From Learning Enrichment Co-Ordinator Primary

Community Groups

This term in History Stage 2 has been learning about communities and to help us we have had a wide range of visitors from local community groups come and talk to the children and answer questions about what their organisations do and how they benefit the community. We have had visitors from Vinnies, the Rural Fire Service, Jigamy, the Social Justice Advocates and the Pambula Surf Lifesavers.

Along with learning about the valuable work being done in our community they are also learning that many of these community organisations would not be able to do their good work without volunteers, those people who choose to give up their own time to do good for their communities.

The students have been able to hear first hand about why these people volunteer and how they feel about doing the work they do. Guests have spoken about the benefits of being a part of something bigger than yourself, of working with a team to achieve a common goal and the reward of knowing you were able to help an individual in a difficult time in their life. 

We hope that this will help to foster a sense of service in our students and give them ideas about the ways they can be a force for positive change in their own communities. Many thanks to all those who came and shared their knowledge and experience with us and to all the community members now and in the past who enrich our school by giving of their time to make our school a better place.