Cultural News
New - Sorry Day Liturgy
Our Indigenous Students and our F.I.R.E Carriers lead us in our Sorry Day Liturgy.
New - Reconciliation Week
National Reconciliation Week – 27 May to 3 June now occurs every year as a significant week in our school calendar. This week across the school, children will be learning about why we have Reconciliation Week.
It is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia.
National Reconciliation Week is bookended by two significant milestones in the reconciliation journey — the successful 1967 referendum (27th May) and the High Court Mabo decision (3rd June, 1992).
This years theme - 'Be a Voice for Generations' encourages all Australians to be a voice for reconciliation in tangible ways in our everyday lives – where we live, work and socialise. The FIRE Carriers helped create a video to help stamp out racism which was played during Assembly on Monday. The FIRE Carriers and some of our indigenous students also spent time reading dreamtime stories to younger students during the week.
A reminder that the Reconciliation Breakfast is held this Friday at 8 am for all of our Indigenous families and anyone else who is interested in attending. Aunty Ella will be our guest speaker. She will share stories of her time, living on the Flats between Shepparton and Mooroopna as a young girl. Further details below.
Reconciliation Week Activities
During Reconciliation Week, our students will learn about why we are called to be a voice for the next generation.
Our students will participate various events such as going to the view the murals in Shepparton and to learn about our Yorta Yorta elders,
walking to the Flats and going to Rumbalara to learn about the
history of the housing that was set up after the Queen’s visit in 1954.
Our FIRE Carriers will read Dreamtime stories to the younger students,
Other students will participate in activities in their classroom to learn more about
Reconciliation and this years theme to be a voice for change.
Reconciliation Week Breakfast
Our Indigenous Families, (parents and children) are invited to attend our
Reconciliation Week Breakfast on Friday 2nd of June at 8 am in the Marian Centre.
Aunty Ella Anselmi will be our guest speaker.
For catering purposes, please email Catherine Dyke by Wednesday 31st May. (cdyke@smmooroopna.catholic.edu.au)
or ring the office to let us know you are attending.
All are Welcome
Updated - Mass for Healing and justice
On Thursday 1 June our didgeridoo students will perform at the Reconciliation Week Mass at St Mary’s, Nathalia. Our FIRE Carriers will also be attending to represent St Mary’s.
Parents are invited to log in to the live stream if they would like to be part of the Mass for Healing and Justice this Thursday 1st June at 11 am.
We are taking our FIRE Carriers and some of our didgeridoo students.
Link to live stream:
https://links.powerav.com.au/6s7
New - Reconciliation Week - Community Event
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.
