Last week we were fortunate to have a visit from Katrina Cambridge (CE Aboriginal Education Officer) and Chaydin Reid to work with our indigenous children. Students learnt more about the Yidaki (didgeridoo) and lore (Aboriginal law). They also tried bush tea and wattle seed pancakes and then engaged in some activities to learn more about Aboriginal culture.

‘Chaydin played the didgeridoo and we played a game with the didgeridoo. We played a game where there was a dingo, a kangaroo and a kookaburra. We tried bush tea and bush pancakes.’ Bryce

‘Only boys can play the didgeridoo but girls can hold the didgeridoo, they just can’t play it. Another word for didgeridoo is Yidaki. Yidaki is the Ngunnawal language for didgeridoo. How you make a didgeridoo is you go to a place that has a lot of logs like the woods or a forest and you get a log with a hole in it. Next you put water in the log to make sure the hole is not blocked off. If your log has a crack you put honey on it; you can use any type of honey. We tried some bush tea, it wasn’t that great to me, it tasted just like water. We also tried some yummy pancakes, they were so good! The pancakes had these seeds in them, but I don’t remember what they were called.’ Summah