Students from various levels at LaTrobe Secondary College are working on a collaborative Wall Hanging to depict the story of the Magic Garden.

In the story, The Magic Garden, there were two neighbours who were very good friends. One was a farmer, the other was a shepherd. One of them had rocky hard land, and he only farmed sheep. One year, there was a disease which spread around the land. The farmers sheep all became ill and died. The farmer let the shepherd share half of his land so that he could stay.

The first problem in the story is that the man who looked after sheep had to leave because all his sheep died. The solution to this problem was that both farmers shared the same land together. He was able to stay because he had some land to work on.

The second problem in the story was that one day, one of the farmers found a pot of gold coins. Because they were such good friends, neither of them could accept the money. The solution to this problem was that they went to the village wise man to ask for some advice.

The third problem was when the man with the gold coins was supposed to go out and buy some seeds with the gold so that he could make a garden. Before he bought any seeds, he saw some beautiful birds witch were all tied to a camel. He asked the man with the camel what he was going to do with the birds. The man told him that they are going to be eaten by the Khan, and that Khan’s palace will be decorated with their colourful feathers. The person with the gold coins felt sorry for the birds, so he used all the money to buy them all. The birds flew away, and the man no longer had any money for the seeds. The solution to this problem was that all the birds that the man had saved collected seeds from far away places, and they made a beautiful garden with them.

In this story, I agree with everything that happened. Everything happened for the best.

I think that when the farmer gave the shepherd half his land was a great idea. If it wasn’t for this, the birds might not have been saved, and the garden wouldn’t have been made.

If I was the farmer who found the gold, I would have spent it on getting a better farm.

When the man saved the birds, I would do the same thing. This event is probably the most important one in the story. I completely agree with what he did. It was the right thing to do.

If the man didn’t save the birds, but saved a different kind of animal, the garden might still have been made, but differently.If the story had no birds, the man would have just bought the seeds and made a beautiful garden, but not quite as beautiful as the one that the birds made.

The garden was made for the homeless. I think that other people could go and visit it, but to not stay there, like the people with no homes, because it might be taken over.

James K

After listening to the story of the Magic Garden students visualized pages of a picture book and considered what a front cover should look like. They used Paint to create these digital representations of pages in a book called the Magic Garden.

Finding the Gold by William

The Birds by Kamal

The Door by Joseph

by Anthony

Jessica and company

by Matt

by Dylan

by Joshua

by Jamie

by Rebecca