
Tennant Creek
Tennant Creek or Jurnkurakurr is the biggest township in the Barkly Region. The main languages are Warumungu and English
Located approximately 500km north of Alice Springs and 1000km south of Darwin, Tennant Creek is the largest township within the Barkly Regional Council district which is the second largest local government area in Australia, covering an area 42 per cent larger than Victoria.
Tennant Creek or Jurnkurakurr is the biggest township in the Barkly Region. The main languages are Warumungu and English
Connecting Youth and Elders in Tennant Creek was seen as something extremely important as the tension between families could sometimes take the best of the future of their children, it was therefore a critical work for WCE to engage all the families to fit with the whole-of-community approach.
To strengthen two way learning within our current education system. Mainstream education needs culture and language embedded to increase and enhance our children’s learning. We need to start this with early learning 0-3 and go all the way through to primary school, high school and then even on to higher education.
I joined the team in April 2016, just in time for the team meeting at Tennant Creek, where it was realised that the team needed someone to analyse the data that was being generated across the different communities.
Being a part of the WCE Initiative has been a wonderful experience and I have learnt so much from being a part of this team with such diverse backgrounds that supported each other throughout the initiative.
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