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| Baldivis Primary School - Cooloongars Djaliny, Cooloongars Kadidjiny |
Baldivis Primary School was awarded an Encouragement Award in the 2006 PALS awards for their project titled, Cooloongars Djaliny, Cooloongars Kadidjiny – Children Listening, Children Learning, which set up an interaction and friendship between the students and older Noongar people. |
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| Christian Brother's College Fremantle - Kirriwkurra Outreach |
| Christian Brother's College Fremantle's PALS project submission, 'Kirriwkurra Outreach' received a south metropolitan Encouragement Award for supporting significant interaction and cultural exchange between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. |
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| Floreat Park Primary School - Aboriginal Heritage in Bold Park |
| Floreat Park Primary School were the major winners in the Primary School category in the north metropolitan area for their PALS project, 'Aboriginal Heritage in Bold Park', that identified flora and fauna of Indigenous cultural significance in a suburban park, and produced a pamphlet to share this knowledge with others. |
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| Kununurra District High - Sharing Our Stories |
Kununurra District High's 'Sharing Our Stories' project was the Winner of the Primary School category in the regional north for its oral history focussed PALS project involving weekly storytelling by Elders to two schools in Kununurra.
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| Yandeyarra Remote Community School - Yande on Film |
| Yandeyarra Remote Community School's 'Yande on Film' PALS project received a regional north Highly Commended award for contributing to broader community understanding of the local Indigenous culture. |
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| York District High School - Avon River Wargyl |
York District High School's 2006 PALS project 'Avon River Wargyl' won a regional south Encouragement Award for its approach in identifying Indigenous significance in the York area and communicating this to others.
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| Nannup District High School - Coming Together in Nannup |
Nannup District High School's 'Coming Together in Nannup' PALS awards 2006 submission won the regional south Secondary School category for creating community awareness about the strong cultural and spiritual importance of the Nannup area to the traditional owners of the land.
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| Moerlina Primary School - Moerlina Primary School |
Moerlina Primary School in Mt Claremont received a south metropolitan Highly Commended award in the PALS 2006 awards for their project 'Many Voices – One Voice', that gave students a real understanding of the experiences of the Stolen Generation.
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| Spearwood Alternative School - Coonana Camping - Kids N' Community |
Spearwood Alternative School's PALS 2006 project submission 'Coonana Camping - Kids N' Community' received a south metropolitan Highly Commended award for their efforts in providing an opportunity for students to have real and positive interaction with Indigenous people. |
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| Comet Bay College - Local Connections |
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Comet Bay College students were involved in a comprehensive PALS project that involved excursions, incursions, learning Noongar language and creating a striking piece of art work The Flag. |
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| One Arm Point Remote Community School - Bardi Culture Program |
One Arm Point Remote Community School won the 2008 Overall BHP Billiton Prize for their project Bardi Culture Program. One Arm Point Remote Community School is 200 kilometres north of Broome on the Dampier Peninsular. The school has approximately 100 students.
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| Banksia Grove Catholic Primary School - In Harmony |
Banskia Grove Catholic Primary School received Runner Up in the Art & Culture Category. Established in 2004, the school is developing a Reconciliation precinct in the school to foster harmony and peace among students and staff. |
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| Borden Primary School - Borden Noongar Language & Culture Project |
| Borden Primary School worked with Joe Williams, his father Elder Jack Williams, and Aunty Mrs Avril Dean to raise the children’s and community’s awareness of the Noongar culture generally and the cultural significance of Boola Meela (Bluff Knoll) and the Stirling Ranges. Over Term 3, the whole school (42 children from three classrooms) focused on Noongar language and culture. |
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| Riverlands School - Fridays at the Autumn Centre |
Winner Sustainable Partnerships 2009
Riverlands School has continued their community project since PALS first started in 2004. Students enjoy weekly visits with the Indigenous Elders at the Elizabeth Hansen Autumn Centre, a hostel where patients from remote communities come to stay while receiving dialysis treatment. |
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| Koorana Primary School – Circle of Life |
Winner Sustainable Partnerships 2009
The school is implementing an Aboriginal Education Plan to expand their culturally inclusive curricular and professional development for all staff in Indigenous education |
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| Hedland Senior High School – Harmony Tree |
Runner up Sustainable Partnerships 2009
The Hedland Harmony Tree has grown from a small idea into an impressive four metre by four metre sculpture made from scrap steel that will soon take pride of place in the South Hedland Central Business District. |
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| Neerigen Brook Primary School – Youth Engagement |
Runner up Community Development 2009
Neerigen Primary works alongside at-risk students in the local Armadale area at the Champion Centre to boost the students’ self-esteem and encourage them to re-engage within the school environment. |
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| Baldivis Primary School – Koondarn Biddi Koorling Kootadining: Dream Trail Walking see and Understan |
Winner Environment 2009
Over the past five years the school has undertaken a comprehensive program in Indigenous studies focusing on establishing Noongar partnerships with the local Indigenous community. This has seen a breaking down of commonly held prejudices and through integration and immersion in the local culture of stories, cultural practices and bush skills, non-Indigenous students have developed an understanding and appreciation of the ancient Noongar cultural past. |
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| Riverlands School – Bounce High |
Winner Health 2009
Riverlands School currently has five Indigenous students from disadvantaged backgrounds attending the school on scholarships. These students face great challenges adjusting to life in the city, having come down from the Kimberley with limited prior educational experiences. Intermittent hearing loss and other learning difficulties add to the challenges they face. |
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| Wandering Primary School – Involvement |
Runner up Education 2009
Wandering Primary School is a small rural school with no Indigenous students. In the past, there were many Indigenous students at Wandering because it was the nearest school to an Aboriginal mission that has since closed down. Teacher Jenny Dunn believed the students were missing a vital part of the town’s history. |
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| East Waikiki Primary School – Connecting Communities |
Winner Education 2009
Teachers at the school have always been committed to implementing an Aboriginal perspective across the curriculum to varying degrees but in the past they have independently pursued various approaches to Indigenous studies. In consultation with the local Indigenous communities, government agencies, students, staff, and the AIEO a Scope and Sequence document was developed for Indigenous Studies to guide teachers. It is a sequential planning tool that identifies opportunities for incorporating local traditions and providing valued and authentic opportunities to support effective Aboriginal cultural understanding throughout the curriculum. |
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| West Beechboro Primary School – Katitjiny Noorn |
Runner up Arts and Culture 2009
A mosaic snake entwined around the buildings of the school, protecting the children and promoting the knowledge of virtues that bring the people of the world together, is the finished product of West Beechboro’s project. |
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| Moorditj Noongar Community College – Stitched Together |
Winner Arts and Culture 2009
Moorditj College students collaborated with students from Riverlands School every Friday for a term to work on creating and stitching the dolls, with the resulting friendships and cooperation a benefit to all. |
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| One Arm Point Remote Community School – Ardyaloon Culture Program |
High Commendation 2009
One Arm Point Remote Community school is located approximately 200 kilometres north of Broome on the Dampier Peninsula. The school works together with community Elders to capture local community knowledge and history into the school curriculum. With community consultation the school has developed a cultural studies program to support and value cultural knowledge of the Bardi/Ardyaloon peoples. |
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| Palmyra Primary School |
School Community Award 2009
Palmyra Primary has a small number of Indigenous students. The school is becoming increasingly aware and more accepting of Indigenous culture through ongoing projects but students still have limited opportunity to interact with Indigenous adults/teachers/leaders outside the school community. Some Indigenous students have had little opportunity to spend time with positive Indigenous male role models. Aboriginal culture has often been presented in a traditional context, giving some students the misunderstanding that Aboriginal culture is only a traditional and not a living culture. |
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| Edale Kindergarten – Sharing our NAIDOC Day |
Innovation Award 2009
Edale Kindergarten is a double unit purpose built kindergarten, with one side an Aboriginal kindy and the adjoining unit a multicultural kindy. There has been virtually no contact between the parents of both kindergartens. A lot of parents and children at the multicultural kindy have recently migrated to Australia and have little knowledge about the Aboriginal culture. |
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