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Melbourne Grammar School offers AIEF Scholarships for Indigenous boarding students.
Our First Nations program is in keeping with the School’s Vision and Mission.
Our Vision is “To provide an exceptional teaching and learning environment that inspires and empowers within an inclusive and dynamic School culture and community”.
Our Mission is “To develop and nurture young people to be intelligent, independent creative thinkers with a sense of purpose, spirituality and respect”
A central part of our Vision, Mission and Values is to educate, promote reconciliation and deliver education for First Nations students.
Our First Nations program has 15 students enrolled, 14 in the Boarding House and one as a day student residing in Melbourne. We apply rigorous selection criteria to our First Nations students, knowing that high expectations for the students, the students’ families and the School help contribute to high outcomes
We proudly invest heavily in our First Nations program. Our First Nations program and staff are supported by the First Nations Steering Committee which provides support and governance to the program.
The current 15 students and their predecessors continue to have a positive impact on the values, culture and reconciliation awareness at our School as we learn about and celebrate the First Nations culture and acknowledge our First Nations history. Of equal importance, is the lifelong impact these 15 students receive from a Melbourne Grammar education and the positive effect it brings to their families and communities.
For the past 20 years, the School has displayed First Nations artwork in the Barack gallery. We will extend that display into the new Centre for Humanities building with a likely combination of digital and physical artworks being displayed.
As part of the planning and design for the Centre for Humanities, we formed a Designing with Country focus group. This group was well informed via consultation with Aunty Fay, who is a local elder from the traditional owners of the land, the Boonwurrung People, and has done much work with and for the School, the School Architects, Wardle, a First Nations consultant commissioned by Wardle, the First Nations Steering Committee, the 15 First Nations students and our First Nations Program Coordinator.
In May, we recently held another successful Reconciliation Week. This was organised by the student Reconciliation Committee comprising First Nations and non-First Nations students. The Reconciliation Committee helped organise assemblies, smoking ceremonies, displays and First Nations dances across all three school campuses, as well as the annual football game against Scotch College which dates back 166 years when our two schools played the first game of AFL Football. All 15 First Nations students proudly displayed their culture. The week was a great success, but we believe the awareness and practice of reconciliation should not just occur during Reconciliation Week, it is an intrinsic part of School life.
We are reviewing our Reconciliation Action Plan to reflect our current practice to consider new opportunities and to ensure we continue to keep our expectations high.
We are pleased to work with our sister school, Melbourne Girls Grammar School (MGGS) and AIEF to see MGGS join the AIEF program.
Melbourne Grammar enjoys a very strong relationship with AIEF and is most grateful for the support, resources, network and funds received from the AIEF and for this we extend a very big thank you.
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