has taught at this nine teacher school on and off for 13 years, mainly with the younger children. Wendy was the Maori

Resource Teacher for the Waimarino area for 12 weeks last year where she met the staff at Waiouru. She believes children should receive a solid foundation in reading and writing skills at a young age to continue to do well throughout the school years.