Leitchville is known as the “Community of Unity”. Leitchville’s community spirit has won them a Recycling Award on more than one occasion in the Tidy Towns contest. Here students from Leitchville Primary School tell us their town’s story and why they love living there.
Leitchville Photo Story
The ‘H20 = Life’ exhibition was launched recently at the National Museum, Canberra with great fanfare.
A display of selected art and written work from Special Forever 2005-2008 is featured and it looks great. The display has been set up in the exit foyer so the children, inheritors of today’s water and environment management, get the last word. The art works are displayed on a plasma screen and the colours are brilliant. There is a panel next to it with attribution for the works. There are also 5 panels with written works and 1 large one about the Special Forever project and Murray Darling Basin. There is seating so people will take the time to stop [and rest] and read and view the works.
We hope as many of the catchment kids as possible,can see the exhibition and then tell us all about it here on the blog. If you do go, please post a comment here!
Perhaps you are one of the contributors of artwork or writing? If so, congratulations, it is quite an honour to have your work shown at the National Library.
Kerang is a rural town on the Loddon River in northern Victoria in Australia. It is the commercial centre to an irrigation district based on dairying, horticulture, lucerne and grain.Kerang’s symbol is a flying ibis. The area around Kerang is dotted with lagoons and lakes and is believed to have the most populous ibis rookeries in the world with an estimated 200,000 ibis using the area for breeding each year, along with many other waterbirds. Here a student from Kerang Primary School tells us her story: Jessica’s Photo Story
Nestled on the banks of the Murray River at the heart of a fertile agricultural region, Swan Hill in Victoria was named by European explorer Major Thomas Mitchell, who visited in 1836. Since then, fortunes have been made here; first by the early squatters and later by the farmers whose crops thrived thanks to irrigation from the river. Swan Hill is also the perfect place to experience some of the most unspoilt and rugged sections of the Murray River as it winds its way through a 10 kilometre section of state park land.
Students from Swan Hill Primary School – take a visit… Kirsty’s Photo Story , Ramisa’s Photo Story
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Kids environmental groups teach children about green and healthy living, biodiversity and protecting natural resources. Groups can undertake many environmental activities and in doing so set a strong example for the whole community.
A leader in setting up green groups is Sacred Heart Primary School, Mildura. They have a number of green groups; Compost Kids, Wiggly Worms and SHEC (Sacred Heart Environmental Community). These groups undertake an amazing array of tasks including delivering environmental messages via the in-school radio and organising a day of environmental activities for the school with guest speakers from the community.
The Dirty Dozen group from Griffith Public School organise weeding and recycling and have planned activites for World Environment Day, held each year on June 5. Here they are in action.
