St Patrick's Primary School Gundagai
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26 Homer St
Gundagai NSW 2722
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Email: jacqueline.fairall@cg.catholic.edu.au
Phone: 02 6944 1085
Fax: 02 6944 2161

First Nations Cultural Day

NATIONAL RECONCILIATION WEEK: National Reconciliation Week (NRW) will be celebrated from 27 May to 3 June. The 2025 theme is ‘Bridging now to next’. This theme encourages Australians to reflect on the past, look ahead to the future and continue the journey towards reconciliation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

FIRST NATION’S CULTURAL DAY: Mrs Hughes our Aboriginal Contact Teacher, has organised a special First Nation’s Cultural Day for this Thursday 5 June (Week 6). Lachie Everston and Libby Goodsell (CECG Teaching and Learning Support Officers-Aboriginal Education) along with our local Wiradjuri elders, Aunty Sue Bulger, Uncle Vince Bulger and Winnie Bulger. The students will participate in a variety of engaging Indigenous rotational activities that help promote respect and inclusion of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Students will rotate through activities that include:

  1. Yulunga Games
  2. Burra Language
  3. Yarning Circle-Flags and their significance
  4. Tools and Artefacts

The students are to wear their sports uniform for a day of activities and learning.