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"Who we are ...... Where we come from..."
The Murri School is a Prep to Year 12, community owned and controlled Independent School which sits on the unceded lands of the Yagara people in Acacia Ridge Queensland.
For the first ten years of operation the school was located in a leased, disused primary school in Highgate Hill. This situation was not ideal as there were no playing areas for the children and access to only three classrooms which was not suitable for the growing numbers. The school was asked to relocate during 1995 as the site did not meet Workplace Health and Safety Standards. We were then able to secure a two year lease from Education Queensland on a closed inner city school in Milton. In 1997, the school was successful in its application to the Commonwealth to secure funds to purchase our current site at Acacia Ridge, which was the Acacia Ridge State School.
For the first ten years of operation the school was located in a leased, disused primary school in Highgate Hill. This situation was not ideal as there were no playing areas for the children and access to only three classrooms which was not suitable for the growing numbers. The school was asked to relocate during 1995 as the site did not meet Workplace Health and Safety Standards. We were then able to secure a two year lease from Education Queensland on a closed inner city school in Milton. In 1997, the school was successful in its application to the Commonwealth to secure funds to purchase our current site at Acacia Ridge, which was the Acacia Ridge State School.
In 1998 we moved to what was the Acacia Ridge State School. |
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Documents created in the establishment of the Murri School speak to Aunty Mary’s belief that;
It is the right of every Aboriginal/Islander person to have an education system and curriculum which guarantees the integrity of their cultural life.
This is a belief we still hold today.
It is the right of every Aboriginal/Islander person to have an education system and curriculum which guarantees the integrity of their cultural life.
This is a belief we still hold today.
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