Education

  • School-based studies boost sector’s profile

    COLAC and district agriculture could benefit from school students learning about the sector’s role in Australia.

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  • Young actor following passion

    GEMMA UPSON-MCPIKE’S taste for musical theatre started watching a production of Wicked in Grade Six.

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  • Woman starts Ghana education crusade

    VOLUNTEERING in an African school and orphanage inspired Apollo Bay’s Laura Taylor to start a charity to support homeless children in Ghana.

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  • Success for kitchen initiative

    WINCHELSEA Primary School principal Karen Turner says changes to a kitchen-garden program allow her school to embrace a grow-your-own food philosophy.

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  • Police ‘ice’ program helps Colac schools

    COLAC police’s youth resource officer has started a campaign to educate schools about the “insidious nature” of the drug “ice”.

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  • School site not for sale

    KAWARREN residents say they are relieved after the Education Department confirmed the town’s former primary school remained under community control.

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  • Gardens a fertile story source

    COLAC’S Helen Paatsch can retell the story of a lakeside swing large enough to seat 30 children and an explosion that destroyed Lake Colac’s rotunda in the 1950s.

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  • Water art makes a splash

    AN ELLIMINYT Primary School pupil has won an environment themed art prize open to hundreds of primary school pupils.

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