How to beat all udders

By Shaun Inguanzo
STUDENTS at a Springvale school are hoping to cream the opposition at the Royal Melbourne Show with their well-cultured cow.
Springvale South Primary School is one of 20 Victorian schools decorating a fibreglass cow to be exhibited at the Royal Melbourne Show.
Staff members have been busy milking students’ minds for ideas and inspiration after earning the right to decorate the cow by submitting a creative slogan to Dairy Australia.
Principal Ruby Toombs said Dairy Australia asked schools to finish the sentence “dairy good for …”
“We came up with ‘dairy good for all ages and all cultures’,” she said.
“We didn’t expect to win because there were only 20 cows and there are quite a few schools in Victoria.”
The “mooooving” piece of art is almost complete and has taken a visual form of the slogan.
“We painted the cow blue for the sea and have glued continents on to the cow to give it the look of a globe,” Ms Toombs said.
“We had a child draw a cow for us and we photocopied it and decorated the copies with multicultural costumes.
“We have also taken pictures of people young and old eating and drinking dairy products and we are putting those pictures on a collage.
“We are then looking at flags from around the world.”
Ms Toombs said the legs were decorated with Aboriginal, Scottish and Greek themes.
But there’s one part of the cow that has the school community scratching its head to complete.
“We are working on the head at the moment,” Ms Toombs said.
“We are putting on our thinking caps for that.”
The cow will be completed and then transported to the Showgrounds by the end of this week, where it will be on exhibit during Show time with the other 19 decorated cows.