Reconciliation Action Plan News
The St Virgil’s Narragunnawali Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) aims to support our College community in developing an educational environment that fosters knowledge, pride and participation in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories cultures and celebrations.
Through our RAP Working Group we are able to invite members of our community to share their unique knowledge and valuable experience with us to ensure our RAP continues to create meaningful and sustainable change and opportunities for all.
Once a term our RAP Working Group, made up of staff, parents, carers, students and community members meets to revisit our commitments, and celebrate our achievements, while generating new ideas to develop and sustain our RAP into the future.
Tonight, we welcome Thelma Parker from Edmund Rice Education Australia to our first meeting for 2021 who will present an update on Reconciliation Australia’s 2021 Report on the State of Reconciliation. The 2021 State of Reconciliation in Australia report captures a snapshot of where we are on our reconciliation journey, where we need to go, and how we are going to get there. The evidence in the report suggests that the reconciliation movement in Australia is at a tipping point, and that we as a nation need to move from a space of ‘safe’ to ‘brave’ on issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
We also are excited to be presenting the Tunapri Makuminya Project to our Working Group for discussion and feedback. This project was created for us last year by young palawa scientist Jamie Graham Blair. It begins with an overview of the history/story of lutriwita and the area upon which the Austins Ferry Campus sits, and then provides suggestions for physical and digital signage, an extensive botanical survey of culturally significant plants and their uses, considerations for the conservation and regeneration of the campus bushlands and the potential development of cultural learning areas and curriculum perspectives.
Watch this space for updates on some very important developments for all of us in our Reconciliation Journey.
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