Wanaka kids ask PM for house
BY CRIS JOHNSTON IN WANAKA
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Wanaka Primary School pupils are waiting with bated breath to see if Prime Minister John Key will join other politicians, celebrities and sports people in drawing a house to support the school's latest fundraising venture.
The school's parent forum group is holding its "Impressions Behind the Door" house tour on Saturday which will see people visit 14 Wanaka homes, including the contemporary and the traditional.
Ticketholders will also get a peak at one of the class room pods in the new primary school being built at Scurr Heights.
As a sideline to the tour a collection of sketches by past and present members of the All Blacks as well as from entertainers, artists and politicians will be sold.
Organiser and teacher Phillipa Wilson said the collection was growing daily and now included drawings by Taine Randell, Richie McCaw, the Topp Twins, Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean and television host Paul Henry.
Mrs Dean, a former children's television s show presenter, had drawn a sketch of the original Play School house while Topp twin Jools had sketched a New Zealand shearer's hut, Mrs Wilson said.
Mr Key had been couriered an invitation to take part along with a pen and paper in case he struggled to find his artist's tools.
"We are really hoping he will contribute," Mrs Wilson said.
Funds from this year's house tour will go to library resources at the new primary school being built in Scurr Heights.
"The drawings are definitely a continuing project and as yet we don't know if we will sell them as a collection in book form or separately," Mrs Wilson said.
The Wanaka Primary School House Tour will run between 11am and 4pm on Saturday, March 27.
Tickets are $40 and are available from the school or Wanaka Sports in Helwick St.
- © Fairfax NZ News
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