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Kutcha Edwards Project

Eastwood Primary School was very fortunate to have received a grant from the State Government to be involved in the Creative Learning Partnership Program.

This has been a joint initiative between the Department of Education and Creative Victoria that enables schools to partner with top creatives and organisations to deliver projects for, and with, students and teachers that use creativity as a catalyst for learning.

Our Senior School students have been extremely lucky to have worked with singer and songwriter Kutcha Edwards over the last couple of months. Kutcha is a renowned musician in the Australian music industry.

We started off the project with all the senior school students developing a concept for two original songs by writing poetry which ended up being the lyrics, verses and choruses to the songs. Students have created music that, like Kutcha's, conveys a sense of connectedness, gratitude and understanding of who we are.

We gathered a small core group of musically inclined students to work with Kutcha to write and record the two songs. We then involved the entire Senior School cohort singing as one large choir behind Kutcha.

It has been an amazing experience for the students and the Eastwood community!

Lawson Kennard, our music specialist helped co-ordinate the project with Kutcha.

Now we have come to the end of the project and the Students formed a Band called The Easteez and they performed three songs at a special Assembly.

The first two songs were written and created by the students and Kutcha, and the third one is called ‘Yil Lull’ ……. Which is the Aboriginal Community’s National Anthem meaning ‘Together We Sing and Rejoice’.

We are now a 4 star Resource Smart School!

Congratulations to all of our school community for helping to receive our 4th star. We have just successfully completed our Water Module and are looking forward to working on our 5th star for Energy. Resource Smart Schools is a government initiative supported by Sustainability Victoria and CERES. It has been our aim to become a 5 star school who excel in sustainability education. We are oh so close....

Peer Mediators at Eastwood

Eastwood took 24 peer mediators offsite to Heathmont College to train them in their new leadership role as Eastwood peer mediators. We went through many scenarios, discussed how to be an active listener, how to be assertive, all the qualities you need to be a good problem solver, how to show empathy towards others, how to brainstorm solutions, how to negotiate, what their boundaries are for when they need to escalate a problem to a yard duty teacher and how to follow the '6 steps' to mediate a problem. We were blown away with our students maturity and eagerness to develop their skills, the solutions they were able to come up with and how engaged they were during the scenario practice. We look forward to seeing them out in the playground at lunchtimes starting next Tuesday 12th March.