Fantastic scenery, superb hospitality and food to write home about was the setting for the midterm bushrangers camp at Morapoi Station – Indigenous Station Stay.
Our hosts, Greg and Carol Stubbs, provided the setting for a refreshing, insightful and productive stay.
The unit was broken up into groups and allocated various duties including path marking, tree planting and tree borders.
Visits to the surrounding area were well received with spectacular scenery at Niagara Dam and ample time to spend rummaging around on the rocks of the area.
The evening brought with it a time of learning as two elders of the Wangkatha people, Richard and Sandra Evans, brought us items from their country. Bush tucker and medicines were shown as well as various artifacts. Stories were told and much was learned.
Some of the staff and students tried their hand at horse riding, some with more success than others.
An evening campfire with a meal of sate malu and rice satisfied even the most fastidious diner. You’d pay a fortune for a meal like that in the big smoke!
Days of hard work ended in nights of good company an well earned sleep, which wasn’t long coming.
Safe travel there and back helped make this trip very worthwhile.
Celebrated Goldfields band Yabu inspired the crowd at Wongutha CAPS on 21st June, when they turned over their instruments to 10 talented young student musicians who have recently formed two bands at the school.
Encouraged by the Yabu musicians and their peers, the enthusiastic students wowed the crowd with their engaging and professional performances and were reluctant to relinquish the top-class instruments.
Under the guidance of new music teacher Steve Briggs, the bands have been composing their own material and performing at school assemblies only recently this term.
Yabu spokesperson Delson Stokes challenged the students to go for their dreams, with stories of his days as a young student beginning his musical career at Coolgardie CAPS. Another role-model for the students, Ryan Shaw, sound technician for Yabu, also attended Wongutha CAPS and lead guitarist Boyd Stokes learned to play while attending Kurrawang CAPS.
Yabu also played at Esperance Senior High and the Esperance hotel during their two-day visit to Esperance.
Late last year the school was awarded funding from the Commonwealth Government to upgrade computing facilities.
The grant enabled us to purchase 35 new PCs with flat-screen monitors, a server, backup devices, a projector and an electronic whiteboard.
On 17th May Barry Haase MHR, the federal member for Kalgoorlie came to Wongutha to officially “open” the new technology project.
Mr Haase was keen to see these new computers used to their utmost and hoped that the students from Wongutha would benefit greatly from their purchase.
