07 Nov 2017
Cultural Leadership Camp
This term, 5 students and 3 staff in Secondary were selected to attend a Cultural Leadership Camp. The group travelled 6 hours to Balladoran which is 10 minutes from Gilgandra, Central New South Wales. From Monday to Friday, students, Mr Small, Mr Borodin and Aboriginal Instructor Terry Hayek camped on a site where an aboriginal elder named Uncle Ralph lives. Uncle Ralph is renowned for working with teenagers across NSW and during the week, provided many opportunities for our students to participate in quality learning experiences. Among the activities which students engaged in were several bushwalks, yabby fishing, a visit to Pilliga Nature Reserve cave site, a traditional smoking ceremony, spear throwing, instrument making, sheep shearing and listening to many stories about Aboriginal history and The Dreaming.