Community

Here you will find articles relating to all the happenings in the community.

Community, Preschool

Preschool News

As a learning community, Kangaroo Valley Preschool is committed to recognising that physical, mental, emotional and social wellbeing are interconnected and impact our overall health, learning and development. Therefore, as we approach the end of…
Community, Osborne Park, People

Kangaroo Valley Showground

When you visit Kangaroo Valley Showground do you always notice where you are standing and what you are looking at? Do you compare it with other showgrounds near us, on the Coast or Highlands? I…
Community, Kangaroo Valley Voice, Kids and Young People, Luka, People

High school turned my shyness into anxiety

Year 6 Luka was itching to start high school. Entering a cohort of 200-and-something students, a huge jump from my Year 6 class of eighteen people, was really exciting. I was a shy kid but…
Community, Kangaroo Valley Voice, People, Selena

Remodelling Our Relationship with Clothes (Part One)

In 2018–19, Australians threw out 780,000 tonnes of textile waste, just over a third of it clothing. This put textile waste on Tanya Plibersek’s Priority List 2023–2024. In my other job at the post office,…
Community, Kangaroo Valley Voice, People, Selena

Space For a Great Life

In April 2023, NASA announced their Artemis II test flight mission to the moon, originally planned for 2024, would be pushed back to “No earlier than September 2025”. This is the test flight for the…
Community, Landcare NSW

Endangered Species Returns to KV

Landcare volunteers in Kangaroo Valley have been working for 4 years on a reptile project, making artificial rocks and placing them out on rocky ledges as potential homes for Australia’s only endangered snake, the broad-headed…
Community, People

Kangaroo Valley VIEW Club

It is with the greatest regret that I announce that the Kangaroo Valley VIEW Club decided to close down at the AGM in March 2024. Committee members wished to retire and there were no women…