Animal Club have had a great start with the sale of their beautiful heat bags! Thanks to the generosity of parents at trivia night, the lovely ladies in the office, friends and families buying heat bags from Animal Club members and my persuasiveness, we have sold over $300 worth already. Our aim is to reach $1000 for the Australian Koala Foundation.
Animal Club members learn important skills such as 'how to make a koala heat bag'
The children had lots of fun finishing off the heat bags and cooperated beautifully since they all know that team work in Animal Club always pays off. Please keep your eye on the Manningham Leader next Wednesday (or the following one) as two of our Animal Club members will hopefully be in there promoting our wonderful bags as well as the Australian Koala Foundation. Thank you to the Animal Club members who came to an extra meeting this week. We had lots of fun sharing funny animal emails and had a few animal lolly treats. It’s great to have children so involved that they come to the meetings when there’s nothing to do but be warm and fuzzy about animals. Well done! Happy animal caring! Mrs Thomson
Tennant Creek High School - 21st August 2008
Doggie Day Preparation
Our Doggie Day preparation is well and truly underway, with the event scheduled to be held on 12 October 2008. We have the support of the local council, the Alice Springs Vet and many other community organisations who have donated great prizes for this event. More to follow!
Mount Hawthorn Primary School - 20th August 2008
Animal Friendly Artwork - We have been creating artwork during our Animal Club meetings which shows compassion for animals. We are planning to make greeting cards out of them and give them to our parents for Christmas.
Holland Park State Primary School - 20th August 2008
CHANNEL 9 NEWS THROWS SPOTLIGHT ON PINK4PIGS: Every Wednesday night, at the close of Brisbane’s Channel 9 News, the activities of one primary school is showcased. The segment is called Spotlight on Schools.
On the evening of Wednesday, August 20, the activities of HPSS Animal Club were in the spotlight. HPSS Animal Club wanted to spotlight our Pink4Pigs campaign and to again ask people to Think pink! Think pigs! We wanted another opportunity to raise public awareness about the sad truth about sows in factory farms.
That morning, Channel 9 newsreader Bruce Paige and Picasso from the popular Channel 9 afternoon program The Shak came to HPSS to meet up with Animal Club members.
They told us about how television media work - especially about how the news is produced nightly.
Members of Animal Club told them about our Pink4Pigs campaign. Bruce and Picasso had lots of questions for the members. They were impressed when they heard about the work of HPSS Animal Club… and saddened by what the students had to say about pigs. Picasso did not know about the sows in sow stalls issue, nor did the camera crew. They do now!
After the students gave them the facts about sow stalls, they sang their Sows are Mothers Too song then showed them a recent letter from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd which acknowledged their efforts in helping people know more about the sow stalls issue.
The nightly news is a tightly run program, so it is understood that news items can be cut, cut, cut or totally dropped from the program at the last minute. Happily, HPSS’s Spotlight on Pink4Pigs received good airtime. (which equates to a few seconds in the world of TV!! – but everything little thing counts…)
Our Spotlight was introduced with the words: … ‘and coming up, kids go pink for a cause… AC members were shown listening to Bruce and Picasso. singing our Sow song, and telling everyone to Think Pink! Think Pigs! A kinder choice is up to you! They also showed Picasso and Bruce reading the letter from PM Rudd.
Clifton Hills Primary School - 19th August 2008
Hi everyone! As we mentioned last time we are doing some work to raise funds to help save the Australian Bilby. The following is an article we wrote that was published in our school newsletter on Friday 15th August 2008.
THE AUSTRALIAN BILBY: The Bilby is an Australian nocturnal marsupial that has large ears, a silky grey and white coat and long black and white tail. Prior to European settlement, bilbies occupied 70% of Australia and they were found in all the major arid and semi-arid environments west of the Great Dividing Range. Wild bilbies now only exist in northern Western Australia and far southwest Queensland. Unfortunately they have completely disappeared from New South Wales, although they have recently been reintroduced to Roxby Downs in central South Australia.
A national plan has been developed to guide the conservation and recovery of the bilby and in March 1999 the Save the Bilby Fund was launched to raise funds to build a fence as part of an ambitious programme to re-establish a wild breeding population of bilbies at Currawinya National Park.
Starting next week, to assist the Save the Bilby Fund and to celebrate National Bilby Day (which is the second Sunday in September every year - Sunday 14th of September this year), Clifton Hills Primary School Animal Club will be selling the following Bilby merchandise at recess and lunch times:
Bilby temporary tattoos $1
Bilby Clutch Pin- $2
Dangle Legs Magnetic Bilby $5
Baby Bilby Brooch $4
We greatly appreciate your support for this worthy cause!
Last week, some of the animal club leaders also made a brilliant bilby poster which they took around and showed all of the classes in the school and today we started selling our merchandise, already raising over $100 to help our bilby friends.
