Partnerships

According to the Harvard Family Research Project, 2010, when schools and communities – including individuals, organisations, and businesses – work together to support learning, everyone, especially our students, benefits.

Relationships

Through the support of our local and wider community, we at Marble Bar Primary School have seen and experienced how partnerships is strengthening, supporting, and even transforming our students, their parents and teachers, resulting in, but not limited to:

better school attendance rates,
increased academic and wellbeing engagement,
improved program quality,
more efficient use of resources,
better alignment of goals and curricula,
opportunities that are normally a challenge for a regional school to access.

We say a big thank YOU to our partners who have supported our school to date.

If you and your community would also like to explore partnership opportunities with our school, please get in touch.

Our Partners

Airborne IT

Airborne IT provides essential technology and digital innovation services to WA’s furthest and most remote communities in Western Australia.

Marc French and his team have been working with our teaching staff and students to enhance our STEAM education via: Virtual Reality experiences and learning and creating a Marble Bar Primary School VR World, showcasing student Aboriginal inspired artwork to a global audience.

Educate IT

Educate IT is a consultancy organisation, providing school leadership team with the power, knowledge and skills required for effective ICT planning and implementation across all learning areas. Their highly knowledgeable education IT specialists have been at hand to provide equipment sourcing, installation and also resourcing for our Virtual World.

BHP Education Partnership

Through BHP’s Pilbara Education Partnerships, our school has been able to access Virtual Reality training and learning for our staff and students. This partnership is the largest corporate and government partnership undertaken to enhance education services and improve education outcomes in public schools in the Pilbara region.

Dr Shellie Morris

Since discovering her Wardaman and Yanyuwa roots over 20 years ago, Ms Morris has created music and sings in around 17 Aboriginal languages, many of which have been considered “sleeping” or close to extinction. Shellie helped our school produce 5 professionally mixed Nyamal songs, being co-managed with Em Media Studios in Sydney.

Roy Hill

Through Roy Hill’s support for Marble Bar Primary School’s Virtual World Gallery, we are able to expand our worldto include Nyamal art, language and culture, to be shared with others across WA, the nation and internationally. Thank you to the Roy Hill team for the opportunity to continue our culturally immersive Virtual Reality learning and world.

Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal

Through the Strengthening Rural Communities grant, our school has received valuable funding from the Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal, to further “increase engagement in school in remote community through provision of virtual reality equipment to enhance innovative digital arts program.”

Atlas Iron

Atlas is an Australian owned iron ore company, mining and exporting direct shipping ore from its operations in WA’s Pilbara region. The company has provided our school with resources to help create our culturally responsive, award winning Virtual World Gallery.

Australian Schools Plus and Horizon Power

Australian Schools Plus helped our school be a recipient of Horizon Power’s Community Partnerships Program this year, to support our culturally responsive STEAM initiative.