By Kath Gannaway
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Term3I NO STORY JUST A PIC CAP AS ABOVE.
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Term3G: CHRISTMAS Hills and Toolangi primary school students joined with host school Yarra Glen for a Schools Tree Planting Day with a carnival atmosphere.
The day focused on the themes of remembrance, regrowth, restoration and resilience.
A minute’s silence was observed in memory of those lost in the bushfires before students got down to work planting the 300 trees with plenty of time for other activities.
The students were joined by members of the Shire of Yarra Ranges and Sugarloaf Pipeline Alliance environment teams as well as by parents, special guests Cr Jeanette McRae, Anthony Mann from the Shire of Yarra Ranges, Nillumbik Reconciliation Group’s Jan Aitkin, and volunteers from the City Life Church at Wantirna, Heartland in Yarra Glen and Healesville Rotary.
Event organiser, school chaplain Mike Baimbridge said the day was a great success.
“The face painting, craft, jumping castles and all manner of high energy Life Be In It games added so much to what was already a very significant day,” he said.
Term3F: STUDENTS at Middle Kinglake Primary School have begun work on a short film which will be screened at a national short film awards ceremony to be held in Sydney next month.
As part of their involvement in the Kid Witness News (KWN) short film program, the primary school students will produce a video which tells the story of the rebuilding of their school following the February fires.
TV personality and KWN ambassador Toni Pearen and Derek Fung, associate editor and camcorder specialist at consumer tech site CNET Australia, visited the school last week as the students began working on the project which will require them to write a script, and film and edit their own footage using equipment provided by Panasonic.
Ms Pearen said the students showed a real flair for creativity and were very keen to learn the tricks of the trade.
Year 6 student Emma-Rose said she had was looking forward to putting all the techniques she learnt in to practice.
Term3A: CHUM Creek students worked with Healesville Environment Watch Inc (HEWI) and Swinburne University’s first year Conservation and Land Management students on a bushfire recovery project at the school.
HEWI members were making good on an offer to the school to help out following the fires which destroyed most of the school grounds and sheds in February.
The TAFE students rehabilitated the grounds by weeding, mulching and creating new garden areas at the front of the school and investigated the indigenous plant species emerging from the burnt soils of the wetland areas.
“They were amazed to discover the extent of the natural regeneration that is already occurring under the blackened trees,” said HEWI secretary Maureen Bond.
