A new addition to the uniforms of North Mandurah students and staff has recognised an important part of the school's community.
One of the North Mandurah shirts will now feature Aboriginal artwork to symbolise pride in the school's Indigenous culture.
Recognised as one of three schools in WA for exemplary work in Aboriginal academic and attendance performance, North Mandurah prinicipal James Peletier said the cultural shirt was another step in embracing the "local culture".
"We wanted to celebrate NAIDOC with a legacy project that shows we embrace our culture every day through designing a school specific shirt that is now part of our daily school uniform," he said.
"The shirt launch highlights the genuine embrace and pride in our local culture, while paying respect to the Traditional Owners of the beautiful location we live being Pinjarup country.
"It also personalises our school focus "Ngalak Dandjoo Warn Kwobadjil- Together We Succeed" as a meeting place to learn, respect and have fun together."
The shirt was designed by North Mandurah Aboriginal and Islander education officer Noleen Hicks and early childhood leader, Jo Sadler who collaborated to create the artwork.
Miss Hicks said the artwork featured parts of the North Mandurah community.
"Mrs Sadler and I were inspired to design the shirt based on our school community and environment," she said.
"The lines on the front of the shirt are travel lines depicting all our families coming to our meeting place, which is our school represented by the large white central circles.
"The smaller circles represent the meeting place of our students, their classrooms - on the back of the shirt we included the gum leaves and blossom to pay homage to the grounds and our school emblem.
"The Koolbardi (magpie) and Djakal-Ngakal (pink and grey galah) are the two birds, which are always on our school grounds."
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Only launching the shirts last week, Mr Peletier said he had already been bombarded with positive feedback.
"The School Board was extremely positive in passing the decision to include the shirt as part of our daily uniform, which symbolically shows our embrace of local culture every day not just NAIDOC," he said.
"The school community was extremely excited to wear the shirts - in fact we have already run out due to popular demand.
"Students, teachers and parents have already been stopped in the shopping centres by the community admiring the shirts and asking where they can get one."