Term 1

Students went to the West Kempsey Community Hub with Christa Smith leading the girls program, some of the many activities students did include, creating their own recipe and then making healthy smoothies, discussing the dangers of vaping, and addiction in the community, trying some native bush tucker started a mural and created artworks.

Term 2

Baking: Students created and competed by baking something, including cookies cupcakes, and cakes. The cookies won! (Ashling Hardy and Evie Corcoran). Maddison Fischer really got into her cake making competition with chocolate mix on her hands.

Kindness project: GVC has been working on a Kindness Project. Sarphire Carmichael and Katie Brown created posters and displays for students and staff at KHS to pick a flower for themselves or someone else that might need it. This kindness project is a minor part of the project connecting GVC with KHS and the Macleay Valley community in the future.

Social Enterprise:

Students have been working on their social enterprise projects (creating products and/or services) to sell to the community. They have selected a variety of projects which interest them and created products.

Sowing and Fashion design:

Included in students learning how to sow, design clothes, and make scrunchies. Leading the way on the sowing machine Michelle Quinlan, Bree Horan and Christine Moylan. Others who are designing and coming up with innovative ideas are Maddison Fischer and Sienna Griffen.

Jewellery:

Bracelets have been very popular. 3 students have selected to do this as their final project.

Card making for Mother's Day

Market stall at Laneway Festival: Michelle Quinlan has her very own market stall selling play dough and slime at the Laneway Festival. She also won 1 of 8 people selected to have their artwork displayed in Savages Laneway. Julie Quinlan and Njaree Quinlan have artworks displayed for the Laneway Festival.

Beauty products:

Lemon Myrtle natural beauty products. The girls have picked, dried and cut up Lemon Myrtle from the oval bush tucker garden. Students then had to work together in various stages making the pieces of the dried leaves cut up into tiny pieces for the pestle and mortar to be ground up into a fine powder and put through a mesh sieve prepared for next term when they will be made into beauty products.

Services: lots of the girls will be providing a service and perfecting their skills in this area in Term 3 ahead of market day which will occur at the end of Term 3 and again in Term 4.

Finally, the girls' vertical class and staff would like to especially thank the support staff Uncle Richard Dixon, Njaree Quinlan and Miranda Kyle for all they do.

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