Jugiong Public School

The village of Jugiong is situated on the Murrumbidgee River, along the Hume Highway between Yass and Gundagai. Jugiong Public School is a small, isolated rural school in the Cootamundra Principal's Network. It is a proud member of the Murrumboola Learning Community(MLC). The school provides an education for students drawn predominantly from the rural areas surrounding the village.The school has two multi-stage classes - K-2 and 3-6. Students at Jugiong Public School are involved in learning experiences that foster dynamic learning and establish confident, creative individuals who are active and informed citizens. The school implements HOW2Learn, a strategy focused on building student's capacity to learn, through explicitly teaching dispositions and habits to develop a learning culture that enables students to be self aware of their learnng, use the language and dispositions of successful learners and share a belief that intelligence is learnable and expandable. At JPS students paticipate in Project Based Learning which provides the students opportunities to actively explore real-worl problems and challenges and acquire deeper knowledge. JPS, along with it's MLC partners will be part of the Yalbinyagirri - Learning for the Future Project. Yalbinyagirri aims to foster a living history and continuing reconciliation journey by embedding local Wiradjuri history, culture and contributions in authentic learning experiences. As part of the project JPS has been the recipient of an Eco Schools Grant of $3500 to create a traditional Wiradjuri garden and landscape including a yarning place. Students will learn about totems, local culture and practices and Dream Time stories. JPS students were also selected to participate in the Yalbayarra - Telling to Speakprogram which has been designed to develop students' understandings of nationally recognised and local Wiradjuri Aboriginal practice, language and culture.Their art works will be exhibited in the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery in November. Jugiong students benefit from a music program (marimbas and ukulele) delivered by a tutor from the Young Regional School of Music each week. In addition to class lessons, student are able to access group and individual tuition in guitar and keyboard. JPS is part of the Sporting Schools Program. This has introduced students to a variety of sports that they may not normally have easy acces to, including, cricket, tennis, athletics and orienteering.