[Yr7-10it] bushfire recovery

[andrew barry]

Hi,

Sorry to hear that the buildings have been destroyed by this bush fire.
Sounds like a lot of history had been there as well.
Where we are we can see the smoke out of the mountains all around us.
We have a few kids/teachers  from the school directly affected.


WE have our own bushfire appeal where everyone donates gold coins per day.
WE have raised over $2000 from students alone this week. It was
amazing to see how many students wanted to contribute money.

Andrew




On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Roland Gesthuizen
<rgesthuizen at gmail.com> wrote:
> We have been watching the creeping fire front on the DSE website,
> holding our breath and fearing the worst.
>
> The call came through that my school just lost the buildings (science
> equipment, telescope etc) at our Balook school camp in Gippsland ..
> The historic original building survived. Twas ye olde Balook Primary
> School, now our Balook campus. You have to imagine one of those 1800's
> schools with high ceilings, tables with inkwells, chalk board and a
> wooden honour roll for the great war. Reminds me of my old Primary
> School in The Basin. ;-)
>
> The anniversary celebrations will now probably continue, ironically
> without all the splendid additions we have built at the camp over the
> past 40 years! We have granted permission for the remaining building
> to be used by the local community as a refuge for any needy families.
>
> Regards Roland
>
> 2009/2/10 andrew barry <jagguy999 at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just want to know if any schools  caught up in the bush fires need
>> help with IT resources or teachers in any way.
>> I work at Lilydale Heights and I can see from our school the view of
>> the mountains still on fire.
>> We also have people directly effected by the bush fires at our school.
>>
>> I had to break it to some students fires have just sprung up at
>> Healesville where some live.
>> They thought their house was going to be burnt down but they havent.
>>  It is shocking when you go to work and you see smoke pouring from the
>> mountains in the distance, and kids looking at CFA websites instead
>> trying to get on computer game websites.
>>
>> Andrew Townsley
>> LHSC
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> Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
> http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au
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