Each year NAIDOC Week is a time to celebrate Aboriginal culture.
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And while this year has been very different in many ways, NAIDOC Week was still an important part of the school year at Goulburn High.
Staff and students took part in activities which ran throughout the week.
Aunty Veronica said she was pleased they had been able to hold NAIDOC celebrations this year.
"It's good. I like when they come together in schools to celebrate NAIDOC," she said.
"[It's good] to see the teachers are getting involved and teaching the kids some cultural awareness and having the kids involved in classrooms learning about NAIDOC Week and why we celebrate it."
Teacher Mark White ran an Aboriginal Art workshop where students were able to create their own individual works of art which he said he would turn into a mural for the school.
Their works will also be entered in a competition which could see them displayed at Goulburn Hospital as part of the redevelopment.
The theme for the competition was Rivers and their significance to the area.
This year's NAIDOC Week theme Always Was, Always Will Be, recognises that First Nations people have occupied and cared for this continent for more than 65,000 years.
Year 9 students also adapted traditional Aboriginal games to play at school, including Borna Jokee, Jillora, Kokan and Noongar wana, which they taught to classmates.
English students read Dreamtime stories throughout the week and students also took part in different craft activities including rope making with Red Stringybark and felting where they represented the landscape in their artworks.
Students also spoke about native foods and used some of them to cook with.
Mrs Teague's class created a door piece displaying native flora and fauna of Australia, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flag, Dreamtime art work, cut out hands from students and staff members from the school community and traditional tools utilised in the Aboriginal culture.
They also implemented Aboriginal culture in their lessons along with Aboriginal words in their weekly spelling list.
Aunty Veronica said she hoped NAIDOC Week would promote cultural awareness and encourage Aboriginal people to be proud of their culture.
"They're really enjoying it this year (the students). Aboriginals being proud of their culture and understanding that we are a group of people and we really cherish our culture - let's hope they can take that away and more of an understanding of Aboriginal culture."
NAIDOC celebrations will continue at the school next week with an assembly on Tuesday morning.
On that day, Djiriba Waagura will visit Goulburn High School and hold workshops with students from Year 7 through to Year 10.
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