This is an extract from the Peterborough Evening Telegraph (UK) on 8th April 2009, reporting on our fundraising event for Strathewen Primary. We raised approximately £300.
CITY primary school children have been given a heartfelt thank you by residents they have never met on the other side of the world.
Pupils at Nene Valley Primary School in Woodston held an Australia Day to raise money for a school that was destroyed in wild bush fires in the south east of Australia.
Youngsters were sponsored to go to school dressed in the green and gold national colours of Australia, tied corks to their hats and even had a go at playing the didgeridoo, to help pay for new books for Australian youngsters.
Last year, teachers from Glen Iris School in Melbourne visited the Peterborough youngsters to explain what life was like on the other side of the world.
The Glen Iris School has forged close links with the near-by village of Strathewen, and specifically the Primary School there, in recent years.
Lewis Brock, councillor for the Bunjil Ward of Nillumbik Shire Council, which includes Strathewen, paid tribute to the fund-raising efforts of the children.
Stuart - Nene Valley Primary School