Year 4 Community Project

Last Thursday, the Year 4 students visited the local aged care facility called ‘Rowville Manor’. This was a part of the students 'How the World Works' inquiry into how they could connect with their neighbours. Students experienced taking action and serving their community, by performing three songs and giving out handmade Christmas cards to bring some Christmas cheer to Rowville’s elderly citizens. 

The Year Four students worked as a community to come up with this project to do something kind for our elderly neighbours. They emailed and contacted the local retirement villages and aged care facilities and planned what they could do and give. 

We were very proud to receive an email from a daughter of one of the citizens congratulating the Year 4 students. The residents were very impressed by the  performance and the individual messages expressed, along with the Christmas greetings within each of the cards.

Finally, she commended the Year Four students and staff for their efforts in connecting the students, our nation’s future, with the elderly who hold memories of our past. She said, "Today, families are estranged or distance separates them resulting in many children having little, if any, contact with the elderly. Thank you for valuing the elders of the community."

We were all very proud of our students in planning and seeing this project through to the end. 

Mrs Welti and Miss Tragardh

Year 4 Teachers