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Speaker 1: You might recall last year we saw that terrible situation

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Speaker 1: where the Jingly School their chicken area, their chicken coop

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Speaker 1: got broken into and their beautiful chooks killed. It was horrible,

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Speaker 1: absolutely horrible and heartbreaking for the whole school community, particularly

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Speaker 1: the kids. Now joining us on the line is one

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Speaker 1: of the Jingly school parents who's organized that fundraiser for

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Speaker 1: the chicken coop. Her name is Penny Frost, and she

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Speaker 1: joins me. Now, good morning to your Penny.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, lovely to speak to you. Now.

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Speaker 1: How are things going in terms of the fundraising to

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Speaker 1: get that chicken coop well up and running.

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Speaker 2: It's going pretty well. We have to go fundly page

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Speaker 2: of course, called Building the Chucky Hilton. Yeah, and we've

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Speaker 2: had some cash donations there which has been fantastic. And

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Speaker 2: then in the background, we've been scoping and working to

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Speaker 2: look at exactly what our learning space is going to

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Speaker 2: look like, whether of course the chickens live. And we've

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Speaker 2: also been working with a heap of local businesses that

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Speaker 2: have come forward and helped us with planning and design

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Speaker 2: and all that kind of thing. So yeah, it's it's

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Speaker 2: going pretty well and we're at the point now where

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Speaker 2: we really just need a little more cash.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, which is fair enough. You know, you want to

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Speaker 1: make sure that you're able to do it. You want

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Speaker 1: to make sure that you're able to do it properly,

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Speaker 1: because this is.

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Speaker 3: For the kids.

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Speaker 1: It's something that the kids absolutely like. They love those chooks,

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Speaker 1: don't they.

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Speaker 2: They love them. They've returned back to school this week,

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Speaker 2: week one, straight into the garden, digging up one, giving

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Speaker 2: them to the kitchen garden teachers, asking them to, you know,

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Speaker 2: give it back to the chickens who are living with them,

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Speaker 2: asking when the chickens are going to be back, And yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean we've you know, we've promised the kids that

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Speaker 2: they'll they'll have their chickens back at school this year.

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Speaker 1: So we've got to make it happen.

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Speaker 3: We've been there, we have to make it happen. All

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Speaker 3: the dear.

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Speaker 1: Little kids as well, going out and you know, try

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Speaker 1: and digging up the worms for the chalks. But you're

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Speaker 1: not able to have chooks there right now because well

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Speaker 1: you don't have the chicken coop. And that is the

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Speaker 1: whole reason why these fundraising efforts are underway.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. So the existing coup has been dismantled

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Speaker 2: by you know, skill teachers and volunteers or you know. Recently,

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Speaker 2: we had quite an elaborate design that we were really

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Speaker 2: keen on building. Unfortunately that was just too expensive and

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Speaker 2: a little too complicated and we haven't been able to

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Speaker 2: make that happen. So we've worked with a local big

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Speaker 2: construction company that's helped us, you know, with lots of

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Speaker 2: ideas and we've got a simpler, more you know, cost

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Speaker 2: effective design that we're that we're going to go for,

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Speaker 2: which we think might be more achievable. A few businesses,

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Speaker 2: as I mentioned, have have donated various bits of labor

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Speaker 2: and material. We've had a sign donated to hang on

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Speaker 2: the coup once it's all are once it's built. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So we also have the teachers of the school. As

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Speaker 2: part of their wines down for last year, they went

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Speaker 2: along to paint and sick knights at the end of

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Speaker 2: year gathering. They've all the teachers at Jinglely Primary School

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Speaker 2: have each painted a chicken portrait and we'll be having

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Speaker 2: a silent auction in a couple of weeks time where

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Speaker 2: we will be auctioning off these paintings and in a

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Speaker 2: hope to raise the funds that we need build the

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Speaker 2: fencing project, which is which is now what it is?

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Speaker 1: That is a great idea. Yeah, I reckon, that's a

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Speaker 1: fantastic thing to do it.

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Speaker 2: You know, few weeks times how people can come and

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Speaker 2: participate in that option.

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Speaker 1: I would love that. Are the portraits any good penny?

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Speaker 1: Have you seen them? Oh?

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Speaker 2: They're fantastic, of course, And you know they have the

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Speaker 2: most magical ingredient that any wonderful piece of school artwork needs,

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Speaker 2: which is love. They have love.

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Speaker 1: I thought you were going to say the glass of

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Speaker 1: wine when you're doing.

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Speaker 2: A fat and hey, what happens on teachers? Wine down?

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Speaker 2: Staves on teachers wine down?

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Speaker 3: I love it good on them now? Like it's it is.

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Speaker 1: It's so it's actually really bloody ordinary that you guys

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Speaker 1: actually even have to go through the process of doing

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Speaker 1: all this fundraising.

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Speaker 3: After what had happened last year.

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Speaker 1: It was a terrible situation when you know, when the

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Speaker 1: chook coop was broken into and the chickens were killed.

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Speaker 3: It was incredibly sad.

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Speaker 1: And you know, but because this is a programmers, it's

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Speaker 1: an endeavor that that you know, the kids absolutely love

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Speaker 1: and it's a great thing for the school. It is.

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Speaker 2: We've had the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden program. We've had

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Speaker 2: that running it at Jingle Primary for twelve years. So

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Speaker 2: it's the heart and soul of the school. It's not

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Speaker 2: just chickens, you know, we have aquaponics to grow veggies,

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Speaker 2: learn about composting, learn about caring for the environment, all

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Speaker 2: that kind of stuff, cooking, sketching, it's we have entire

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Speaker 2: we have entire classroom and full time staff dedicated to

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Speaker 2: this program. So it's the heart and soul of the school. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it really is.

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Speaker 3: It truly is well, Penny tell us.

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Speaker 1: Remind us again what that go fund me page is

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Speaker 1: where people can find it so they can jump online

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Speaker 1: and donate.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's called building the Chokie Hilton.

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Speaker 1: Awesome, and all they've got to do is being the

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Speaker 1: Chicky Hilton, the Chookie Hilton. So all they've got to

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Speaker 1: do is jump on go fund me, do a bit

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Speaker 1: of a search building the Chooky Hilton, and they'll be

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Speaker 1: able to find it and make a donation on there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Jingly Primary School. You'll find it searching that too.

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Speaker 2: And at this stage it's really secure fencing that we

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Speaker 2: need the money to pay for. As I said, businesses

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Speaker 2: have been really generous in donating other bits and pieces,

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Speaker 2: and the thing that we really need the money for

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Speaker 2: is the fencing.

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Speaker 1: And if they're like, if there are any big businesses

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Speaker 1: or anybody that wants to get involved, if there's anybody

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Speaker 1: who can help out with that fencing, if they get

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Speaker 1: in contact with us here, we can then pass that

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Speaker 1: info on too, you can't.

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Speaker 2: We That would be fantastic, yes, And in fact it's

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Speaker 2: how we've already engaged with other businesses that have come forward. Yeah, Rong,

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Speaker 2: you're through live radio and it's been it's been wonderful,

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Speaker 2: Like you know, people have reached out to us and

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Speaker 2: they really want to help.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, it's lovely to talk to you this morning, Penny.

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Speaker 1: I'm really sorry that you guys aren't in a situation

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Speaker 1: where the Chicken Coop's already done, you know, for the

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Speaker 1: first day of school.

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Speaker 3: But you do need that.

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Speaker 1: Community support and I know that we've got stright. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's so many wonderful members out there.

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Speaker 2: It's a learning space that we know. We're trying to

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Speaker 2: build this