Recently, our Year 3 students were given a first hand lesson in rope-making skills by local Wardandi man, Zac Webb. Zac is a trained ranger, but he shared traditional techniques learned when he was their age, with the students and he explained how these grass ropes would have been used to form snares, belts or […]
Room 8 compiled this recount after they had an expert visit their class as part of their inquiry. On Tuesday the 19th of August 2015 Drew visited Room 8. He is an Environmental Scientist. We listened to Drew while he told us lots of information. Such as: • Native seeds have a seed case that […]
Last week saw an exciting week of indigenous music at Margaret River Primary School. On Monday the school hosted singer – songwriter Scott Darlow who is based in Melbourne and has toured across Australia and overseas extensively. His brand of guitar and didgeridoo driven country rock thrilled audiences throughout the day. He also spoke to […]
Congratulations!! At the annual PALS Award ceremony at Parliament House on 7 November, Margaret River Primary’s Indigenous Garden project was named the winner in the Health category of the PALS Awards! There were 188 schools involved and four different categories, of which we won Health. Besides receiving the Award, PALS have given the school $800 […]
Last Monday, our indigenous garden was officially declared open by Mr Kerimofski. Josh Whiteland opened proceedings with a Welcome to Country and explanation of what this garden means culturally. The project has been funded by a PALS Grant which allows all our indigenous students to celebrate and explore their culture through an awareness of […]
