Harmony
By Alyssa, Year 6
This is Harmony Day, we all have a role to play,
to play mine, I promise to definitely show,
compassion towards others, every single day,
like the sun’s warm glow.
I must make sure I absolutely embrace,
and accept others’ races, with a happy face.
I must appreciate different ideas and religions too,
loving them all, old and new.
I promise to show compassion, like the sun’s embrace,
warming every corner of the earth’s space.
Ensuring every race, idea, and religion is accepted,
and appreciated, just as expected.
This poem by Alyssa 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.