04 Jul 2019
We have exciting faculty news that we would like to share!
To move away from disability-based labelling, Special Education are changing our faculty name, and each of the class names. We have quietly been working on this for a while, consulting with Sonia Sharp from the Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (AECG), Toni Atkinson, staff, and of course students. We are so excited to be putting this into place, and even more so because the names we have chosen come from the local Wonnarua language!
Faculty name: Kuta-kaya Meaning: Think strong, able, powerful.
Class names and their Wonnarua meanings:
Pintu (IM) – Kangaroo
Kirawa (MC28) – Lizard
Kawul (MC 52) – Eagle
Wuwing (IO) – Magpie
We asked what does our new faculty and class names means to some students and staff:
"I like the new name because it makes me feel more included in the whole school" - name withheld
"It's good, it's different. I like that our name are Aboriginal words and it makes me feel proud" - Koori
"I really like the new name for the faculty because it means being strong" - Darcy
"Kuta-kaya is a better name because you don't have the label of being different" - Shania
"I like it because it is Aboriginal names, and I like the classroom names because they are animals" - Tara
"Kuta-kaya is the perfect name for our whole faculty because they are the Wonnarua words for: 'Think strong, able, powerful', and that's how I see every one of our students." - Miss Newman
