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HOUSE CAPTAINS 2021

Katherine Yr 3C

Aboriginal Culture by Tisha and Katherine 3C

The Wurundjeri clan of the Woi Wurrung people have lived on and cared for this land for tens of thousands of years. Part of the East Kulin language area, which covers most of Central Victoria, this Country provided the Woi Wurrung people with shelter, medicine and food. Prior to colonisation, you would have seen rich grassland and woodlands plentiful with bush foods such as native tubers and grass seed. Kangaroos, emus, wallabies, possums and bandicoots provided sources of meat, bone for tools and fur and skin for clothing. The rocky pools along the creek would have been teeming with Short-Finned Eel, fish and Long-Necked Turtle as well as stems of Kumbungi and Water Ribbons providing stable food sources.

Today, many traditional and sacred sites have been lost but oral history and culture have survived as have many freshwater shell middens, petroglyphs, scar-trees, sacred trees, stone artefact scatters and burial sites along the Darebin and Merri Creeks and the Birrarung (Yarra River). Oral histories from descendants of the Wurundjeri depict stories of the area with a great diversity in fauna and prolific farming, hunting and gathering. Historical papers and diary entries from European settlers paint a similarly rich picture with Aboriginal inhabitants seasonally visiting swamps for eel fishing, grasslands for harvesting grass seed, tending to Murrnong patches or gathering with other tribes for ceremonial and trade occasions

Foundation Teddy Sleep Over gets out of hand.

Last week the Foundation students brought their teddys / toys to school for a sleepover. See the mischief the toys got up to when we all went home. It is fabulous to see the “fun” and engagement returning to school. 

The Gallery.