NAIDOC Week

We had a wonderful response to our NAIDIC Week activities celebrating the cultures, stories and languages of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

On Tuesday, students were greeted with the opportunity to wear wrist bands and invited to paint wooden discs at lunchtime. 

On Wednesday, Mrs Lansdown and Mrs Wilson helped cook 901 pancakes so all the students could sample jam from native plants – either fingerlime, quandong or rosella. Up Club volunteers served them up with a swish of whipped cream and all went away happy. A big thank you to the families who donated the pancake mix! 

Thursday saw students attempting to pass the possum skin football into our NAIDOC decorated backboard as our version of the traditional game of marngrook. Those who managed to hit the target were rewarded with a Sherrin Football to continue the fun at home.

The final activity was Friday’s kahoot run by Isabelle Ung. The winners received wallaby shaped chocolates in line with our native theme. 

It seems the students who took the opportunity to participate were rewarded with greater knowledge and appreciation of our First Nations peoples which will surely lead to better outcomes for all Australian society. Huge thanks to Up Club members and student volunteers:

Maya Robinson
Olivia Holt
Alyssa Truant
Isabelle Ung
Olivia Curto
Charlotte Milligan
Sofia Papadimas
Emily Le
Kathy Pham
Georgia Morgan
Sophie Ung
Lily Ancevski
Alana Vaz
Isabella Xenos
Aya Elachi
and the generous staff members who made it all possible

Karen Horder
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student Support Teacher