Spotlighting our second pilot site for Culture Counts: Yirrkala Bilingual School and the Laynhapuy Homelands School.
Yirrkala sits on the Gove Peninsula in North-East Arnhem Land, on Yolngu Country about 18km from Nhulunbuy and roughly 650km east of Darwin in the Northern Territory. Yirrkala School has spent close to 50 years building a bilingual model of education, where Yolngu Culture and Language sit alongside Western learning. Laynhapuy Homelands School extends that same approach out across the remote homelands of the Laynhapuy region, supporting Yolngu children wherever Country has called their families to live.
Over the next 18 months, ATSIMA and The University of Queensland evaluation team will be working alongside Yirrkala and Laynhapuy to bring that same strength and self-determination into how mathematics is taught and understood.
Photos taken by Culture Counts Project Manager Kym Oakley.