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Fundraiser for Victorian Fire Victims
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Mount Terry Public School has raised almost $1100.00 towards this appeal.
As part of our Community of Schools, fundraising effort the total from the Albion Park Community should be around $4000.00, as this will include money collected from Albion Park High School, Albion Park Public School and Tullimbar Public School. In addition the Albion Park Baptist Church, who use Mount Terry Public School Hall are also joining with us and adding to the total contribution.
Thank you for your support.
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Mount Terry Wins Picasso Cow awards
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On the 2nd of December we attended the official presentation and awards ceremony for the Picasso Cows. Nine other schools attended also.
We were given a yummy, healthy lunch and milkshakes. We also were able to see the cows painted by the other schools. They were all really good. We were all very excited and surprised when we were awarded the "Champion Cow" in our category, and even more excited when we were awarded the "Sponsor's favourite".
We won $500 in total for the school which we plan to donate to the Mount Terry Environment group.
We were very proud of our achievement and hope we can be part of this project again.
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3/4H |
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Mount Terry wins Technopush Environment Award
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Mrs S. Harriman presented the Environment award to Mount Terry students on Wednesday 10th December.
5H won the award at the Eastern Creek Raceway in the 2008 Technopush Challenge. They won the award for using recycled items to make their pushcart and using items that don't harm the environment.
Congratulations to 5H and Mr Hall
by Ethan nad Jesse |
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Missy Moo - A cow like no udder
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In Term Two, our class was given the opportunity to be part of the ‘Picasso Cows’ competition. Only ten schools were chosen to take part, and we were very lucky to be one of them!
The Picasso Cows competition is aimed to promote the dairy industry and environmental awareness. Each school was given a life size, 45kg fibreglass cow, and had to paint it according to the theme they were given. Our theme was ‘Healthy Landscapes’.
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It took a long time for us to come up with our final design. We decided to create a two-faced cow that showed the effects of not looking after the environment. One side shows a healthy environment and is happy and colourful and the other side shows what could happen if we don’t respect and care for the land. It has no living animals and is polluted.
When we had decided on our design, we undercoated our cow and drew our design in black texta. We then took turns to paint the cow, which took a LOOOOONNNGGG time! It seemed like we were never going to finish! We were all dreaming of painted cows by the end!
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Being part of this competition, didn’t just mean painting the cow. We got to learn about many things we didn’t know of before. Mrs Strong, who is the owner of a local dairy farm called Clover Hill, came to the school and talked to us about dairy farming and the need to look after the land. She told us about the importance of caring for our environment, and the importance of responsible farming.
We also were very lucky to be invited to visit Mrs. Strong’s dairy farm. We got to witness a live milking session, we got to feed baby calves in the calf crèche, and we even planted trees and grasses in the rainforest.
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Tomorrow we will all be attending the official presentation and award ceremony, where all the cows will be judged.
We are extremely proud of our final result. We feel that we have achieved what we set out to achieve. We have together created a piece of art that is fun, and entertaining to look at and also communicates a strong environmental message. We hope that our artwork will encourage people to see the effects of not looking after our landscape and will change their ways and become more eco-friendly and self sustainable. We now realise that the future of the land is in our hands and we each need to work together to keep it healthier for future generations to enjoy.
By 3/4H |
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Christmas Child Appeal
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Kinder- year 2 took part in the Christmas Child appeal during October 2008. Children were asked to donate items from a specific list to be packaged into decorated shoe boxes, to be sent to children from less priviledged communities.
Some of the items packaged were: pencils, hygiene products, toys, books and soft toys. Overall the children donated enough items to make 55 complete boxes.
Cheryl Thompson |
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