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Tuesday 31 July 2018
5973 6424 or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au In the moment: Pupils Matt and Violet show off some Tjanpi at the Briars outdoor camp last week. Picture: Gary Sissons
Pupils in touch with their art MODROC sculpting, wet felting, sewing, watercolour painting, Tjanpi sculpting and sketching were just some of the creative activities undertaken by pupils at the first combined schools art camp at The Briars, Mt Martha, last week. The overnight camp on Monday and Tuesday was organised by primary school art and craft teachers from Osborne, Mornington, Mornington Park, Benton’s Junior College, Balnarring and Mt Martha primary schools. The teachers had been planning the camp since March after receiving a grant from Mornington Peninsula Shire and sponsorship from the Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society, which has a branch in Mornington. The 15-20 Grade 6 pupils from each school were able to put in preferences for four of eight activities which they completed over the two-day camp. At the end of the camp the pupils held their own exhibition at The Briars to showcase their artwork to families and friends. “The students had a wonderful time mingling, creating and enjoying being in the moment,” Osborne Primary School’s Asha Lloyd said. “They all made some wonderful new friends, learnt new ways of doing art and took home some very special memories.”
Lifeline for community house NEIGHBOURHOOD learning and support groups at Mornington Community House have been thrown a lifeline with Mornington Peninsula Shire stepping in to underwrite the 33-yearold centre. The news is a relief for parents and participants who had feared for the fu-
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ture of the Albert Street centre which was shut down by liquidators in March. Mornington Community Contact had run the drop-in centre, meeting place and short term child minding centre from 1977 before it moved to its present address in 1985. Services included education and adult literacy programs, volunteer support, playgroups and childcare. Shocked parents gathered outside the house after being told only the night
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before, or that morning, that it was insolvent. (“Parents baffled by childcare loss” The News 5/3/18). Some had already paid fees for the year and were unsure whether they would get their money back. They had no idea where they would take their children that week. The welcome commitment comes after the shire stepped in to continue the neighbourhood house program and
childcare services and coordinate the delivery of all its classes and activities. Childcare programs will now be managed by Community Kinders Plus. Other services include three-year-old kinder, occasional childcare, supported playgroups, literacy support groups, mental health support groups and adult education and training. Money will be provided through the state government’s neighbourhood
house coordination program and the shire. In a statement the shire said it aimed to “work with the community to deliver locally relevant programs”. It said a community advisory committee would “work towards a sustainable community governance model to ensure that the local community continues to have input into the operation and future directions of the community house”. Continued Page 6
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