The Deputy Secretary of the NSW Department of Education, Mr Murat Dizdar came to Forbes North as part of a scheduled visit to look at public education in Forbes. Mr Dizdar arrived right on time and spent the afternoon at Forbes North. This significant visit included seeing 3/4P and Miss Parker in the kitchen and garden, preparing and eating vegetable linguini with produce harvested from our very own garden. The touring party then went to Miss McMillan in 1/2M who were studying Science and the life cycle and botany of troublesome weeds on our farms and properties. In 3/4F, Miss Fliedner led the demonstration of investigating decimal numbers less than 1 and placing them on number lines. Our visitors then enjoyed time in our support unit with K-6J and Miss Jones who were preparingfor Father’s Day, and finally our esteemedguests were astounded by the FNPS Wiradjuri choir performing no less than foursongs
in Wiradjuri Calare and English in an emotional performance at our Yarning circle.
Mr Dizdar completed his visit talking to our entire staff after school and was warmly welcomed, enjoyed afternoon tea, was presented with multiple gifts including a traditional totem design from our Wiradjuri tutor Miss Haines and then they headed back to Parkes to fly and return to Sydney.
Our captains Corby and Will were perfect hosts, and the guests were amazed to see primary students cooking, gardening, doing maths and science lessons, getting excited for Father’ Day and then listening to our choir.
The official party visiting Forbes North included:
• Mr Murat Dizdar, Deputy SecretarySchool Performance
• Mr Dean White, Executive Director RuralSouth and West
• Mr David Lloyd, Director EducationalLeadership, Cowra Network
• Mr Damien Dooley Human ResourcesBusiness Partner Department of Education
• Miss Evonne Webb Deputy SecretarySocial Media Officer
Our visitors were impressed with Forbes North, its beautiful appearance, the collaboration between teachers, the data collected to inform teaching practice and the improvement focus ongoing for every child at our school. We hope they all return soon to Forbes.