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Newslines Radio: Spotlight on Hermannsburg – education

11 June 2013
Children and Schooling
Beach shore picture taken from above

Education is a big priority for Hermannsburg community. In part two of our Newslines Radio special feature, community members talk about why school is so important and how Australian Government funded programs like the National Aboriginal Sporting Chance Academy’s ARMtour are helping to make school a fun place to be.

Education is a big priority for Hermannsburg community.

In part two of our Newslines Radio special feature, community members talk about why school is so important and how Australian Government funded programs like the National Aboriginal Sporting Chance Academy’s ARMtour are helping to make school a fun place to be.

“I’m talking to my young cousins and nephews, ‘return to school, no matter you’re 15, 16, no matter you’re finished your ceremonies. School is important and [so is finding] a job’,” Hermannsburg community member Celina Malbunka said.

Through Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory and the Sporting Chance Program, the Australian Government is working with the Hermannsburg community to achieve greater education outcomes.

A new model of the School Enrolment and Attendance Measure is being delivered in Hermannsburg to further improve school attendance.

The National Aboriginal Sporting Chance Academy (NASCA) are operating their ARMtour project in Hermannsburg as a part of the Australian Government’s Sporting Chance Program.
 

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Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory is a $3.4 billion investment and responds directly to what Aboriginal people told the Government was important to them.

Through Stronger Futures, the Australian Government is funding a range of programs and services in Hermannsburg to help people build independent lives where community, family and children are safe and healthy.

One important program supported through Stronger Futures which is helping to close the gap in Indigenous education outcomes in Hermannsburg is the School Enrolment and Attendance Measure (SEAM).

The Sporting Chance Program is an Australian Government initiative that uses sport and recreation to increase the level of engagement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in their schooling to encourage positive educational outcomes.