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The Middle Primary class has been focusing on the concept of reconciliation. Due to last week being National Reconciliation Week, the class revisited the First Fleet and the Indigenous Australian Peoples history. We worked discussed what reconciliation looks like in Australia and how it can continue moving forward. The students talked about what this year's motto 'taking action' looked like in our current society.

To develop an awareness of what it felt like to have the Indigenous Australian's land taken away, students were given the task to create their own countries, with their own ways of life. Students invested a lot of time into these creations, before being told that they could no longer have ownership of these 'countries.' Students reflected on how this made them feel and why. Connections were made between the students own countries and the land of the Indigenous Australian people. 

 

To coincide with our work on reconciliation in HASS, the students have also been looking at the Sacraments of the Catholic Church, focusing on the Sacrament of Reconciliation. The Sacrament of Reconciliation (officially called the Sacrament of Penance and known as Confession) is a Sacrament instituted by Jesus Christ in his love and mercy to offer us forgiveness for the times we have sinned and turned away from God.