Always was, always will be

Acknowledgement of Country

This acknowledgment was written by Rohan after the Year 5 workshop with KESO Kira Peters on Wurundjeri culture. 

School Council Meeting

On the 25th July, we had the School Council meeting. We shared the school's Acknowledgement of Country and about the workshops, assemblies and general work that the Always was, Always will be team have been doing, like the Books n Boots fundraiser.

In the workshops, we have been sharing things with the year levels, such as: reading books, doing activities like doing games, painting and creative works.

In assembly, we share the Woiwurrung word of the week - we learn to pronounce it and what the words mean. 

We attended the teacher's Year 1 collaborative team meeting to work with them on their workshop. We talked about what we were doing, how we would do it and what sessions we could do it. We also asked when they were free and if it worked for their unit of inquiry. We were a little nervous but when we sharing it, it didn't matter because it got easier and easier as we were talking about it. 

It helped because we had run workshops for other year levels like the Year 6, so it wasn't as scary and we have done lots of work planning the workshops. Plus all our previous experiences like Red Faces at camp, Performing Arts and lots of things that we do where the classes are listening.

Everyone is welcome to join - we meet in 5B's classroom every Monday lunch! Note the day change!

Halley (4A) on behalf of the Always was, Always will be Student Team

Woiwurrung Word of the Week

"Biladu-njan warr-ngat?" which means "how are all of you?". Thanks to the KESO team for sharing these Woiwurrung words.

Here's a video of Mandy Nicholson sharing the pronounciation of the phrase - fast forward to 20 seconds.

First Nation Events + Resources

(Our school is not affiliated with any of these)

Check out the rest of the grate videos from the Waking Up Woiwurrung series with Mandy Nicholson. 

Clothing the Gaps created a series of educational videos about Woiwurrung language with Mandy Nicholson. Mandy is a Wurundjeri-willam artist and Traditional Custodian of Melbourne and surrounds.

Mandy also has connections to the Dja Dja wurrung and Ngurai illam wurrung language groups of the Central/Eastern Kulin Nation.

Each video answers a question about Woiwurrung language & how cultural knowledge is embedded in language.

https://www.clothingthegaps.com.au/pages/waking-up-woiwurrung-with-mandy-nicholson