Around the School
Moama to Menindee Water Drive
Over the Labour Day Long weekend Boyd Butcher and a group drove to Menindee to deliver the water our school community donated.
Here are some details from Boyd who spoke at Assembly this week to keep students and teachers updated on what is happening:
Thank you Moama Anglican Grammar, for your efforts in raising water for Menindee, a town that has no water for human use.
Our school raised 28,000 litres of water.
We travelled to Menindee on the Labour Day weekend. It took 10 hours to get there. The dirt roads were very rough, we had 2 flat tyres.
The country North of Wentworth was very dry.
As soon as we arrived the families were asking for water.
The population of Menindee is just 500. They were so happy to see us, that they told us they have been practicing a concert for us tonight. Traditional dancing and songs. We also played games until late Saturday evening.
On Sunday we visited all the dry lakes whose area is bigger than Sydney Harbour.
We saw huge fish struggling in the water for air.
In many places along the river, huge diesel powered aerators are trying to put oxygen into the water, to keep the fish alive.
The water in the river behind the town is full of poisonous blue green algae, so it can't be used by the people.
The Menindee School had very little water, so most of our water was delivered to them.
Water was also taken around to some of the very old residents of Menindee, who could not pick up the water themselves.
This is the second delivery we have made, the first one was on Australia Day when we delivered 3 semi trailers with 80,000 litres.
With some money donated, we have bought and installed Puratec filters into every home in Menindee.
Many other towns on the Darling river have this problem: Bourke, Loath, Wilcannia, Pooncarie and Tilpa.
We are glad with your help in putting smiles on their faces for a while.
Thank you to those who donated.
Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden program - Tomato and Basil Sauce
Students from Year 3 had their Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation classes this week with Mrs Hemmings. Some budding chef's in the making!
New SRC leaders for year 7
Congratulations to Year 7 SRC Leaders were also announced after being selected at camp last week, congratulations to Asha Davies and Darcy Parsons.
Talented Piano Students
Some of our talented Primary students performed at assembly this week.
Grace McMaster performed 'Skateboard Boogie' and Angus Donnan performed 'Grandfather'
Well done!
Cara Haley's off to Africa
Cara Haley, one of our very talented Year 6 students, is touring and performing with her Irish dancing school O'Shea Ryan Academy of Irish Dance- Unofficial in Gibraltar and Morrocco in the coming weeks! They have been invited with approximately 20 other groups from across the world (Spain, France, Portugal, Andorra, Latvia, Czech Republic, Russia, Egypt, Algeria. Burundi, Ivory Coast, Norway, Colombia, Greece, Germany, Slovakia, Austria as well as Africa and Moroccan groups) to perform in the largest folk festival in Africa. The festival is in Marrakesh and will see Cara perform on 30 stages over 4 days. There are only 3 under 12 dancers in the team in which Cara is one, and members are from Mildura, Warragul, Albury, Melbourne, Warrnambool and Cara ( Echuca Moama).
We wish Cara the best of luck on this exciting adventure!
