NAIDOC Week 2020
On Monday 9th November Year 5/6 Red and Year 1 Red put together a lovely prayer celebration for NAIDOC Week 2020!
NAIDOC celebrations are held around Australia in July each year to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This year due to COVID it has been postponed to November 8th to 15th. This year’s theme for our NAIDOC Week is ‘Always was, Always will’.
Always Was, Always Will Be recognises that First Nations people have occupied and cared for this continent for over 65,000 years. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were Australia’s first explorers, first navigators, first engineers, first farmers, first botanists, first scientists, first diplomats, first astronomers and first artists.
NAIDOC Week 2020 acknowledges and celebrates that our nation’s story didn’t begin with documented European contact whether in 1770 with Captain James Cook, or in 1606 with the arrival of the Dutch on the western coast of the Cape York Peninsula. The very first footprints on this continent were those belonging to First Nations people.
NAIDOC 2020 invites all Australians to embrace the true history of this country – a history which dates back thousands of generations. It’s about seeing, hearing and learning the First Nations’ 65,000- plus year history of this country - which is Australian history.
Year 1 enjoyed some Indigenous games during NAIDOC Week 2020.
Mel Punyer
ATSI Contact Teacher