Falcon Primary School celebrates NAIDOC Week

The school started their NAIDOC week celebrations at 9am with a special assembly before students had the chance to learn Noongar language, create Aboriginal art and talk about local traditions.

They also had the opportunity to put their boomerang throwing skills at test, paint their own banners, plant native plants in the school garden and taste traditional damper before heading off to the canteen for a kangaroo sausage lunch.

Aboriginal and Islander education officer Cecil Fox said the event was a great chance for the students to learn about Australia’s first culture.

“I think it’s good to celebrate Australia’s first culture,” he said.

“If you’ve got a good school like this you get all the staff and the admin team all behind it, it just makes it a great place to work too.”

This year’s nation-wide NAIDOC celebrations focus on the importance, resilience and richness of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages.

The 2017 theme, Our Languages Matter, hopes to highlight the unique and essential role the indigenous languages play in cultural identity, the transmission of history, spirituality, storytelling and rites.