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Henry Kendall High School

Henry Kendall High School

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Special Education Unit Makes A Difference

When the Special Education Unit received hundreds of small trees and shrubs from Brian Hilton and Bunnings for National Tree Day, they didn't realise how many people would benefit. Naturally all the staff and students at school benefited as over two hundred shrubs, trees and grasses will have made our environment more beautiful. the students from main stream who joined in on the day benefited too as they had lots of fun enjoying the afternoon and learning gardening skills.

After all the planting was over there were still about one hundred small plants left in their tube-stock pots. the students at the Special Education Unit decided to 'pot-up' all the unused plants and use their business skills to get some things they wanted. They looked after the plants and they grew quickly. They decided to advertise and sell them to the staff of HKHS.

Staff were able to buy healthy plants for a good price and lots of Australian natives got new homes in the spirit of Plant a Tree day. The Special Education students also benefited by being able to use the money from the dale of shrubs to buy lettuce, tomato and other vegetable seedlings for the Coffee Shop.

'The House With No Steps' was the next organisation to benefit. Seven students and Mr Goulden turned out on Friday, 30 August to help with a working bee in their garden in Henry Parry Drive. Not only were the HWNS people amazed at the work effort and skill of our students, they were also touched by the fact that our students took some lovely trees and shrubs for their new sensory garden.

Finally the remainder of the stock is to be used to re-vegetate the garden between Special Education 'F' Block and the oval which will benefit everyone, especially the Aboriginal students of the school and the wider Aboriginal community, as the garden has special significance and connectivity to the Aboriginal resource room. It will reflect the Aboriginal people's knowledge of flora as a food source, it's medical value and other practical purposes.