NAIDOC Week Excursion

Together with students from our sister school, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, we visited the Kamay Botany Bay National Park to celebrate NAIDOC Week. We learnt many things including more about how Indigenous Australians lived in the area, where Captain Cook first landed and how ochre is made for painting. Walking through a national park will never be the same...looking out for bush tucker, mingo trees for glue, using wattle leaves for soap or stringy bark for rope...

Learning about making rope from stringy bark.

A digging stick or used to crush berries.

Learning about bush tucker and which leaves to chew to freshen our mouths! 

A Banksia seed pod needs fire to open.

Sharing the experience with friends from OLMC.

Ochre placed on our foreheads as a welcome to Kamay Botany Bay National Park.

Enjoying lilly pilly jam on pancakes.

Tim taught us to crush and rub wattle leaves with water to make soap.