Victorian Schools' Garden Awards
2009 Winners

Kevin Heinze Perpetual Award ($2500)

• This award is in recognition of the magnificent contribution made to school gardening by the late Kevin Heinze . The award recognises the outstanding range of gardening and environmental activities involving students over a continuous period of time, and in 2009 it was awarded to Wodonga West Primary School.

State Awards ($1000 each)

• Category 1 (Primary and Special Schools with 100 pupils or less): Myrrhee Primary School
• Category 2 (Primary and Special Schools with 101-250 pupils): Teesdale Primary School
• Category 3 (Primary and Special Schools with over 250 pupils): The Patch Primary School
• Category 4 (Post Primary Schools): Rushworth P-12 College

Awards of Merit ($500 each)

• Rotary District 9820 Award: Orbost Secondary College
• Nursery & Garden Industry Victoria Award: Highton Primary School
• Plants Plus Award: St Leonards Cornish Campus (Bangholm)
• Catholic Education Office Award: Yarra Primary School
• DEECD Award: Footscray West Primary School
• Yates Award: Irymple South Primary School
• Country Women's Association Award: Melton Specialist School
• Maxicrop Award: Collingwood College
• Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne Award:Tooradin Primary School
• Horticultural Media: Nepean Special School

Pink Heath Awards ($500 each)

• Bentleigh West Primary School
• Warrnambool East Primary School
• Wodonga West Primary School

Special Award ($500)

• Labertouche Primary School – in recognition of the efforts of students and the school community to restore its garden after the Black Saturday bushfire.

Rose & Fuchsia Nursery Award

• Mount Blowhard Primary School

Turf Producers Association Turf Packages ($4,000 each)

Instituted in 2009, the Turf Producers Association of Victoria made to one school in each of the nine education regions a turf and installation package to the value of $4,000. The nine recipients were:

• Bentleigh Secondary College
• Darraweit Guim Primary School
• Forrest Primary School
• Hillsmeade Primary School
• Korrumburra Primary School
• St Albans Heights Primary School
• Tawonga Primary School
• The Lakes South Morand P-9 School
• Yarra Glen Primary School

Regional and Achievement Award recipients in 2009

Altona Meadows Primary School	Achievement
Andersons Creek Primary School	Achievement
Ararat Coummunity College-Secondary	Achievement
Bacchus Marsh Primary School	Achievement
Ballarat Grammar	Achievement
Bellarine Secondary College	Regional
Bentleigh Secondary College	Achievement
Bentleigh West Primary School	Regional
Boort Secondary College	Achievement
Brunswick South West Primary School	Achievement
Brunswick Secondary College	Achievement
Cann River P-12 College	Achievement
Carlisle River Primary School	Regional
Clifton Springs Primary School	Achievement
Clunes Primary School	Achievement
Collingwood College	Regional
Concord School	Achievement
Cowes Primary School	Achievement
Creswick North Primary School	Achievement
Croydon Hills Primary School	Achievement
Croydon West Primary School	Achievement
Darraweit Guim Primary School	Achievement
Derrinallum P-12 College	Achievement
Eaglehawk Primary School	Achievement
Eastbourne Primary School	Achievement
Elphinstone Primary School	Regional
Exford Primary School	Achievement
Findon Primary School	Regional
Flowerdale Primary School	Achievement
Footscray City College	Regional
Footscray West Primary School	Regional
Geelong East Primary School	Achievement
Gruyere Primary School	Regional
Hastings Primary School	Achievement
Highton Primary School	Regional
Hoddles Creek Primary School	Achievement
Irymple South Primary School	Regional
Kaniva College	Regional
Kiewa Valley Primary School	Regional
Kings Park Primary School	Achievement
Labertouche Primary School	Regional
Lilydale High School	Achievement
Macedon Primary School	Achievement
Maharishi School	Regional
Melton Specialist School	Regional
Montpellier Primary School	Achievement
Mount Blowhard Primary School	Regional
Mount Duneed Regional Primary School	Achievement
Myrrhee Primary School	Regional
Neill Street Primary School Carlton	Regional
Nepean Special School	Regional
Orbost Secondary College	Regional
Panton Hill Primary School	Achievement
Redesdale Mia Mia Primary School	Achievement
Romsey Primary School	Achievement
Rushworth P-12	Regional
St Leonards College (Cornish Campus)	Regional
St Mels Primary School	Achievement
Sandringham East Primary School	Achievement
Scoresby Secondary College	Regional
Shelford Primary School	Achievement
Southmoor Primary School	Achievement
Stawell Primary School	Regional
Sunshine Special Developmental School	Achievement
Tarwin Lower Primary School	Achievement
Teesdale Primary School	Regional
The Patch Primary School	Regional
The Lakes South Morang P-9 School	Achievement
Toolern Vale and District Primary School	Achievement
Tooradin Primary School	Regional
Torquay P-9 College	Achievement
Trinity Lutheran College Mildura	Regional
Tyrell College	Achievement
Undera Primary School	Achievement
Vermont Special School	Achievement
Verney Road School, Shepparton	Regional
Warrnambool East Primary School	Regional
Wedderburn College (Junior School)	Achievement
Westgarth Primary School	Achievement
Whitefriars College	Achievement
Woady Yaloak Primary School (Ross Creek Campus)	Achievement
Wodonga West Primary School	Regional
Woodford Primary School	Achievement
Woodleigh School	Achievement
Woolsthorpe Primary School	Achievement
Yarra Glen Primary School	Regional
Yarra Primary School	Regional