Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education

Sharing Knowledge Program

On Tuesday November 15, four Year 3 and 4 students attended the Sharing Knowledge Program at Wollongong Art Gallery. There, they explored the many artworks and artefacts in the gallery created by First Nations Peoples. They also joined award winning Gunai author and artist, Kirli Saunders for a creative connection to Country. Alirah C, Sienna P, Hunter S and Billy W learned about Kirli's creative practice and created visual poems where they experimented with a range of mediums, including cyanotypes (sun prints), poetic collages and painting. It was an absolutely wonderful experience for all the students involved!

Aboriginal Education Committee Parent Meeting

We are pleased to announce that Aboriginal Education Committee Meeting on Wednesday, 30 November 2022 at 3.15pm until 4.15pm in the library. This will be an opportunity to continue our collaborative refresh of the school Reconciliation Action Plan and discuss Aboriginal Education at Oak Flats Public School. We warmly invite all parents, carers and families to attend. An information letter and return slip will be sent out next week. We are looking forward to continuing to work together. 

Mrs Chatterton on behalf of the Aboriginal Education Committee

Aboriginal Perspectives in Stage 2

3/4C

This week 3/4C are learning about questioning in Focus on Reading. We learnt to question before, during and after reading. We used the book Cathy Freeman, Born to Run. This created some great questioning from the class, and we also watched Cathy Freeman's 400m Olympic Race which we read about in the book. 

3/4H

This week saw our class (3/4H) practice our Whole Number skills using teamwork, critical and creative thinking and using items from Country to represent number on our wonderful school playground. 3/4H loved trading the worksheets for the hands-on materials and cannot wait to try more fun and educational things utilising Country! 

3/4T

This term, 3/4T have been studying the Science unit, ‘Contact and non-contact forces’. Examples of forces include pushes, pulls, friction, gravity and magnetism. We have looked at how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peoples used tools to apply force to objects. One tool is called the woomera (Dharug language) which is used to apply more force when throwing a spear. 

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples also used fire sticks and friction force to make fire and boomerangs to push against air friction force.