NAIDOC Showcase

KA: Bronwyn Bancroft

1T: Vincent Namatjira

The students in 1T studied the work and life of artist Vincent Namatjira and wrote a shared profile on his achievements.

1J: Albert Namatjira

1J learned about Albert Namatjira, who was a renowned Aboriginal artist known for his watercolour landscapes of Central Australia. The students explored his life, his contributions to Australian art, and created their own artworks inspired by his style using watercolour paints.

1C and K/1V: Troy Cassar-Daley

1C and K/1V have been learning to sing Ninganah Lullaby by Troy Cassar Daley for NAIDOC week. Troy Cassar-Daley is an Aboriginal singer and songwriter.  He mostly writes and sings country music and has won a lot of awards.

Troy wrote Ninganah Lullaby for ABC Kids. It is about going camping on country with his mum, grandmother and cousins when he was a little boy. The kids were always way too excited to sleep so the adults always had to say ‘ninganah’ which means ‘be quiet’.

Some other Aboriginal words we learnt from the song:

• jarjum - kids
• goonge - ghost
• mughal- naughty
• jallany barrway - big mouth
• jinang - feet

You can listen to Ninganah Lullaby on ABC Kids.

Ninganah Lullaby

2S: Yalmay Yunupingu

2S learnt about the 2024 Senior Australian of the Year, Yalmay Yunupingu. We learnt about how Yalmay was an amazing teacher, linguist and community leader in south-east Arnhem Land. She was passionate about teaching in a bilingual school and bilingual education for many decades.

The students in 2S were very excited about their connection to Yalmay's language, Yolngu Matha. Students learnt Yolngu Martha language through Mr Miller and sang Three Little Birds in language.

To keep language alive at Stanmore Public School, we decided to learn 5 new Gadigal words, translated for us by Wiradjuri, Gadigal woman, Akala Newman.

Students worked together to create a collaborative poster of each word in a small group. They then created an individual artworks to match their chosen Gadigal word.

We linked the words to our Term 2 science unit about weather: burra (sky). wallan (rain), gurra (wind), gawing (sun), and mungi (lightning).

2P: Blak Douglas

2P learnt about Aboriginal Australian artist and musician Blak Douglas, using his artwork as inspiration for their own self portraits.

3/4B: Oodgeroo Noonuccal

4T: Kid Laroi

The students in 4T thoroughly enjoyed working in small groups to research and create a biography about Kid Laroi.

They were surprised and delighted to find that Kid Laroi is a local to our community, having grown up in Redfern but they were keenly interested to learn more about his Indigenous heritage.

5/6H: Nova Peris

The students in 5/6H were inspired to find out about Nova Peris while on their visit to the National Museum in Canberra.

They published their work which includes writing, artwork, poetry and posters on a website.