Indigenous Literacy Day

This week we celebrated Indigenous Literacy Day at Trinity. This year’s theme was ‘Celebrating stories and language’. Students had the opportunity to explore some wonderful literature from our First Nations authors. They explored two books in particular ‘Go Home, Cheeky Animals!’ by Dion Beasley, an Alywarr man, and Johanna Bell; and ‘Welcome to Country’ by Aunty Joy Murphy, a Wurundjeri elder, and Lisa Kennedy, a descendant of the Trawlwoolway People.  

Here is some of the learning that happened across the classes at Trinity this week...

4/5TR

Name: Amy                                                                   Date: 31/8/21

After listening to the story ‘Welcome To Country’ I wrote a paragraph to identify the key messages or big ideas in the text. I identified the purpose of the text (for instance, to entertain, inform, persuade or a combination), and  the intended audience of the text. I also identified text and visual features that the author and illustrator used to successfully communicate the book's message and purpose to its intended audience. 

The key messages or big ideas in the text were that the indigenous people believed that we are part of the land. We only take what we can and what we need, and we give back the land! The purpose of the text is to inform everyone about our land and to inform the reader of what the Indigenous culture is about. I think that the intended audience is for people who want to learn more about our country. In the illustrations, I can see aboriginal symbols, colours and beautiful drawings that make me feel proud and happy! 

• Listen and watch Welcome to Country by Aunty Joy Murphy AO, Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Elder

I then had to respond to the following instruction.

• Identify what you think Trinity’s school community values are. Design  a symbol of welcome that would suit the school  (the Wurundjeri use a gum leaf). Brainstorm words and phrases that you could use to welcome someone to your school and which will communicate the school’s expectations and values. 

We can include flowers, the cross and handprints. These can be used because they are a symbol for all of us and that everybody is unique and special in their own way.  For the cross we can make a human circle and one by one place our cross in the middle. For the Handprints, we can put our handprints on a wall or canvas. For the flower we will have a flower tree and we will just take a flower.

• The cross
• Handprints
• Flowers

From 2/3CW

This week in reading and writing we have been doing lots of work understanding indigenous literacy and developing our own dreamtimes stories. We have learnt a lot about the common lessons that each of the stories teach us!

To also add to our digital literacy skills we have been developing dreamtime stories on book creator. Follow the links below to read a few of our books.

Vincent

https://read.bookcreator.com/g3KLTaOKIJaZKHnyEeTz6pvoqYj1/KTlgvKijQ5a91STF8AjQTg 

Cameron

https://read.bookcreator.com/c584UgdZmEXM7l7VfDkGoAXdP9d2/lD_eDB4BSTa-pjuc7SO8kg

Anthony

https://read.bookcreator.com/1UQYCU2HOEfqWobPZrzI8KVgHOE2/PRcRjmTkSAmnkmrtmRwryQ

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From 2/3UR