Community Connections – Mansfield Steiner School

Mansfield Steiner School holds an annual fundraising bike ride for its sister school, Uai Laco School in Venilale, Timor Leste. Year 7 student Abigail Wettenhall reports on this year's ride.

By Abigail Wettenhall, Year 7, Mansfield Steiner School

The Venilale ride is an event held every year to fundraise for our sister school in Timor Leste.

It is a 26km return bike ride to Maindample from the Mansfield info centre on the rail trail.

This year it was held on 29 April.

It was a perfect day for the 50 people who came for the ride, proving good fun for all ages.

Everyone goes at their own pace, and we had toddlers, students, teachers and parents all on their bikes giving it a go.

I was riding with a girl who had only learnt to ride a bike with two wheels around Christmas and she did great.

It was nice to see that even people who weren’t from our school attended.

When we arrived in Maindample, the teachers and parents served up some delicious lunches for the hungry riders.

There were also some extra cakes that were donated by parents.

Some of the boys up the front raced each other and all the other students were just chilling, going at their own pace, the parents who were lagging behind a bit, either because they were dragging a child in a carriage or because they had a toddler tagging along on a balance bike, were chatting away having a great but tiring and slow time.

There were some teachers at the back, making sure no one was too far behind.

Community Connections reports on the great community work of Independent school students and staff. If you would like to share your school’s community work, email ISV’s Shane Green with the details.

You can also read previous Community Connection posts about Al Siraat CollegeKardinia International College, The Geelong College, St Catherine’s School, and Beaconhills College.

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