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Children&childcareBBC films at Stanmore BayIt’s not every day that BBC TV knocks on your door to film for one of their programmes, so when this happened at Stanmore Bay School recently, it raised a few eyebrows.Principal Carol Abley says she got three weeks’ notice that the British film crew would be coming to the school to film a segment for the Wanted Down Under series, which they did on May 14.The programme airs on BBC One and aims to help families and couples from across the UK who are considering emigrating to NZ or Australia, by giving them a week-long taste of life ‘down under’ before they decide whether to make the move.Now in its tenth series, it regularly attracts two million viewers.Carol showed Nik Huddart and his two children around the school and says the biggest wow factor was the size of the field.“He asked whether it could be sold off for housing, as happens in the UK,” she said.Nik and the children were also interested in the Enviroschools programme.Filming took 1.5 hours and Carol says it will be interesting to see what makes the cut, when it is reduced to around eight minutes of footage.Each family votes at the end as to whether they want to make the move,

The Huddart family got a trial run at emigration to the Coast, thanks to the BBC.

and Carol says she thinks the Huddarts will be in favour.“Most people move here for the quality of life, and take on board that the cost of living, in some areas, is higher,” she says. “They get to find out all the facts and figures on their visit to NZ, including things like house prices and how far it is to commute to work, but things like walking on the beaches, the climate and way of life count for a lot.”Footage was also recorded at Orewa Primary in April for the same programme but with the Gormusoglu family.The Huddart’s segment will not transmit on British television until next January.

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“The most amazing thing has been the stories behind the stories, which are shared at the exhibition,” Theressa says.The exhibition is the club’s fourth, and the third as part of the Auckland Festival of Photography fringe programme.It is on from June 4–28 at Estuary Arts Centre, 214B Hibiscus Coast Highway, Orewa.

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School are full to overflowing, and the school is in the process of putting a zone in place, to limit enrolments, for the first time.Principal Carol Abley says parents were “very vocal” when they were shown the Ministry of Education’s proposed boundary recently.The changes will come into force at the start of next year. The definition of a zone around the school will mean that siblings of current students, who live outside the zone, won’t be able to go to the school as of right. Instead, they will go into a ballot for a limited number of places.Mrs Abley says it is also a concern that the children of teachers at the school go almost to the bottom of the priority list when it comes to obtaining a place.There are likely to be some areas where the Stanmore Bay School zone intersects

with the neighbouring Whangaparaoa School and Red Beach School zones, so students in those ‘shared zones’ will have a choice of schools.Mrs Abley says that the process is protracted and involves a lot of paperwork, but the school has no choice but to implement a zone.“We need four additional classrooms, and the Ministry will only allow that if we bring in a zone,” she says. She says the school is already converting its former dental clinic into a classroom space, and that the Ministry’s suggestion that the school hall, library or staffroom be used as classrooms is simply not workable.“The development at the back of Karepiro Drive will bring 100 more homes into the area, and put more pressure on our roll, so we need to act now.”

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To screen, or not to screenIn NZ prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men, there are about 2500 to 3000 new cases each year and about 600 deaths, making it the third most common cause of male cancer death. Prostate cancer rarely occurs below the age of 55, it mostly develops in men over the age of 65 and by the age of 75 it will have developed in around one in 13 men. The cause is unknown; aside from risk increasing with age the other risk factor is a family history of the disease. The speed at which the cancer grows varies enormously from person to person.The major controversy regarding the disease arises around the topic of screening – is it worthwhile to screen men without any symptoms and do the benefits of detecting the disease early outweigh the potential harm? There are two principal tests used for identifying prostate cancer – the PSA test (a blood test for Prostate specific antigen) and Digital Rectal Examination (DRE). The PSA test is difficult to interpret – there is no “normal” level of PSA and PSA levels can vary due to all sort of causes, for example a DRE can cause a rise in PSA and so should be done after the PSA, not before.As with all screening, if these tests were applied across the whole male population they would give rise to false negatives and false positives. False negatives cause false assurance and lead to treatment not being sought or offered when it is really needed. False positives cause anxiety and the next step in diagnosis is a biopsy which carries risks of pain, bleeding and infection. About 75 percent of men who have a biopsy after an elevated PSA test will not be found to have cancer; however the biopsy will miss the cancer in some cases.So the PSA test is difficult to interpret and really needs to be combined with a DRE, knowledge of family history and careful discussion of what the prostate cancer symptoms are. The issues of false negatives and false positives together with the age of occurrence (possibly up to 50 percent of prostate cancers detected would not have caused illness in the man’s lifetime) suggest that if used to screen the male population as a whole the lives saved would be outweighed by the complications and side effects of early treatment. For these reasons there is currently no national screening programme in New Zealand. However it is recommended that men between the ages of 40 (with a family history of prostate cancer) and 75 talk to their GP about their likelihood of developing prostate cancer, and the risks and benefits of testing.

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The mistreatment of older people takes many forms and, according to Rodney Age Concern chief executive Catherine Smith, the hardest part is getting people to speak out about it and seek help.

Speaking out on elder abuse

With this in mind, she is presenting a talk at Orewa Library this month to clarify some of the issues that constitute elder abuse, raise awareness and reassure people that they are not alone and help is at hand.The talk is part of Elder Abuse Awareness week, which runs from June 15–19.Catherine is hoping that people will bring along any questions they have regarding elder abuse.She says at the moment financial abuse and scams are causing the most concern.Scams include people coming door-to-door offering to do work.“Our advice is, if someone comes to the door offering to do jobs, that they must give you a written quote and complete the job to your satisfaction before you hand over a single cent,” she says. “We hear too often of people handing over large sums of money in cash before any work is done. In some cases the work is not done at all, or done very poorly with the clean up left to the resident.”Age Concern can provide a list of reputable local tradespeople as well as Do Not Knock stickers, which can be placed on the front door to deter cold callers.Elder abuse can also come from family members and may include financial pressure from relatives and

neglect, which Catherine puts down to a breakdown in the family unit, and greed.“It used to be normal for people to look after their parents and grandparents and although that’s still true for the majority of families, in more and more cases there is neglect of elders,” she says. “Parents may have given everything to their children and they deserve the same care in return when they get old.”She says it’s important that people come forward if they have any misgivings about the way they are being treated.“Age Concern is here to help, and we keep everything in the strictest confidence,” she says. “If we can’t help with a particular problem, we can find someone who can.”Catherine says Rodney Age Concern is seeing more cases of elder abuse each year. Age Concern NZ deals with around 2000 cases annually.Catherine’s talk on Elder Abuse is at Orewa Library, Moana Ave, Orewa on June 19 at 11am.The topic is also being covered in a talk by a representative of Age Concern NZ at Age Concern Rodney’s annual meeting, on June 18. This meeting takes place at the Catholic Church in Centreway Rd, Orewa, starting at 10.30am and all are welcome.