CHURTON PARK SCHOOL BANS GLITTER AFTER HALL INCIDENT DEEMED 'BIBLICAL'
Board of trustees has classified the stuff as a banned craft material. Cleaners are still finding it on the ceiling.
Churton Park Primary's Board of Trustees has banned glitter after a Year 3 art session on Thursday the deputy principal described, in writing, as "biblical".
This correspondent understands the incident began at 1:42pm, when a four-litre tub of glitter was tipped over during the construction of a poster about kindness. A southerly through the open door did the rest.
Deputy principal Annette Crowe, contacted at the school gate, said the hall was still "compromised". "It's in the piano. It's in the curtains. One of the cleaners blew her nose this morning and it was, frankly, festive. Assemblies are off until further notice."
Parent Briar Thomsett, collecting two children and a labrador from the pickup zone, said the ban was overdue. "My youngest came home looking like she'd been through a nightclub. I found glitter in the chicken casserole. The casserole, mate."
A BOT spokesperson confirmed glitter now sits alongside slime and kinetic sand on the school's restricted materials list, known internally as the RML. Enforcement falls to room parents, with escalation to the PTA if required.
The hall reopens Monday. The glitter, according to two cleaners who asked not to be named, does not.
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Reader Letters
Garry (Halswell)
Wouldn't have happened in '94. We had standards back then, not this furniture nonsense.
ropeable_dave
mate '94 was thirty years ago what are you on about
MumOf3_Riccarton
Honestly fair enough. Council inorganic is Thursday and my berm is a war zone anyway.
Margaret_F
Gerald would have sorted it with one phone call to the council.
BarryBishopdale
Bloody typical. And while we are at it, the council has been useless since 1987. Cyclists probably love this.
Margaret_F
Reminds me of Gerald. He would have had opinions about the pallet, I can tell you that.
couchgremlin
Lol
long_winded_garry
I remember when the whole street used to argue about whose turn it was to mow the berm and now we cannot even agree on a mattress without someone invoking the Resource Management Act for forty minutes straight like it is a royal commission.