NAIDOC Whole School Event

Last Wednesday, Preston PS celebrated NAIDOC week through our Whole School Event Day. 

The theme for NAIDOC week this year was ‘Keep the Fire Burning - Blak, Loud and Proud’ and we participated in a whole day of activities led by Henning, Ganga, Baz and Sean from Didgeridoo Australia.

Each House Group listened to stories from them about their cultural experiences with the aim to entertain, educate and inspire!

Our students were able to immerse themselves into these experiences through the following activities:

• Bunjil and Waa – Students worked collaboratively on art murals.
• Song, Dance and Storytelling – a cultural activity where students participated in dance and movement with stories shared.
• Didge and Beats – Dance and music activity where students moved to the rhythm of the didgeridoo.
• Aboriginal Culture – an interactive show and tell activity that aimed to provide a rich history of artefacts used by the aboriginal people including boomerangs, spears and even balls made to play sports that would one day provide inspiration to the creation of Aussie rules.

Overall, it was a fantastic day, and the students were wonderful in the way they listened and participated across all the activities. It was great to see the students interact with their peers from different year levels including seeing many of our senior students being great role models to the younger classes and students.

Thanks to also to our amazing staff who assisted the team from Didgeridoo Australia throughout the day and worked so well with the students!

Also thanks also to our Specialist Team in organising this day especially to Edwina who worked brilliantly getting the art murals ready to go for each rotation.

Here are some thoughts of the day from some students:

Grade 1

Ari 1AB: “I liked the painting Bunjil the Eagle and Waa the Crow. I used red, black and white handprints to decorate the mural with my group.”

 Claudia 1AB: “I like when we painted the crow. We painted Waa black and used white dots around him.”

 Ruby 1AB: “I liked learning about how the First Nations people caught fish and eels in the rivers and creeks.”

Grade 2:

It was fun making new friends and the activities were amazing - Amelia 

The digeridoo was so fun- it made so many cool noises! - Krishiv

I liked the painting when we got to paint Bunjil - Audrey

I liked how we got to feel the different animal skins and learn about what the different Aboriginal people did throughout the years - Adeline

I liked listening to the Didgeridoo - Joe

I liked listening to the Dreamtime stories and adding actions - Leo

Grade 5:

It was fun painting where we could paint with our fingers! – Alice H 

The didgeridoo was cool – it sounded like it was beat 

boxing! I got to hold the possum ball – it was so soft that it felt like 

I was holding a cloud! Gabriel

It was great working together on the large murals – lots of fun! Maddie

Grade 6

I really enjoyed all of the activities but it was great to be able to all work 

together on the art mural.  Frances

Cheers

Jason

Specialists Team

Bunjil and Waa

Didge and Beats

Culture

Song, Dance and Story