	{"id":110886,"date":"2025-03-13T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/?p=110886"},"modified":"2025-03-12T16:41:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T05:41:28","slug":"costa-welcomed-to-wendouree-ps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/costa-welcomed-to-wendouree-ps\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa welcomed to Wendouree PS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LANDSCAPE architect and television presenter Costa Georgiadis has visited Wendouree Primary School to spend time with students and tour the school gardens.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Georgiadis visited the school last Friday, making spinach and feta triangles with students as well as taking part in planting activities with Green Grub Garden Club students.<\/p>\n<p>He toured the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden which includes a pizza oven, chickens, compost bins and raised garden beds.<\/p>\n<p>Year six student and garden club member Charlotte said it was exciting to have Mr Georgiadis visit to learn about the school&#8217;s environmental initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It feels really good to have a TV celebrity and garden celebrity here,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Wendouree Primary School recently received its third star for the ResourceSmart Schools initiative, which recognises efforts to integrate education for sustainability into the curriculum.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30038\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30038\" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/03\/Costa2_08157.jpg\" alt=\".\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Costa Georgiadis toured the school&#8217;s Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These sorts of things can&#8217;t happen unless there&#8217;s a two-way push; it&#8217;s got to push from the top down and it&#8217;s got to push from the bottom up,&#8221; Mr Georgiadis said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you&#8217;ve got a framework that gives you a garden educator and a kitchen educator, that enables those educators not only to work together, but to create the circular story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Georgiadis said it is critical to teach children about small sustainable actions they can make so they don&#8217;t feel overwhelmed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have a lot more information at an earlier age, which can create overwhelm,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Overwhelm is actually something that removes the capacity to take action because you get paralysed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This program in the garden and the kitchen unpacks the nitty gritty of day-to-day life, giving them the skills to then go forward and make the decisions they need to make.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANDSCAPE architect and television presenter Costa Georgiadis has visited Wendouree Primary School to spend time with students and tour the school gardens. 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