2025 - Year 3 teaching team

Stacey Park (Learning Leader)

Stacey grew up in Ōtautahi/Christchurch and has been teaching for more than ten years. She currently lives in Halswell with her daughter. Stacey is passionate about developing positive relationships with all ākonga and their whānau. Her favourite subjects to teach are art and literacy. Stacey loves reading and listening to podcasts. In her spare time she enjoys sewing and spending time with her own whānau.

Staceyp@lemonwoodgrove.school.nz

Bella O'Keefe

Bella grew up in Ōtautahi/Christchurch and studied for a Bachelor of Teaching and Learning at the University of Canterbury. She joined Te Uru Tarata | Lemonwood Grove School in 2024 and loves getting to know the learners, staff, and whānau who comprise the Lemonwood Grove community. Bella is passionate about building meaningful relationships with her learners and helping them feel proud of who they are.

Outside the classroom, Bella enjoys spending time with whānau, baking, reading a good book, and hanging out with her dog, Moe.

bellao@lemonwoodgrove.school.nz

Paige Bowler Berendt

Paige grew up in Nelson, before moving to Christchurch with her family in 2018. She has been in the teaching profession for 9 years, and for 6 of those years, she has taught at Lemonwood Grove School. Paige lives in Rolleston with her husband Karl and their 3 children, Maddie, Harry and Aoife. She enjoys photography, reading, cooking, and traveling with her family. 

Paige believes in building strong relationships with learners and fosters a learning environment that is safe and nurturing. She has a passion for Literacy and the Arts and enjoys seeing tamariki learn and grow. 

paigeb@lemonwoodgrove.school.nz

Holly McRobert

Holly grew up in sunny Nelson, before moving to Brisbane with her family in 2012. She then moved back to New Zealand to study her Bachelor of Teaching Learning (Primary). Since then she has worked in a school in Nelson, and Christchurch before most recently spending another 3 years in Brisbane working in the early childhood sector and studying an additional certificate in early childhood education and care. The past 3 months she has been living and working in Wānaka, enjoying a ski season before making the move back to Christchurch and taking on a role at Lemonwood Grove for 2025. She is extremely excited about stepping back into the primary sector which is where her passion is. 

hollym@lemonwoodgrove.school.nz

Meg Lidstone

Meg grew up in Ōtautahi and has lived here her whole life. Meg got married at the beginning of 2025. When not at school, you will find Meg out running, walking, waterskiing or anything in the boat, snow skiing and spending time with her whānau and friends. Meg graduated in 2023 from the University of Canterbury. She is passionate about learning and physical activity, she is looking forward to getting to know the ākonga in her class and their whānau. Meg is excited year ahead at Lemonwood Grove.

megl@lemonwoodgrove.school.nz

Jo Silvey

Jo has been teaching for 25 years at a variety of awesome Christchurch schools and a school in Auckland. Before that, she worked for Hertz and Contiki and lived in London for a year. Her husband is in a band and she has three children, Ben, Millie, and Jackson, and two cats, Crafty and Mittens. Jo’s passions are art, reading, going to the gym, walking, and baking. Her favourite subject to teach is writing because she loves reading the amazing stories, poems, and facts that children imagine and retell. She lives in Rolleston and you may see her shopping or enjoying a coffee at a local cafe.

jos@lemonwoodgrove.school.nz