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Welcome to the Iramoo Cultural Diversity and Harmony Day Page. This will be a growing collection of resources and ideas to help staff and students celebrate this initiative.
Just a reminder that this term our school will be celebrating Harmony Day on Wednesday March 24. (Harmony Day is held on March 21 each year in Australia. It is a day of community participation, respect and a sense of belonging. It is a celebration of the cultures that make Australia great and promotes an environment in which all people participate in Australia’s future). It is a great opportunity for our school to take part in this event so that we too can celebrate the different cultures that make Iramoo great as well as focusing on our school values of respect and relationships . This year schools are being encouraged to participate in the Australian Red Cross’s Y Challenge – celebrating diversity. This program provides teachers and parents with ideas and materials to help young people learn the principles of respect and acceptance of other cultures. Our school has received some posters to help celebrate Harmony Day and we will display them around the school. We have also received balloons, badges and stickers and will give these to grade teachers so that they can hand them out to the students on the day. We would like each grade and specialist class (if possible) to include one activity on this day to celebrate Harmony Day/Australian Red Cross’s Y Challenge. Ideas for activities can be found on the website:  www.harmony.gov.au ( Just follow the link for schools/teachers). Sam (our ESL teacher) has purchased lots of fantastic resources including books and posters and Linda W. will have them on display in the library for teachers use in their grades. We would like all grade teachers and specialist teachers to record their activity on a grade list that is on display in the staff room by 3.00pm on Thursday March 18. Thank you for your support and enjoy the celebrations, Peter, Linda W. and Trish