Community & Business
22 June, 2023
Students prepare to sing and sign
A cohort of students from both Mareeba State and Mareeba State High School will once again travel down to the south-east corner to sign their way to the top for the 19th iteration of Creative Generation (CGEN) next month.
A cohort of students from both Mareeba State and Mareeba State High School will once again travel down to the south-east corner to sign their way to the top for the 19th iteration of Creative Generation (CGEN) next month.
Students part of the Mareeba State School Auslan Choir will perform alongside 134 other state school from across Queensland at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre on 13, 14 and 15 July.
This year the theme is “Out There, In Here, We’re All Connected” and the students will be performing three songs with “True Colours” as the main performance followed by “If I Can Dream” and “Higher Love” as the finale joining Toowong State School and Indooroopilly and Ingham State High School as the Queensland Signing Choir.
The Auslan Choir has been involved in CGEN since 2019 and perform in front of thousands of Australians each year they attend as it is nationally televised on Channel 10.
Mareeba State School CGEN coordinator Wendy Tilse said the choir was established back in 2013 as part of an extracurricular activity and has since grown substantially.
“The purpose of the program was to support the communication barrier between deaf students and their peers by introducing Auslan Language into the school community, raising awareness of the language and deaf culture,” she said.
“At our school, Auslan is used as a method of supporting deaf and hard of hearing students in mainstream/inclusive practice classroom to access a high level of educational programs and has been fully immersed into the school community as part of the second language for communication.
“In years five and six we also offer Auslan as a language subject – we are very proud of the students’ commitment to Auslan and deaf culture.”
MSS CGEN Signing Choir would like to thank the Mareeba community for supporting their students travel ling to Brisbane this year.
