ECTARC Smith Street Education and Care Service's vision for reconciliation is to work in partnership with children, families, and local Aboriginal Elders and Dharawal community members, to learn from each other through respectful and reciprocal relationships. We respectfully embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ perspectives into our curriculum, to ensure a welcoming environment that offers cultural awareness and cultural safety.
We continue to work together with local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members to ensure equal and equitable outcomes in education and wellbeing. We recognise and reflect on our shared histories and the faults of the past and the current impacts of these on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We will move forward together to heal, learn from each other and strive towards a future of mutual trust, respect, equality, equity, peace, and connectedness to ensure that the past will never be our future.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in the Classroom
Cultural Responsiveness for Staff
Welcome to Country
Celebrate National Reconciliation Week
Build Relationships with Community
Teach about Reconciliation
Explore Current Affairs and Issues
Acknowledgement of Country
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flags
Take Action Against Racism
Curriculum Planning
Inclusive Policies
Staff Engagement with RAP
Celebrate RAP Progress
Early Years Learning Framework
Visibly Demonstrate Respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures
Reconciliation Projects
Elders and Traditional Owners Share Histories and Cultures
Create Stakeholder List
Care for Country
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages
Cultural Responsiveness for Students and Children