Coolbinia Primary School has earned the state's highest honour at the PAL awards - Partnership, Acceptance, Learning and Sharing.
The honour has been awarded to the school for it's efforts in teaching and promoting reconciliation.
The school includes Aboriginal education from kindergarten to year 7 and Principal Julie Bettany says they don't shy away from the more difficult aspects of our Indigenous history.
'The students are actually exposed to the history, the dark side of history such as massacres, and how do we grieve for the past or the Stolen Generation or the policies that were in place by the government of the time,' she says.
The school also houses a bush tucker garden called Kwobarden, meaning 'meeting place' in the Noongar language, where students can learn about native plants and cook with native spices.
Noongar artist, Peter Farmer, also helped the students with a mural that shows the Noongar people's six seasons.
He says the kids were shocked to see an Aboriginal person in the school. 'They knew a bit about the Noongar culture,' he says, 'but what I taught them and a little bit more they really took that home.'
More than 230 schools took part in the PALS program this year running 261 projects to help students better understand Aboriginal culture
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