Parent & Community Notices

Crazy Hair Day

As the whole school PBS Reward, we will be holding a Crazy Hair Day on Friday 1st July.  There is loads of fabulous inspiration on the internet, the funkier the better! We can't wait to see all of the staff and students' creations. 

Brilliant Brains - Term 3

Attention all Mukinbudin Kindy 2023 parents. If you have yet to join our Brilliant Brains program, then there is still time to enrol your child for Term 3. Contact the school if you require further information or wish to enrol your child.

The Premier's Reading Challenge

Mukinbudin DHS is participating in the Premier’s Reading Challenge. There are great prizes to win for the whole family as well as school based individual and class prizes. The competition is for all students from K-10. It doesn’t matter if the child is reading by themselves, to you or if you are reading the book aloud. Reading and logging only 12 books before September qualifies you for the grand prizes. 

Please register your child/children at https://www.premiersreadingchallenge.wa.edu.au/the-challenge and enter our school to help themselves and their class earn prizes. 

The first school prize will be awarded at the assembly, to the class with the largest percentage of students registered.  

Please contact Zoe Bolt, zoe.bolt@education.wa.edu.au, if you have any questions or queries. 

Indigenous Seasons- Makuru

Winter | June & July

The coldest and wettest time of the year, Makuru was traditionally the time that Noongar people moved back inland and away from the coast. Winds turn to the west and south bringing rain and occasional snow on the peaks of the Stirling and Porongurup Ranges.

During this season, waterways and catchments begin to fill and Noongar people change their diet from eating food from the sea and lakes to hunting grazing animals such as the kangaroo or ‘yongar’.  The yongar not only provided a food source but also ‘bookas’ which are animal skin cloaks used as nights became much colder. Bones and sinews were also used from the yongar for spear making and manufacturing of a books. Makuru is also a time for animals to begin pairing up in preparation for breeding in the coming season. ‘Wardongs’ (ravens) can be seen flying together during this season, and upon the lakes and rivers of the Southwest you will notice the influx of ‘Mali’ of Black Swan as they prepare to nest and breed. Blue and purple flowers such as Blueberry Lilly (Dianella Revoluta) and the Purple Flags (Patersonia Occidentalis) emerge during these colder months, and as Mukuru draws to a close. You will notice the white flowers of the weeping peppermint (Agonis Flexuosa) as the blues start to make way for the white and cream flowers of Djilba.