Lisa Trundley-Banks – collected works E nglish teacher, librarian, yoga instructor to rowers, digital mentor, Drama helper,
she gave up teaching English and became the librarian. In her role, Lisa has pushed the library into the modern world by moving to a digitalised model, creating a library website, and introducing e-books and audiobooks, along with a Te Reo section and signage in Te Reo. She has further developed the range of crucial digital talents
football manager and prize-giving organiser – Lisa Trundley-Banks has done it all. After 15 years of helping generations of College boys master so much, Lisa has opted to follow her twin passions of yoga and abstract landscape painting full-time. “I arrived in 2007 as maternity cover to teach English and quickly became the ‘go-to’ person for former Headmaster Simon Leese, covering English, Media Studies, and Drama,” she recalls. “In 2011, I took on a permanent part-time role as an English teacher. “I was in the College library with my Year 9 class when the big earthquake hit in February that year and moved very quickly to get everyone to safety. Ironically, I ended up running the library only months later.” In July 2011, Lisa was offered a new challenge as teacher- librarian, charged with developing school digital skills amid a stressful post-quake period for learning. “That role encompassed so much as I taught the boys – and staff – how to do everything on a laptop, from Google Docs to Google Drive, and so much more,” Lisa explains. In 2016, her technology skills were further honed as she undertook a specialist Postgraduate Diploma
change-maker, aiming to get the boys to read more and updating the fiction section to be organised by genre so that students can easily access the stories they love.” Lisa continues to work with College rowers on their yoga skills, and values her past roles as Football team manager, rescue boat driver for Sailing and annual prize-giving organiser. Among her many achievements are gaining access for College to the Christchurch Art Gallery as a venue for the Year 11 Ball in 2010, choreographing the Junior Production of Shake Ripple & Roll in 2012, and directing 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in 2009, along with taking on multiple tasks to help deliver the Reaction House Plays and Drama productions. “I have loved my time at College and the incredible variety of College life.”
integral to students’ success by introducing the teaching of research skills and how to discover reliable information on the internet. In tandem, she has powered her “long-lasting passion project – referencing and citations,” while also creating a curriculum to give students the best skills for university life. Lisa says that she can be wandering around Auckland or Wellington and bump into past students who thank her for explaining how to reference their work. “The library gave me the opportunity to work one-on-one with boys and this is the area I have enjoyed the most – when boys come to the library for help to work through research, or a book for English. It has been incredibly rewarding and I do feel like I have made a real difference,” she says. “I suppose I am a
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