Reconcilitaion Week
Reconciliation Australia’s theme for 2021, More than a word. Reconciliation takes action, urges the reconciliation movement towards braver and more impactful action. 2021 marks twenty years of Reconciliation Australia and almost three decades of Australia’s formal reconciliation process. Reconciliation is a journey for all Australians – as individuals, families, communities, organisations and importantly as a nation. At the heart of this journey are relationships between the broader Australian community and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. To celebrate, Nunga Group will be going to Rec in the West, a yearly event at Tauondi College, engaging students in action towards reconciliation.
Flag Raising
On Thursday we held a flag raising ceremony to officially open Reconciliation Week. Mr. Kennedy introduced the Elaine Magias, a Kaurna Elder, who did the welcome to country. This was to welcome us as a school on Kaurna Country, where the ancestors will protect and watch over us while we work and play. Kath Moore, our ACEO, then introduced the mural she painted for us at the entrance to the school while Nash Moore told the story of the mural. This was followed by Nunga Group, K'Aos Smith, Bailey Trask, Ava Trask, Nash Moore, Kai Moore, Halle Ramzen and Sayomi Kean, raising the Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Australian Flags. It was a wonderful way to celebrate the beginning of a wonderful week ahead!
This week Gavin Wanganeen blessed us with his presence and gave us a talk on why Reconciliation Week is important to him. He also talked about his football career and his current career in creating Aboriginal artwork. We then got to take a whole-school photo with him in the shape of an Aboriginal flag. What a great experience for our school!
Reconciliation Assembly
Nunga Groups Painting
This is a painting that Nunga Group did together.
It tells the story of our journey to school.
The two big circles represent our homes and West Beach Primary School.
The U shapes around the outside of the circles show people sitting and meeting.
The lines between the circles are our footprints going to and from school.
The blue at the bottom is the River Torrens.
The purple and blue circle at the top is the moon, the little circles are stars
and the yellow circle is the sun. This shows night and day.
You can also see animal tracks. There are kangaroo, goanna and emu tracks.
There is a boomerang next to the tracks to show that these animals were
hunted for bush tucker.
Classroom Activities
Our students have enjoyed all our Reconciliation Week activities both curriculum and art. Here are some of the students artwork.
Room 1
Decorating Clap Sticks and their display of First Nations Guernsey's.
Room 1 and 2
Together they made an Aboriginal Mural.
Room 3
Directed drawing of Uluru.
Room 4
Thukeri dreamtime story.
Room 6
Dot painting and symbols to tell stories about making connections with people. We used the Torre Strait Island and Aboriginal Colours.
Room 9
Room Nine were inspired by Jessica Johnson’s reconciliation week theme artwork called ‘action’. Action is the story of the land and community sharing the united call for action on reconciliation
Room 12
This is our Indigenous timeline where every link represents 200 years. The last white link represents Australia after settlement.
Interoception
In Interoception the junior primary groups have been reading Tidalik the Frog. The groups have been identifying the emotions Tidalik has within the story and then using this as inspiration to draw and write about themselves feeling one of these emotions.
Nukkan!
Kath
