29 Nov 2022

Wheat harvest sends small NSW school on travel dreams

From Checkpoint, 5:26 pm on 29 November 2022

There's a saying about reaping what you sow. Well, wheat has turned out to be a golden crop for a tiny Australian school fund raising for a trip.

There are only 10 students from kindergarten to Year 6 at Hermidale Public School in New South Wales, more than 600km west of Sydney.

The dream was to raise enough money for a visit to the beach when a former student of the school let them use 85 hectares of land to plant a crop.

They chose wheat at the beginning of the year. The wheat has just been cut.

Principal Skye Dedman and Vice Principal Rebekah Coddington explain how the harvest went.