Moree Secondary College students have embraced Aboriginal culture over the past week, as part of their annual NAIDOC Week celebrations.
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The school's NAIDOC Week celebrations commenced on Monday, July 1 and will come to an end on Friday, July 5. During this week time, students have taken part in activities and events which centred around this year's theme, 'Voice Treaty Truth'.
On Thursday, students, staff and community members came together at the Multi-Purpose Centre for the presentation of the closing ceremony following the opening ceremony at the Carol Avenue campus on Monday.
Not only does this presentation acknowledge the dedication and hard work of students, staff and community members but it also allows for students' dance, art and music pieces to be recognised.
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One student who has positively embraced NAIDOC is Alliyah Davison who is a year 12 student at the school.
For her dance HSC major work, Alliyah choreographed an inspiring and meaningful dance which reflects the continuous detachment from Indigenous culture, primarily focusing on Australia and some of the rapid consequences which have occurred as a result of negligence of the earth.
The dance was beautifully performed by another senior student named Alyssa Duncan.
"The thing I enjoy about NAIDOC week here is that the students get to showcase their talent," executive principal Peter Sheargold said.
"I enjoy seeing the community come together and recognise each others' achievements," teacher Jason Auld added.
The ceremony was followed by a complementary lunch for everyone and an afternoon filled with traditional activities for the students to get involved in.
"I like the sense of community," Alyssa Duncan said.
"Everyone gets together, whether they are Aboriginal or non-Aboriginal and come together as a nation."
The activities which the students could choose included fishing, camp oven and johnny cake making, artefact demonstration and boomerang throwing, bush skincare workshop, jewellery making, aboriginal art, and traditional games.
Support teacher Jayde Picker said the students were so indecisive when it came to picking two activities that they could not make a decision.
Fellow support teacher Janine French organised this year's NAIDOC Week events and said it was a great week overall.