General News
26 July, 2024
Students help clean-up yard
THE grounds of Allansford Primary School are looking clean and fresh thanks to a recent Clean Up Australia Day activity.
Year five students took part in a clean-up day alongside five employees from Saputo Dairy Australia (SDA).
Clean Up Australia Day sees Aussies across the country donate their time to help improve the environment in which they work, live and play.
Allansford and District Primary School principal, Wesley Allen, said the timing of SDA’s school visit was perfect.
“Our students were researching waste reduction in the lead-up to the visit from SDA’s environment and research and development teams,” Mr Allen said.
“Before the rubbish clean-up, the SDA team showed our students a short presentation about the evolving work its Allansford team is carrying out in the environmental and packaging space.”
After their dedicated work to collect rubbish across the school yard, students were treated to some tasty dairy products.
SDA regional operations manager (west) Grant Hutcheson said he was pleased his colleagues had made a return visit to the school.
“Last year more than 30 local employees helped clean up the school and the surrounding area so it as pleasing to return in 2024,” Mr Hutcheson said.
“Regularly organising events where we clean up and support our local community is part of the community pillar of our Saputo Promise – our ongoing commitment to give back to the regions where we operate.”
This activity further highlighted SDA’s ongoing local community engagement following its recent partnership with Eat Up to prepare meals for those in need across Allansford and western Victoria.
