Students take note

By Shaun Inguanzo
LEARNING is about more than reading a book and writing essays.
And that’s the message schools across Greater Dandenong have been sending students this week by celebrating Education Week with a plethora of fun and wild activities for students to enjoy.
Coomoora Primary School in Springvale South held a different activity each day, as did Wallarano Primary School in Noble Park.
Dandenong Primary School was blessed with a visit from former student, and current executive chairman of Macquarie Bank’s Melbourne headquarters Simon McKeon, who provided a real example of what students could achieve through education.
Coomoora Primary School principal Rose Cannizzaro said Education Week was a valuable method of showing students the true meaning of education.
She said Coomoora would celebrate the students’ work, among other things, and integrate parents into the celebrations with an open approach to who attended the activities.
The school’s theme this year was ‘Try Something Different’.
Grades were mixed on Tuesday and then divided into smaller groups to do a tour of various classrooms and discover the different activities on offer.
And today (Thursday) the students – many who had been learning about opera in music classes – watched a performance of the Barber of Seville.
Ms Cannizzaro said students had embraced the theme.
“During the day a lot of kids have been carrying out unusual science experiments and what not,” she said on Tuesday.
“And I noticed that a lot of kids in the lead up to Education Week were brainstorming something new that they could do.”