Australian Indigenous Oztag Team 2025

Taleah Reid was successful at being selected for the highly prestigious Australian Indigenous Oztag Team 2025 which promotes and celebrates the rich heritage of Australia’s indigenous heritage through Oztag. The Australian Indigenous Oztag Team also fosters and values qualities of unity, inclusivity, diversity, cultural pride and the spirit of athletic excellence. Taleah is representing Australia against Oztag teams from throughout the world at Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia. Congratulations and well done to Taleah Reid. 

National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day 

This day is on the 4 August each year and is to reflect on the human right of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander children: their rights to be educated, cared for, protected and practice their culture. 

For National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day the school acquired a very special book titled Gadi Mirrabooka Australian Aboriginal Tales from the Dreaming. This wonderful book has Dreaming Stories from throughout Australia including South Coast NSW. This book is so important because the Dreaming stories are retold by respected Elders Aunty Pauline E McLeod, Aunty Francis Firebrace Jones and Aunty June E Barker. Students can loan this book from the LRC. Another wonderful book in the LRC is Dharawal Words, Phrases and Activities by Dr Jodi Edwards. There are many great books by Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander authors and people in the LRC.  Thank you to the LRC staff Mrs Abdelmessih and Mrs Elliss for acquiring these wonderful books for our school. 

Yabun Gali Dance Group 

This has been a busy start to term 3 with three events for Yabun Gali Dance Group students. In week 1 students performed their amazing and beautiful Aboriginal dances at St Joseph’s Catholic High School NAIDOC Assembly. The students danced with students from St Joseph’s in a collaborative combined school dance. The second dances the students did were at St Therese Catholic Primary School. The students were confident and proud to showcase Aboriginal culture. Dance is an important way of story telling and keeping traditions alive and thriving for future Generations. Yabun Gali Dance Group students then showcased their Aboriginal dances at Holy Cross Catholic Primary School for their NAIDOC celebrations and then taught the younger students their dances. It was a fun and educational day for all students. The theme for this year’s NAIDOC Week is Next Generation – Strength Vision and Legacy, these students represented Corpus Christi proudly and confidently and upheld the theme of this year’s NAIDOC Week. Thank you to all the Yabun Gali Dance Group students. This year we farewell , thank and congratulate our Year 10 and Year 12 students Taleah Reid, Indy Amatto, Makenzie Killmore, Kaleb Berriman and Lachlan Muller.