The Intermediate VCAL students have been busy supporting local primary schools in recent weeks as a part of their Community Outreach Program. This year St Joseph's Primary School in Yarra Junction, Yarra Glen Primary School and Macclesfield Primary School each were gracious enough to support the program.
The number of projects that were completed at the three schools was truly amazing. Just to list a few of the tasks our students worked on:
- constructing a bridge and re-planted a dry river bed
- redesigned a muddy thoroughfare to now have stepping stones, mulch and grass plants
- constructed a picnic table
- replanted vegetable beds
- supplied nesting boxes for natural bushland
- planted and constructed a vertical garden with herbs
- constructed planting boxes and filled them with vegetable seedlings
- re-established garden beds with new native plants
- cooking hundreds of sausages to be shared at lunchtime between students and staff.
MLMC students acted as mentors to the younger students and formed some great working teams. The program was such a success that we intend to continue to build relationships with local schools and support their ideas to create new and exciting spaces around their schools. The students at the primary schools have now taken ownership of these new spaces and we look forward to watching them develop overtime.
Well done to all the students involved, and a big thanks to the supporting staff attending on these terrific days and enabling these projects to happen.
