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Wilston Grange Kindergarten
Kindergarten children together
Here is Daghun (The land)
Here is Ngurrun (The sky)
Here are all my Jimbalung (friends) Nga Naree (and so am I)
We show respect
We share this land
We walk together
Hand in hand
Robbie Leikvold
Director, Wilston Grange Kindergarten and Preschool
Acknowledgement of country for us is showing respect for the traditional custodians of the land and for the children to understand that the First Nations people were here 1st and that we respect their ownership of the land and sharing the land with us, which is why it's important. It's a start to every day.
Do you remember who the people were who are the custodians of this land?
We talked to the children about how they want to show it and the Walking together hand in hand in our acknowledgement was something that meant something to them but when we collaborated with a couple of cultural advisers from the community, we were able to gain the words from Yagara language so that the children do it two ways and show their respect. First of all through Indigenous language, through Yagara, and then we do it in English to follow.
Krystal Cameron
Principal Project Officer, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education, K-10 Curriculum and Assessment Branch
The QKLG 2024 includes the principle of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives to strengthen the embedding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives across teaching and learning contexts.
The principle is also reflected in the revised statement where all children engage in learning that promotes confident and creative individuals and successful lifelong learners. All children are active and informed members of their communities with knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives.
Community member
The dots connect the story
Child 1
How does it connect a story?
Community member
It brings it together, so in Aboriginal art and using dots . . .
Child 1
like when you did the dots on our picture
Community member
its our ancestors connecting the story and that’s how we pass through down generations is through art
Child 1
and you do it with this colour.
Wilston Grange Kindergarten
Kindergarten children together
In planning our everyday programme, we look at what we're doing with children and what will enhance their development and see what where we can draw a link with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. Doing paintings, we might put out the blues, greens, oceany colours and a book about Torres Strait islands and get the children interested in that environment or we might use our red, black and yellows and earthy tones in some of our artwork. We might use stones and seeds for our sequencing and numeracy rather than using plastic materials bought elsewhere. So the children understand that country provides us with everything we need to grow and learn. We often come out with a little joke that, look, we forgot the paint brushes today, what can we use? and the children scatter throughout the playground and come back with leaves and sticks and stones and little pebbles, berries off the bushes. So having a great outdoor environment with a few native plantings has been to our advantage in being able to extend the children's understanding of not everybody has access to commercially made products and we can use our environment to learn and grow.
- Last updated:
- 23 June 2025
