Albury MP Justin Clancy congratulates long term past president, Rebecca Kos after Lowesdale P&C was named the best in regional NSW.
Lowesdale Public School’s P&C has beaten 1000 regional schools to be named the best in New South Wales.
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The 2025 NSW P&C Regional Award was won for an outstanding contribution to ensure the school community thrives.
Surrounded by farming paddocks, sheep and crops, everything about the little school of 11 students, established in 1882, looks magnificent.
“Little school, awesome journey,” was how Albury MP Justin Clancy began his speech last Friday in front of about 100 people.
“It’s about community. It’s something special, the attention to care that goes into it … it’s about education and community,” Mr Clancy said.
“This P&C has been deemed the best; congratulations and thank you very much for what you do.”
Lowesdale School’s 11 students Bethany Sloman, Jan Kaczanowski, Archibald McDonald, Nevaeh Harrison, Ned Clifton, Herbert Prinsloo, Daisy Cocking, Archie Kuschert, Dakota Sloman, Levi Robb and Charlotte Peterson
Lowesdale P&C has 24 financial members, and functions with a dozen very active members.
They host community activities and events, conduct research and advocacy, school promotion and community engagement, and raise funds.
Members are consistently great achievers, hence their motto ‘Small schools achieve BIG’.
A very proud Mr Clancy spoke of the award in State Parliament earlier this month and said many of his colleagues came up to him afterwards to speak about the achievement.
Among the many elated people were school treasurer Ailsa McDonald, school leaders Beth Sloman and Charlotte Peterson, P&C president Ian Cocking, immediate past president Rebecca Kos, Albury MP Justin Clancy and Federation mayor Cheryl Cook.
School principal Charna Wood played a congratulatory video message from Murat Dizder from NSW Department of Education who described the state result as a “a wonderful outcome”.
Many other congratulatory messages were received, including from NSW Governor Margaret Beazley who had visited the school two years ago.
It was a very satisfied Lowesdale P&C president Ian Cocking who, as MC on Friday, thanked his committee members.
He also thanked Club Corowa for a community grant of $1,000 for a new garden, dubbed the Reading Garden.
Lowesdale School’s new Reading Garden was built with the assistance of Club Corowa. Kerrie Kuschert pictured with Club Corowa president Jenni Delany.
Ms Delany said she was really impressed with all the work at the school.
“For such a small school, there are people making such a great impact and so much attention to detail; it is a pleasure to support your school,” she said.
Lowesdale also hosted its Biggest Morning Tea on Friday, which raised $3,037 for the Cancer Council to aid in cancer research and for those impacted by cancer.
Held on the school’s lawn, the Biggest Morning Tea served a wide variety of hot and cold food and drinks, and heard the school’s students sing Lean on Me.
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