Harmony Day
By Alana, Year 6
This is Harmony Day, we all have a part to play,
to play mine, I promise to always appreciate,
other people’s races and cultures, like a rainbow’s way,
making sure each colour is special and great.
I must make sure I clearly cherish and value,
other people’s cultures, with a heart that’s true.
I must appreciate my friends’ cultures too,
loving their traditions, old and new.
I promise to appreciate, with every beat,
other people’s races and cultures, so very sweet.
Like a rainbow hugs every colour,
Making sure each one is loved, like no other.
This poem by Alana was written in a Harmony Week workshop run by Story Factory Digital. In this workshop, students explored Harmony Week in a meaningful and creative way. They explored the origins of Harmony Day, and learnt what it meant to genuinely contribute to harmony using creative, persuasive and emotive language.
Story Factory Digital is the newest arm of Story Factory’s programs, and partners with schools right across Australia. Offering free, live, video workshops, we work with metro, regional, rural and remote primary and high schools. We also work with alternative educational communities, as well as public and independent schools, homeschools, schools for students with disability and additional needs, and juvenile justice schools.We are funded to offer free workshops to schools with an ICSEA below 1000, and/or significant numbers of students who are Indigenous or from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds.