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Speaker 1: On Friday in what is some pretty wonderful news and

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Speaker 1: a bit of history I think for the Northern Territory

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Speaker 1: as well, a massive milestone for the Wogoman Primary School.

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Speaker 1: They celebrated their fiftieth birthday last week. We got a

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Speaker 1: message from Henry Gray, a former Northern Territory school principal,

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Speaker 1: who'd said that you know, he wanted to wish them

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Speaker 1: are big congratulations and I know that there was plenty

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Speaker 1: lined up as well. There was activities embracing the theme

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Speaker 1: back in time and a huge cake apparently and some

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Speaker 1: artwork unveilings. Now joining me on the line to tell

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Speaker 1: us a little bit more about it is the Woggaman

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Speaker 1: Primary School Principal Mandy McKinnon.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Mandy.

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Speaker 3: Good morning Katie. How are you today?

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Speaker 2: I am wonderful.

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Speaker 1: How are you guys going after your fiftieth birthday?

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Speaker 3: We're wonderful. We had such a fabulous week last week

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Speaker 3: celebrating with our community. It was just awesome.

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Speaker 2: Tell us a bit about what you did to celebrate.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we started with a concert on Wednesday night that

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Speaker 3: had been the script had actually been written based on

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Speaker 3: a time travel type concept and showcasing some of our

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Speaker 3: history so that was a massive musical extravaganza. So some

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Speaker 3: of our students and our music teacher had written that

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Speaker 3: and it was just a fabulous kickoff for our celebrations

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Speaker 3: and our events.

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Speaker 2: How awesome.

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Speaker 1: So tell me, so you said it was based on

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Speaker 1: like a time capsule, was something was something set aside

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Speaker 1: or buried fifty years ago?

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Speaker 2: Mandy? Or how did you do that?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Well, that's a rather funny story, Katie, because we've

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Speaker 3: got lots of stories of time capsules, but so far

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Speaker 3: we haven't been able to locate one.

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Speaker 1: But this.

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Speaker 3: Musical was really looking at things like you know, Julia

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Speaker 3: Gillard visiting our school and the key implementation of some

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Speaker 3: of our murals and designed around that, just showcasing some

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Speaker 3: of our history basically with some musical numbers tied in.

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Speaker 1: So that was awesome, how wonderful, And it would have

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Speaker 1: been great, you know, to get like for the kids

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Speaker 1: to be part, you know, really such a huge part

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Speaker 1: of that celebration and everything that's happened at the school

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Speaker 1: over fifty years.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and it was wonderful to bring our community together

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Speaker 3: as well, which we need again on the Friday morning

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Speaker 3: with our assembly.

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Speaker 2: Oh how nice.

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Speaker 1: So Mandy, just to ask again about that time capsule.

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Speaker 1: So is there reports around the school that one has

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Speaker 1: been buried somewhere but no one can find it.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, we've had one dug up and there's another one.

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Speaker 3: I heard a story from someone who actually came to

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Speaker 3: our activity as a past student who believes there's one

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Speaker 3: down under a tree somewhere. So we'll be investigating that.

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Speaker 1: Oh too funny. Hopefully you're able to locate it at

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Speaker 1: some point.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well we put another one together, but we're

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Speaker 3: going to put this one on display in the office.

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Speaker 3: It's not going to be buried.

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Speaker 1: Good idea, good idea, so that it can be located

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Speaker 1: down the truck in fifty years time. It could be

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Speaker 1: an urban myth to I suppose, couldn't it that someone

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Speaker 1: thinks it's been buried.

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Speaker 3: Potentially? Absolutely, we'll keep you posted.

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Speaker 1: Please do Now, how did all the students enjoy the

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Speaker 1: cellars that were had? And were you able to bring

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Speaker 1: back any students from sort of fifty years ago?

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Speaker 3: Not quite fifty years ago, but we certainly brought back

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Speaker 3: some from close to that we've had. I mean, we're

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Speaker 3: a school that a bit of a school of choice,

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Speaker 3: and we have a lot of families that have gone

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Speaker 3: through generations at our school. So we had one of

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Speaker 3: our young students talk about the walk Up family who

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Speaker 3: have had generations and generations of people come through his

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Speaker 3: nana and aunties and uncles, and there's still four of

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Speaker 3: them at the school. So he made a beautiful little

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Speaker 3: speech and acknowledgment of that, and we actually had a

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Speaker 3: Q and a panel, so we had some past staff

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Speaker 3: and some past students who were able to share little

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Speaker 3: anecdotes of their time at Wogomen, which was wonderful.

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Speaker 1: That sounds like such a wonderful thing to do, and

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Speaker 1: it is such a huge like it really is such

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Speaker 1: a huge feat for such a great school to be

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Speaker 1: operating for fifty years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's wonderful, and you know, and we have a

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Speaker 3: wonderful community and we have awesome kids so and terrific staff.

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Speaker 3: So it was a wonderful celebration to bring us all together.

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Speaker 3: You know, a band played wed we did a massive

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Speaker 3: mosaic project and we set up some historical displays in

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Speaker 3: one of our rooms for people of view. So that

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Speaker 3: was awesome. When the kids enjoyed participating in their back

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Speaker 3: in time activities, Man seventies discos.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, how cool. They would have loved it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, fabulous.

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Speaker 1: Was there a bit of pressure on you, Mandy, as

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Speaker 1: the principal to make sure that it was really you know,

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Speaker 1: that that celebration lived up I spose to people's expectations

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Speaker 1: when it's fifty years.

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Speaker 3: I guess so, Katie. But I've got a fabulous team

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Speaker 3: around me here at Woboman, and we actually have some

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Speaker 3: stuff who've been here for almost half of that time,

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Speaker 3: and we were able to invite one of our principles

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Speaker 3: back we've been here for nearly twenty years as well,

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Speaker 3: so very much a shared effort and very much a

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Speaker 3: celebration of who we are as a school, where we've

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Speaker 3: come from and we were heading so which was awesome.

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Speaker 2: That's incredible.

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Speaker 1: So you've got teachers there that have been there for

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Speaker 1: over half of that time.

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Speaker 3: Well, one of our admin team and one of our

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Speaker 3: teachers close to half the time. Yeah, so oh it's amazing.

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Speaker 2: It really is, you know.

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Speaker 1: Just to sort of bring it into context as well,

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Speaker 1: what does it mean for the school community really celebrating

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Speaker 1: fifty years, Well, the.

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Speaker 3: School community all enjoyed having input into that celebration and

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Speaker 3: just pride, huge pride in what we've achieved in that

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Speaker 3: time and where we are now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it is so incredible. A good school,

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Speaker 1: a wonderful school that people feel proud of. It's you know,

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Speaker 1: it can do so much for the broader community as

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Speaker 1: well and.

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Speaker 2: For all the children that attend.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, And you know we're a small school, but

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Speaker 3: we're achieving great things and that's fabulous to see and

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Speaker 3: be part of, I think, and very exciting.

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Speaker 1: Oh, good on you, Mandy McKinnon, the Wogaman Primary School principal.

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Speaker 1: It is lovely to speak to you this morning. A

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Speaker 1: big congratulations on the school celebrating fifty years.

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Speaker 3: Huge thanks Katie. It's great to get that out there,

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Speaker 3: that story out there for ye beautiful story.

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Speaker 2: Well it's funny, we didn't really know.

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Speaker 1: But then we've got a message from Henry Grat who'd said, Katie,

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Speaker 1: I want to make sure that we that we say

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Speaker 1: a big happy birthday to the school. He'd messaged that

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Speaker 1: through on Friday, and I thought, oh, I'm so glad

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Speaker 1: that he messaged through because I just think it's a

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Speaker 1: really wonderful achievement.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, thank you, Good on you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much. For your time this morning, and hope

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Speaker 1: you all recover this week. Have a bit of a

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Speaker 1: quiet week before the school holidays. After all the celebrations

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Speaker 1: ye never do.

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Speaker 3: Moment in school, we had a wonderful time.

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Speaker 2: No good on you, Thanks so much, Mandy,