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We hold around 4 working bees each year for parents, students and friends of the school to garden, tidy, clean and construct around the school.  These working bees are a great opportunity to catch up with friends, to share cups of coffee and often a BBQ as well as getting your hands dirty!  This page describes upcoming tasks and working bees as well as including slideshows from some of the action from previous working bees.

Working Bee committee

Rowan, Cecilia, Peta and Janet help to organise the working bees at present, please contact Rowan on 0418 397 033 if you can help.

Working Bees  - First Term 2012

We will be holding around 4 working bees this term to support the building and playground project and to prepare the new prep garden.  The next working bee will be on 25 February with the following tasks:

Other tasks during the remainder of this term will include:

Items being sought from the community to assist our building projects

The following items and services are being sought from our community members to help minimise the costs of our building projects:

Working Bee Sunday 5 February

We held what was going to be a small, short working bee on Sunday 5 February to "finish off" the wall of the sandpit, pop the timber top on the rear walls and create a bluestone retaining wall as the start of the path down to the swimming pool area.  "Short" ended up taking nearly all day!  Great efforts from:

Working Bee held on Saturday 28 January 2012 with follow up on Sunday 29 January.

We held our second working bee for the term on Saturday 28 January.  We had a small turnout for the grounds/ gardens as well as a number of parents and students helping teachers prepare their classrooms for term. Those who did come along and help out in the grounds just did an amazing job.   We now have the new sandpit 70% completed, with a bit more work to be done over the next couple of days.

Many thanks to everyone who was able to join us:

We then held a small team follow up working bee on Sunday 29 January to start the limestone wall of the sandpit.  Julie, Andrew and Theodora, Brett, Mick, Rowan and Macgregor placed the very heavy limestone blocks and mortared them in with lime putty mortar, so that the sandpit is now ready for sand – as well as finishing off the wall, a seat and planting.  Have a look at the photos!

There's still some work remaining on the wall of the sandpit to take it up higher in some areas, and to complete the steps into the sandpit.

Working Bee held on Saturday 21 January 2012

We held our first working bee for the term on Saturday 21 January.  Despite this being in the middle of the holidays for many, we had a great turnout and achieved even more than we'd hoped to get through.  As a result, we're well on the way to being ready for the start of the school term.

Many thanks to everyone who was able to attend and help out, especial thanks to:

Overall Grounds Design

We had a grounds masterplan done back in 2007 by Alida McKern from Botanix.  While not everything from this plan has been done, it has guided and inspired many of the projects completed around the grounds – like the curly seat, built from sandstone which was left over from Queens College in Melbourne.  We're now ready to revisit the overall grounds plan in the light of the planned new buildings.  Contact Rowan if you are interested in helping with the design.

Working Bee Photographic History

The photos below start with recent working bee highlights then continue to show earlier working bees – from when we first moved to the St Marys site.  There's a lot of them…




 

 

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