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Slide 2 Padstow Park Public School welcomes you to: Slide 3 Sorry Day Special Assembly! 26 th May, 2014 Slide 4 Our School Captain and School Ambassador acknowledge elders past and present Slide 5 Introducing Aunty Margaret Goneis, A.T.S.I.C. member for the Bankstown Local Government Area Slide 6 Aunty Margaret from the Yuin people brings the Welcome To Country Slide 7 The choir join Mrs Taylor in an Aboriginal song of welcome called Gurringindenarme! Slide 8 Aunty Margaret explains the importance of Bringing Them Home Slide 9 All students listen attentively to this message. It was pretty special! Slide 10 The National Anthem is sung in the dharawal language by Samantha Goneis, (Aunty Margarets daughter), Year 12 student at Bankstown Girls' High School and member of the South Western Sydney Music Ensemble. Slide 11 Aunty Margaret is presented with flowers from our School Captain and School Ambassador Slide 12 Sammy joins the choir to sing Sesere Eeye, song from the Island of Moa in the Torres Strait Islands Slide 13 Celebrating Culture! Slide 14 Reconciliation Week brings us all together! Slide 15 Great Artworks from our students! These Indigenous hands are on display in the school library. Slide 16 Bringing Them Home is what Sorry Day is all about. A big thank you especially to Mrs Taylor, Mrs Graham, Mrs Lister and all our staff and students at Padstow Park who have all contributed so much to Reconciliation Week!