Learning and Teaching

Italian Day - 19 November

Benvenuti a tutti!

Welcome back everyone !

 

Thursday 19 November will be our 2020 ITALIAN DAY!

We will be celebrating the cultural diversity of our country and the rich contributions of the Italian immagrants to Australia. It’s time to pull out the Italian coloured clothing and costumes and have some fun. We will be celebrating Italian culture, food and colours. The school will be providing lunch of pizza and gelato cups for all students. Students that do not like pizza will need to bring their own lunch. 

 

A SPECIAL REQUEST

I would like to request a special item... old,  bed sheets that are no longer used. They are needed for a special activity. Please have a look around and see what you can find or perhaps ask family and friends. Sheets can be dropped off at the school office or handed to Signora De Amicis on Thursday.

 

Mille Grazie

Signora De Amicis

Science Week : 4-6 November 

Next week we will be celebrating Science Week.

There will be different water themed activities throughout the week. The school's theme for National Science Week 2020 is ‘Deep Blue: innovations for the future of our oceans’ and features the establishment of the Blue Economy CRC

With this in mind, it will embrace the innovative technologies, capabilities and skills needed to achieve economic, environmental and social sustainability of our oceans. It will feature insights and inquiries into workable solutions that generate healthy oceans, healthy economies and healthy communities. 

Wednesday: Virtual Aquarium Tour 

Friday 6 November: Dress up as your favourite underwater creature, object or person. 

 

Naidoc Week : 8-15 November

Celebrating 65,000+ year history of Australia

Always Was, Always Will Be, recognises that First Nations people have occupied and cared for this continent for over 65,000 years. We are spiritually and culturally connected to this country. This country was criss-crossed by generations of brilliant Nations.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were Australia’s first explorers, first navigators, first engineers, first farmers, first botanists, first scientists, first diplomats, first astronomers and first artists.

Australia has the world’s oldest oral stories. The First Peoples engraved the world’s first maps, made the earliest paintings of ceremony and invented unique technologies. We built and engineered structures - structures on Earth - predating well-known sites such as the Egyptian Pyramids and Stonehenge. Our adaptation and intimate knowledge of Country enabled us to endure climate change, catastrophic droughts and rising sea levels.

 

Always Was, Always Will Be acknowledges that hundreds of Nations and our cultures covered this continent. All were managing the land - the biggest estate on earth - to sustainably provide for their future. Through ingenious land management systems like fire stick farming we transformed the harshest habitable continent into a land of bounty.

 

NAIDOC Week 2020 acknowledges and celebrates that our nation’s story didn’t begin with documented European contact whether in 1770 or 1606 - with the arrival of the Dutch on the western coast of the Cape York Peninsula.

The very first footprints on this continent were those belonging to First Nations peoples.

Our coastal Nations watched and interacted with at least 36 contacts made by Europeans prior to 1770. Many of them resulting in the charting of the northern, western and southern coastlines – of our lands and our waters.

 

For us, this nation’s story began at the dawn of time.

NAIDOC 2020 invites all Australians to embrace the true history of this country – a history which dates back thousands of generations. It’s about seeing, hearing and learning the First Nations’ 65,000+ year history of this country - which is Australian history. We want all Australians to celebrate that we have the oldest continuing cultures on the planet and to recognise that our sovereignty was never ceded.

 

Always Was, Always Will Be.

https://www.naidoc.org.au/get-involved/2020-theme