In Week 3, Marie Slockee- Albert flew to Brisbane to participate in the NRL School 2 Work Cultural Youth Summit. She spent the week on the Gold Coast meeting other Indigenous students from around Australia and New Zealand and got to experience Indigenous culture and learn about Maori culture. Marie was shown how to do the Maori Poi dance and the Indigenous war cry. She was also taken to White Water World and Dreamworld where she went to the Dreamworld Corroboree and learnt about Dreamtime stories and the history of Indigenous culture. Marie got to meet the men and women from the NRL Indigenous All-Stars teams as well as the Maori All-Stars teams. All of the students also got to go to the NRL All Stars game, which was fantastic:  

‘I learnt more about my own culture and how to use this to become a positive leader in my community. It was a wonderful experience and I was lucky to have the opportunity to meet new people and make new friends. I look forward to bringing back the things that I learnt and sharing them with my school.’ 

Marie

Personal Learning Plans (PLPs) will be conducted over the following two weeks. This will see all of our Indigenous students set learning and cultural goals for the year. We look forward to welcoming our Indigenous families to the College to take part in this process.

Our Years 7 and 11 students are off to camp next week. We hope they have a fantastic time!