Cooerwull Public School celebrates 150th birthday | Photos, video

By Phoebe Moloney
Updated October 27 2017 - 4:58pm, first published 4:00pm

The students of Cooerwull Public School gathered around a maypole on Thursday morning to celebrate the school’s 150th anniversary, with dances and children’s games. In the afternoon, the school hosted the celebration's official smoking ceremony at the yarning circle with Wiradjuri elder Uncle Owen Smith, Cooerwull’s Aboriginal education officer.

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