Gum boot-wearing winner

By Chelsea Channing
Published May 15, 2014

Speaking to environmental education coordinator Sarah Page, it's abundantly clear the educator at Victoria's St Francis Xavier Primary School loves her job.

"I live in gumboots, and I never have a lunchbreak but I wouldn't change it for the world," Page ...

This story appeared in the June 2014 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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