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Bunya Campus; Creating Rural Futures
From the start of
2011 when Dalby State High School acquired management of the former Australian
Agricultural College Corporation (AACC) site as a second campus, came the
beginning of Bunya Campus’ existence. This transformation of Dalby SHS into a
dual campus school with boarding students marks one of the most exciting times
in the school’s history and is providing rural and remote students the
opportunity to attend one of three State boarding facilities providing students
with access to a quality education.
Through designing and implementing the State
Showcase Award winning program, “Bunya
Campus: Creating Rural Futures”, we have provided local students along with
students from more rural and remote locations access to a quality education
programme that is focussed on delivering
a QCE and other key learning outcomes, individually tailored to the students’
experiences, ambitions and talents. One of the key learnings that led to the
success of the programme is that the instructional and relational constructs in
this unique educational setting is integral to improving outcomes for rural and
remote students. By putting ‘faces’ to our students and through the shift in pedagogical
focus, Bunya Campus has been very successful in helping to ‘create rural
futures’.
Our unique dual campus environment is the perfect
backdrop allowing students to access our signature programmes of Agriculture
and Trade, coupled with traditional academic learning and extension programmes
and is attracting students from across the state and nation. Further to this,
we are equipping students with the capabilities to succeed post-secondary
education and this highlights our efforts in promoting the key agendas of the
Department of Education.
Moving forward with this agenda and to ensure that
we continue to provide programmes that meet the needs of students, the Dalby
State High Agricultural team has introduced a Cert III in Agriculture and a
Cert II in Rural Operations in 2019 to extend the programme and continue to
work towards catering for the ‘rural futures’.