Around the Primary Classrooms
Kinder
Excitement is high in Kinder on a Friday afternoon when we put on our puddlesuits and head over the road to explore the Lambert Rivulet! We dig in the clay, build fairy houses, find kookaburras in the trees, watch leaves float along the water, listen to the sounds of nature and always get very wet socks!
First Nations Primary Excursion
On Tuesday this week, despite the wintery weather, we headed to the Sustainability Centre at Mount Nelson for an on country First Nations excursion.
A number of students from Kinder to Year 6 all very excitedly partcipated in a program looking at the importance of sustainability through the lens of caring and connecting to country and culture. Our Aboriginal educator, Karen was amazing and really helped the girls connect to their culture and deepen their understanding and appreciation for ancient knowledge and how the land was managed sustainably in the past. The girls made a key ring using the colours of black, red and yellow. They also told a story personal to them through paint. It was a fabulous day.
Here are the stories behind our paintings:
Ella: my mum as a mermaid, as she tells me lots of stories about the beach.
Winnie: my picture is about a zoo.
Ava-May: going to the bush with my family and seeing the trees and rocks and bushes.
Isla: my picture is about my family.
Khoa: my picture is about a beach and my family spending time together on the beach.
Millie G: every time Dark Mofo is on my family and my mum‘s friends family go together.
Olive: my family, my aunty and cousins go to the bush and we always see some native animals.
Zephie: my family and I go to White Beach and our shack is there and we see lots of things in the ocean the sky and the ground.
Grace: I love the beach and swimming in it with my mum and sister.
Lucy: this is the desert at Uluru and I’d love to visit there one day.
Olivia: my painting is our first nations people watching the midnight sky.
Molly: at Ulverstone, my family and I always stay up late and see the sunset.
Delilah: my picture is of my nan and pop at the beach at my shack.
Ebony: my family and I go to the beach on a hot day and collect shells.
