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The Cotton Catchment Communities CRC has joined forces with the Border Rivers Gwydir CMA to deliver a fun educational activity to Primary School children in the Condamine Catchment including Dalby, Dirranbandi, Chinchilla, Oakey and Warwick.

The Write-a-Reader Competition is a fun literacy program that promotes science and environmental education in Primary Schools. The topic this year is “Bugs, Beetles, Bats & Birds” and is open to all students in Grades 3-6/7 within the Condamine Catchment.

The development of these readers is an important learning process and teaching tool for the teachers, the students, and their parents. By combining science and literature for Primary School aged children the competition aims to highlight some of the great local stories that kids, and parents, can identify with and to instil a lifetime interest in the local environment.

Kelly McCulloch, Education Officer with Border Rivers-Gwydir CMA said the competition began in the Border Rivers-Gwydir catchment and has been a success among local schools for the past two years and hopes such success can be achieved across all cotton communities.

“There is a need in our communities for local resources that children love to learn from and this competition has provided a means for this to happen” said Miss McCulloch

Cotton CRC Community Program Leader Paula Jones said the aim of the Write-a- Reader competition is to increase student awareness of biodiversity in their local area.

”This year, students are encouraged to write a creative story after investigating bugs, beetles, bats and birds and how they have an impact in the agricultural landscape”, said Miss Jones.

Winning entries will be published and distributed throughout the nine cotton growing
communities from the Fitzroy basin in north QLD to the Murrumbidgee in southern NSW.

For more information please contact Paula Jones on 02 6799 2440 or 0427 992 440