As advised in the last Newsletter, Patrick in Year 6 has been awarded a NAIDOC Medal of Excellence for his entry in this year’s NAIDOC Week School Initiatives Poetry Writing Competition. The topic for the Poetry Writing Competition was Respecting Culture. Here is Patrick’s poem.

Respecting Culture

Up in the Dreamtime their culture lies

We look up towards the stars and there 

We learn about their amazing life

To see what it's like to have a flight

Through the bushes and into the plains 

We look at the tribes and there on lit flames

We look forward on the plains and we want to inform you 

We had a nice flight to learn more about the Aboriginal land

That we love and respect with all our hands and heart

Thank you, thank you 

For this land, we live and love with all our care. 

Patrick, Year 6

2022 NAIDOC Week Colouring and Poetry Writing Competition

Thank you to all children who entered this year’s competition. Kinder to Year 2 entered the colouring competition and Years 3-6 children entered the poetry writing section. I was very impressed with the high quality of entries from our school. The writing entries showed the depth of understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, history and cultures and the importance of respecting these cultures.

Thank you also to our teachers for their commitment to this cross-curriculum priority in the Australian Curriculum in their lessons across all areas of learning.

Gaba nginda (Gamilaraay/Yuwaalaraay: ‘Good you; thank you’)   

Phil Taylor

Aboriginal Education Teacher