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Special Features/Programs
• The school has IESIP funding for an indigenous languages program,
co-ordinated by the linguist from Diwurruwurru-Jaru Aboriginal Corporation.
• The school receives 125 hours funding from DETYA per week for five
tutors to do tutoring.
• Of the 125 students enrolled only one uses English as their first
language Ð they are children of a teacher.
• LATIS is being implemented for primary band secondary students.
• The school currently has 17 Indigenous staff including Assistant
Teachers, tutors, Inclusion Support Assistance, CDEP (from the local Council)
and cleaners Ð most part time and all untrained.
• The school has five fully trained teachers for five class rooms.
Soon to be 7 teacher school. A forward works proposal has been developed
to the current Capital works list. A new facility relocated in line with
community plans, is a priority for the following reasons:
– Flooding Ð for the last five years, the school has flooded to a
height of three metres. Flooded 4 times in 5 years.
– New buildings to accommodate the following Preschool, 23 preschool
aged children in the community Primary, including four primary complex
classrooms Library Secondary facility