NAIDOC (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee) is an important annual event where everyone’s invited to join in the celebrations and learn about the oldest living culture in the world. Significant events take place all across Australia. This year NAIDOC Week was held from the 7-14 July.

This year's theme was: 

To celebrate NAIDOC Week, the students participated in a variety of activities that helped them learn, understand and acknowledge the value and importance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and history.  

The students listened to Dreamtime Stories, learned about the boomerang, painted using significant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander symbols and participated in song and music activities. Students also had the opportunity to complete the NAIDOC Colouring-in competition. As the students had the holidays to complete these, we are allowing entries until Friday. As such, winners will be announced in classrooms in Week 2. These will also be published in the next newsletter.

Mrs Mansbridge