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GUMBAYNGGIRR LANGUAGE PROGRAM
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The school offers Gumbaynngiir Culture and Language Classes once a week. This program has been highly successful with students being invited to perform all over the area at a variety of Official and Community functions resulting in great culture, school and community pride.
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St Mary’s Gumbaynggirr Language classes were recently featured on a DVD produced by the department of education to be distributed to every school in NSW as an example of excellence in teaching in Aboriginal language.
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HIGH SCHOOL
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St Mary’s students have a variety of options for high school. They can stay on here at St Mary’s, as students of John Paul College, until year 9. In Year 7 and Year 8 they are at St Mary’s 4 days a week and John Paul College, Coffs Harbour, one day a week.
From Year 9 they attend John Paul College five days a week.
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Students also have the option to apply for Indigenous Scholarships to some of the best boarding schools in Australia – boys - St Ignatious Riverview and St Joseph’s Hunters Hill and –girls – Kincoppal Rose Bay and St Vincent’s College Potts Point.
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