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A NEW partnership with RACQ is helping ARTIE Academy students stay on the road to success. After a positive pilot program, the ARTIE Academy Driver Licence Program will be extended for 2019 and 2020, with RACQ coming on board to help get young Queenslanders safely behind the wheel. ARTIE Academy Education Coordinator Andrea Warren said […]

THE ARTIE Academy’s newest recruits did not need to be convinced of the effectiveness of the program they are working in – they have already lived it. The unbridled success of the ARTIE Academy has led to a rapid expansion of the program, meaning FOGS has brought on board more Education Coordinators to keep up […]

THE HON. MALCOLM TURNBULL MP PRIME MINISTER MR TREVOR RUTHENBERG LNP CANDIDATE FOR LONGMAN   Saturday July 7 2018   Investing in Young Lives Through Former Origin Greats   The Turnbull Government is supporting the education of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in Caboolture and throughout Queensland, with a new $1 million investment. […]

Georgina’s continued growth and achievement at school is all thanks to her hard work and determination.  In 2018 Georgina with the help of her ARTIE Academy Education Coordinator made the conscious decision to improve her behaviour while at school and reduce her number of OneSchool referrals. Georgina has always demonstrated great attendance however at times […]

Stevie, an ARTIE Academy student from Beenleigh State High School, has been successful in achieving the ARTIE Academy Accelerate Challenge in Term Two. The ARTIE Academy Accelerate Challenge is designed to set individual achievement targets and have weekly mentor meetings with ARTIE Academy Education Coordinators to keep them on track and to work through any […]

Between May 28 and June 1, Morayfield State High School celebrated Reconciliation Week with an informative display designed by ARTIE Academy students and Indigenous Support Staff. It was an interactive display that allowed Indigenous and non-Indigenous students to come together and discover more about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history. Staff and students were able […]

Kelsey Hawthorn started in the Marsden State High School Deadly Unit in 2017 as an ARTIE Academy Tutor as part of her University prac commitment. Kelsey was studying to be a teacher and did her hours as a tutor at Marsden State High School encouraging and assisting the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in […]

FORMER South African president Nelson Mandela understood the importance of celebrating your victories. Mandela, one of history’s greatest figures, overcame enormous adversity in his life to make a difference to the lives of millions of people in his own country and around the world. Mandela spent 27 years in prison because he stood up for […]

DRIVING Queensland students to new heights has always been the goal of the FOGS ARTIE Academy education program. But in 2017, that drive for success became literal with a unique research collaboration between FOGS and the QUT School of Economics (QuBE). QuBE and FOGS have received an Australian Research Council grant to undertake an Individualised Drivers Licence program for eligible participants in the study. Under […]

THE Former Origin Greats organisation has always been about Queenslanders helping Queenslanders. Now, with the ARTIE Academy’s TAFE Tutor Partnership, we are seeing Queenslanders helping Queenslanders helping Queenslanders. Under the new partnership, TAFE students studying Community Service, Youth Work or Education Support are providing support in literacy and numeracy to ARTIE Academy students. This not […]