Milyakburra School aims to provide high quality education for students from early childhood through senior years. Key goals include developing literacy and numeracy skills, engaging students through culturally sensitive learning, and increasing attendance rates. Challenges to education in the remote community include lack of infrastructure, services, and opportunities that limit learning; however, partnerships and a whole-school approach support student development.

1. Milyakburra SchoolGroote Eylandt College Strong Start, Bright Futures

2. Students

3. Attendance Data Every Child Every Day

4. Enrolment Year Breakdown

5. School Staff

8. Integrated curriculum and play based learning

9. Parental involvement in the learning process

10. Use of assessment data to identify learning needs – driving teacher programs

11. Major focus on oral language development and phonological awareness

13. Voices from Early Childhood

15. Strong focus on Literacy and Numeracy

16. Specialised intervention program - Quicksmart

17. Use of assessment data to identify learning gaps and needs

18. Provide real and meaningful contexts for learning

19. Continue to develop phonological awareness

22. Continued strong focus on literacy and numeracy

23. Market Garden – rich learning context - integrating maths and literacy that can lead to viable local employment and / or business enterprise

24. Preparing students for pathways – mainstreams school, VET

25. Working with local operations to provide learning opportunities

26. Retention and engagement is the most challenging area

29. New Senior Years program being developed in readiness for 2012

30. School is working in partnership with Groote Eylandt College Schools, NT Senior School (933), NTOEC and regional support to develop a plan for senior years students for 2012 onwards.

33. 3-9 programs - basketball, discos, movie nights, sport and recreational activities

34. Teacher programs required to have community engagement factor

35. Language and Culture Program

36. Mentoring literacy leader in the community.

39. Building student resilience and coping skills

40. Developing and identifying good learning behaviours

41. Building respect and pride for self , others, school and community

42. Working together

44. Daily health routines

45. Partnership with local clinic – weekly health talks

47. Quality teaching

48. Expectations and goals communicated to students and families

49. Raising school profile in the community

50. Creation of a happy, safe learning environment at school

51. Partnership agreements with local service providers – no school no service

52. Engaging Curriculum

53. Incentives Every Child Every Day

55. Winners - ABC ‘Watch us Grow’ NT schools garden competition

56. Regular articles written for various publishings

58. Weekly timetabled learning togethers

59. Shared leadership

60. Recruitment and retention of quality staff

61. professional learning

62. Using data to identify needed teacher support

63. Specialised support staff

65. Student outcomes NAPLAN results show that considerable improvements have been made over the last three years. However we still have a long way to go to reach out goal that all students achieve at least minimum benchmark. Teacher assessment on Individual students have shown that those students attending school 90% or more have made significant advances in both literacy and numeracy.

67. Limits students access to different learning contexts

70. How do these impact on Teaching and LearningMiddle and Senior Years

71. How do these impact on Teaching and Learning Families with young children

72. How do these impact on Teaching and Learning Support Services

73. Learning and Social Opportunities How do these impact on Teaching and Learning

74. How do these impact on Teaching and Learning Access to Technology

75. Community Comments ‘We need our kids to be strong with education because one day they are going to run our communities’ Eric Wurramara – community leader ‘I am going to come to school everyday to get clever, yeah when I am big I am going to be fighter pilot and make big money – yeah.. you have to be clever to do that you know’ Jenzel Lalara 11 year Student ‘It is important for the kids to know both ways – they need to be strong in Anindilyawka way and strong in English way’. Morgan Wurramara community leader ‘Kirsten – I want to learn now can you send me to boarding school. I go little bit silly but now it is too boring, now I want to get job, to learn…. too boring now’ - 18 year disengaged Milyakburra youth

76. Question from community member? ‘Why is it that when Indigenous children go to school everyday and they learn lots, they know, but then when they finish school they do nothing - just sit around , not working ? I have seen this all over’ Violet Huddleston

77. Can you help us improve education and social outcomes for Milyakburra youth?We would like to hear your ideas and thoughts.Please email Kirsten Moreykirsten.morey@ntschoools.net

78. Thank you to all of our Partnerships ANGLICARE NT