PEPPIMENARTI SCHOOL...

Our Community

The Community was founded during the seventies, deriving from a movement out of the Daly River Mission. The area around Peppimenarti was originally a cattle station. The community gets its name from its main geographical feature - a large rocky outcrop close to town. Peppi meaning "large" and menarti meaning "rock".

Peppimenarti is close to a spring fed creek that flows year round. It crosses the Port Keats road at the turn off to Peppimenarti. The “Crossing” is a great place to cool off as the water is shallow and clear. Further up the creek about half an hour drive is Pandella Waterfall. Peppimenarti is also close to the Moyle River, a favoured spot for fishing and hunting. An hour drive from Peppimenarti is the beach.

Peppimenarti School includes the hub school at Peppimenarti and the Emu Point Outstation. The hub school is made up of four classrooms, a library and a building used for student cooking activities. The school is brightly painted with murals by the students and community.  These buildings replaced a collection of ’silver bullets’ in the early nineties.  Classes at Emu Point have for a number of years operated out of an old tin shack but are now run in a new purpose built classroom at the Outstation. The school caters for students from preschool to Year 7. Current enrolment at Peppimenarti is sixty six students.

 

 

 

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