From the classroom

🌏 Nude Lunchbox Challenge – What a Week! 🌟

In week 8, our school proudly took part in the Nude Lunchbox Challenge to support World Environment Day and raise awareness about reducing plastic waste in our school community. And what a fantastic effort it was!

Typically, our school collects around 400 pieces of plastic packaging per day—but during the challenge, we recorded only 368 pieces for the entire week! This is an incredible reduction and a powerful reminder of what we can achieve when we work together.

A big congratulations to Prep/1 Ross, who were our winning class with just 34 pieces of rubbish for the week, including one day where they had zero plastic waste at all! They were rewarded with a well-deserved hot chip lunch on Wednesday, which was met with big smiles all around.

We also celebrated students from across the school who consistently packed completely waste-free lunchboxes. These students were entered into our major prize draw, with lucky winners taking home IGA vouchers, lunchboxes, drink bottles, and containers.

A heartfelt thank you to all our families for the amazing effort in reducing lunchbox waste. It’s been wonderful to see that many students have continued these positive habits even after the challenge ended. Your support is helping to create a more sustainable future for our school and community.

Let’s keep up the great work!

Art Term 2

During term 2 the lower grades have been learning how to mix primary colours (red, yellow & blue) to make secondary colours (orange, purple and green) and the how to paint the order of the rainbow. Throw in some “Roosters with attitude” and Anna Blatman birds and the term has been very busy.

Pop art and lollies has been the inspiration for the upper grades to create their shoe designs and a section of their wrappers. Check out the photos of our work.

Community Clubs Wrap-Up for Term 2

This Friday marks our final Community Clubs session for Term 2!  Over the past five weeks, students have embraced the opportunity to participate in a range of winter-friendly clubs, including football, netball, Minecraft, cooking, dance, and table tennis. We also introduced exciting new clubs like geography and comic book making, which have quickly become student favourites.

A special shoutout to some of our Grade 5/6 students who travelled to Twin Rivers to participate in interschool sport clubs—what a great way to build connections beyond our school.

Community Clubs have continued to grow in popularity over the past 18 months. They offer a fantastic opportunity for students to mix across year levels, build confidence, explore new interests, and develop new skills. Many of our clubs are based on student suggestions, providing a meaningful way to promote student voice and agency in our school.

A big thank you to our dedicated staff who make these clubs possible each term—your time and effort is greatly appreciated. If you are part of—or know—a community organisation that would like to get involved in our Friday Clubs, please don’t hesitate to contact the school office.

We are excited to continue Friday Clubs in Terms 3 and 4. 

Over Semester One several students in the grades 3 -6 area have had the opportunity to be involved in a few different Hands On Learning groups. Groups include the Little Rangers Program attending the Kyabram Zoo, Hands on Learning Café, the Feast Program (a cooking group based developing sustainable practices) and a construction group. 

Kyabram Zoo (Grade 5 & 6)

The Little Rangers group involved five students in Years 5 & 6, they participated guided tours of the zoo including areas not generally open to the public, spent time getting to know some of the animals, especially the birds (Naughty was a group favourite), Dingos, Tasmania Devil and the Kangaroos (Charlie’s favourite). Students made enrichment toys, observed the trainers doing some training with Tasmania Devil (boy could he jump), swept paths, made garden beds and planted seeds and native plants, removed undesirable plants and weeds from around the zoo and were involved in surveying the different types of birds that could be found in and around the zoo. After discussing with the students what they enjoyed most, they said that they didn’t have a favourite they just loved it all. 

Hands on Learning is open to students in Years 5 & 6; students in the program have had the opportunity to develop their skills by organising their kitchen, learning about safe food practices, keeping and storage of food items, personal hygiene, cooking for themselves and are currently expanding to cooking for others. They have been involved in making scones for the Mothers’ Day morning and opened the canteen for students to purchase homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies. In the future they will be cooking a lunch for the students from Echuca 208 Primary School – Hands on Construction group as a ‘Thank You’ for them building and supplying the Outdoor Kitchen. 

FEAST is a curriculum-aligned education program for primary schools. Some students in Years 3-6 were involved once a week in this program. Primarily in small cooking groups. It inspires students to make positive food choices, waste less, and become change-makers in their local community. 

Construction group, a group of students in years 3 – 6 that have been doing some odd jobs around the school, they are currently painting the Ga-Ga pit. They have had the opportunity to visit Echuca 208 P.S, to observe the types of activities that their students have been involved. Later in the year they will be working on a project with the Men’s Shed. 

Grandparents Day

Thank you to all the grandparents/friends who visited the school today.  We had many excited students.