Together, Dookie Primary School and Dookie Men’s Shed are building a better future

By Taylah Baker

Mar 4, 2024

**Nailed it:** Dookie Men’s Shed secretary Anthony Williamson with Year 6 student Olivia Hernan and Year 4 student Lyla Madden-Brown. Photo by Rechelle Zammit

John Heywood first penned the phrase many hands make light work, but it’s some Dookie locals who are proving it to be true.

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Since Term 2, 2023, Dookie Men’s Shed has partnered with Dookie Primary School to provide a unique educational experience for its students.

In each session, the Men’s Shed members hand over their tools of the trade to the eager craftspeople-to-be.

That’s not to say the Men’s Shed members clock off after that – far from it, actually.

Under their guidance, students have been acquiring practical skills in measuring, sawing, hammering, and whatnot to develop their technical abilities.

The News photographer Rechelle Zammit visited the Dookie Men’s Shed on Friday, March 1, to capture the constructive action and the valued intergenerational connection between the two parties.