At Sanctuary Point Public School, one way to celebrate Close the Gap Day is to ask each of the classes to participate in a photo challenge. Each grade/stage has been given a keyword that links in with the ethos behind the national Close the Gap campaign. Each picture will get sent to Oxfam to use along with also being displayed around the school during the whole school assembly during Welcome Week.

Our stage had the keyword ‘decade’. We decided to make a timeline from the past ten years listing one important event from each year – so from 2007 to 2016. The students then had one of their hands painted and were able to put their hand prints around the timeline. Miss Hall then took a photo of the timeline and our hands which has turned out to be a very powerful and fantastic photo which we believe has nailed the brief!