| | | Inclusive Environments | Community arts and cultural development | Caversham Valley Primary School | Bush Tucker Garden | | We would like to install a bush tucker garden in an unused garden bed that is opposite our newly installed outdoor classroom. The bush tucker garden will be split into 6 areas and each area will focus on the native plants for each season so as we progress through the year, certain parts of the bush tucker garden are growing to bring that season into focus. | | | 4,900 | | | 2024-25 |
| | | Connecting to Country and Culture | Community arts and cultural development | Safety Bay Primary School | Yarning with Justin | | Justin Martin is a Wadjuk man, and a qualified tour guide and Aboriginal artworks specialist. Justin will come to the school to talk with classes/year groups about the local history, Noongar people, language, art and more. Safety Bay Primary School has vast cultural diversity throughout the school. These sessions will be used to educate all of our students and community about our First Nations People and Noongar Boodjar. | | | 5,000 | | | 2024-25 |
| | | Inclusive Environments | Community arts and cultural development | Belmont City College | Building inclusivity through language learning and yarning | | We are embarking on 3 activities. The first involves adopting dual language signage across the school. Noongar language will be used alongside English names e.g. Mereny (food) for canteen along with a QR code linked to the spoken word. The second, relates to the construction of a yarning circle and the third, local Elders will be invited to be part of a yarning group for staff and students. Each will be linked to curriculum-based activities and implemented with students, staff and community. | | | 5,000 | | | 2024-25 |
| | | Connecting to Country and Culture | Community arts and cultural development | Cottesloe Primary School | Bilya to Warden | | In 2025, a creative session with our Year 6 students will start a collective canvas, reflecting their understanding of Cottesloe Primary School's significant cultural story. All students will be apart of creating the canvas, while staff and parent workshops will foster cultural understanding and involvement. By the end of 2025, the canvas will be completed, symbolizing the shared journey of our school community in celebrating Aboriginal culture and storytelling. | | | 5,000 | | | 2024-25 |
| | | Connecting to Country and Culture | Community arts and cultural development | Mater Dei College | The Whadjuk Gift | | The Whadjuk Gift is a project we run at Mater Dei College that includes 10 primary schools from catholic and government schools. It includes over 500 students who design a t-shirt based on an Aboriginal Nation. They come to our college and compete for their chosen Nation in a day of sports-cultural activities. We have about 33 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nations represented. | | | 4,820 | | | 2024-25 |
| | | Connecting to Country and Culture | Community arts and cultural development | East Maddington Primary School | Aboriginal Survival Technology | | This dynamic presentation will give your students a visual and tactile experience of traditional technologies used by Indigenous peoples across the varied environments of Australia deserts, mountains, rivers and sea shores. Philip Green has a large collection of museum-quality artefacts which are given out in multiple touch-boxes for students to examine and handle. Students have the ability to learn in conjunction with Tracks to Two Way Learning. | | | 2,580 | | | 2024-25 |
| | | Arts | Visual arts and crafts | Ocean Reef Primary School | Djookanka-Sisters Art Workshop | | We will be having the Djookanka sisters come to the school to lead the workshop. They are 2 Noongar sisters from the area. On day 1 they will work with students to write and/or draw about what makes the school special to them. They will talk to students about the use of storytelling in art. On day 2 the sisters will come back to create a collaborative art piece with students. They will use students ideas from the previous day, here students will be using paint to create the artwork. | | | 1,500 | | | 2024-25 |
| | | Arts | Interactive arts content | Picton Primary School | First Nations ECE Sensory & Learning Trail | | We are a small primary school and would like to create an Indigenous themed interactive pathway in our Kindy/PP area. It will include Aboriginal Artwork and Language to engage students in activities to improve their gross motor skills and learn about Aboriginal language and culture. | | | 5,000 | | | 2024-25 |
| | | Connecting to Country and Culture | Community arts and cultural development | Kalamunda Primary School | KPS Kaa-kaa Bush Tucker Community Garden and Nature Trail | | To help our school community build a stronger connection to the land upon which our school is built. To create a bush tucker garden, chicken coop and frog pond with walk trail to create a sense of belonging, give students an opportunity to learn about the native flora and fauna that grows on the land surrounding us and how we can use these plants for a variety of purposes. The space will promote outdoor learning and a space for community to connect promoting cultural awareness and inclusivity. | | | 5,000 | | | 2024-25 |
| | | Connecting to Country and Culture | Community arts and cultural development | Little Grove Primary School | Culture & Environment Team | | We have created a professional learning team at our school that will begin next year, with 2 goals: to put our Reconciliation Action Plan goals into action, and to also create sustainability goals & initiatives that complement cultural responsiveness.
A grant will allow us to pay our community elders for their time with us, develop our bush tucker sustainable gardens & begin our inaugural senior block 'on-Country' cultural immersion day. | | | 3,000 | | | 2024-25 |
| | | Connecting to Country and Culture | Community arts and cultural development | Condingup Primary School | Cultural Competency | | We would like to do the following in 2025-Student and Staff Walk on Country-Working with Dabungool to learn about the history of Esperance, as well as about bush tucker. Wongutha CAPS NAIDOC Day Celebrations and NAIDOC town schools excursion-working with Wongutha and town schools to celebrate NAIDOC. Mudjar-Whole school excursion to complete artwork with the resident artist. | | | 4,072 | | | 2024-25 |
| | | Connecting to Country and Culture | Community arts and cultural development | Liwara Catholic Primary School | Whadjuk Gift | | The events began with a Welcome to Country, story telling and a smoking ceremony. This is followed by a series of activities, including a showcase of t-shirts designed by students representing 33 nations.
The students travel by bus to Mater Dei College in Edgewater to participate in the event. | | | 1,500 | | | 2024-25 |
| | | Connecting to Country and Culture | Community arts and cultural development | Baynton West Primary School | Connecting to Country, Language and Environment | | The Connecting to Country and Environmental Effects of Industry Project involves two activities. In Option 1, students explore the cultural significance of Murujuga petroglyphs and the environmental impact of Hearsons Cove with Murujuga Rangers. In Option 2, students study the Ngurin (Harding River) through a Bush Tucker Trail with Ngarluma members. Students create maps and drawings for a school arts showcase, highlighting cultural and environmental connections. | | | 5,000 | | | 2024-25 |
| | | Language | Community arts and cultural development | Cannington Community Education Support Centre | Dual name signage (Noongar and English) for buildings / spaces around the school | | Cannington Community Education Support Centre (CCESC) is developing a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) and the Working Group (committee) endorsed dual language signage as part of our commitment towards reconciliation. We have included in our supplementary RAP Actions "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages" and providing students with opportunities to see Noongar language in their school supports their understanding of the Traditional Custodians of the Whadjuk Country. | | | 5,000 | | | 2024-25 |
| | | Connecting to Country and Culture | Community arts and cultural development | Denmark Senior High School | NAIDOC Week | | Engaging all students, staff and invited community members in a series of events to celebrate NAIDOC Week and increase community awareness of the arts and culture of our local indigenous people. This will include a whole school assembly with performance opportunity (dancers/music), curriculum activities embedded in Learning Areas and a range of lunchtime activities as well as guest speakers for selected year groups. We will be working in partnership with local Aboriginal organisations. | | | 3,000 | | | 2024-25 |
| | | Connecting to Country and Culture | Cross-art form | Boyare Primary School | Boyare Primary School - Year-round activities for Reconciliation | | Boyare Primary School will be organizing a range of activities during the year and during NAIDOC Week that support reconciliation. There will be a Yirra Yaakin incursion, a Yalkarang incursion, a Noongar Boodja Six Seasons Kings Park Excursion, damper making, and Aboriginal sensory/dramatic play resources will be introduced. We will conduct activities and lessons during class contact time that promote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and history. | | | 5,000 | | | 2024-25 |
| | | Community Relationship | Community arts and cultural development | Gwynne Park Primary School | NAIDOC week 2025 Celebrations | | A key focus is to develop community links and promote student engagement through indigenous activities. Our NAIDOC assembly involves a variety of speakers, elders and musical/dance performers to showcase the importance of Aboriginal culture in WA and more specifically in our local community. Part of the NAIDOC assembly would involve Guy Ghouse and Gina Williams, 2 amazing Aboriginal story tellers and musical performers coming to our school to promote the Noongar Culture to all the students. | | | 5,000 | | | 2024-25 |
| | | Connecting to Country and Culture | Community arts and cultural development | Bindoon Primary School | Noongar Boodja Six Seasons | | To follow the creation of a Six Seasons garden in our school, we would like to organise a whole school excursion to Kings Park to involve the students in the Noongar Six Seasons program. These programs will support our recent endeavours to create a Reconciliation Action Plan to enhance respect for Aboriginal people, appreciation for diversity in our community and a sense of responsibility for caring for our natural environment. | | | 4,736 | | | 2024-25 |
| | | Connecting to Country and Culture | Interactive arts content | Christian Community Ministries Ltd | Connecting Culture | | Provide opportunity to connect with our Aboriginal families in our school and get them involved and supporting our Aboriginal students. Aim to do an incursion involving the arts for our Year PP-2 students and get our Year 3-6 out to a local culturally significant site. At this site Ngilgi cave, students will get a tour and the local Wardandi history by Koomal Dreaming. | | | 5,000 | | | 2024-25 |
| | | Connecting to Country and Culture | Community arts and cultural development | Winthrop Primary School | Come Together | | As part of our whole school community Harmony Day and NAIDOC events, Olman Walley, local Whadjuk Noongar person will share stories and history of the local area to our Winthrop community including students, staff and families. Prior to this event, he will visit on our Staff Development Day to build staff knowledge in relation to the Aboriginal Cultural Standards Framework (ACSF). Ongoing training assists us in our goal to aim to be assess as culturally competent against the ACSF. | | | 1,500 | | | 2024-25 |
| | | Connecting to Country and Culture | Community arts and cultural development | St Joseph's School Boulder | Whole School Celebration - NAIDOC Day | | We are incorporating a whole school celebration during NAIDOC week to celebrate and provide an opportunity for our school to engage in Aboriginal culture, learn about its rich history, and recognise the contributions of Indigenous people to Australian society.
We are inviting our students and their families to participate in NAIDOC week activities, fostering understanding, respect and reconciliation. | | | 5,000 | | | 2024-25 |