What is National Sorry Day?
National Sorry Day is an annual event celebrates each year in Australia since 1998, to remember and commemorate the mistreatment of the country's Indigenous peoples, as part of an ongoing process of reconciliation between the Indigenous peoples and the settler population
When is National Sorry Day?
Friday, 26 May
Activities:
- Decorate the hand templates with colours and pictures that represent Sorry Day.
- Cut out the hand templates ready to build the artwork.
- Cut a circle out of yellow paper or cardboard. Write the word “sorry” in the centre.
- Fan the decorated hands out around the yellow circle to create a Sorry Day Sun.
- Group Activites: disucssing and reading stories about the "Stolen Generation Stories"|
Stories: “Stolen Girl” by Trina Saffioti & Norma MacDonald - Incursions: Learning about the Ingenious and stolen generation
- Patiricipate in a Sorry Day flag raising