By ALESHA CAPONE
Students and staff from the Sunshine Special Developmental School are delighted with their new kitchen trolley. Pictured with assistant principal Nicole Edwards and pupils Phoung, Brandon and Tommy are Ron Harrison, Ian Petherick and Peter Bourke from the Western Masonic Centre. 107929 Picture: DAMJAN JANEVSKI
SEVERAL new kitchen trolleys have provided the recipe to bring smiles to the faces of students and staff at Sunshine Special Developmental School.
The Western Masonic Centre in Sunshine West and the Strathmore/Essendon Social Club have donated funds for the purchase of three kitchen trolleys to the school.
The Western Masonic Centre have supported the school through a charitable grant from the Trust for the Furtherance of the Education of Children in the Western Suburbs.
The trust supports education programs and coaching in schools.
Thanks to the Western Masonic Centre’s Board of Management and the Strathmore/Essendon Social Club, more than $4000 was donated to the school for the purchase of three stainless-steel trolleys, which will house a convection oven, microwave oven, frying pan, kettle, chopping boards and other kitchen equipment.
Staff from Sunshine Special Developmental School identified the need for such trolley’s to contain equipment required for classroom cooking programs.
Sunshine Special Developmental School is for students aged five to 18 years, who have intellectual disabilities.
They have a current enrolment of 170 students, including some of whom have autism, sensory impairments and physical disabilities.
Through incorporating meal preparation and cooking into the curriculum, students can develop and practice these important life skills.
Classroom meal preparation and cooking programs allow teachers to integrate learning across the areas of reading and writing, speaking and listening, numeracy, Interpersonal development and personal learning.
Sunshine Special Developmental School hope to eventually get a total of four kitchen trolley’s to enable access to these important learning tools for students across the school.
