MARRUNG

Marrung Report 

2024 saw the Yarning Circle grow with new members from Year 7, 8 and 11, giving the group a real breadth and senior students the opportunity to mentor younger students on their cultural paths. 

In recognition of Truth-telling, Reconciliation and Self-determination, The Koorie Emerging Leaders in Schools project is bringing students together to create their own educational futures. In Semester One, the first KELiS day was hosted by the Gippsland Tech School and we had two students sign up as Leaders, Monika Cameron and Ella Addison. This meant that they were then invited to participate in Semester 2 workshops with other leaders from the Inner Gippsland Region to co-design cultural projects at their own schools. In 2025 we look forward to a 3-day camp and seeing where the KELiS Leaders’ school projects are developing.  

Also in 2024, the Yarning Circle embarked on a new project that will leave a legacy for all future graduating First Nations students in the form of a possum-skin cloak. Each new student to the school will have the opportunity to contribute a skin to the cloak project, with a depiction of their learning journey. At the end of Year 12 they will sew their skin to the cloak for graduation and the story will grow! We had two sessions this year, under the cultural guidance of Bunurong Elder and school community member, Jarrod West. 

We continue to welcome new members who are discovering heritage that was hidden for generations in order to protect families from government removals and harassment. The revelations of elderly relatives have seen the Yarning Circle grow in the last 18 months and at KSC we aim to create cultural safety to explore what this means for students and their families. Truth-telling is healing for all of us and makes our community stronger.

Deadly Thinking

Foster NAIDOC Wulgunggo Ngalu Learning Place Dance Presentation

Possum Skin Project

Shade Cloth Designs