Reconciliation week should be every week at HRS.
Now, more than ever!
I spoke at Middle School Assembly this week and I urged our students to understand and immerse themselves in the amazing National Reconciliation Week that we have planned from Monday, 27 May up to and including Monday, 3 June and NOT just let it happen around them.
At HRS, our non-Indigenous staff and students rightly choose to organise and run the special week. It is largely our responsibility to move this country towards a truly reconciled state. A place we all love and are proud of - and where we live happily and respectfully with all Australians.
I really believe that our children’s generation will come together to produce the best version of a harmonious community into the future.
I urge our students to:
- speak up for the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
- learn as much as we can about First Nations people in Australia
- call out racism wherever we find it
- provide opportunities for a voice for all
- to connect with each other
- to respect each other, and to
- change and act where we can.
At HRS our students can:
- Attend student reconciliation meetings
- Get involved in NRW at all levels
- Learn about true histories and issues
- Sing some great songs and be voices for reconciliation
- Come together
- Read and contribute to our RAP, which is on MyHRS
And I think I have mentioned this before, but now more than ever when it comes to reconciliation:
- Be kind
- Get involved
- Do your best
Andrew McGregor
Principal
