September 19, 2026 — 5:00am
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Students in year 7 and 8 at Bellbird Park State Secondary College learn language a bit differently from kids at most other Queensland schools.
But deputy principal Diane Pashen wants other schools to follow her lead.
Pashen’s part in creating the school’s Yagara language program earned her a Schools Plus Teaching Award this week.
That program’s goal was “reviving the sleeping language”, Pashen said, alongside connecting students with both the culture of the country they lived upon and their own.
“We’ve got over 54…
Read the full article at SMH.COM.AU
