Joint garden project at pre-school
Students from Brisbane Water Secondary College Umina Campus took part in a joint community garden project at Wallaby St Preschool in Blackwall late last term.
Centre manager Ms Jennifer Toomey said the preschool was thrilled with their new garden.
"Late last year, Wallaby St Preschool contacted Brisbane Water Secondary Collage Umina Campus to see if they were interested in participating in a joint project with us," Ms Toomey said.
"The garden's dimensions are two metres wide, three metres long and 75 cm deep, and it looked pretty shabby.
"The project was offered to Year 8 Design and Technology students at the school, who put themselves in small groups of three to four people and began to design a theme for the garden.
"Five designs were submitted, and I believe the students had a lot of enthusiasm while creating their designs."
Ms Toomey said a dinosaur theme was eventually agreed upon for the new garden.
"After careful consideration, the design that was chosen was a dinosaur theme created by three boys, Blake Robinson, Jake Pope and Braedy Richards," Ms Toomey said.
"The boys came out to the centre last week of school term, accompanied by their teacher, and spent three days preparing the garden bed by digging out an old stump and then planting mondo grass, paper daisies and other hardy plants.
"They also created four mosaic dinosaurs as a feature in the garden.
"The preschool children at the centre enjoyed the boys being at the centre and watching the changes happen as they created our new wonderful garden.
"Lots of parents and families have commented on the improvement and Wallaby St Preschool is very proud of the boys' efforts and commitment.
"With such a great result of the garden and positive interactions between schools we would be very happy to do a joint project with the local high school again."
Email, 29 Jan 2009
Jennifer Toomey, Wallaby St Preschool