Canowindra HIgh Students celebrating NAIDOC Week.
Canowindra High School students recently celebrated NAIDOC week, which was full of fun, learning and laughter.
On Tuesday, Gerald Power and the Deputy Mayor of Orange joined the students in their celebrations. Gerald held talks with each year group to educate them on Indigenous cooking and the importance of using and preserving Indigenous ingredients.
The Canowindra High Staff members were presented with a morning tea prepared by Gerald and the students of kangaroo kebabs and sausage rolls along with an array of Indigenous themed foods.
On Wednesday, the school’s usual sports day was transformed into a whole school rotational event where students played traditional Indigenous games such as Skiddle, Dabi and Edor. Games played were from different Indigenous communities throughout Australia ranging from South Australia to Far North Queensland Tully River, Cardwell and Cairns and to the most Northern area of Australia such as the Mer Island Eastern Torres Strait and Mabuiag Island Western Torres Strait.
Six stations were set up with Indigenous games. Some of the games that were played included Edor a game like tip or tag, Chuboo-chuboo that has the same principal to Volleyball, Kolap a game like bocce or bowls, Dabi a slide hockey type game, Puloga game that is a mixed of dodge ball and league tag and Skiddle a game that is like tenpin bowls.
Canowindra High teacher Suzannah Tapim, demonstrated coconut scraping on Thursday. Suz sat in the upper quad showing students how coconuts are scraped in her home, the Torres Strait.
On Friday, the ATSI students, Suz and Charlie, with the help of our wonderful Year 11 and 12 hospitality students, treated our staff members to an Indigenous themed luncheon serving up crocodile fettuccine and finger lime cheesecake.
The week was a wonderful success, and the whole school would like to thank Charlie, Suzannah and the ATSI students for the hard work and effort that they put in.