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Fountain of bliss for lucky prize-winning school

<h3>Tokirima School has won a brand-new water fountain valued &dollar;598 thanks to Filters and Fountains&excl;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The tiny&comma; water-only school has just 17 Year 1-8 students and wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t be able to fundraise enough to install a fully functional fountain&period; Relying on tank water&comma; students said they struggle during dry months&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Principal Cindy Woolston and Senior Classroom Teacher Eike Schormair sent in their application to Filters and Fountains&comma; who had promised to give one lucky school a fully filtered FF4X Wall Mounted Drinking Fountain&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Tokirima School can finally replace its existing fountain&comma; which the students told us was 21 years&&num;8217&semi; old and pretty leaky&excl; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Congratulations Tokirima&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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Rosie is the managing editor here at Multimedia Pty Ltd, working across School News New Zealand and School News Australia. She has spent 10+ years in B2B journalism, and has spent some time over the last couple of years teaching as a sessional academic. Feel free to contact her at any time with editorial or magazine content enquiries.

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