As part of Class 4's Local Geography Main Lesson, the students recently visited Berry Island Reserve in Wollstonecraft and the Coal Loader in Waverton.

They participated in a guided bushwalk of the Reserve and explored the Coal Loader museum, learning about Indigenous culture, craft and bush tucker along the way.

Thank you to Jamie, Michelle, and Darren for such a brilliant excursion, and to Matilda for her beautiful reflection on the day below.

Yesterday we went to Berry Island with the whole of Class 4 and Jamie and Michelle. When we got there we met a man called Darren who was our tour guide and told us all about the Indigenous carvings. While we were walking we stopped every couple of metres so he could explain what we could eat in the bush. He told us that you could squish ferns together and put them on your insect bites. Darren also said that you could eat termites! Weird but true and most of us tried some! He told us you had to crunch on them so they didn’t run around in your stomach or mouth. 

Then we walked to the Coal Loader and went into the museum. It was small but had some amazing things in it. Darren showed us a hunting spear that his grandfather had made. Then we kept walking into the bush and came to a clearing where we sat down on some logs. Darren opened his bag and pulled out possum skins with signs carved into the skin, boomerangs, fire sticks, and a dingo skin that he handed around. Then we walked back and learned how to weave strong rope out of grasses and make water-proof bark boats. By Matilda