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25.01.2022 Merry Christmas to all our 'Conny Dogs', stay safe and enjoy the break! Below is a little snippet from the 1972 Diary...enjoy!

25.01.2022 Anniversary meeting will be held at the school next Wednesday 16th November, 5pm. Please feel free to come along!! Email me if you wish to be on a contact list [email protected]

25.01.2022 The final rehearsals are over and the excitement is building! Tonight is our 2015 Graduation and Presentation Night beginning at 6pm. We look forward to seeing you all tonight. STUDENTS must be at school by 5.45pm at the latest. See you all soon!

23.01.2022 The 21st September is fast approaching, plans are moving along and the day will go something like this: 10am - Mass celebrated by Archbishop Timothy Costelloe f...ollowed by morning tea at the school. 12.15pm - Presentations/speeches etc. 1.30pm - Light luncheon catchup afternoon 5pm - Sundowner at the Goom Farmers Club. What do you think?? Spread the word!! We would really appreciate if you could let us know if you are attending... For catering purposes we need to know if you will be there for the whole day, if not which parts. If you know others who would like to know about this please please please pass details on!! RSVP to me on here or email [email protected] Don't forget to send us your photos too...thanks!

22.01.2022 COMMUNITY EVENT Carols by Candlelight will be held on the Sacred Heart school oval, Sunday 1st December 6.30 picnic tea, 7pm carols commencing. Gourmet platters can be ordered through the school office by tomorrow 96291174. All welcome

21.01.2022 Our school Mini Vinnies group is up for a LEAD Award at CEWA, we'd love it if you would like and share this post...thank you!

19.01.2022 WA COUNTRY CLASSICS WILLIE DICK representing the MORTLOCK FOOTBALL LEAGUE

18.01.2022 One of our conny dogs came across this the other day and I thought you might enjoy this blast from the past...1972! Feel free to share and tag friends

18.01.2022 Cuttings from an old 1944 paper in my collection

16.01.2022 So whos coming to the centenary, wed love to know who is going to be able to join us on the day? Round up all your families and friends of primary school days and may it a date...the big day isnt far away now!

15.01.2022 Hi All, Ive had a request from the family of the late Peter Wendy, to ask if anyone has any photos from school days which Peter may be in? The family would love a copy if you do. If you do have any photos you can either send them to me via message or add them to this page. Please pass this onto any friends who dont use Facebook too. Your help would be much appreciated.

15.01.2022 Hi All, I've had a request from the family of the late Peter Wendy, to ask if anyone has any photos from school days which Peter may be in? The family would love a copy if you do. If you do have any photos you can either send them to me via message or add them to this page. Please pass this onto any friends who don't use Facebook too. Your help would be much appreciated.

14.01.2022 Hi there past and present connie dogs! If you are interested in footy tipping, Sacred Heart Goomalling runs a comp on the footy tips website, $50 to enter with weekly prizes and a small fortunate up for grabs at the end! the footy starts tonight so it's not too late. All funds raised go to the bi-annual school camp, so jump on board!!! Let me know if you're keen! For those extra keep footy followers there is also a Dream team Comp you can join, with no cost or prizes, just the bragging rights at the end of the season - SHS Goomalling Code # 350500

14.01.2022 This photo was shared on the Lost Goomalling page

13.01.2022 Year 2 & 3 Goomalling Convent 1956 Second Photo Year 1

13.01.2022 check out the website too www.shcsgoom.wa.edu.au

12.01.2022 Don't forget to pass the word around about our centenary! Stay tuned for further details

12.01.2022 Merry Christmas to all our Conny Dogs, stay safe and enjoy the break! Below is a little snippet from the 1972 Diary...enjoy!

12.01.2022 Charlie Dick - Part 1 of 2 Goomalling is my home town. I went to school at the Sacred Heart Convent there and then to Northam Senior High School for a short tim...e. I’ve got something like fifteen or sixteen brothers and sisters all up, but I’m the oldest. Growing up in Goomalling was great and we were lucky to be around good people, both black and white. We played a lot of sport like country people do, especially Aboriginal people. We played cricket but Aussie Rules was the backbone of our community. Footy and cricket used to be the things I was most interested in. I played for the Perth Demons years ago but I was more interested in work at the time. I was one of those footballers who thought they were solid when I wasn’t. I was lucky enough to get to play a lot of cricket in the Northern Territory and I even got to spend some time with the Australian team. Sport has played an important part in my life. I wouldn’t change a lot of things about my life but I would have liked to have played sport in the city a little more. I played, coached and did administrative stuff in places like Broome and Alice Springs for a number of years. I spent the best part of fifteen years in Broome and ten in Alice Springs, but I started out in Goomalling. Travelling up north and in the Northern Territory kept me interested in a lot of things and kept me in contact with family and friends. Like most Aboriginal people, I have a lot of connections not just in my local area but all across Australia. I’ve been lucky to have met so many good people along the way. The best moments in my life were having my children, because you can’t replace your kids. I have five kidsthe oldest is thirty-four this year and the youngest is twenty-five. I have plenty of grandchildren too, but I don’t get to see them as often as I’d like. Northam has its challenges, but one of its good things is its proximity to the city. We’ve got some good people in the community but I feel like some of our people need to get out of town a little more. When I was growing up I had elders around me telling me our people’s stories, but we were protected from understanding everything about the sacrifices our people made. It’s only a couple of generations ago that our people got the right to vote. I understand that non-Aboriginal people want to improve their lives too, but our people continue to lack so much. I don’t like the fact that the wider Australian public accepts that we are less than they are. That’s the truth. Fixing this isn’t a matter of education. We need to get real about our identity and who we are. When we are ready to recognise facts and who we are as Australians, both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, we will be able to move forward as a country. We need to recognise that we don’t have anything like the connection with England that we had in the past. Our identity matters and a lot of Australians don’t know what our identity is or even if we have one. Towns like Goomalling and Northam are a perfect example, because for generations so many people have moved to the city. Hopefully things will change and we get back to a sense of local community. We need local people to be involved and happy to be a part of their home towns. Our people need to be given the opportunity to have more input into the direction their towns are taking so they can feel they are a part of it too. Something our people have been wrestling with is the fit between our identity and our culture. We as Aboriginal people need to express ourselves a little bit better about who we are. I sometimes worry that we are creating a culture that wasn’t our own, moving like other people moved and dancing like other people danced. It’s understandable though, because we’ve lost so much. Nyoongar people have lost so much of their traditional culture, especially in terms of language. We need to re-connect with our traditional culture because it’s the way we need to communicate who we really are. Part 2 will be released tomorrow. Human - Charlie Dick Interviewer - Shannon Boundry Photographer - Shannon Boundry Writer - Guy Salvidge Humans of the Wheatbelt is a Wheatbelt Health Network project. Shire of Goomalling Shire of Northam Bilya Koort Boodja 100.9fm Noongar Radio Noongar Football Legends. Noongar Language Centre Aboriginal Football WA Mia Davies MLA Darren West MLC, WA Labor Member for the Ag Region

10.01.2022 Well the date has been set...Friday 21st September 2012...we will celebrate the centenary of Sacred Heart in Goomalling! Mark this date in your diary now, and pass it on to old school friends. Let us know if you are going to attend!!! Spread the word!

09.01.2022 Tell us what you think of the schools makeover? Would you recognise it today?

07.01.2022 Dont forget to pass the word around about our centenary! Stay tuned for further details

06.01.2022 5. The finished product!!

04.01.2022 Another meeting this week! If you have photos or other memorabilia to loan/copy we would love to hear from you

03.01.2022 WILLIE DICK (Perth) 1993 State Rep Photo courtesy of Sean Cowan WAFL Collectables

03.01.2022 So who's coming to the centenary, we'd love to know who is going to be able to join us on the day? Round up all your families and friends of primary school days and may it a date...the big day isn't far away now!

02.01.2022 4. Nearly there