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Speaker 1: Well, in some pretty exciting news. I think you'd have

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Speaker 2: Leania School celebrated its fortieth birthday yesterday with a huge

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Speaker 2: event on the school oval and joining me on the

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Speaker 2: line to tell us a little bit more about the celebrations.

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Speaker 2: It is the Leania's School principal, Miss Leah.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, kay. How are you?

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Speaker 1: I am very good. How are you guys going?

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Speaker 2: And how's the school recovering after its fortieth birthday yesterday?

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Speaker 3: Well, what I would say is our school is so

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Speaker 3: amazing and so full of excitement that there's no recovery.

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Speaker 3: It just let's keep going. I love it.

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Speaker 1: That's what happens when you turn forty, isn't it, Miss Leah?

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Speaker 1: You have to keep going.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly right. And we had all the three jumping

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Speaker 3: castles and a petting zoo and face painting, you know,

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Speaker 3: for all the children and the family to be able

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Speaker 3: to relax. We had food bands there and all our

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Speaker 3: classrooms where most of the classrooms were open, and each

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Speaker 3: block of classrooms did a decade, so we had the

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Speaker 3: eighties and just to involve our current students, they did

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Speaker 3: artwork for the eighties and then nineties and then we

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Speaker 3: had a photo booth, and we've got a school survey

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Speaker 3: coming up, so parents survey options for them to just

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Speaker 3: go into a QR code. And then we had all

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Speaker 3: the memory really that's been kept over the years, all

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Speaker 3: in different classroom blocks, so that people could come in

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Speaker 3: and see how amazing and innovative our teachers and staff.

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Speaker 2: Are awesome, how fun and I bet the kids and

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Speaker 2: the families and everybody absolutely loved us.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely And you know, an event like that doesn't actually

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Speaker 3: happen without your backbone to our school board and our

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Speaker 3: administration staff really did put a lot of behind the

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Speaker 3: scenes around being strategic to ensure that we did do

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Speaker 3: have a quality event, but also on a practical level,

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Speaker 3: lots of really exciting balloons and making it look like

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Speaker 3: a big party.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, miss Leah, tell us how much has the school

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Speaker 2: changed over that forty year period. I would imagine that

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Speaker 2: you know that there's there's been a lot of growth.

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Speaker 2: There's been lots of different ways that things change in

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Speaker 2: terms of education too. Oh well, the.

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Speaker 3: School was built when I was finishing school, so it's.

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Speaker 1: Been a while.

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Speaker 3: Chatty. I actually taught here in two thousand as a

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Speaker 3: classroom teacher in two thousand and two thousand and one,

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Speaker 3: so I've got a little bit of background.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it did.

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Speaker 3: Yeah years six seven, and in those days we had

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Speaker 3: thirty five children in that class.

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Speaker 1: Yep, it's a lot of kids, lots of looking.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but if you have a look back at what

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Speaker 3: the principles have done right from the start, you can

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Speaker 3: see that, you know, there's there's been that iteration and

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Speaker 3: improvement the whole way through. And I can't but help

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Speaker 3: acknowledge Henry Gray as being here. You know, he was

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Speaker 3: a long standing principal in the community for nineteen years

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Speaker 3: and then an Tonkin came along for the following six

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Speaker 3: years that before I came. So amongst those principles, I'm

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Speaker 3: sure the Foundation Principles would have had a hard you know,

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Speaker 3: staff in the sense of setting the school up with resources,

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Speaker 3: but around building the community. I had first hand experience

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Speaker 3: working with Henry and then of course as a colleague

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Speaker 3: with Anne, and I can see that all of us

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Speaker 3: have put in a big a collaboration really around the environment,

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Speaker 3: you know, improving classroom infrastructure, but also the practice, the pedagogy.

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Speaker 3: So it's you know, we're in a good place.

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Speaker 2: And I know that Henry Gray listens to the show

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Speaker 2: and he's a wonderful man. He was well, he was

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Speaker 2: recognized for his work as the school Prince as well,

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Speaker 2: getting that Order of Australia earlier this year.

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Speaker 1: And I know that our teachers are such a phenomenal.

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Speaker 2: Part of our community, and particularly you guys that work

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Speaker 2: as principles.

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Speaker 1: It is such an important job.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, you've got to have strong leadership and you've got

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Speaker 3: to have not just you know, the intellectual knowledge and

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Speaker 3: the relationship and the empathy for everybody around what the

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Speaker 3: environment is like, but also the social environment and making

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Speaker 3: sure that we're healthy together.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Now, miss Leah, I know it's probably hard to you know,

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Speaker 2: to pick sort of one thing or you know or not, but.

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Speaker 1: What are some of the highlights for you?

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Speaker 2: Do you think when you've gone back through the history

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Speaker 2: of the school over the last forty years, because it

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Speaker 2: is such an incredibly long period of time for the

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Speaker 2: school to be operating, what some of the highlights as

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Speaker 2: you've gone through all that info and all through all

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Speaker 2: the history.

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Speaker 3: I think I think the staff, if you have a

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Speaker 3: look at the committed the teachers and the long term

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Speaker 3: commitment that teachers have given to this community and how

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Speaker 3: they've their dedication of actually has made a direct difference

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Speaker 3: to the generations coming through. I have to honor them first.

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Speaker 3: I think, certainly, you know, mentioning the leadership is important,

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Speaker 3: but we wouldn't be here without the support staff, without administration.

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Speaker 3: Stuff like their highlight that you can't that are not

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Speaker 3: tangible in one sense, but they are in another. So

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Speaker 3: I think it's really important to acknowledge that. And I

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Speaker 3: think the other big thing for Leannur is we've really

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Speaker 3: progressed with how we teach and how we deliver, and

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Speaker 3: we really are very innovative around our practices and we

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Speaker 3: keep abreast and I would really be able to say

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Speaker 3: that our learning environments are absolutely second to none.

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Speaker 2: They're beautiful, oh wonderful stuff. Well, a big congratulations to

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Speaker 2: the school. Forty years. It's an incredible period of time.

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Speaker 2: And Leah Crockford, the principal at Lean, your primary school,

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Speaker 2: or as the community knows you, Miss Leah, thank you

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Speaker 2: very much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Cottie, thank you