16 Sep 2015
On Wednesday 9th September 2015, we were very excited to welcome Mr Dylan Williams, representing the Prime Minister, and Mr Bob Ward, representing the Mayor of Gosford, to our school to present a very special award to two of our students. You may remember last year when our Yr 2 and Yr 3 Aboriginal Literacy group students, under the teaching of Mrs Beaton, won two Encouragement awards in the Patrick White Young Indigenous Writers' Competition. This year, we have continued Aboriginal student Writing groups, led by teachers from each stage. The Stage 3 group has been working with Mrs Shearer and, within that group, Marlee and Isaac combined to write the story reproduced on the back of this newsletter. The story was then sent to the Prime Minister's NAIDOC committee. Twenty-five award winners were chosen in NSW after over 200,000 entries were considered and shortlisted through a process involving the Federal NAIDOC committee, a panel of Aboriginal Elders and Department of Education representatives. We are delighted that our students have achieved an award at this prestigious level.