Last year, Taradale Primary School’s year 2/3 class raised $756 to support the Charles Sturt University peregrine falcon live-camera project, in Orange, NSW.
“The students had been watching the live-camera stream of the peregrine falcon’s breeding and chick hatching throughout the year,” school principal Chris Burgess said.
“They wanted to hold a makers market to send the funds they raised to the university, to help them continue with their live-camera stream, which they’ve all enjoyed so much.”
The students got to work making different things to sell at their market, including calendars, potted seedlings, jewellery, notebooks, printed cards and a sausage sizzle. They invited other students and their parents to come to the market.
“It was such a successful market that the students raised enough to make a considerable donation to the university,” Mr Burgess said.
“And they got to learn about ways to make appealing products, marketing and pricing.”
Part way through the year, The Good Op Shop in Castlemaine donated $500 to the school to purchase a class-set of binoculars, and the students visited the Taradale railway viaduct to watch a pair of nesting peregrine falcons.
“We loved being able to help Taradale Primary School purchase equipment that will be used into the future by other classes as well, to explore the natural world around them and to plant that seed of wonder in our environment,” said Tiffany Inglis, director of The Good Op Shop. “And we’d be happy to help other local schools with similar conservation or sustainability projects.”
