| School: | Yiyili Aboriginal Community School |
| Chairperson: | Mr Norman Cox |
| Principal: | Mr Nicholas Try |
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| Educational Aims: | Yiyili School encourages an educational relationship among students, staff and parents where communication is open, friendly and invites involvement. Both Community members and teaching staff promote an atmosphere of reasonableness and understanding where our young people know they are cherished in an environment that supports both the wealth of their traditions and acknowledges equality for all through improved educational outcomes. |
| Staff: | 5 Full Time Teachers
13 Aboriginal staff |
| Enrolment: | K - 10 |
| Languages: | Kriol, Gooniyandi |
| History: | Influenced by the Noonkanbah and Strelley experience, the school was established when a group of mainly Gooniyandi people shifted from the station camp at Louisa Downs Homestead to set up a new camp approximately 7 kilometres to the east. Establishing their own school was seen as a better alternative to sending their children to the hostel at Halls Creek where parents felt they would lose control of their children. Since that time the school has expanded considerably to include six out-station communities who bus their students into Yiyili. |
| Address: | Locked Bag 31 HALLS CREEK WA 6770 |
| Phone: | (08) 9191 7195 |
| Fax: | (08) 9191 4817 |
| Email: | yiyili1@bigpond.com |
| Website: | http://yiyilischool.atspace.com/ |
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