NAIDOC Day

On Thursday we celebrated NAIDOC Day - the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Our day began with a Welcome to Country presented by Aboriginal Elder, Brian Champion Snr. The classes then participated in different activities throughout the day:

Yarns and question and answer with Aboriginal Elder, Brian Champion Snr
Damper making and tasting of native bush spices, native bush dukkah and Davidson plum jam.
Face painting and combined artwork
Creating beeswax wraps
Creating tapping sticks & painting gumnuts
String sculptures and storytelling
Biscuit flag making

Thank you to Brian Champion Snr and his grandaughter Juaneesa for their assistance in this year's program. Brian is so knowledgeable and we are so appreciative of him coming each year.

Storydogs

Last Friday the students in Kindy-Year 4 got to meet Digby, with his owner

Maree Le Moignan. Story Dogs is a fun and unique reading support program that improves children's reading and communication skills by children reading to an accredited companion dog and its handler. We are very grateful to Maree Le Moignan for volunteering her time and to the Community Bank Mukinbudin for being a sponsor of Digby, enabling him to complete the relevant training to be a first-class Story Dog!

Spare Parts Puppet Theatre 'Hachiko'

The Primary students were lucky enough to have The Spare Parts Puppet Theatre visit and perform 'Hachiko'. Hachikō is the moving true story about a dog who travels to Shibuya train station (Tokyo) every day to meet his master. One day his master dies at work and every day for nine years Hachikō returns to the train station at the exact time the train is due, waiting for his master to return. This story taught children about loyalty and resilience and the remarkable joy an animal can bring to our lives. The production was humorous and playful with cartoon sensibilities combined with inventive uses of paper, and cardboard: with a few folds of origami puppetry to delight the creative mind! The puppetry was inspiring and inventive . Worlds of cardboard, paper and play transported us into cardboard cities. The children (and staff) thoroughly enjoyed the play, we always love having The Spare Parts Puppet Theatre come to MDHS.

Brilliant Brains

The first Brilliant Brains for Term 2 was a Farm theme. We counted chicken and duck eggs, measured the rain, shore sheep, fed the animals, weighed and balanced animals, milked a cow and found sheep buried in mud. We also read 'Where is the Green Sheep' and completed a sheep hunt.

Don't forget that Monday the 8th is the next session from 9:00am.

The Premier's Reading Challenge

Mukinbudin DHS is participating in the Premier’s Reading Challenge. There are great prizes to win for the whole family as well as school-based individual and class prizes. The competition is for all students from K-10. It doesn’t matter if the child is reading by themselves, to you or if you are reading the book aloud. Reading and logging only 12 books before September qualifies you for the grand prizes.

Please register your child/children at https://www.premiersreadingchallenge.wa.edu.au/the-challenge and enter our school to help themselves and their class earn prizes.

The first school prize will be awarded at the assembly, to the class with the largest percentage of students registered.

Please contact Zoe Bolt, zoe.bolt@education.wa.edu.au, if you have any questions or queries.

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