Ballina Information Blog

Three individuals and one group, including Ballina High School teacher Michael O’Connor and the Ballina Jet Rescue Boat Service, have been awarded the highest of accolades in the State maritime community, with the presentation of a Maritime Medal. NSW Roads and Ports Minister Duncan Gay said of the four that had been judged as having [...]

There will be something for everyone to see and do at Teven Tintenbar Public School’s Country Fair on Sunday, 18 September, from 9am-2pm. “Our aim is to provide people of all ages and tastes with a great day out. As in previous years, we will have a huge variety of fresh local produce, great food, [...]

The Member for Ballina, Don Page, today presented 100 new inflatable life jackets to Ballina High School’s Marine Studies unit. The new life jackets, which provide the highest level of buoyancy and are designed to keep the wearer’s head above and out of the water when unconscious, were funded by NSW Maritime as part of [...]

Year Four and Year Five students from Teven Tintenbar School demonstrated their creative skills and Christmas sprit on Friday, 29 November, when they decorated ‘Wendy’s’ at Ballina Fair for Christmas. School Principal Ginny Latta said that the students worked collaboratively to design and create the Christmas display, and were delighted with the finished result. “When [...]

The new facilities opened today at the North Coast Institute Ballina campus will improve vocational education and training for students of the NSW Far North Coast, Federal Member for Page Janelle Saffin said. The Australian Government provided $3.28 million towards the project to build new purpose-built facilities for general education, maritime, retail, welfare and computing [...]

A $1200 Telstra’s Kids Fund grant will make a big difference to the lives of children from Teven Tintenbar Parents and Citizens Association. Teven Tintenbar P & C will buys a new school bell and PA system and is one of 625 local community not-for-profit organisations across Australia sharing in $750,000 of Telstra’s Kids Fund [...]

Students at schools across Page will have an opportunity to better connect with Asian culture and languages with the announcement of Australian Government grants totalling $57,000 for two local projects. Page MP Janelle Saffin has congratulated Southern Cross School K-12/Distance Education Centre in Ballina and South Grafton High School which have received grants under Round [...]

Ballina High School has been awarded the prestigious title of Schools First New South Wales State Impact winner for 2010 and $100,000 in funding. Schools First is brought to life by National Australia Bank (NAB) in partnership with the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and The Foundation for Young Australians. The awards are based [...]

Recently Ballina Fair conducted a colouring in competition for a local school to win an educational Tomato Patch Program for their class by the Little Green Thumbs. The competition was part of the Let’s Live Better program, a partnership with the Children’s Food Education Foundation to grow healthier communities. The winners of the competition are [...]

School captains from Alstonville, Ballina, Byron Bay, Southern Cross and Mullumbimby High Schools recently visited NSW Parliament House in Sydney as part of the Government Secondary Schools Leadership Program. The Member for Ballina, Don Page, hosted Grace Skehan, Luke Myles, Jack Jeffery, Allison Koellner, Ivy D’Orsogna, Elliot Johnson, Georgia Playford, Jasmia Bavaresco, Angeline Daniels and [...]