Our purpose is to establish curious, creative, confident and compassionate citizens of the world. Our vision for reconciliation is an Australia that, through understanding and empathy, creates an equitable, harmonious and integrated society for all Australians.
The Canberra Grammar School community seeks to reconcile our young history with the ancient cultural heritage of the Ngunnawal people on whose land our School stands. We seek to do this through recognition and understanding of history, and through integration of traditional culture and knowledge of Country, in pursuit of a collaborative and equitable future for Australia.
We acknowledge that it is not possible to alter the past and we recognise to the trauma inflicted upon Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We seek to reconcile ourselves with the past so that history is not repeated, and so that the deep heritage of Indigenous Australia may be respected and nurtured into the future. Not everything can be resolved overnight, but education is the key to enacting change and Canberra Grammar School is in a position to enable change through its role as an educational Institution and pillar of the community.
We see Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education as a pathway for young people to better understand the realities confronting Indigenous Australians and the depth of their heritage and culture. Canberra Grammar School equips its students with knowledge of the world around them, with compassion to recognise injustice, the confidence to enact change, and the creativity to meet challenges with innovative solutions. We expect every student to Imagine a future in which they have agency to affect positive change.
Australia has the great fortune of being home to the oldest living culture in the world: our country is alive with its spirit, its presence palpable across our nation. We are dedicated to bringing greater knowledge and awareness of Indigenous culture and ways of knowing and being to our classrooms and community. Each section of the School will commit to ensuring all students have opportunities to grapple with past and current issues, concepts, arts and artefacts that convey the complexity of Indigenous culture and knowledge. Each teacher will commit to ensuring all students have opportunities to consider the place of the oldest continuing culture on earth.
Our vision for reconciliation involves a future in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children have the same chances and opportunities as non-Indigenous children. We recognise our position in being able to affect equity and equal opportunity: our Indigenous Scholars Programme welcomes students to the School community each year as boarders and day students. Our Indigenous Scholars have the opportunity to be ambassadors of their cultural heritage, to take pride in their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identity, to share that knowledge with other students in the hope of reconciling the past with an optimistic future. We recognise the transformative power of a world-class education and the impact this can have on community and societal outcomes across Indigenous and non-Indigenous settings.
Canberra Grammar School defines reconciliation as learning what it means to establish and maintain mutually respectful relationships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous peoples. We recognise, accept, and commit to moving on together as one united people.
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