The Dubbo Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (AECG) has given students and staff of Dubbo College a big tick for their commitment to closing the gap in Indigenous education.
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Recently, they received 10 Dubbo AECG awards at its annual ball.
Major awards went to Dubbo College Delroy Campus music teacher Brooke Tonks and student learning support officer Doug Gordon.
Twenty-four-year-old Ms Tonks received the Teaching Staff Award: Secondary 2018 after inspiring year 9 and 10 students to give a piece of Australia music an Indigenous “makeover” and perform it in front of classmates.
“Dubbo College’s total enrolment is 39 per cent Aboriginal and I believe it is very important to be inclusive and respectful,” she said.
Doug Gordon, 56, who has worked at Delroy Campus for 18 years, received the 2018 AECG President’s Award.
He is the driving force behind Indigenous dance and the Delroy School of Rock band, and teaches Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students how to play the didgeridoo.
At Dubbo College Senior Campus AECG awards were presented to Hayley-Ann Smith, who received the Girls’ Academy Perpetual Trophy and Award for Outstanding Student, Girl’s Academy Achievement Award and Youth of the Year Award; Maddison Chapman, who received the Senior Sportswoman of the Year Award and trophy; John Hill, who was presented with the Clontarf Student of the Year Award and Perpetual Trophy for Outstanding Student, and Timothy Boney-Stewart who was named Sportsman of the Year.
Three awards were received by a teacher and two students at Dubbo College South Campus.
The Schools Community Award went to HSIE teacher Virginia Wake, the Senior Leadership Award to student Skye Crawford and the Secondary Reporting Award to student Wade Miller.
