Torres 2003 Projects Funded

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AFL Representatives  Hayley Shillig Thursday Island State High School 4069 2240

Students (some selected from trials last year) travel to competitions for AFL.

Aquaculture Program Craig Whittred Thursday Island State High School 4069 2240

Introduction of an aquaculture program which would start as a freshwater program eg Red Claw and Barramundi. This program would be working towards a goal of production of product to supply local restaurants.

Badu U12 Torres District Rugby League Trials Adam Montgommery Bamaga State School 4069 3147

Provide access for Bamaga SS to the U12 Torres Strait Rugby League trials held on Badu Island. This Carnival also provides students with the opportunity to develop social skills as the billet with members from other communities and interact with students and adults from other centres.

Bamaga Exchange Hayley Shillig Thursday Island State High School 4069 2240

Senior students travel to Bamaga to play against their sporting teams in a variety of games. Then junior Bamaga students come to TISHS for a similar day. These exchanges are organised by senior HPE students.

Bamaga Representative Sport Anja Veltheim Bamaga State School 4069 3147

This project is aimed at enabling students with sporting excellence to develop their skills and have an opportunity to gain positions in representative teams.

Croc Eisteddfod Participation By Outer Islands Kay Ahmat Badu Island State School 4069 4125

The Croc Eisteddfod is an annual event to promote life, sharing and celebration in a 100% drug free environment. It is a massive collaborative venture between a range of agencies including Health, Education, the State and Federal governments. This year the event is to be held on Thursday Island and so it is more practical for our schools to participate than in 2002 when it was at Weipa. By participating in the even,t students will have the opportunity to prepare a dance presentation with all the associated discipline. They then get the opportunity to perform in front of a huge and appreciative audience on Thursday Island. At the Croc Eisteddfod they also get to observe the performances of fellow schools. During the days of the program, students get to gain knowledge and information through drug education, careers education, cultural sharing and personal development. This project is about boosting self esteem and confidence. This project allows 10 schools from the outer islands to send teams to participate in this festival.

Croc Festival Rebecca Mason Bamaga State School 4069 3147

Croc Festival provides our students with a rare opportunity to showcase their cultural and contemporary dance skills. This is one of the few artistic performance events available to Bamaga students, due to our remote location. Croc Festival also provides Bamaga students with an opportunity to meet socially and culturally with students from other indigenous centres.

Croc Festival Involvement Anita Claasz Thursday Island State High School 4069 2240

Students are to be involved in the organising and shaping of a performance item for the Croc Festival which occurs biannually.

Cultural Heritage in the Environment Karen Boer Thursday Island State School 4069 2279

This will be a series of curriculum-based camps run on the one site over a period of three days. Each class of 40-50 students will attend a day camp that is being organised with the purpose of increasing the children’s respect for the academic prowess of the elders and those who lived in the natural environment in past history. Each group attending camp will be given the opportunity to teach the local and wider communities concerning the learning opportunities that can occur in the environment.

Democracy , Education And Careers Tour For Yam Is. Lizzie Lui Yam Island State School 4069 4215

The Year 6 and 7 students from Yam Island State School will travel from Yam Island to Cairns and then to Canberra to visit Parliament House, study democracy, visit ANU, and historic sites in the city. After this they will return to Cairns where students will visit a selection of high schools as part of their transition program. They will also look at careers available as a part of this excursion. This excursion will be the culmination of a year’s work on democracy, government and future aspirations. PCAP is only being asked to fund the travel from Yam Island to Cairns.

Exploring Occupations In My Region Carolyn Gardner Our Lady of the Sacred Heart 4069 2203

Transporting students from Hammond Island to Horn Island then to Thursday Island, to look at the occupations of people - police, ambulance, airport personnel, fire station etc.

Firing on All Four Diann Lui Darnley Island State School 4069 4007

To provide experiences for students, staff and community in the use of a non traditional medium (clay) to create art in the public place. Expose students and community to career pathways in the arts (Darnley Island and Thursday Island Arts Centre). This project includes the building of a wood fired kiln within the Arts Centre. Expertise will travel to each community to conduct skilling sessions in the production of ceramic pieces that will be fired on Darnley then returned and installed in each community.

Girls in Sport - Western Group. Raba Jobi Malu Kiwai State School 4069 4162

Seventy girls selected from Year 6 and 7 will travel from the 7 islands to Boigu Island in the Western Cluster of Torres Strait schools to participate in a 2 day sports clinic at Malu Kiwai State School. Through participation in the clinic, girls will enhance their skills in sports, nutrition and literacy. The sports clinic will again focus on basketball, athletics, netball, softball and softcrosse. There will also be a component on developing nutritional understanding, using the "Inspirations Kit". This will be used to assist girls in developing their thinking and writing skills.

Guitar Workshop Larry James Thursday Island State High School 4069 2240

Guitar Luthier works in the school for a week with all music students constructing, repairing, maintaining and demonstrating the guitar.

Horn Island SS To Cairns  Patrick Savage Horn Island State School 4069 2124

The Students in grades six and seven will be provided with the opportunity to travel to Cairns. They will visit a number of places including- Mungalli Falls Rainforest Village, Cairns TAFE, James Cook University (Cairns campus). Some of the activities that the children will be involved with at Mungalli Falls- Aboriginal dancing, abseiling, archery, bush dancing, bush walk and environmental study, visiting a dairy farm, orienteering and team building skills. 

Kids As Public Artists Project Steve Foster Badu Island State School 4069 4125

School students and their teachers will work with an artist/teacher to develop students art work and produce publicly accessible art. This program aims to develop students art skills and to celebrate these skills through the public display of their finished art work. All pieces will be collaborative pieces of artwork and the focus will be on the production of murals, story boards, and sculptures. In addition to working with students and teachers during school time, the artist will also conduct workshops with school staff and community members, so that the production of public art can continue beyond the life of this project. Local artists will be invited to participate in all components of this project so that their skills can be further enhanced at a community level.

Kool Skools Carlie Charles Bamaga State School 4069 3147

Kool Skools is an exciting National Recording and Multimedia Project for secondary students and has been running annually for over 6 years. Kool Skools promotes, develops and supports a diverse range of talent and all genres of contemporary music writing and performances. Working within a professional recording environment, selected Bamaga School students will record an album of music and produce 500 CDs containing music, video, graphics, and digital imagery. The recording will be held in a professional studio in Brisbane. Our school will receive 400 copies of the CD to sell back to the community to pay the $3000.00 registering fee for the project. The remaining 100 discs are retained for distribution to sponsors and industry professionals, as well as for general promotional purposes.

Leadership Development for School Leaders Lois Laidlaw Bamaga State School 4069 3147

Student leaders elected for 2004 in November (including 4 School Captains and Student Council President) will be invited to participate in a Leadership Camp with 200 Year 11 students from a large Brisbane School. This alliance has developed from a relationship developed as a direct result of the work by Thursday Island SS and schools from the South East corner in particular who are seeking to foster improved student understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture

Learning Technology - Gifted and Talented Camps Marcus Tanner Horn Island State School 4069 2124

A series of Learning Technology camps for Gifted and Talented students will be held across the district on a cluster basis. Students will be given the opportunity to further develop and extend existing skills, as well as be exposed to previously unknown software and skills.

Literacy Through Culture Moa Sailor Stephen Island State School 4069 4106

This program is aimed at celebrating components of the culture at Stephen Island, while using it as a vehicle to extend student literacy skills. Through the developing experiential readers resulting from cultural lessons, culturally appropriate readers will be developed. These will allow students to have their life and culture represented in texts just like students in mainstream where the predominant remains white and middle class.

Mabuiag Is. Traditional Language and Culture Program  Tom Tyndall Mabuiag Island State School 4069 4198

For 2 years, Mabuiag Island State School has conducted a Traditional Language Culture Program across the upper school years. This project is aimed at expanding this project so that it incorporates more components of the culture and is offered to all classes in the school. The program is to be offered one afternoon per week to all classes. This program is a part of the SOSE program offered by our school.

Making Music at Kubin, St Paul’s and Badu.  Rob Henson St Paul’s State School 4069 4197

Students at Badu, St Paul’s and Kubin will collect and practice singing local songs in traditional languages and English. This will be a large part of the music program throughout 2003. In term 4 we want to have Pegasus Consultants (NT) Pty come to our islands and make a CD recording of these songs. They will record about 10 songs from each school and combine these to produce a CD. This is to be used as a celebration of the work done throughout the year, and the culminating activity is the recording of these songs. The produced CDs will be released to Radio Torres Strait, throughout the communities and sent off to high schools that our students enrol in. They will also be distributed to all schools in the Torres Strait.

Making The Link. Arts And Literacy At Stephen Is SS Moa Sailor Stephen Island State School 4069 4106

This project allows our school to have access to a specialist art teacher for 1 week per term. This art teacher will not only teach art lessons to the students but will also teach lessons in other KLAs so that the art lessons are directly linked to Literacy and Numeracy. This project aims to build on the work that our school did in this area in 2002. While at Stephen Island the art teacher will work with all staff to assist with their skills development in these areas.

Mathematical and Scientific Thinking Camp Karen Boer Thursday Island State School 4069 2279

The aim of this project is to improve and challenge those students who are youth. They will explore a given natural environment with the purpose to increase their working knowledge of the maths and science that were used in past history and compare these with today’s methods of mathematical and scientific thinking. A large emphasis will be placed on equipping the supervising teachers to facilitate a similar project in the future. This project encourages the students to consider a mathematical based career through the introduction of mentors in the form of mathematics or science professors (and professors from related fields) from Tertiary institutions around the world before attending this camp.

Netball Program Davida Laney Thursday Island State High School 4069 2240

The aim of this project is to build on the initial foundation established by Margret Dorante in 2001 when a keen group of girls developed local interest in netball via a weekly competition as well as a workshop with junior players. Two years later we have many new students who have not had this opportunity to develop both competition and coaching skills.

Netball Trip Anja Veltheim Bamaga State School 4069 3147

Netball has been developed in the NPA for the last few years. This Netball trip is an opportunity for our girls to further develop their skills against fellow students from across the world.

Perceptual Motor Program for Near Western Cluster Tom Tyndall Mabuiag Island State School 4069 4198

Coralee and Murray Lawrence of Rainbow Road Resources will visit our cluster of schools and train all early years staff in the implementation of a Perceptual Motor Program. They will do this through staff workshops at the school locations and then work in classes with teachers to introduce the program and monitor its implementation by teachers. Their PMP focuses students activity so that it prepares them for the day’s learning. The program reports success in increasing student on task behaviour, developing thinking skills and reducing disruptive behaviours. This program is a 20 minute daily activity that focuses students through varied perceptual motor activities.

Primary Investigations of Science at Mabuiag Island Tom Tyndall Mabuiag Island State School 4069 4198

Torres Strait Islander Teachers and classroom assistants from St Paul’s State School will go to Mabuiag Island to introduce the Primary Investigations Science Program. St Paul’s State School has been operating this program for 2 years and all people involved are very skilled. They will share these skills by teaching classes at Mabuiag Island and working with the teachers at Mabuiag Island so that these skills are passed on. After they return to their home island they will maintain contact through teleconferences to see how the implementation of this new program is progressing.

Remote Online Art Course Trial For Mabuiag & St Paul’s Tom Tyndall Mabuiag Island State School 4069 4198

This projects aims to give students in Years 4 to 7 at St Paul’s State School and Mabuiag Island State School access to an online art program delivered via the internet. Students will access a web site with a sequence of grades lessons/activities, and with the support of their classroom teachers progress through these. This program will be supported by e-mail back up from the developers of the program. They will also be responsible for providing feedback to students on a regular basis, as regards the work they produce. The program will also be supported by 2 visits from the artist/teacher/developer to assist in using the program efficiently.

Rugby League Hayley Shillig Thursday Island State High School 4069 2240

Students involved in Rugby League are provided with opportunities to represent their district, region or state. Travel to the mainland is essential for this to occur.

School Calendar  Diann Lui Darnley Island State School 4069 4007

For students to produce a calendar that promotes school activities, community events and local facts, to be distributed to all families

Senior SAS Boat Building Project  Phil Cochran Thursday Island State High School 4069 2240

The Senior industry skills classes together with a skilled tradesperson will construct a kit 4.9m aluminium dinghy

Sharing Our Culture. Jenny Chivolo Our Lady of the Sacred Heart 4069 2203

Students from Dimbulah to travel to Thursday Island to meet with our students, learn from them, observe dance and art/cultural displays. This gives our students a focus for their cultural based efforts and provides an opportunity for them to demonstrate pride in and ownership of their culture. A return visit will be made later in the year when our students will travel to Dimbulah, a farming area with a mixed ethnic population. The students will demonstrate aspects of their culture, learning and making/writing observations about life on small mixed farms.

Sharing Specialist Teachers In The Top Western Group Richard Barrie Saibai Island State School 4069 4122

The Top Western group of schools comprises Saibai, Dauan and Malu Kiwai State Schools. Within these schools there is one physical education teacher, one nutritionist, and a selection of teachers talented in teaching a variety of subjects. This program allows for the talents of teachers to be shared as they swap with a colleague for a two week period throughout the year. Through these exchanges, students will get to share the expertise of the teacher on exchange. The specialist teacher visiting will also work with staff to offer inservice in new curriculum materials.

Stories Through Their Eyes Diann Lui Darnley Island State School 4069 4007

Select students from the YDMS Cluster to participate in a camp environment producing illustrated literature for future publication

Storytelling Through Traditional and Modern Dance Pat Priestly Our Lady of the Sacred Heart 4069 2203

Engaging a current student/dancer from the Indigenous Dance theatre in Sydney, to lead a week of dance education. By employing a person experienced in bridging the gap between traditional and modern interpretive dance, students may identify career opportunities and develop a deeper understanding of traditional dance/storytelling. Students will learn to appreciate modern storytelling through the medium of dance.

Student Leaders Cathy Woods Thursday Island State School 4069 2279

To attend a Young Leaders Day in Brisbane. Young Leaders Foundation is a non-profit organisation to assist schools develop student leaders. The program will involve speaking, question times, learning games and video presentations.

Student Leadership Camp at Badu Island. Steve Foster Badu Island State School 4069 4125

Four students from each of the 7 schools in the Western Group of islands will be selected to participate in a Leadership Camp to be held on Badu Island. The students selected will be from Years 6 and 7 and will generally be part of the student council at these schools. The camp is aimed at developing students skills in the leadership area as well as allowing them to workshop with a selection of young Torres Strait Islander Leaders.

Symposium on District and Representative Sport. Steve Foster Badu Island State School 4069 4125

PCAP has funded District and Representative Sport for the past 6 years. This support has been greatly appreciated, but the sunset clause precludes our students for continuing to get this support. Our isolation continues to exist as do our students’ need to participate in district and representative sport, so we aim to host a Symposium for all stake holders so that we can explore ways that funding can be ongoing. We wish to gather schools and community representatives, agency representatives, representatives of State and Federal funding, TSIREC representatives, District office representatives and sports advocates, together on Thursday Island so that we can explore all the avenues available to us for accessing funding to support District and Regional sports.

The Arts in Top Western Richard Barrie Saibai Island State School 4069 4122

A specialist art teacher who is based in Brisbane will be employed to offer specialist art lessons in the 3 Top Western schools of Saibai, Dauan and Malu Kiwai. The art teacher will spend 3 weeks at each school and so a total of 9 weeks working in the Top Western group. The schools will pay her wages and provide her with accommodation but are requesting travel assistance from PCAP.

Top Western Inter Island Sports  Richard Barrie Saibai Island State School 4069 4122

The Top Western Inter Island Sports has not been held for some years. We have decided to restart this sports carnival in 2003, and in future aim to hold it every second year. This sports carnival is an opportunity for all the students and their parents to get together for a competitive athletics carnival. It is also an opportunity for cultural exchange and social development. As this is an athletics carnival it is also an opportunity for students to try out for and be selected for the District team. Boigu Island has agreed to host the sports carnival in 2003 and so the students from Dauan and Saibai will need to travel there to participate. The Carnival is scheduled to be held in late term 2 of 2003.

Torres Strait Islander Artists Role Model Program Stephen Foster Badu Island State School 4069 4125

This program employs Torres Strait Islanders who are established and recognised artists to implement a program in schools so that students get: * Exposure to new art techniques; * To work with successful Torres Strait Islander artists who are both nationally and internationally recognised; * To see that a career in the visual arts is a future career option; * To produce quality artwork.

Touch Football Competitions Hayley Shillig Thursday Island State High School 4069 2240

To facilitate the improvement of touch football players at TISHS through rigorous training. Participation in competitions is essential, the majority of which are held on the mainland. Students are given the opportunity to attend trials for District, Regional and State teams.

Tournament of Minds 2003 - Ba, Da ,Sa, Ku, StP Kay Ah Mat Badu Island State School 4069 4125

Tournament of Minds is a national project that is aimed at developing thinking skills and group work to solve common problems. It is a component of many Gifted and Talented programs. Each year, Regional, State and National finals are held for students from Years1 to 10. Badu Island and Dauan Island will enter 2 teams, while, St. Paul’s, Kubin, and Saibai, will enter 1 team in the district level of the Tournament of Minds to be held on Thursday Island. All teams will prepare and practice in advance of the competition, so that they are prepared to compete at Thursday Island.

Tournament of Minds in the Torres Strait and NPA Vanessa Lee-Tebbens Thursday Island State School 4069 2279

To organise a regional Tournament of Minds competition for the Torres Strait and NPA region on the 24 August and then allow 1 primary and 1 secondary team (7 students per team) to compete in the state finals in Brisbane on 14th September.

Trial C.D. and Website Development at Kubin & Badu Steve Foster Badu Island State School 4069 4125

Frank Sawyer will be employed to work at Badu Island and Kubin for 2 lots of 5 days to work on Website design and layout with students and teachers. During this time he will assist students and their teachers to create a school and community Website that promote both. He will skill teachers and students so that they can later add and delete material from the Website. The Website at Kubin will be loaded onto CD so that the community has greater access to it. This is a community request.

U/16 AFL Crusaders State Championships James Matysek Bamaga State School 4069 3147

Last year was the first time the remote communities of the Cape and Gulf, NPA and Torres Strait were invited to forward a team participate in the AFL State Country School Championships. This invitation has followed the great success of the Crusader U/14 teams which have been involved in the State Country Championships for the past three years. The U/16 Carnival was a great success with our team winning one game out of five. The boys were very competitive against much more experienced opposition. We will continue to build on this success in 2003. We are applying for financial assistance for travel to again be able to participate in the championships. It is anticipated we will have eight players from the NPA in the representative team.

Under 12 Rugby League Trials At Badu Island Steve Foster Badu Island State School 4069 4125

This proposal provides an opportunity for students from various outer island schools to participate in the Under 12 Rugby League trials. From these trials, a representative Torres Strait Island team is selected to travel to Cairns and compete in the Regional trials.

Under 14 State AFL Country Championships James Matysek Bamaga State School 4069 3147

This project will provide 6 students from the ages of 13 years to 14 years with the opportunity to participate as a representative from the Northern Peninsula Area at the 2003 Under 14 AFL State Country Regional Championships in Townsville. These 6 students excelled in this, their chosen sport last year. They were incidentally selected from AFL regional trials, a trip that was organised by my predecessor, David Maddock-Jones. I am seeking your support to fund 6 students and 2 adults (1 teacher/coach & 1 community person/assistant coach) to travel, only to and from Cairns. All the other related costs of travel, accommodation and catering will be funded predominantly by the AFL.

Writers and Explorers Cultural Camp at Dauan Island Fiona Brimmer Dauan Island State School 4069 4107

Forty students from Year 4 and 5 at Boigu and Saibai Islands will travel with 4 supervisors to Dauan Island to participate with 20 students from Dauan State School in a week long "Writers and Explorers Cultural Camp. Geoff Bishop will be the facilitator of this camp and along with teachers will work with these students to develop their writings. The students will explore the culture and sites of Dauan Island and this will be the catalyst for their writings. All works produced will come together as an in-house publication to be shared across all schools and their communities in the Top Western Group. Copies will be sent to all schools in the Torres Strait.

Writers in Residence for Near Western Islands Kay Ahmat Badu Island State School 4069 4125

Each of the 4 schools in the Near Western Cluster of Torres Strait Schools will host a resident writer to work with students to assist them to record cultural stories and produce these as story books. All schools will use this as part of their Gifted and Talented program, and so the 15 participants from each school will be selected with this in mind. The students selected will work with the resident writer and teachers from the schools to produce cultural story books.

www.easternislandcluster.history  Diann Lui Darnley Island State School 4069 4007

Facilitator will travel around individual communities in our cluster to provide students, staff and community the opportunity to develop skills in creating web pages depicting their local histories.

YCW Sports  Adam Mead Coconut Island State School 4069 4209

This project aims to provide access for students from Yam and Warraber Islands to an Inter Island exchange on Coconut Island. The project will be focusing on improving students social skills, self esteem and self confidence outside their own community, enhancing teamwork and cooperation skills and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

YDMS Home Reading Video for Families  Laurie Barrett Mer State School 4069 4090

The proposed project is to make and distribute a video which supports the YDMS Home Reading Program. The video will be produced on Mer Island, in Torres Strait Creole. It will promote reading and raise awareness in our communities by showing good models of community members using literacy skills at work and at home. The video will also give parents practical strategies to use when reading at home with their children.

Year 11 Work Experience Trip to Cairns Leanne Young Bamaga State School 4069 3147

Twenty-one Year 11 students will travel to Cairns to complete one week of structured work experience. They will be accompanied by 4 adults and stay in budget accommodation. The Cape and Gulf Schools VET network will assist with placing students and administration details for a per student fee. Whilst in Cairns the students will go to the Annual Cairns Careers Market and Visit Cairns Region Group Training. Students will get to experience leisure activities available to them in a larger centre. (Ten pin bowling, cinemas, Crocodile Farm)

Year 6 and 7 Cairns Excursion for Mer State School Donald Whaleboat Mer State School 4069 4090

The students in Year 6 and 7 will plan this excursion throughout the year. They will be involved in all components of the planning, and this will include letter writing, planning an itinerary, making flight bookings and accommodation reservations, and many more activities. As such this will become a real life learning experience for our students. The excursion will focus on investigating careers in Cairns. As such the students will visit offices, schools, TAFE, tourist facilities and other places where Torres Strait people are employed. This excursion is aimed at focussing students on future potential careers, but also on using SAE in a mainstream situation.

Year 6,7 Excursion Glen Klints Warraber Island State School 4069 4102

The senior stage students Yr 6/7 from Warraber Island will participate in a variety of relevant educational activities in the Cairns district. These will include cultural, leadership, recreational, community and sporting activities which will help to achieve most of the outcomes set.

Year 8,9,12 Curriculum Camps  Craig Whittred Thursday Island State High School 4069 2240

Students will participate in a series of camps which will look at personal development and achieving curriculum outcomes across all KLAs.

Yr 11 Cairns Industry Placement Debby Nancarrow Thursday Island State High School 4069 2240

This project aims to provide vocational students with an opportunity to participate in large scale industry experiences. Students will complete five days of industry placement in Cairns within the Hospitality, Business Administration, Industrial Skills, Physical Recreation, Early Childhood and Marine Practice industries. The experiences and learning outcomes gained in Cairns are not available on Thursday Island due to size and scale of local businesses.

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