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12 December, 2022

Making dreams come true

The Timor Primary School is one of a number of schools across the state to receive a $500 scholarship from the Terry Floyd Foundation, as the organisation continues to help young people live out their dreams. Timor is one of eight Victorian schools...

By Riley Upton

Timor Primary School principal Andrew Tatchell, students Darcy and Michael with the Terry Floyd Foundation’s Daryl Floyd and Sheryle Cain.
Timor Primary School principal Andrew Tatchell, students Darcy and Michael with the Terry Floyd Foundation’s Daryl Floyd and Sheryle Cain.

The Timor Primary School is one of a number of schools across the state to receive a $500 scholarship from the Terry Floyd Foundation, as the organisation continues to help young people live out their dreams.

Timor is one of eight Victorian schools to receive the $500 funding boost from the foundation last week, which was established in memory of Terry Floyd, the 12-year-old Maryborough boy believed to have been abducted and murdered in 1975.

Foundation president Daryl Floyd said the $500 scholarships are a fund that can be used at the school’s discretion to support students.

“We’re happy to hand the scholarship across to the schools and leave it to the principal’s discretion in terms of what they’re going to use the funding for,” he said.

“The reason we do this is because it upholds the legacy of Terry who was a 12-year-old boy who never got to live out his childhood dreams.

“If we can help other kids live out their dreams then that’s what this is all about.”

Timor Primary School will split the $500 into two $250 scholarships to support two students in their secondary studies next year.

School principal Andrew Tatchell said the funding, which makes up the school’s largest monetary scholarship, was welcome.

“The Terry Floyd Foundation provides our most significant monetary scholarship to the school and we’ve decided to split that into two scholarships that will support students moving into secondary school,” he said.

“The money from that scholarship will actually sit with their chosen secondary school and be exhausted through books, stationary, camps and excursions or a combination of all.

“It’s a fantastic scholarship that we really appreciate the Terry Floyd Foundation supporting us with, this is our second year of doing it at Timor and it’s been really well received.”

In addition to the scholarship, the foundation is also partnering with the Halls Gap Zoo and supporting Timor Primary School to sponsor a zoo animal of the students’ choice.

“Two years ago we hooked up with the Halls Gap Zoo and we actually have an animal adoption program running in conjunction with them,” he said.

“What that means is school students choose which animal they would like to adopt at the zoo and the foundation will pay the costs associated with that which covers food and that sort of thing for the animal.

“The zoo send literature out to that school so it is very educational and we support a school excursion to the zoo which is a great opportunity for students.

“Most recently, the Pyrenees cluster of schools were utilising that partnership and it’s great Timor are now involved with that.”

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