Harmony Day & Campfire Conversations

Harmony Day

On Thursday the 21st of March, students were invited to wear orange to celebrate Harmony Day. This a national day to acknowledge diversity in Australia and recognise cultural difference. Thanks to Lynne in The Caf, students were provided with a delicious range of food such as fried rice, creamy chicken pasta, gnocchi and sushi. Another huge thanks goes out to the School’s Hospitality students for making & decorating cupcakes, as well as the SRC team for selling them. It was great to see so many people in orange!!

Campfire Conversation

We invited our Koorie students, their families and local elders to share, listen and connect about self-determination for Koorie people in education. Self-determination is an ongoing process of ensuring that people are able to make decisions about matters that affect their lives. In education, it is important for schools to hear the voices of our Koorie students, families and elders to ensure we are meeting their needs when it comes to their education.

The purpose of the campfires, storytelling and deep listening is to: provide Koorie people opportunities to define self-determination in education; explore possibilities for how self-determination could and should look in our school; build and strengthen partnerships between Koorie communities and our school; develop a range of changes to improve agency and success for our Koorie students; highlight the benefits of self-determination for our whole school community.