14 December 2021
Junior Primary and Primary Student Representative Council (SRC) 2021
It’s been another amazing semester supporting our youngest student leaders in the SRC. The biggest highlight for us was the development of our two wicking gardens and planting an abundance of vegetables – it makes my heart beet.
After applying and winning a small grant from Woolworths and Junior Landcare we embarked on the task of redeveloping an unused area in the school and building a vegetable garden. We held a ‘rainbow of healthy food’ fundraiser and sought help from Bunnings Prospect for some donations.
Next, we reached out to Dr Ian Macdonald who designed and built the 2 wicking garden systems and supported students in planting a range of vegetables. He, along with other amazing volunteers, made our absolutely radishing gardens!
We would now like to name and thank everyone for their support:
Dr Ian Macdoanld – Wicking Garden mastermind
Mr Kevin Gilbert – Engineering extraordinaire
Mr Nigel Stone – Engineer extraordinaire
Bunnings Prospect
A special thankyou to Mr Christopher Bremner-Macdonald from Bremac Photography for filming all of our SRC videos including: ‘Step Up to Clean Up’, ‘10c Recycling at AIC’, ‘Wonderous Wicking Gardens’ and for his event photography.
Our wonderful Art Club led by Mrs Ernst designed and painted our ‘Food for Human Beans’ sign. Thank you to Maryam, Sumeya, Umaiza, Rayan, Maymunah and Awa. The design brief looks amazing, and we can’t wait to have the final sign up soon! It was mint to be.
Our SRC are always on a mission to engage student voice and sought designs for the rest of area from our Year 2 and 3 students. These are displayed in the STEM room and will be used as a reference by the landscaper and garden team.
Sustainability has been our mission and our Year 5 SRC representatives, Sibal and Ziram, met with our Principal to discuss the revamp of paper recycling at the college. This led to each class being provided with a new paper recycling bin to reduce our impact on the planet. We have also liaised with the local council to provide each class with an organic waste bin to compost our new garden and worm farm.
We were very excited and grateful to welcome the Honourable David Speirs, Minister for Environment and Water, to our college to open our garden. We showcased all of the amazing work by SRC in a special assembly and heard from Mr Speirs about environmental projects in our state; including new national park boundaries and reintroducing platypus to the river Torrens area.
Thank you to all of our wonderful Student Representatives in Junior Primary and Primary. From our littlest leaders Mu’adh and Shaheer in Reception to our Executives, Massan, Saja, Shamel and Yashir in Year 6, all of our council members wholeheartedly demonstrate the core values of our college and dedication to student voice.
