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The online Monster Masks workshop takes place on 30 October and is led by Sarah Seahorse and Luna Aquatica.
To celebrate Halloween, Bunjil Place will be hosting a free wearable art workshop for kids on Saturday 30 October. Artists Sarah Seahorse and Luna Aquatica will lead children for a headdress and/or mask making workshop with a focus on free, recycled and easy to access materials. “Through our creative, fun and practical craft workshops, we hope to encourage people to think outside the box- or inside the recycling box as the case may be!” Sarah Seahorse said. “Through creative re-imagining of household waste, unloved clothing, broken toys or jewellery- we hope to encourage people to see discarded waste in a whole new light and create wonderful new wearable creations they can be proud of while also saving things from going into landfill. “Our work is special in that it is colourful, beautiful, inspiring as well as sparking conversations about recycling and re-purposing materials. We also hope to encourage people to express themselves, dress up and feel powerful in something they have handmade themselves or collaborated with family and friends.” Head to bunjilplace.com.au to book your spot in the Monster Mask workshop.
‘Back too soon’ By Parker Mckenzie and Shelby Brooks A Berwick principal feels his students returned from remote learning too soon after 18 students contracted Covid-19 since classroom learning resumed. Berwick Lodge Primary School principal Henry Grossek is facing a wave of Covid infec-
tions which has seen 106 children currently in isolation. The school was closed last week after a positive Covid case attended the premises. Less than 60 per cent of the student body came to school when it reopened on Tuesday 26 October. Mr Grossek told Star News that 43 per cent
of parents didn’t send their kids to school. “They are fearful of either their children catching Covid from another child or having to do 14 days isolation themselves,“ he said. Those 105 students who were absent left the school with only 209 out of a possible 610 enrolled students in attendance. “That is a worse outcome than remote
learning, which for all its deficiencies was far more predictable,” Mr Grossek said. “On any given day we could be shut down again, so my opinion is that remote learning, no matter how unpalatable it is right now, is a better option for primary schools in Melbourne.” Continued page 5
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