School taps water of life – Grade 3 students at Hillsmeade Primary School Mitchell, Josh, Issabelle, Taylor, Janice, Tahlia, Alex, Michael, Eric, Hannah, Cam, back, Klaudie, Chloe, Mitchell, Free, Cou

By Emma Sun
HILLSMEADE Primary School celebrated World Environment Day on Wednesday, with a range of fun activities.
The children were taught to care for the environment and were asked to walk or ride to school.
The theme for this year was water, and the school is participating in the Water Learn It! Live It! program from South-East Water.
Students made poetry books, created fabric pictures, designed posters to protect endangered animals around the world, cleaned up the school grounds and planted native plants, which added to the thousands of plants already in school grounds.
World Environment Day facilitators Marg Vincent and Evelyn Schultz said it was a fantastic day for the whole school.
“The art pieces we created will be taken out into the local community to help spread the word about caring for our natural resources and showing the community, how when we work together, we can make a difference to the environment and ultimately the planet,” Ms Schultz said.