Country kids find warm welcome

DISTANCE posed no barrier recently when students at James Cook Primary School hosted some special visitors.
Grade five and six students and six adults from Noorat Primary School in Victoria’s western district visited the Endeavour Hills school for a day of fun activities.
Students played maths games and rounders together, and the local students showed the visitors around their school.
They also enjoyed a sausage sizzle lunch and some chocolate crackles made by the grade five and six children at James Cook.
For the past two years, some grade five students have travelled from Endeavour Hills to stay with families in the Western district farming community.
They have attended the town’s school for the week as a part of the Teaching Farm Program.
The agriculture-based education initiative helps to develop a better understanding between city and country schools and their communities.
It offers the opportunity for students from city schools to visit country areas for up to a week to attend a rural school and to live on a farm or in a small rural community.