NEWSLETTER

Hands on Learning

With the Hands on Learning year quickly coming to a close, we have been able to reflect on what we have achieved throughout the year as a group and as individuals.  It is always great to see our students hit some great milestones and grow in areas of self-confidence, leadership, team work and life skills.

Our students were also able to present their completed picnic tables and chairs this term to Tower Hill / Worn Gundidj Aboriginal Co-operative.  It was a fantastic project for our students to be involved in and it was generously funded through a grant provided by South West Community Foundation.  So next time you visit Tower Hill, make sure you check out our finished products located at the Visitor Centre as they look terrific.

Over the last few weeks we have been able to celebrate our achievements with an end of year excursion to the Breakwater to enjoy some fishing.  Some of us were even lucky enough to catch some fish!  We then went on to enjoy some lunch at Kebabs on Kepler and finished the day off doing a workshop at Food Share which we all enjoyed. 

This year Hands on Learning students have enjoyed a year full of achievements.  Some of these include:

  • Painting and refurbishing trolleys for Warrnambool Food Share
  • Constructing tables and seats for Tower Hill - Worn Gundidj Aboriginal Co-operative Ltd through a grant from the South West Community Foundation
  • Assisting East Warrnambool Primary School prepare a space for their kitchen garden program
  • Assisting food drop for Bushfire relief at Cobden community
  • Removing cabinets and carpet in old staffroom
  • Establishing the aquaponics system
  • Bunnings BBQ in March raising significant funds
  • Growing vegetables, plants and succulents for the Warrnambool College community
  • Fixing chairs in the Warrnambool College library
  • Repairing Warrnambool College mountain bikes
  • Working on individual projects such as pallet chairs, pencil boxes, dog kennels & cat scratching posts.
  • Building a display trolley to sell goods made by Hands on Learning students.
  • Constructing a new gutter garden from recyclable materials.

As this will be our last newsletter entry for 2018, we would like to take this opportunity to say thank you firstly to our wonderful students for all their hard work and the fun we have all had together throughout the year.  Secondly a very big thank you to the parents, Warrnambool College staff and the wider Warrnambool College community for your support and encouragement.

Our year also wouldn’t have been the success it has been without the wonderful support of our sponsors who have very generously donated to our program.  These organisations include Woolworths Central, Bunnings Warehouse, Wannon Water and South West Community Foundation.

We hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Leon and Kym.