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Our Lady of the Way Catholic Primary School students installed 10 bird boxes along the creek at Wallan Community Park earlier this month to connect with nature.

Merri Creek Management Committee member and Upper Merri Landcare facilitator Chris Cobern guided the grade five students, explaining the birds and creatures.

Mr Cobern said it was a good program for students to be involved with the natural habitat.

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“You need to really appreciate the wildlife that we’re so lucky to have here, and the kids, who I suppose when they’re young, they’re enthusiastic and they’re keen to learn,” he said. 

“Maybe projects like this, getting the kids outdoors, maybe that’ll give them more of an interest and a love and appreciation of nature, which they’ll keep with them into being adults, and then pass it onto their children.

“I think it’s important for future generations and for this generation to grow up with that, sort of, in a moment to appreciate and learn about it and know what’s around you too, not be ignorant to all these things.” 

Throughout the year, grade five students have been learning about sustainability – and teacher Jennifer Bryan wants to implement even more about the topic into the school.  

“Sustainability is so important – we’ve actually implemented it pretty much the whole year. On Mondays, we usually go out for gardening,” she said. 

“It’s about teaching the kids that nature isn’t just a home for us, it’s a home for animals as well.”

Ms Bryan said students needed more exposure to their surroundings.

“We actually have to come out and be with nature and be in nature to understand it, and I link it very highly to Indigenous perspectives as well. We’re actually connecting to country, we’re not just here passing through,” she said.

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