St Clare’s High School and St Joseph’s Primary School indigenous students worked together to create a celebration of their culture in dance, music, painting and food.
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Students from the two schools gathered at St Clare’s last week to contribute to the event that also included a visit to the school by MidCoast Council Aboriginal liaison officer, Gordon McDonald, also a former student of St Clare’s High School.
Acting principal Phil Gibney said the aim of NAIDOC Week was to emphasise and celebrate the unique and essential role that indigenous languages play in their cultural identity, linking people to their land and water and allowing an authentic transmission of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, spirituality and rites, through story, song and dance.
“These languages were not just a means of communication, it opened the way to cultural and spiritual understanding for Aboriginal people,” Mr Gibney said.
“NAIDOC Week is also an opportunity for the school community to come together to connect, learn and celebrate the diversification within our community.”
