A recent article in The Age featured the burgeoning cluster in the West Wimmera area, highlighting the growing interest amongst rural schools to work more closely with their neighbouring schools as a key tool to improve the learning opportunities for their young...
Cluster Case Studies
Wimmera Cluster explores creative local solutions
More than 70 staff from Balmoral, Edenhope and Goroke schools came together earlier this month to explore how they could develop an effective and creative partnership to provide a quality and engaging learning program into the future for the benefit of all their...
Sale Cluster Going Strong
The Sale Rural Cluster students came together last term for a day full of activities, fun and learning for students. The Cluster day was attended by students from eight rural schools in the Sale Cluster . These schools -- Nambrok Denison, Cowwarr, Airly, Bundalguah,...
Embedding Indigenous Cultural Language in Curriculum
Wurruk Primary School, a small school in Victoria’s east, has an enduring Indigenous Culture Language Program which allows students to learn words and phrases of the local Gunaikurnai language and engage with the culture of our First Nations Peoples. The program is...
Sale Cluster of Rural Schools
There are a group of small rural schools located near Sale, in East Gippsland, who are doing things differently. The Sale cluster consists of eight schools with a total of 275 students. These schools vary in size from 16 through to 73 students. Like many smaller rural...