From left: Resurrection Primary School students Julie, Marien, Emily, Aaron, George and principal Karren Strahan receive their new bike from Isaacs MP Ann Corcoran.By Sarah Schwager
RESURRECTION Primary School in Keysborough is the latest school to receive a bike from Isaacs MP Ann Corcoran.
Ms Corcoran said she was donating a bike, helmet and a bike service to each of the 32 schools in her electorate.
The bike is a red and black children’s unisex mountain bike for the school to do with whatever it chooses.
Resurrection Primary School deputy principal Brian Martin said the school’s Student Representative Council was organising a treeplanting fundraiser, with the bike to be the main prize in a student drawing competition in which entrants would draw bikes of the future.
Mr Martin said the students had been very excited since the bike was presented to the SRC on Wednesday last week.
“There is such a buzz around school. They all want to win the bike,” he said.
“They’re gungho. I think they will all end up entering the drawing competition.”
Mr Martin said it was important to let the SRC come up with the ideas and run the fundraising competition.
“The kids are really keen on doing these types of things,” he said.
“We like to encourage them, let them know that their ideas contribute.”
Ms Corcoran said she had given away 12 bikes so far.
She said she had decided to donate the bikes to the schools as a way of ‘helping out’.
“I started it this year with each of the primary schools in my electorate,” she said.
