Year six student at Holy Family School, Willow Culhane, entered a poem into this year's NAIDOC Week Schools Initiative poem writing competition as part of her English lesson.

Her poem 'My Voice, My Culture' was one of 25 awarded across the state with a NAIDOC Medal of Excellence.

"My poem, 'My Voice, My Culture' is about how understanding your culture or someone else's culture can be very empowering," Willow said.

When people read Willow's poem she wants them to think about how they can change their actions to help embrace diverse cultures in their community.

"I want them to think about their own culture and other cultures they might be aware of and what it brings to the community.

"It is very important that the younger generation understands culture because if they don't understand their own culture we will lose a large amount of cultural information over the next few years."

NAIDOC to Willow is about everyone being accepted no matter where they are from or who they are.

"The annual NAIDOC Week celebrations remind me of indigenous Australian culture and the achievements of our first peoples throughout history."

The NAIDOC Week School Initiative poem writing competition was open to students in years three to six and all students in Willow's class entered a piece of writing into the competition.

"I was surprised, I wasn't expecting to receive one of the awards," Willow added.