Welcome back to Term 3!

Mrs Wooding, with the help of students, presented on assembly last Friday to celebrate NAIDOC week. This years’ NAIDOC theme is ‘Heal Country’.  The term ‘Country’ in Indigenous Culture means so much more than a place. It describes a relationship between the land, culture and people. 

Here in Warwick, we are on Githabul country.  The Githabul people are the traditional custodians of this land, where we learn, work and play.

The Githabul name for Warwick is Waringh Waringh (pronounced ‘Wadding Wadding’) & it means ‘cold place’.

‘Yangan’ is a Githabul word & it means ‘over there’ or ‘go away’.

The Githabul name for Queen Mary Falls is Borabee falls which means ‘koala falls’.

The Githabul name for Allora is Gnallorah (pronounced ‘Nullora’) meaning ‘place of the swamp’. 

Mrs Wooding invited everyone to the library to watch Jade Kennedy’s TED talk ‘Welcome to Country’ a great explanation of why we have a welcome or acknowledgement of Country, along with a better understanding of what Country is.  If you have a spare few minutes we can highly recommend it to you.

We have asked students, ‘How can we show gratitude and respect to the country (land/culture/people) around us?’  We have some great answers and are looking forward to receiving and displaying more. 

We have also been busy designing a representation of ourselves with wool to celebrate Jumpers and Jazz.  The theme for schools is MAGIC -  just like the magic in Dreamtime stories, we too are magic, each one of us in our own way. 

This term we will again be running lunch time activities.  If you have a skill you would be happy to come in and share with students, please let us know – we love having community members in our midst.

A quick reminder to return any reading or class novels and texts that you/your student no longer need.