Findon Primary School in Mill Park honoured International Women’s Day, IWD, last Friday at a special school assembly.
IWD is a national day on March 8, recognising all women in their achievements, with this year’s campaign theme is Inspire Inclusion.
The entire school gathered to hear from school captains Lena, Carter and Hamish who commenced the assembly, followed by an address from the school principal’s Anita Osavkovska.
Lena said raising awareness in the school would help inspire students to do the same within their own communities.
“It helps individuals to realise that even if they’re female, they have equal rights as all the men and I find it very important that everyone has an equal right, no matter whether they’re male or female,” she said.
Carter and Hamish both said they had discussions about IWD with their teachers, acknowledging the importance of the national day.
“Our teacher today and yesterday, we talked about how we’re trying to improve gender equality in the world, because everyone should be treated the same,” Carter said.
“I think it’s really important to just celebrate everyone being equal to everyone, because no matter where you’re from or who you are, you have the same rights and the same equals to everyone,” Hamish said.
Ms Osavkovska said the special assembly was to recognise women in the community.
“It is our way of trying to bring awareness to a day that acknowledges the females within our society and how overtime we work to provide opportunities for students, and we’re lucky enough to have, this is actually the first year where we had three school captains,” she said.
“I suppose for us as a school, it’s also an opportunity for us to thank people within our community, our females within our community.”
Member for Mill Park Lily D’Ambrosio was the assembly’s special guest, speaking to the students about the importance of the national day.
Ms D’Ambrosio commended the school on its fantastic leadership, wellbeing officers and staff on making IWD a fun learning experience.
“I’m just blown away to see Findon Primary School actually celebrate this day because the more we spread the message about why it’s important to celebrate International Women’s Day, we start to really break down the barriers of discrimination that we still live with,” she said.
The assembly concluded with the school’s wellbeing ambassadors IWD video.
