2007 Humane School Prize

Clifton Hills Primary School, WA  $5,000  Winner

Clifton Hills Primary School representatives accept their awards

This school’s activities included collecting supplies and funds for various animal protection organisations and a number of significant activities bringing attention to focus on the factory farming of pigs.  Of particular note was an activity which saw each Animal Club member designing and making a piggy hat.  Each hat had a pro-pig slogan on it which the children came up with in a brainstorming session including: *Give the pigs freedom, *No pork on the fork *Knock down walls and stalls and *Even pigs need hugs. 

Free range pig farming was the theme
of this Animal Club's craft activity

Yuluma Primary School, WA $2,000
1st Runner up

This school’s activities included raising funds for an ‘Adopt a Bear’ program, letter writing to protest against the slaughter of seals in Canada, a picnic fundraiser and working on various projects involving Free Range Versus Intensive Pig Farming. 

Donvale Primary School, VIC $1,000 2nd Runner Up (tied)

Wilbur Pig from Edgar's Mission visited Donvale Primary

Donvale Primary School’s activities included: collecting baskets and blankets for injured koalas, raising funds for a donkey shelter, and a wide range of pig related activities culminating in a visit from Pam Ahern and film star ‘Wilbur Pig’ from Edgar’s Mission.

 

 

 
 

Emanuel School, NSW $1,000 2nd Runner Up (tied)

The Emanuel School’s activities included: a practical illustration of the discomfort that battery cage hens experience followed by a visit to a free range chicken farm outside Sydney to be exposed to chickens being raised in a free-range environment.

2006 Humane School Prize

Mount Lawley Primary School, WA $5,000 Winner

Animal Club members and Wendy, Club
leader, were featured on "Wild Things"
on Wake Up Perth TV

This school’s activities included creating “Share the world: everyone matters’ and “Noah’s arc” wall murals, visits from ferrets, kangaroos and a tawney mouth frog, raising funds for the RSPCA and the “Free the Bears Fund”, and being featured on Wake Up Perth “Wild Things” TV segment.

 

 

 

Emanuel School, NSW $2,500 Runner Up

Monikas Doggie Rescue benefitted from
the assistance of volunteer dog walkers
from the Emanuel School Animal Club

Clifton Hills Primary School, WA $2,500 Runner Up

This school’s activities included learning about appropriate animal care during various visits from pet animals including 2 goats, 2 mice and a rescued dog,  a visit from a volunteer at the ‘Tiger Creek Wildlife Refuge” in the USA, and successful fund raising through ‘animal movie afternoons’ for the ‘Animal Protection Society.