It is with great pleasure that we announce and congratulate our 2020 Ethnic School Teachers of the Year.
Our Secondary Teacher of the Year is Mrs Luyen Do and our Primary Teacher of the Year is Ms Jeannie Lai.
Both winners are teachers at the Vietnamese Community School in South Australia and are pictured receiving their awards from the Association’s Deputy Chairperson Mr Paul Demetriou OAM.
We also acknowledge and congratulate all other nominees for these awards:
Secondary
Miss Nooria Najafi (Ariana Farsi School)
Dr Irene Zinonos (Port Adelaide Greek School)
Primary
Mrs Laxmi Bhattarai (The School of Bhutanese Nepali Language and Culture)
Ms Lakshmi Naga Keerthi Chandrapaty (Mana Telugu Badi)
Ms Noriko Hoare (Adelaide Japanese Community School)
Mrs Manju Khadka (Adelaide Nepali Vidhyalaya)
Mrs Hamideh Sadegh Pour (Ariana Farsi School)
Mrs Agnes Schwerak (Hungarian Community School Adelaide)
Mrs Chrysafia Tounta (St Anthony’s Greek School)
We thank our judges who this year are from the Filipino, Latvian and Polish language groups (primary award); and the Filipino, Hungarian and Latvian language groups (secondary award).