Weather broadens the outlook of students

By Rebecca Fraser
STUDENTS at the Endeavour Hills Campus of Eumemmerring College have turned into avid ‘weather watchers’.
Some of the school’s year eight students have been involved in a lengthy collaborative weatherwatching project with Culgoa Primary School since the beginning of the school year.
Culgoa is 70km southwest of Swan Hill.
Students from the two schools have been collecting and comparing rainfall and temperature data for both regions of Victoria.
The students from Endeavour Hills Campus recently witnessed the impact of good rainfall on the Mallee during a fourday school camp to the region.
During the recent trip, students attended an event at Culgoa Primary School hosted by their ‘weather watchers’ project teacher Ms Deanne Fernandez and also enjoyed visiting local farms.
‘Weather watchers’ camp organiser Kerry Fernandez said that throughout winter and early spring both regions of Victoria had good rainfall that had freshened suburban gardens and, importantly, brought lushness to the Mallee in the form of wheat and canola crops.
“Students from both schools have really enjoyed the opportunity to meet each other in person and had become more conscious that water is a precious commodity,’ she said.