Occasionally I come up with a very good idea. Note, I said occasionally, and just recently it appears, I had one of those times.

I was giving some thought as to how I could make our magazine even more enjoyable for more people and came up with an idea for a regular feature called A Day at our School. To test the idea, I wrote to half a dozen local schools and the response was unanimous in the positive. When that happens, you know you’re on a winner.

You can see the first of our A Day at our School features in this issue and I hope you enjoy what you see because over coming weeks, we’ll bring you a lot more smiling faces and information about what’s happening around our local schools in Orange.

To help us get the word out to other schools in our readership area, let me tell you the idea behind the feature and if you like what you read, my hope is you’ll pass the information on to other people and schools who you feel may also be interested in participating.

Basically, for a very small cost, we’re offering to visit a local school and take a series of photos, then present these in OC Life over a couple of pages with some interesting information about what the photos represent. The idea is to showcase some of the people, the activities and the happenings that take place at the schools during a typical day. Hopefully, our photographer’s visit will also be a bit of a highlight for the students and teachers and a lot of fun will be had by all. We envisage we’ll be at each school for a couple of hours or so and part of the visit will include meeting and greeting several teachers, staff, students etc.

What happens at our schools each day is incredibly important in the scheme of things and a lot of people play vital and responsible roles in making it all happen. Orange City Life wants to give our schools and the people who keep them functioning each day more recognition and publicity than they presently get. What better way to do that than through Orange City Life?

Education in Orange is one of our City’s strengths and I think it’s fair to say that our wonderful lifestyle here partly comes as a result of the incredible educational facilities we enjoy.

We would love to hear from any school in the area who would like to appear in our new A Day at our School feature or simply would like more information. Call our office on 6361 3575 or email reception@oclife.com.au

I think a lot of our readers will really enjoy A Day at our School each week, one because most of us have or know kids who attend local schools, and two, kids by and large have a knack of making us feel good by what they say, what they do and especially when they smile!

I sincerely hope you enjoy A Day at our School in this issue and for a long time to come.