Organisation: Timboon P-12 School
Location: Great Ocean Road
Contact: Andrea Vallance 
Event details: It’s that time of the year again – a celebration of our TAP learning and community partnerships! We would like to invite you to attend TAP’s On! 2025, our interactive, peer led demonstration of what we have accomplished this year in the Timboon Agriculture Project (TAP). On Thursday November 13th, TAP’s On! will showcase how Timboon P-12 staff and students are integrating agriculture and community into the curriculum to support learning outcomes across our campus.

Over four hundred and fifty students from Timboon P-12 School, Simpson and Nullawarre Primary Schools will be rotating through peer-led activities based on the work undertaken in the classroom. From 10.00am – 1.00pm, students will be rotating through a series of workshops, almost like ‘speed dating’ on agriculture! Experts or mentors are invited to assist the presenting students from Years 5-10 in their peer-led workshops for our expo. Students will demonstrate what they have learned or will learn in the classroom, covering such diverse topics such as; Precious Plastics, seed bombs, the CFA 3D interactive Simtable, dog vs drone, healthy eating, waterbugs, do cows come from eggs?, SES – ‘Get Ready’, responsible fishing, microbits, our robotic gardener – FarmBot, CSI Timboon, veggie based art, farm safety, water bugs, honey harvesting, career options, STEM activities, and more!

Our main speaker, Catherine Velisha, from Velisha Farms, is passionate about raising the status of the horticulture industry and encouraging young people and communities to fall in love with veggies. She will share insight into horticultural industry careers, the VEG Education and Food Futures programs and impart her expertise on the transformative power of vegetables! Visitors are also invited to stay for Catherine’s Vegetable Masterclass at lunchtime between 1.00 – 2.00pm.

Students, ex-students, parents, members of the public, local businesses, industry representatives and educators are invited to join Timboon P-12 staff, students and industry contributors to observe and celebrate some of the remarkable initiatives the TAP has enabled. Since the TAP began in mid-2012, we have had over 780 industry personnel and community members provide either direct curriculum content to students or provide PD for teachers. We wish to acknowledge the support of the Gall, Uebergang, Jones and Vedmore Foundations for their backing of the TAP in 2025 and sponsorship by Westpac Bank and Beach Energy. 
More details: http://timboonagproject.weebly.com/tap-blog 
Open to public: Yes