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Rural and Remote Education - NSW

Rural

and Remote Education - NSW

Bourke primary students meeting

1 March 1999 - photographs

The primary students

meeting with the inquiry in Bourke collaborated to draw posters describing

(1) the features of 'my school now' and (2) 'my dream school'. (The inquiry

conducted a similar process with primary students in other NSW towns.)

The Bourke students wrote or drew their posters, sometimes both. Some

examples are

My school now

  • Bush, cricket,

    snakes, computers

  • Computer train

    (at Bourke Public School), bit too much work, stop fights, stop running

    on cement

  • Good teachers,

    good transport, good computers, littering, bad kids, better grass, snakes

    at school, demountables

  • Sports, a basketball

    court.

My dream school

  • A bus and a swimming

    pool, wicket keeper gloves, football

  • Motor bikes, horses,

    BMX track, golf, good green grass, good environment, no teachers, no

    running

  • Horses, motor

    bikes, hens, plants, good grass, global classroom, good classroom, no

    litter, bigger than 3ha playground, more bins, fenced in playground,

    motorbike track and jumps

  • Pool, TV in our

    class and video, tennis. McDonalds, motor bikes, more places to play

    and sit around, flowers and trees.

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updated 2 December 2001.