Breakfast at Cobden Tech

THE last day of term for Cobden Tech was shared with the community through a warm breakfast, connection and the nature of giving.

By wd-news

Together: Families of Cobden Tech students and the wider community were invited to a community breakfast on the final day of term two last Friday.

Families of students and beyond were invited to enjoy egg and bacon rolls, pancakes, fruit and hot coffee last Friday as part of an initiative to bring the community together through a whole school breakfast.

Assistant principal Sarah Cook said the event was much needed as many of the students at the school came from farming families affected by drought.

“We’ve got a lot of community members here that are not only just farmers but also have animals and horses and parents out milking cows and working on trucks,” she said.

“The kids were just telling us that it is getting a little bit challenging at the moment for a lot of the families.

“We just thought, how can we help and how can we bring everyone together?

“Particularly the holidays can be a bit challenging for some families because they lose the routine of school and connection.

“We wanted to make sure it wasn’t just the farmers but it was the wider community in our rural area also.

“The wellbeing team decided that we would do a breakfast and it just took off.”

Alongside the breakfast included giving away food hampers, provided by the local food bank as well as some donations from Cobden IGA.

“We have 90 hampers that have fresh fruit and some veggies in them, bread, lots of your dry goods as well and our students have cooked some cookies and baked goods for them,” Mrs Cook said.

“We’ve also got some support services information in the hampers as well and some really friendly messages.

“You’ll see the Year 12 students wrote messages of hope on every single hamper.”

The breakfast was a popular affair, and Mrs Cook said more people came than they were expecting.

“We have 120 students and 90 families, and I reckon looking around that’s probably almost half our families are represented today, so that’s pretty exciting,” she said.

“All the teachers have been here since quite early cooking and getting organised.

“They really take pride in involving the community.

“It’s great to see lots of siblings and grandparents.

“We just wanted everyone to have a chance to connect and have a really nice way to end the term.”