Two lucky Millwarra Primary School students will receive a bike after the ADCare Op Shop generously donated two bikes to the school.
Millwarra Primary School principal Melanie Hancock said ADCare Op Shop normally donates every year to help support the extracurricular hands-on learning experiences for the students.
But this year, due to already having six fleets of bikes from previous years, the donation was simply to give to a student to take home.
“It’s just really nice. The generosity of everyone is just really amazing in this community,” Ms Hancock said.
ADCare Op Shop have donated to the Millwarra Primary School every year for the past 10 years.
Ms Hancock said the donations were crucial for ensuring these hands-on learning activities are properly resourced for the students.
“Even just the maintenance and the upkeep of those can get expensive as well, we have those for gardening as well. We have veggie gardens at both campuses and we use those to do cooking as well. So it all helps to the upkeep and getting everything fresh and ready to go.”
It helped the school bridge the gap in the curriculum between classroom knowledge and practical skills which provided students with a more interactive ways of learning.
“So it’s really good because these are hands-on activities that are linked back to the curriculum and are an engaging way for our students to learn,” she said.
“We’re linking the community with curriculum which is really good, so really engaging the students and to be given the money to support that program is really great.”
The donation reflected the spirit of the Upper Yarra, which Ms Hancock said has helped the community thrive by having each other’s back.
“We’re all open-minded, we work together and have great respect, we have so many volunteers come in and work with students as well.”
“Our students are getting out into the community and working with them… working with the community.”
“We share the same values which is really good. They all want to work together.”
