Blackmans Bay Primary School will be receiving a makeover with a $3000 community grant to create an extensive mural.The mural will cover a large, blank wall space spanning two classrooms that overlooks the school's courts and is visible to anyone who walks through the school grounds to or from the Opal Drive car park.Jamin Kluss has been commissioned to paint the mural.Jamin said he is excited...

Kingston Primary School officially opened their new playground on Thursday, December 7.Participants from the Aladdin play wrote a song that they performed for the opening titled "A whole new playground."The playground includes a sandpit, slide, cubby house, climbing wall and water feature.Students made the bunting to decorate the stage area for the opening.The site for the playground, a hill...

Kingston High School teacher Rosalie Hayek is one of six Tasmanian teachers to receive the prestigious Hardie Fellowship.The fellowship allows its recipients to pursue professional learning and tertiary study in the United States of America. Rosalie is an inclusive practice teacher and will be using this fellowship to investigate ways to develop trauma-informed skills in teachers and inclusive...

The Kettering-based Net Zero Channel (NZC) has been selected as one of the 10 community groups to partner with Rewiring Australia out of 75 applicants.The groups collaborated in an eight-week program that included workshops, training materials, resources and knowledge sharing. The program aims to support new or existing community groups who want to help their community transition from fossil...

The Kingborough Helping Hands Sharing Tree was officially opened at Channel Court, Kingston on Friday, November 24.This marks the seventh year the Sharing Tree has been in operation here. Craig Lucas from Kingborough Helping Hands (KHH) explained that the Sharing Tree was initiated by some St Aloysius Catholic College students writing to Kingborough Council seven years ago, requesting a giving...