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Parents & Friends News!!!

Footy Day and Lapathon

Friday 20th September

Come in your favourite team’s colours! Lunch will be available on the day. Look out for more details soon.

Parents and Friends meeting

9th September @ 1.30

Come along for a cuppa, find out what we’ve got planned for the rest of term 3 and what plans are in the works for our annual market day!

Everyone is welcome, 1.30pm on Monday 9th September in the parents room.

Market Day

Sunday 10th November

This is a great day in the school’s calendar. Lots of planning is already underway but input and help is always truly appreciated.

Knitting & Crotchet Club

We are well and truly underway. The girls come in everyday full of enthusiasm with their beautiful creations. They are doing an amazing job. So very proud of all the girls.

If you would like to make a beanie please bring in a ball of 12 ply wool and a hair elastic to match.

It will be running every Tuesday-Friday at first break in the office. Year 3-6 only.

Looking forward to seeing you.

Plastic Bottle Caps

The family turning bottle caps into prosthetic limbs for children in need

When Tim Miller turned to collecting recyclables to raise money to deal with his own medical issues, he soon ran into the problem of non-recyclable bottle caps. What the Miller family did to deal with this issue will help many more people than Tim.

The family did some research and found a Victorian charity organisation called Envision that turned plastic bottle lids into mobility aids for child amputees.

“Once I found out that, I thought that’s fantastic,” Mr Miller told ABC News.

“It ticks all the three boxes for us – it helps out with the environment, it helps out kids with a disability, and the other thing I like about it is that the group employs disadvantaged people.”

The miller family then launched the Lids 4 Kids project, partnering with local hospitality businesses to collect the lids from their own operations as well as acting as a collection point for residents in the area. These lids are then transported to Envision Hands’ warehouse in Melbourne for further processing.

At the Envision facility, the lids are cleaned and sorted into colours before being shredded and fed through an extruder. This creates a filament that can be used in 3D printing to produce the brightly coloured prosthetics, which are then sent to children in need across a number of developing countries.

The Miller family is now aiming to collect a quarter of a million bottle caps in the ACT region to help Envision continue their work.