The Guardian July 30, 2025 by Caitlin Cassidy
When students at Lethbridge Park public school noticed their peers acting out in the playground, they asked for a meditation club. So the school set one up, and now, three days a week, children spend their lunch break lying in a classroom seeking tranquility.
Then students brought up an ongoing graffiti problem with the toilet blocks. So they got the green light to make their own designs, and covered the walls with positive messages.
The greater western Sydney school’s cohort is about 35% Indigenous, and it was the students who designed its yarning circle, from which native plants would be introduced, to instructing contractors where the story poles would go
The school’s principal, Garry Sheen, says throughout his four years in the job, his biggest priority has been to build a “deep sense of connection” with his students.
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