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…
Applications for the WA Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) program for 2024 are open now! RYLA is for young people aged 18 to 28 who want to: We promise, we’ll deliver all of that and more in our January 2024 program. Applications close 30 November 2023. Please contact us if…
We have received an update from Rotarian John Bosco Agaba in Uganda this week regarding the fencing we have funded for Divine Mercy School: All wooden poles have been put in the ground. Just waiting a little to have them firm and a barbed wire fixed. The school management committee…
Earlier this calendar year, we provided funding for a stage piano for The Buevskies, a group of Ukrainian and Australian performers, performing a blend of traditional and modern songs, sung in Ukrainian. The group was formed by husband and wife team, Irina Buevska-Cowell and Rob Cowell. Irina is a Ukrainian-born…
In April 2023, we received an email from Gilson dos Santos Croscato, a Rotarian in the Rotary Club of Goioerê, District 4630, Brazil, who learned about our Microscopes in Schools project via an article in the March 2023 edition of Rotary Brasil. In April 2023, we received an email from…