NAIDOC Week celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia. Our students enjoyed participating in a range of cultural activities:
Playdough Bushfood Activity (K-PP)
Students had fun modelling playdough to the shapes of bush food and learnt the pronunciation of words:
- Djilgi (Yabby)
- Weitj Noorook (Emu Eggs)Djilit (Fish)
- Djilit (Fish)
- Witchity Grub
- Snake (Noorn)
Sand Tracks Symbols Game (Year 1-2)
The children worked in groups, and each took turns to select an animal from a set of cards given to the group. The illustrations on the cards had the animal and what their sand tracks looked like. Whoever’s turn it was to draw, selected their animal and then had to draw the animals tracks in the sand and the other group members had to guess which animal the tracks belonged to. The children really enjoyed this game.
Rock Art (Year 3-4)
The children were given art symbols to create a story on their rocks. One of the stories a student created was two people walking (art symbol) and a snake (art symbol) was ahead of them, an Emu (art symbol emu tracks) then came and ate the snake and saved the people. It was fantastic.
Bush Medicine Workshop (Year 5-6)
Students used traditional healing plants and scented tree nuts to create their own bush medicine bags. The children learnt all about the traditional uses for each species of plants including for shelter, tool making, medicinal properties and fire.
Jemma Hilzinger (AIEO)
