Mornington Island State School is one of 35 Queensland schools successful in receiving funding to improve family and community engagement to enrich students learning at school.
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Mornington Island State School will receive $70,000 over three years as part of the inaugural Queensland Fair Education Program grant from national education charity, Schools Plus.
The announcement was made by Education Minister Grace Grace on Friday March 8 who said the program would "provide additional support focusing on parent and student engagement, the early years and kindergarten, indigenous language and culture, literacy, wellbeing and the transition to high school."
"The Fair Education Program aims to improve the learning outcomes for some of the state's most disadvantaged students thanks to a commitment of $3.3 million over three years from the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation and The Bryan Foundation," Ms Grace said.
Mornington Island hosts 1500 students from prep to year 10 in the Wellesley Islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
The focus of the project is in establishing mum and dad groups to engage parents of children in the early learning centres to share successes and challenges.
The project will be able to work with children in the community, engage with families of children who are not currently attending daycare or pre-prep, support parents' in teaching their children to read, increase numbers of children enrolled in pre-prep and train parents interested in learning support work in the school.
Schools Plus CEO Rosemary Conn said the grants would make an immense difference to the successful schools, located throughout Queensland from Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria to Mossman in the far north, Yelarbon in the south and Cunnamulla in the west.
"Our organisation aims to close the education gap by connecting donors who recognise the value of a great education with the Australian schools that need it most," Ms Conn said.
"Our unique Fair Education Program is a perfect example of how we work with schools to deliver initiatives that have the greatest impact for students.
"The program has already been very successful in New South Wales so we are pleased to have the support of Tim Fairfax Family Foundation and The Bryan Foundation to bring it to Queensland."
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Samantha Campbell
Samantha Campbell (nee Walton) has worked for regional and rural publications across New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory. She is currently writing for the North Queensland Register based in North West Queensland. Email: samantha.campbell@austcommunitymedia.com.au
Samantha Campbell (nee Walton) has worked for regional and rural publications across New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory. She is currently writing for the North Queensland Register based in North West Queensland. Email: samantha.campbell@austcommunitymedia.com.au
