Sunbury Downs College has marked the end of Reconciliation Week with a morning tea.
Reconciliation Week took place from May 27 to June 3, with this year’s theme Bridging Now to Next.
Indigenous students were invited to mark the week on Friday, May 30, alongside their families, staff, wellbeing team as well as Sunbury Down’s Koori engagement support officer Penny Norris and Sunbury Aboriginal Corporation representative Raquel Birch.
Health promotion nurse at the school, Elizabeth Baggs, said the week was an important one for the school to celebrate and reflect on.
“Sunbury Downs College is a proud respectful relationships school, and it’s a big part of our curriculum,” she said.
“It’s really important to celebrate awareness days such as Reconciliation Week, a time for building respect, having meaningful conversations and celebrating our Indigenous people through learning and connecting.”
Students got the chance to connect with each other, members of the community and strengthen the connections they have to the Indigenous community.
Ms Baggs said it was important to bring the community together to mark events like these.
“Its a really important thing to celebrate. We like to learn about our shared history and culture, and talk to some local Indigenous members of the Sunbury community and they can also teach us about what reconciliation means to them,” she said.
