New Lambton Students Back Backpack Support for Flood Schools

New Lambton students’ and families’ support for flood-affected schools on the North Coast has been recognised by the organisers of ‘The Backpack Venture.’

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Katherine Woodbine, one of the Port Stephens mums who set up the collection and filling of backpacks with school supplies for needy schools at the start of the year, has acknowledged the New Lambton Public School community’s contribution.

Principal Justine Abell says the school captain Hamish Allen saw the initiative as a way of helping schools that had lost so many resources in the floods.

“Hamish contacted the organiser and then arranged for our students and their families to donate school backpacks and all the essential items students need in them - pens, pencils, crayons, textas, erasers, rulers, notebooks, drink bottles, lunch boxes, notebooks and handballs – to be collected at the school.

“The response was fantastic, and more than 60 filled backpacks are on their way to Upper Coopers Creek Public School and Cudgen Public School to help those families out.

“I can’t say a big enough ‘thank-you’ to everyone who’s helped out, and I’m sure the fact that the people on the North Coast know there’s support for them elsewhere in the State will be a big help, as well as the actual donations.”