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<\/p>\nA Wellington school community is mourning the loss of a “much-loved” teacher who was hit by a car while holidaying in the US. <\/p>\n
In a post to Facebook this morning, Wellington Girls’ College shared “with immense sadness” that Gail Ives had died. <\/p>\n
“She was in Los Angeles two weeks ago when she was hit by a car while out running, and she was unable to recover from her injuries,” the post said. <\/p>\n
Ives was “on the trip of a lifetime” with her husband \u2013 travelling to major sports events around the world. <\/p>\n
She had been in the health and PE department at the school for 39 years, and was also a former student. <\/p>\n
“Much loved as a colleague, teacher and friend, Gail will be sorely missed by the WGC community.” <\/p>\n
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Ives was described as a “much-loved” teacher, friend and colleague. (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n
Former students, parents, and staff paid tribute to Ives in the comments. <\/p>\n
“I was one of the lucky ones to have been taught by Gail in the 1990s,” one wrote. “She was, without a doubt, my absolute favourite teacher. I have so many happy memories of such a kind and wonderful woman.<\/p>\n
“I was so excited at the thought of reconnecting with her, and of her possibly teaching my daughter as she starts WGC next year.” <\/p>\n
Another said that Ives was “so lovely, passionate about sports, quietly spoken but strong in empathy”.<\/p>\n
A former colleague of Ives described her as a “dedicated teacher” and said she had “the most positive outlook on life”. <\/p>\n
One parent wrote: “She had the ability to see the best in every girl, and she was endlessly positive.” <\/p>\n
The school said it would share details of Ives’ service at a later time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Wellington school community is mourning the loss of a “much-loved” teacher who was hit by a car…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84,111,43,139,69,52],"class_list":["post-572561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-education","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}