Strong Hearts Strong Minds

Preps visit Myuna Farm

The Prep students enjoyed a wonderful day at Myuna Farm learning about living things and where our food comes from, as part of our learning on ‘God’s Good Garden’. We enjoyed watching a farm show, planting seeds, milking goats and patting baby animals. Other activities included feeding animals, exploring wetlands, and seeing lots of bats, and going on the train ride! It was a wonderful day full of rich learning and fun.

Fi Holliday, Sarah Piesse & Kaye Smith

Prep Team

Quack, quack! I liked little Puddles the duck. He was yellow. He was so, so cute. He followed us everywhere. 

Myla G

It was the best day of the world. It is true. I liked the poo. Do you know what type of poo it was? Cow poo. Cow poo is smelly. 

Owen W

I saw lots of animals. We got to go on a train. It was a lot of fun. I liked everything. We saw Puddles the duck. We pretended that Puddles was a Prep kid. 

Gabriel J

Ooh! That is scaly. It was the blue tongue lizard and I saw a bull. 

Oliver H

That peacock was stunning and its colours were beautiful. I saw a sheep. I liked the bunny. 

Mabel B

Yuck! Yuck! Yuck! The camel put his lips on my hand. 

Lewis V

Rotary Primary Schools Speech Contest

For only the third year, Mount Evelyn Christian School has been involved in the Rotary Primary Schools Speech Contest. Students choose from a list of topics and prepare a 3 minute speech. There is a formal process of scoring by 4 judges, and 2 timekeepers. Students can use props, cue-cards, or speak without notes. This year, Lilydale Heights College hosted the event on Wednesday evening and there were 10 candidates from 5 different local schools. Mount Evelyn Christian School was represented by Emilia Marshall, whose chosen topic was, ‘The Best Things About My Home Are…’ and Olivia Pirie, whose chosen topic was, ‘It Was A Wild Ride.’ Both students spoke confidently, clearly and with much animation. They are to be commended for putting themselves forward for this extra curricula activity, as public speaking can be quite daunting, but a wonderful string to add to one’s bow. Both students received high praise, a certificate, and a small gift.

Rotary has a 100 year plus history of being involved in various national and international projects and charities. Should anyone be interested in joining, you can see contact details here https://www.rotarylilydale.org.au/page/become-a-member

SP Team 

Year 6 Treasuring Our Trees Visit

As part of our session on Resilience, our Year 6s were recently visited by David Ferrier. David is the founder of Treasuring Our Trees, an organisation that was created after the June 9 storms in 2021 when more than 25,000 trees fell down. The idea behind Treasuring our Trees was to use many of the fallen log woods to begin community and sustainability projects such as furniture making, play spaces, yarning circles and bush cubby houses. Many of these projects involve local schools and community groups. David told us how Treasuring Our Trees has been able to offer healing to these people by bringing them together and 'turning a sadness into a positive'. 

As a symbol of resilience, David gave each of us a block of Tasmanian Blackwood, a beautiful timber that was salvaged from the storms. We were then asked to write a few words about 'being resilient' that will be engraved on to our timber block at a later date. David will come back to work with us on this fantastic project with the intention to display them around the school. We prayed for David and the impact his organisation is having on the community. We look forward to working with him and Treasuring Our Trees at a later date. Some of the resilient words that we wrote were:

"Never give up when times are tough" (Eli)

"We are here for you, never give up" (Isaac)

"Wherever you go, there is always someone there loving you and missing you" (Alexandra)

"Every tree has a story, so do you, so never give up, just push through" (Emily)

SP Teachers & Year 6 Students

JPW Social Skills

JPW built towers by using marshmallows and spaghetti. This is part of JPs social skills lessons, where students practice and discuss what it means to work together as a team.

Deb Tunne

JPW Teacher