Two boys at different primary schools have become friends through a message in a bottle.
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The principal of Huntingdon Public School, Peta Harris, was contacted earlier this month by a teacher from Crescent Head Public School, asking whether she had a student called Spencer who lived on the Oxley Highway.
“She explained that the reason she was asking was that one of her students, Kobi Howarth from Year 4, was walking along the beach at Crescent Head and found a bottle with a message inside,” said Mrs Harris.
“Spencer Hirst from Year 3 told us that the message was indeed from him, and that he put the bottle in the river here at Huntingdon almost a year ago, to see where it would end up.”
Spencer was then able to meet the recipient of his message, Kobi from Crescent Head, at the Glasshouse in Port Macquarie, at a performance of George’s Marvellous Medicine.
“We now have plans to stay in contact with the Year 3/4 class at Crescent Head, and share parts of our learning journey with each other,” said Mrs Harris from Huntingdon.
Letitia Fitzpatrick
Worked as a journalist and assistant producer for BBC news and current affairs in the UK, Ulster Television, Q Radio and the Irish News in Northern Ireland. Moved to Australia and joined Fairfax Media in 2016. Won a Rotary Paul Harris Fellowship award in 2018 for reporting the Pappinbarra bushfires and the subsequent Rotary appeal which raised $30,000.
Worked as a journalist and assistant producer for BBC news and current affairs in the UK, Ulster Television, Q Radio and the Irish News in Northern Ireland. Moved to Australia and joined Fairfax Media in 2016. Won a Rotary Paul Harris Fellowship award in 2018 for reporting the Pappinbarra bushfires and the subsequent Rotary appeal which raised $30,000.
