Congratulations to our Award recipients
who were awarded their Bronze and Silver certificates
at our recent Middle/Senior Years Assembly:-

SILVER AWARDS
L-R:  Sarah A, Mr Abernethy, Maya J

BRONZE AWARDS
L-R Back Row:  Mr Abernethy, Bella G, Jessica M
L-R Front Row:  Robert K, Emily J, Stephanie G, William T, Caitlyn T

Rohan from "Olympics Unleashed" was also on hand to present ribbons to some of our students following their success at the recent Western Regional Athletics Carnival.
(L-R - Nikolas K, Rohan, Stephanie G)

As part of NAIDOC celebrations, Honey from Year 7 shared her family story with the Middle and Senior Years students during the assembly. 

Please see Honey's story below.

My name is Honey and today I will be speaking about my aboriginal heritage. I come from a line of aboriginal women, my tribe is called the Wiradjuri tribe. The Wiradjuri tribe originated from NSW and even founded their own language. The Wiradjuri tribe was known as the rivers tribe because the land they lived on had three rivers going through it.

I found out that I was aboriginal last year after my family went to a funeral. We then heard the news that my great, great, great grandmother was aboriginal. Due to the discrimination they faced and the stealing of their children we did not find out until then. We then started to question how their aboriginal culture stayed secret for so long. Once we went further into our research we figured out that my great, great, great grandmother Bessie actually had 10 children, and when summertime came around she would actually not allow them to go into the sun for a long period of time. Her children could not go outside into the sun so that they would not tan. If Bessie’s children tanned it would then be obvious they were Aboriginal then unfortunately leading to them being taken from Bessie. This was called the stolen generation. 

The stolen generation lasted from 1910-1970.  It was a large time period of which children were taken away from their parents due to various government policies.

After finding out that I was Aboriginal I felt a sense of pride, knowing that I was a part of a community, a tribe, a culture, a family. This gave me a feeling of warmth, through my newfound knowledge of this beautiful culture I’m so lucky to be part of.

Honey P