Student Voice 

Foundation students celebrated NAIDOC

Foundation students celebrated NAIDOC week through various activities such as puzzles, designing boomerangs using Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander symbols and reading NAIDOC week stories. 

Year 3s

Rondelle (3H) explaining her NAIDOC Week project to Mrs Wright. Rondelle is joined by Chloe from Year 3 and George from Foundation.

Here are some pictures of some NAIDOC activities we have completed in 3J this week. We made Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up! pledges of how we can help going forward. Some of our ideas included looking after the land, respecting everyone, showing kindness, remembering and talking about the past, learning about aboriginal culture and reading an acknowledgment of country every day. We also chose an influential aboriginal person to research more about and created fact files (still in progress!). 

Year 4s

As part of the Year 4s reflection on NAIDOC Week we discovered more about Mabo Day, June 3rd. The Mabo decision acknowledged the traditional rights of Indigenous people to their land and waters, and paved the way for native title in Australia. It also recognised that Indigenous people occupied Australia for tens of thousands of years before the British arrived. This was all thanks to Eddie Koiko Mabo and Australians celebrated its 30th anniversary this year.

Year 4s recognised Eddie Mabo as being able to stand up for something he believed in. Each student created their poster of something they stood for and strongly believed in too. Examples of their posters are below:

Year 4 also  read the book 'Looking after Country with Fire' by Victor Steffenson and composed a poem about cultural burning and how this can help reduce wildfires in the Australian bush.

Year 1

Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!