The Joy of Competition and Inclusion at the Swan Hill Show Students at the Swan Hill Specialist School are celebrating their collective success at the Swan Hill Show, held earlier this month. The pupils submitted a variety of entries in the show's competitive...
School Clustering: Happy Days in the Western Districts It's early days yet but a new rural alliance in Victoria's western districts is reaping rewards. Involving three schools — Balmoral K-12, Goroke P-12 and Edenhope College — the partnership has been...
Going Great at Girgarre The small town of Girgarre, about 40 minutes from Shepparton in the Goulburn Valley region, has seen a great deal of change. Back in 2012, and after a decade of drought had depleted its dairy industry, the town lost 146 jobs when its...
New Beginnings in Western Victoria A fresh partnership is brewing in the western districts and it's drawing plenty of enthusiasm. Involving three schools -- Balmoral K-12, Goroke P-12 and Edenhope P-12 -- the new alliance is still in its infancy, with each school...
Skipton’s Sporting Success It’s fair to say the Skipton Primary School bats above its average in the realm of competitive school sport. As a small, rural school with a typical enrolment of about 100 students (give or take a few) it has chalked-up some notable...
Proud to be Small With an enrolment of 21 students, the Myrrhee Primary School in the King Valley region of North East Victoria proudly identifies as being ‘small’. Teaching Principal Ash Graham has been at the helm for almost five years now and says, in that...
Cooking Up a Treat at Katamatite Primary If you’d have dropped into the Katamatite Primary School on Wednesday last week, you’d have been greeted by the delicious smell of a baking sensation, involving stuffed zucchini, mashed potato, bacon and plenty of cheese...
In the Spotlight: NSW Snow Gums Learning Alliance In the rural reaches of northern New South Wales, there's something clicking in education. Together, five small schools are flourishing under the success of a well-established partnership, in which almost...
Lancaster Leading Synthetic Phonics Visiting Lancaster Primary School last week, CEP Media Officer Britt Ditterich sat down with Principal Trish Perry and Learning Specialist Willie Alblas to learn more about the school's adaption of synthetic phonics ....
A Growing STEM between Katamatite and Yarrawonga It's early days yet but a collaborative approach is taking shape in the Goulburn Valley. Two schools -- Katamatite Primary and Sacred Heart Primary in Yarrawonga -- have been steadily building a partnership in...
As Remembrance Day fast approaches, one remote school in Victoria’s North East has captured its significance with a research project dedicated to the Australian Light Horse Brigade. Grade five and six pupils at Corryong College have spent many months researching and...
Teams of primary pupils from across Victoria have been busily fundraising, exercising and creating their pushcarts in readiness for the 2018 Energy Breakthrough, to be held in Maryborough next month. Here’s a brief snapshot from a handful of schools, discussing their...
A CLUSTER of small Catholic primary schools from south west Victoria has been awarded the 2018 Country Education Partnership (CEP) Rural Education Award. With a scholarship value of $6000, the award was presented to the Western Trinity Cluster at the Rural Education...
(PHOTO CAPTION) (L-R BACK) Samuel Oliver, Cameron Symes, Thomas Fox, Grace Kelly, Dakota Webb, Shania Axford (FRONT) Kathryn Charles, Kaitlin Hards, Claudia Fox, Hannah Fox, Evette Rowe. Werrimull P-12 has lifted learning to the sky, with the purchase of two...
It's hard to believe but the first half of the school year is almost done, and with the shift into Term Three comes a shift of gears for the annual Energy Breakthrough Challenge. For competing schools, the level of planning, practice and perfection takes a leap, as...
The Nathalia Learning Community Alliance has celebrated 40 years of collaborative education at its biennial conference in Mulwala. The cluster initiative between the town’s four schools – two State and two Catholic – has long attracted industry praise for its...
This was the answer; the most wonderful answer ... " -- Alison Cheater, Elmhurst Primary It’s taken almost a year of planning, but a new joint program addressing shortfalls in specialist subjects is already paying dividends for the Pyrenees Cluster. The...
A cluster of VCE students in the Mallee have been given the ultimate start to their academic year with a group workshop in Ouyen. About thirty pupils from the Mallee Education Cluster were involved in the gathering, aimed at creating a collaborative approach to the...