Education coverage
Regional News
WORK is set to get underway at Wee Waa High School and is expected to continue throughout next week, to remediate a small amount of mould identified in a wall between office spaces at the school as the result of a water leak from an air-conditioning drainage pipe. The leak was identified within a wall [...]
Regional News
A record number of Bell’s turtle hatchlings – wollumbinia belIi – were released into the Macdonald River near Walcha and Bendemeer this week, marking a major milestone in local turtle conservation. The project is funded by the Australian Government Natural Heritage Trust and delivered by Northern Tablelands Local Land Services, a member of the Commonwealth [...]
Education
THE Federal and NSW State Governments have agreed to fully and fairly fund New South Wales public schools. As part of the Heads of Agreements signed Tuesday, the Commonwealth will provide an additional five per cent of the Schooling Resource Standard to New South Wales. This will lift the Commonwealth contribution from 20 per cent [...]
Our Community
LEADER of The Nationals, David Littleproud, and party candidate for Parkes, Jamie Chaffey, joined Moree Plains Shire mayor Susannah Pearse and deputy mayor Wayne Tighe on Thursday to announce major funding across the region. Also present were Moree councillors Dominique Hodgkinson and Debbie Williams, Mungindi Aged Care Centre secretary-treasurer Maree Bingham, Mungindi Community Education Association [...]
Our Community
MOREE businesses have again opened their collective hearts and generously donated more than 50 raffle prizes worth thousands of dollars to be drawn at Moree Public School’s Supporting the Now, Paving the Future Long Lunch at Moree racecourse on Saturday. School P&C Association president Casey O’Hara is overwhelmed by the response. “We have had a [...]
Junior Sport
JUNIOR cricketers from across the plains proudly represented Moree Junior Cricket Club at the NSWPSSA Girls Cricket Championships at the Central Coast Regional Sporting and Recreation Complex at Tuggerah last week. The central coast championships, an annual event, brings together teams from across New South Wales, and includes representatives from each PSSA zone. Also competing [...]
Education
THE State Government aims to improve education outcomes for all students as ambitious academic, HSC attainment and school attendance targets are introduced to public schools to lift outcomes for students from Kindergarten to Year 12. However, the NSW Teachers Federation says that while the government has revealed key performance targets, the most critical target needed [...]
Mental Health
THE community is invited to get involved with the new Tamworth Mental Health Unit with Gamilaroi woman Amy Hammond running a series of butterfly weaving workshops for artwork that will feature in the new unit. Ms Hammond, from the Moree and Wellington communities of New South Wales and now based in Tamworth, is one of [...]
Freedom Ride
BEING Dutch didn’t help. In 1965, university student Machteld Hali joined an activist group called Student Action for Aborigines and went on a history-defining bus journey across outback New South Wales. The 15-day trip changed her life forever – as well as the lives of tens of thousands of indigenous people around Australia. Machteld was [...]
Freedom Ride
MOREE Plains Shire Council has partnered with Moree Local Aboriginal Lands Council and community representatives to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Ride. Gathering from 9:30am on Wednesday, February 19 at Moree War Memorial Hall, the entire community is invited to march through the CBD to Moree Artesian Aquatic Centre. Once there, Elders [...]
