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2002 (c) Peninsula Community Access Newspaper Inc

 

Aboriginal study centre opens

 

Mingaletta study centre for Aboriginal students at Brisbane Water Secondary College has opened.

Initiated by Mr Ray McMinn, it operates in the Woy Woy campus library on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 3:30pm to 5pm.

Mingaletta means coming together and that is what centre is aimed at.

All Koori students on both campuses as well as all college students in Years 10, 11 and 12 on both campuses are invited to do homework, study or receive remedial tutoring to help them in their studies.

Students at the Umina campus are ferried to the centre in the college bus at 2:40 pm.

The centre is staffed by Ray, Bill Norris (recently retired from the Social Sciences faculty at the Umina campus), and Kylie Cassidy (ex student from Umina High School).

The full resources of the library, and afternoon tea, are freely available for students as they work.

In the senior campus review, some students reported that one difficulty on the campus was lack of access to the library after school.

The centre is funded for this term and further funding will depend on level of usage.

School newsletter, August