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5-6 Learning Community

Remote learning has continued for the 5-6 Learning Community this week, and we couldn’t be prouder of the Commitment that our students are demonstrating with their learning from home!

It’s National Reconciliation Week across Australia and in 5-6 we have been looking at the importance of storytelling. We have told our own Dreamtime inspired stories in various ways, using words, pictures and symbols. Please enjoy our stories and have a go at creating one yourself!

How the bulldog got its flat face.

This is the story the old people told us about how the bulldog got its flat face. 

It’s from the Dreamtime.

In the past all the dogs looked the same. They all looked like a dingo. 

There was one dog called Mairra Darrwal (hungry dingo)

Mairra Darrwal was a very greedy darrwal and spent all day chasing after small animals to eat.

His mother warned him “your a chasing fool you need to stop eating so much. You need to respect your fellow animals, food is not to be wasted and should be respected, we all need to share our kudjiliyn (diner)“.

Mairra Darrwal just laughed at his mother as he ran off into the bush chasing a yurn (quoll). 

As Mairra Darrwal continued to eat more and more food he became fatter and fatter, his dung (stomach)became large and round and his legs stopped growing and remained short.

One day Mairra Darrwal was chasing his third walert (brush tailed possum) for that morning. This walert was cleaver, he dogged ducked and weved his way around the bush has was just as fast as Mairra Darrwal.

Mairra Darrwal continued to run after him as fast as he could and was not always looking 

where he was going, he was to busy looking around for n easier meal to catch.

The walert ran towards a very large biyal tree (red gum tree), Mairra Darrwal was not looking where he was going. The walert climbed the biyal at the very last second, Mairra 

Darrwal was not looking where he was going and crashed straight into the biyal. 

Mairra Darrwal nose was pushed back into his murrk (head).

If you look closely today you can see his family by the short lorrks (legs) and kang (nose) of his ancestors the bulldog.