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Above: Students planting seedlings
in the Panalatinga Environmental Reserve on World Environmental Day
Happy Valley School observed World Environment
Day on Tuesday 5th June 2001. Once again, the major school focus was
to further develop the Panalatinga
Environmental Reserve. This fantastic, natural asset is situated
on the southern boundary of the school and features the Panalatinga
Environmental Trail.
The development of the reserve has been a
community project run by the Friends of the Panalatinga
Environmental Reserve with assistance from the school, Noarlunga
Council and the Onkaparinga Water Catchment Management Board.
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On the weekend leading up to
World Environment Day, The Friends of the Panalatinga
Environmental Reserve conducted working bees to dig holes
and prepare the ground for the tree planting to follow on
Tuesday.
On World Environment Day, buddy classes teamed up, so
that younger students were assisted by their older buddies
to plant the home-grown seedlings. The seedlings had been
produced from seed in the school's own propagation shed.
Left: Governing
Council member, Heather Jesshope assists children
Louise and Leah to plant seedlings on World Environment Day. |
Thankyous
and Acknowledgements
The school would
like to thank the parents and children who assisted in digging holes
on Sunday 3 June leading up to World Environment Day - namely Fay
White, Mary-Ann Eddy, Matthew and Elena Fisher, Tina and Bradley
Spackman, Jane and Geoff Richardson, David, Sharon, Nicolle, Gavin
and Alison Nash, Neil Cook, Dianne and Austin Gordon, the Thulborn
family and thanks also to Michael Garrod (Water Catchment Board).
We
also greatly appreciated the help on June 5 provided by Penny
Braddon, Kathy Bartel, Julie Crowder, Lisa Tattersall, Lynn Vinall,
Dianne Gordon, Liz Loveday, Heather Jesshope, Josie Clarke, Sharon
Kreslin, Mandy Campbell, Leon Tregenza, Nichole le Grange, Leanne
Hirlam, Mandy Squire, Jill Phillips, Gary Kite, Leanne Robertson,
Shaylee Smith, Julie Cryer, Lee-Anne Haynes, Ann Thulborn, Kristen
Lapere, Leisa Molnar and Wendy Wilden.
To those who worked “beyond the call of duty” - Sharon
Nash, Kaye Dennert and Geoff Richardson, a very special thanks.
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