Our club meeting for Wednesday 18th October 2023 at Moerlina School featured our 2023 Pride of Workmanship Awards. Before presenting the awards, award winners Rob Cowell and Irina Bruevska provided some musical entertainment, along with Father Ihor and Sophia Holovka. Irina performed on the stage piano that we funded for…
A previous article in the “Rotary Brasil” magazine led to the Rotary Club de Goioerê – Distrito 4630 reaching out to us to see if we might send them some Magnifying Microscopes. We did – and now the September 2023 issue of “Rotary Brasil” has a second article about our Magnifying Microscopes project…
On Wednesday 27th September 2023, parents and members of the APSN Chaoyang School Parent Support Group came together for a snow skin mooncake-making session, led by Freshwater Bay Rotarian Sheila Cheng. Sheila guided the two parent groups with much patience and dedication. She reiterated the importance of creating hope for the…
One of our international projects has been the funding of a fence around Divine Mercy School in Uganda (see the background and June 2023 update). The barbed wire fencing is finally being installed, with the gate planned to be added next week.
To mark World Peace Day on September 21st, Freshwater Bay Rotarians attended 4 Peace Pole ceremonies at Primary Schools to deliver the UN Peace Day message. o On 21st September 2023, PP Di Collins & PP Simone Collins attended Canning Vale Primary School, where PP Di Collins gave the UN…
The Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay has been a proud sponsor of the West Australian Music Teachers’ Association‘s annual Recital & Concerto Competition (RCC) since 2018. In 2023, the prize money we donate was used for the “Most Artistic Interpretation” award, which went to an extremely talented 14 year old…
Each year, we encourage the schools that host one of our Peace Poles to hold a peace ceremony around World Peace Day (September 21st). North Cottesloe Primary School was the first to hold a Peace Pole Ceremony, on 8th August 2023. Principal Jen Allsop shared the following message: Staff and…
Chaoyang School, Singapore was gifted 30 handheld microscopes by the Rotary Club Freshwater Bay in August 2023. The school immediately integrated the use of the microscopes into the upper primary science teaching curriculum. A small group of students had the chance to trial the use of the new learning tool…
On August 22nd, the Magnifying Microscopes we sent to Brazil were donated to two public schools. Students of Ladislau Schicorski and Cecília Meireles schools were delighted with the new learning instrument. The Municipal Secretary of Education Anirleia de Paula thanked the Rotary Club of Goioerê for choosing public schools for the…
The Rotary Club of Mount Lawley donated a set of 30 Magnifying Microscopes to St Columba’s School in Bayswater in the first term of 2023. The school has forwarded photos of the microscopes being used by students. The science teachers reported that the students have been busy exploring the microscopic…