Cultural News

Indigenous Education

New - 2025 Fire Carriers

On Monday 3rd of March, we commissioned our FIRE Carriers for 2025. A FIRE Carrier’s role is to promote respect, fairness and inclusion for Aboriginal people. The FIRE Carrier promotes, enculturation and reconciliation in our Catholic primary and secondary schools throughout the Sandhurst Diocese.

I congratulate the following students who are FIRE Carriers for this year:

Ruby Atkinson

Orlayah Lines

Jordan Mason 

Will Ryan

Jensen Ferrari

Madelyn Pearce

Edie Lawson

Sophie Church

Evie Lowe

We also commissioned staff who would like to promote Reconciliation within our school. The staff were:

Elaine Vertriest,

Angela Brown,

Josh Harrison, and

Katherine Mirabella.

We look forward to our FIRE Carriers supporting our school in our commitment to Reconciliation during the year.

Workshops

Girls Indigenous Program

Boys Indigenous Program

Acknowledgement of Country               

At St Mary’s Primary School Mooroopna we Acknowledge the Traditional people of this land. The Yorta Yorta Nation are the Traditional Custodians of this area and we remember their elders, past, present and future. We remember that the Aboriginal people of Australia will always be the  traditional owners of the land on which we gather today. We continue to grow through education and reconciliation to a better future for all Australians.