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March, 2007
Australia's Street Socceroos Kick Goals With Kids The Street Socceroos, Australia’s homeless soccer team, shared some of their soccer playing brilliance with students at Melbourne Grammar’s coeducational primary school Grimwade House on 9 March 2007. In addition to running soccer clinics, the players talked about their experiences and plans to travel to Denmark for the World Championships later this year. The Street Socceroos’ visit to Grimwade House on Friday 9 March was part of the School’s activities to celebrate Victoria’s Cultural Diversity Week. Year 5 students undertook a week of activities (9-16 March 2007) with the theme of ‘Sport speaks many languages’. Other culturally diverse activities included an Amazing Race style adventure around the City of Melbourne’s sporting landmarks and running a tabloid sports day for children in Prep to Year 2 at the culturally diverse Lyndale Primary School in Dandenong. “It was a week full of social and sporting interaction,” said Head of Grimwade House Andrew Boyd. The finale of the week was a cultural diversity day where students from Grimwade House, Lyndale Primary School and Noble Park English Language School undertook soccer challenges and a street soccer tournament in mixed school teams. “Our motto for Grimwade House in 2007 is ‘to put yourself in someone else’s shoes’ and fittingly students will donate adult soccer socks to the Australian and Zimbabwean Homeless Soccer teams in celebration of the week,” said Mr Boyd. “The celebration of Cultural Diversity Week at Grimwade House aims to take students beyond what they think is possible and undertake new experiences while gaining an appreciation of the world and contributing to the community,” said Mr Boyd. 
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