July 2018

SMILING FACES and squeals of delight were heard ringing around the playground at Our Lady of Mercy Primary School when Junior primary students were treated to an International Mud Day celebration on the 27th June.

International Mud Day was created in 2009 when Australian Gillian McAuliffe and Nepali Bishnu Bhatta got together to talk.

They wanted to find a way to help all children of the Earth feel closer to each other and decided there was no better way to do it than through the Earth itself.

Our Lady of Mercy decided to celebrate by creating mud artworks on trees in Deloraine’s ‘Wild Wood’, making mud pies and other mud culinary creations as well as the obligatory mud pie throwing. They also created a mud mural on a wall on one of the school outbuildings.

A wonderful time was had by all students.

Photo | Mike Moores