Education coverage
Gone Fishing!
MORE than 150 recreational anglers cast lines to help clear Moree and district waterways of unwanted European carp on Sunday as part of the Gone Fishing Carp Muster, organised locally by Northern Slopes Landcare Association and OzFish. Online registrations were ticked off from around 6am at Jellicoe Park by Kiara Temperley from Landcare and Jay [...]
Education
UNIVERSITY students Elyne Tighe and Tom Watts – both from Moree – have received scholarships through the Country Education Foundation to help fund their tertiary studies. The CEF in Moree was established in 2011 to give financial assistance and support to local youth to help them achieve post-high school education, training and vocational guidance. To [...]
Community health
FAMILIES across the Moree Plains are strongly advised to be vaccinated against whooping cough, with reported cases in the district on the rise. NSW Health is urging pregnant women, parents and carers of babies, grandparents and other people in close contact with babies to be vaccinated to protect babies from severe disease. Associate Medical Practice [...]
Recruitment
THE Girls on Fire Australia team will be in Moree on Wednesday, October 30 – and young women are invited to attend the Fire-Up workshop. Girls on Fire works with schools, fire and emergency services, regional towns, and all kinds of youth-related organisations to introduce young people aged 15 to 19 to fire, emergency and [...]
Gone Fishing!
NORTHERN Slopes Landcare and OzFish will host a school holidays family-friendly carp muster in Moree on Sunday, October 13. Registration and sign-in will take place at Jellicoe Park from 6am. Fishing lines need to be in the water and carp-ready by 7am. Early registrations to streamline the process and avoid any delays on the day [...]
Be Prepared
EVERY four years, more than 10,000 Scouts from across Australia and the world meet for an unforgettable ten-day camp – the Australian Jamboree – and enjoy incredible activities, new challenges and endless opportunities. To ensure north-west regional Scouts are properly prepared for the 2025 event, a four-day pre-jamboree camp last weekend opened the school holidays [...]
Thank-you Moree
THIRTEEN Year 10 students and three staff members from Trinity Catholic College in Lismore travelled across the ranges last month to spend a week in Gamilaroi Country – the second time a group of Trinity students have visited the Moree district this year. The group was welcomed to Gamilaroi country by Sharon Cooke at the [...]
School sport
KIDS from Gravesend Public School are in Sydney this week competing in the PSSA State Small Schools Knockout Competition in two sports – touch football and netball. Incredibly, the tiny school earned a shot at the state titles in both after progressing to the quarter-finals when the knock-out started in June. On Wednesday afternoon, the [...]
Photo Gallery
A BIG crowd enjoyed picture-postcard weather on a bright, sunny morning to take in the delights of the St Philomena’s Catholic School P&F annual Spring Fair on Sunday. Bric-a-brac and trash ‘n’ treasure stalls, plenty of food and refreshments, and a stack of kids’ entertainment and play areas dotted the school grounds as families enjoyed [...]
Christian School
THE Moree Plains Museum created its own piece of history earlier this month when a group of students from Moree Christian School visited. Moree and District Historical Society researchers hosted the Year 3/4 students and teacher, Emily Cobb, for an engaging morning, learning about the Moree district’s deep history – the museum’s first school excursion [...]
