- Partnership Acceptance Learning Sharing grants awarded to 48 WA schools
- Program aims to promote Aboriginal understanding, connections and reconciliation
- Term 2 2024-25 recipients to share $210,671 in grants
Western Australian students will learn more about Aboriginal culture and history as part of the Cook Government's Partnership Acceptance Learning Sharing (PALS) program.
More than $210,000 has been awarded to 48 schools as part of the Term 2 round of funding.
PALS supports schools to deliver Aboriginal-led informed projects that strengthen reconciliation, promote respect for diversity, and showcase the achievements and histories of Aboriginal people.
Administered by the Department of Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport, the program helps students, teachers and school communities deepen their understanding of Aboriginal culture and foster stronger relationships with local Aboriginal communities.
All WA primary and secondary schools as well as Department of Education-funded kindergartens are eligible to apply for up to $5,000.
Categories include arts, community relationships, connecting to Country and culture, inclusive environments, history, and language.
As stated by Aboriginal Affairs Minister Don Punch:
"Through the PALS program, the Cook Government is empowering schools to foster a deeper understanding of the experiences and diversity of Aboriginal people in our classrooms.
"By embedding the cultures, achievements and histories of Aboriginal people, it helps school communities promote reconciliation and work together towards creating a unified Australia."
As stated by Education Minister Sabine Winton:
"The Cook Government is supporting our schools, students and local communities to increase their understanding and education of Aboriginal cultures through this vital program.
"I would like to congratulate the 48 schools that have been awarded funding through this program which is making a difference in classrooms across the State."
Recipients of the 2025 Term 2 PALS funding round include:
Goldfields-Esperance
- Esperance Education Support Centre - Language sessions with Dabungool
Great Southern
- Jerramungup District High School - Fitzgerald Cluster Schools NAIDOC
- Spencer Park Primary School - Colours of Kinjarling
- Kwoorabup Nature School (formerly Spirit of Play Community School) - Noongar Six Seasons Project
Mid West
- Waggrakine Primary School - Connecting to Country and Culture
Perth
- Baldivis Secondary College - Voices of the Land: A Bush Tucker Yarning Circle
- Beenyup Primary School - Bush Tucker Garden and NAIDOC 2026
- Canning Vale College - Collaborative Art Project
- Creaney Education Support Centre - Floor Mural: Stepping Stones and Tiles
- Duncraig Senior High School - Whole School NAIDOC Celebrations 2026
- Eddystone Primary School - Danjoo Koorliny (Walking Together)
- Endeavour Primary School - Six Seasons Bush Tucker Garden
- Guildford Primary School - Community Language Immersion
- Irene McCormack Catholic College - Strengthening Connection to Culture and Country
- Kiara College - Kiara Dandjoo Koorliny (Kiara Coming Together)
- Lumen Christi College - NAIDOC Week, Cultural Program & Reconciliation Action Plan celebrations
- Malvern Springs Primary School - Bush Tucker Garden
- Marmion Primary School - Beneath the Waves: Culture in Motion
- Mazenod College - Yarning Circle
- Middle Swan Primary School - NAIDOC Celebrations
- Millen Primary School - Learning about our local Country, History and Language
- Morley Primary School - Boodjarak Kaaradjiny (Caring for Country)
- Mount Hawthorn Primary School - Aboriginal Art and Dance Workshops
- North Beach Primary School - Languages Matter
- North Woodvale Primary School - Celebrating Culture, Art and Community through the Long Neck Turtle
- Orange Grove Primary School - Our Class, Our Creature, Our Culture
- Ranford Primary School - Acknowledgement of Country Artwork
- Rivervale Primary School - Indigenous Tours WA
- Rockingham Montessori School - Bush Tucker and Noongar Learning
- Seton Catholic College - Kimberley Immersion
- Swanbourne Primary School - Yaraguia Yarning
- Two Rocks Primary School - Aboriginal Cultural Open Day
- Weld Square Primary School - Reconciliation Mural and Community Art Project
- Wellard Primary School - NAIDOC Week Celebrations
- West Coast Language Development Centre - Aboriginal Art
- Woodbridge Primary School - Moort Dandjoo Boodja-k Waangkaniny (Family Together on Country Talking)
Pilbara
- Pannawonica School - Indigenous Culture Tubs
South West
- Australind Primary School - Aboriginal Cultural Studies
- Bunbury Regional Community College - On-Country and school-based workshops with Keipa Boodjar
- East Manjimup Primary School - Noongar Six Seasons living garden and firepit
- Margaret River Montessori School - Wadandi Cultural experiences
- Our Lady of Mercy College - Connections with Land and Community
- Parkfield Primary School - Noongar Language Development
Wheatbelt
- Bolgart Primary School - Six Seasons Bush Tucker Garden with Yarning Circle
- Cervantes Primary School - Exploring Aboriginal Seasons and Connection to Land and Sea
- Kondinin Primary School - Aboriginal Mural about Our Local Community
- St Joseph's School - NAIDOC 2025
- St Matthew's School - Culturally Responsive Incursions and Excursions
Applications are now open for Term 3 2025 funding, closing on 11 September 2025. The Term 4 2025 funding will open on 21 October 2025.
For more information on the PALS program and recipients funded from this round: https://www.cits.wa.gov.au/funding/creative-industries-funding/partnership-acceptance-learning-sharing-(pals)
