Newport Gardens Primary School has been taking part in an environmental project, aimed at educating students about biodiversity and how it exists in Hobsons Bay.
Thanks to funding from Hobsons Bay council, the school was able to take on the project which focused on migratory birds that live around Hobsons Bay.
The school installed 600 wooden birds, painted by the children and made by Hobsons Bay Men’s Shed, on the grounds at the Woods Street side of the school.
“The idea was that it was kind of an educational project,” Visual arts teacher and green team co-ordinator Carla Murray said.
“Hobsons bay is really unique in that these migratory birds that live up around Russia and Siberia migrate down to Hobsons Bay annually when the weather turns cold up there they come down here for summer.
“We have a really special kind of coastline around here and so it was about teaching the kids that they exist and what they look like …. with the hope that they would then go home and kind of talk to their families about it.”
Molly Magennis
