Papunya, Town Bore, Braitling

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Interschool Sports
Papunya, Town Bore, Braitling
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Papunya and Town Bore Interschool Sport

• PE Coordinator, Mandy Hargreaves
• visited Town Bore and Papunya
• during the holiday period and was able to
• conduct Basketball clinics with the students
• and Holiday Program worker, Claire McEwan

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• Whilst she was there, Mandy also met with
• Erica Prosser the Principal of Papunya
• School and explained the School Sport NT
• Program to her.
• They explored ways of involving remote
• students in the Exchange and Championship
• Program at the Cluster Level.

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• One of the perennial difficulties, which
• preclude remote involvement, is the lack of
• transport.
• Fortunately the schools were able to take
• advantage of the funding provided by the
• School Sport NT Desert Storm Cluster to
• charter the Bush Bus and to stay at the
• Heavitree Gap Resort.

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• Belinda Pearson, Assistant Principal at
• Braitling School, took up Mandys offer of
• Interschool Sport and as a result, three
• different classes, totalling over 60 students
• participated in the Exchange as well as
• 15 Papunya Students and
• 3 Town Bore Students

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The Program

• Monday 20th November
• Interschool Basketball with
• Braitling Primary School at the
• Traegar Park Basketball Stadium
• Swimming at the Heavitree Gap Resort

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The Program

• Tuesday 21st November
• Interschool Athletics with Braitling Primary
  School.
• Coaches Chris and Joel Goldring, Claire McEwan,
  Chris Brokensha and Mandy Hargreaves conducted
  javelin, high jump, shot put, and long jump
  sessions
• Papunya and Town Bore students then went to the
  Gap
• Youth Centre and did Aerobic Dance and learned
  about
• Maori Culture as well as learning how to do the
  Haka.
• Thanks to Nga Mataruarua for his enthusiastic
  teaching!

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Athletics
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The Program

• Tuesday 21st November (continued)
• Students then did an ITC session in the Internet
• Café and learned about the Deadly Mob project
  that
• involves the Papunya community.
• Next they travelled to Bradshaw School where they
  did a
• Jump Rope for Heart Clinic along with students
  from
• Willowra and Ukuka

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JUMP ROPE
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The Program

• Wednesday 22nd November
• Interschool Cycling and Bocce with the students
  from
• Braitling Primary at the Dalgety Road Velodrome.
  Under
• the tuition of National Under 19 Mountain Bike
  Champion,
• Daniel Johnston and former National
  representative,
• Chris Brokensha.

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Cycling
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The Program

• Wednesday 22nd November (continued)
• After recess the Community kids joined with
  Braitling and
• Undertook a Hip Hop workshop, facilitated by MC
  Ashley
• McDonell.
• It was brilliant to see how the students came
  together to
• compose a rap song which they put to music and
  sang and
• recorded.

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Hip Hop
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In the beginning
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The Rap!

• We came by Bush Bus to Alice Town
• To have a look around
• With Braitling we found
• The ball courts were brown and the balls were
  round
• And the whistle Nerida blew
• Made a loud sound.
• The next day on Wednesday at the velodrome we
  played
• When it was time to go the kids said No - we
  wanna stay
• cause the bikes are fast.
• Its palya eh?

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The Program

• Wednesday 22nd November (continued)
• The 3-day program of sport and cultural exchange
• Concluded with another round of interschool
• Basketball games and umpiring skill development.

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Basketball
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• It was an exhausting time and I would like to
  acknowledge
• the work that Stuart McDonell (DEST) did in
  initiating this
• project, as well as the hard work done by the
  accompanying
• Teachers, Robert Evans and Colette OKane and
  POEM
• Project workers, Chris Brokensha and Claire
  McEwan
• Thanks
• Mandy Hargreaves
• PE Coordinator
• Desert Storm