As non-Indigenous educators, respectfully teaching Indigenous perspectives is challenging and always evolving. After MCMC’s education specialists provide school incursions that connect with Indigenous perspectives, we sometimes see educators build on the experience and develop their own initiatives. Our congratulations to Carlton Primary School’s Kaytlin Beattie and Winter Dunstone who developed their teaching of Indigenous perspectives by using the school’s indigenous garden to connect with Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung language and enrich an understanding of the seasons.

The image (right) shows an example of how Grade 1 students departed from the common, stereotypical seasonal ideas associated with ‘summer’. Instead of using a blue palette of skies and beaches, they used yellow, gold and brown, which is more attuned to the local conditions of ‘biderap,’ the hot and dry season – as conveyed by the grasslands of Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country. 

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