Reconciliation Week – 2019

• Sorry Day is on Sunday, 26 May.  Sorry Day is an annual acknowledgement and recognition of members of the Stolen Generations. A website containing further information is https://www.reconciliation.org.au/national-sorry-day-an-important-part-of-healing

• Students have been learning about Reconciliation Week. Resources on the following website may be useful to assist families with activities listed appropriate to grade levels. https://healingfoundation.org.au/schools/

• Some students from our ‘Leaders of Community’ team will accompany some of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to the Reconciliation Walk being held during the morning of Friday 31 May at Bellambi.

• Following the Reconciliation Walk, our Friday afternoon assembly will acknowledge Reconciliation Week. Please join us for this significant event.

The artwork ‘Healing Country’, is about the resilience of the human spirit and Aboriginal People’s connection to the land and country. It speaks of their trials and tribulations but also the strength, endurance and determination of the People of the Stolen Generations and their Families.

The Spirit of the people remains steadfast like the tree Strong and Proud. Depicted central to the artwork the tree with its roots, draws deep water from within the land which replenishes and renourishes, in this still place healing takes place. The art of deep listening and comtemplation – listening to self, listening to others, listening to country.

(Further explanation is found in he https://healingfoundation.org.au/schools/)