Our College Vision

Our Purpose

An Aboriginal community initiative, Worawa commenced operation in 1983. The College was established as a response to the needs of Aboriginal adolescents and difficulties these young people experience in the mainstream educational system. Aboriginal families and communities select Worawa for the education of their young people as the College provides a holistic education program in a respectful learning environment which is foundered in quality relationships. Families/communities see the benefits of both an all Aboriginal school and a boarding school.

Worawa Statement Of Intent

Worawa Aboriginal College provides a holistic education and boarding experience for Aboriginal young women in secondary schooling with emphases upon;

• Affirming and fostering students’ pride in their cultural identity, knowledge and respect for their heritage, languages and place as part of the nation’s diverse First Australian peoples
• Flourishing in a bi-cultural learning environment that provides pathways for life-long learning, participation and success in cross-cultural learning contexts
• Mastery of core learning skills, knowledge and understandings, with particular emphasis upon the acquisition and development of essential skills in literacy and numeracy
• Offering Aboriginal communities and families an education choice for their young women to participate in a mainstream education opportunity to achieve their full academic and intellectual potential
• Preparing and equipping young Aboriginal women with positive and optimistic attitudes and the life skills required for their futures in their home communities and the wider world
• Nurturing and developing students' creativity and self-expression, talents and capabilities, as well as their confidence and motivation to strive for excellence
• Developing students’ personal self-confidence, respect, responsibility, stamina, rigour and commitment in all their pursuits, while also enabling and equipping them for making significant life choices
• Students being engaged, challenged and fulfilled through participating in Worawa’s total education program and open and equipped to link with education opportunities at the College’s partner schools
• Developing and maintaining good moral, emotional, mental and spiritual health and well-being as well and physical fitness
• Developing meaningful, respectful and quality relationships between students and between students and staff
• Providing students with opportunities for personalised learning through negotiation and development of personalised learning plans relating to academic, social, cultural emotional and physical learning
• Sending young Aboriginal women out into the world with confidence in who they are, where they want to be and what they can contribute to their communities and to the wider world.