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Narrandera High students excel in HSC
Narrandera High School finished the school year on a high with the release of HSC results on Thursday ... This year’s top achiever, Camilo Gonzalez Monardes, achieved an ATAR of 91.45 and has attributed part of his success to the school.
Valley students excel in HSC
Year 12 students from across the Clarence Valley were busy logging in with more than 76,000 alumni statewide last Thursday to get their HSC results, signalling the end of their secondary schooling and entry into university or the workforce ... The CV Independent contacted all Clarence Valley high schools for information about their HSC results ...
Students keen for a country practice
A group of fifth year University of Adelaide medical students have left the Copper Coast with an expanded interest in rural medicine. Chloe Elliott, Kate Pettman, Annabel Brentnall and Jasmine Crocker spent the better part of the year working with doctors during their placement through the Adelaide Rural Clinical School.
Lucy awarded Chief Minister Literacy Award
Year 2 student Lucy Tarca was recently awarded the Chief Minister’s Literacy Achievement Award in the Most Improved category. The seven-year-old was ecstatic with the prestigious nod. Proud mum Maria Carmody said she was so proud of her daughter.
College ranks in top ten
Year 12 students, staff and parents of Corryong College are celebrating following the release of the 2023 Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) results on Monday. The exceptional results were highlighted by Nicola Costello attaining an ATAR of 95.95 which saw her awarded the Rotary Club’s Dux of the College.
Basin book aims to educate
A new book about the rivers and wetlands of the Murray-Darling Basin includes information about the Upper Murray and is now on its way to thousands of primary schools across Australia. Commissioned by the Jane Goodall Institute in London and Sydney, the book was written by the Petaurus Education Group in Albury-Wodonga.
St Patrick’s get $2.9m boost
St Patrick’s School in Nhill is set to undergo significant improvements ... The funding, totalling $2,901,375, will enable the construction of a new general learning area, a covered outdoor area, and an administration area.
Six leadership lessons I learnt climbing a mountain
It’s not every day you have the opportunity of trekking up Africa’s highest peak with your daughter ... The six lessons I learnt climbing Mt Kilimanjaro (whilst obvious in the cool light of day) were acquired and reinforced through experience. Learning by doing is the most effective and powerful teacher of life’s lessons. These lessons have application in everyday team scenarios.
Primary phonics focus pays off
Will Hunter. Primary school students across the state have continued to show improvements in literacy, the 2023 phonics screening check found. Results from the check improved for the fifth consecutive year, with 65 per cent of year 1 students located in country regions meeting or exceeding expectations, meaning they correctly decoded 28 or more words out of 40.
Ackland sentenced – Former Kadina Memorial School teacher jailed for 14 years
Rhiannon Koch. Thomas Ackland was sentenced to 14 years in jail on 13 counts of aggravated communicating with the intention of making a child amenable to sexual activity and one of sexual abuse of a child, formerly known as maintaining an unlawful sexual relationship with a child, in the District Court, Adelaide, on Friday, December 8. The charges, regarding children as young as 12 and up to and beyond 18, span from 2017 to just a week before his arrest in March 2021.
Roll up, roll up – More early childhood staff needed
Patrick Goldsmith. Although its opening may not be far away, the eagerly anticipated Minlaton Family Centre is in desperate need of already-qualified staff members. It is hoped staff orientation will begin in early January, and while several trainees have been put through their paces at its sister site in Maitland, only six diploma-qualified educators have been registered for Minlaton.
Two Rocks school a winner at education awards
Two Rocks Primary School is one of five public schools named in the 2023 WA Education awards. This week Education Minister Tony Buti announced Two Rocks Primary School was the winner of the excellence in school leadership category.
The little school that roared
Diana Cantrell. Tuntable Creek Public School finally closed its doors after a century of teaching ... Small rural schools are precious, and they are an endangered species ... Hundreds of people turned up to remember and relive their time when the school was the bustling centre of a small rural community.
St Therese’s goes putt putt golfing
On Friday we ventured out to “Baakindji Village” to try our hand at Uncle David's Putt Putt course. What a great time!
No staff
The opening of a new daycare facility in Naracoorte has hit a speed bump. There are no qualified staff to man the facility ready to open at the old TAFE site in the township. The new daycare centre, with a capacity to accommodate up to 80 children, has been developed by Tony Dawson of Robe.
Double show success for Naracoorte High
Kristin Murdock. Naracoorte High School’s Agricultural Studies students and staff had a busy show season competing at both the Royal Adelaide Show and Royal Melbourne Show in September ... This year the school entered six steers and two pens of three wethers in the Royal Adelaide Show, with over 20 students attending.
New forestry initiative to create workforce opportunities
A new State Government-funded initiative will support the Limestone Coast timber and forestry sectors to address current skill gap shortages and develop the ‘workforce of the future’. Minister for Education, Skills & Training Blair Boyer officially opened the Mount Gambier Skills Centre this week, which will have a specific focus on timber and forestry, with an accompanying field-based role working directly with industry.
Animal education part of Epenarra students’ curriculum
Kate Foran. Students at Epenarra School, 200 kms from Tennant Creek, are learning more than just maths and English ... Barkly Vet Practice visited the Communities last month ... Dog numbers have been reduced through the desexing program with students monitoring a spreadsheet to keep the statistics and data.
Female tradies get head start
Eight young women have been given the head start they need in seeking a potential career in the trades sector. The Girls Can Too! program is designed to teach and empower the next generation of female tradies.
Untrained rescuers drowning on our beaches – report shows: Surf Life Saving NSW
The 2023 NSW Coastal Safety Report has highlighted a stark increase in bystander rescue drownings along with the finding that more than half of coastal drownings are happening in regional and remote areas ... The rise in attempted rescues by members of the public who end up drowning themselves (bystander rescues), is a worrying trend that lifesavers don’t want repeated this summer.
All leaders must be able to lead difficult conversations
I often get asked by leaders how to have a difficult conversation. My answer is always the same. Don’t have one! Have a normal conversation. A difficult conversation should be treated as a normal conversation. That is, they are conducted respectfully, empathetically, with good intent, and safely ... Key is not to have a difficult conversation when either party is angry. No one can listen when they are angry.
Making bore water fit for dialysis
Making scarce and impure bore water in The Centre’s outback fit for use in medical dialysis has earned Alice local Michael C Smith a Distinguished Alumni Award from Flinders University in Adelaide. “I’m proud that one of my designs is working today in Kiwirrkurra, Australia’s most remote Aboriginal community,” says Dr Smith.
