14 Feb 2024

Shepparton Apology Breakfast

On 13 February 2024, roughly 30 students and a small group of staff members had the privilege of participating in the 2024 Apology Breakfast in Shepparton, commemorating the 16th anniversary of the National Apology to Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people.

The Shepparton Region Reconciliation Group orchestrated a fantastic event, leaving a positive impression on the attendees. A prevailing sentiment among the students emerged in the aftermath, expressing a collective desire to actively engage in the responsibility of promoting reconciliation and social equality by fostering ongoing education for themselves and others within the school community.

Year 11 student Abigail Brooker summed up this collective sentiment succinctly: "What I got out of it is that it's up to the students, the young people and the next generation to keep showing up to these events and keep supporting these events because if we don't, then the message around reconciliation dies out."