NAIDOC Week

This is all pre-digital.

So I used to go with my Pentax K1000 and shoot the NAIDOC marches.

And then more recently during the pandemic, we had the big Black Lives Matter march here in the city.

So I'm printing one image from the Black Lives Matter and two images from the NAIDOC marches.

in the 90s, and they're going to be screen printed like 1.2 by 80 centimetres, and they're absolutely beautiful, so I can't wait to go head down to Spacecraft today to...

To have a look.

which is really, really exciting, given that it was dreamed up over a decade ago.

So we launched that during NAIDOC week this year.

And so what that means now is we've got a registered charity that is actually there to ensure that financial and social um barriers that are faced by first nations people um can hopefully be um reduced by this foundation having you know financial um grants that they can give to people um And hopefully into the future, it's going to grow to provide more wraparound support as well.

And the aim of the foundation is to really see the number of First Nations lawyers practising law in New South Wales.

my previous school I was involved on our reconciliation action plan and on that committee where we're working through the relationship with First Nations Australians at that school and what that looks like and how that's embedded in our curriculum.

So that was something that I was privileged to be part of and work through and trying to link that to text like welcome to country that um that we would potentially use you know this first week of every year so that um it was that became embedded in your practice of um acknowledging country is a big part of um what we tried to embed there and how that links and the relevant weeks later in the year, like Reconciliation Week and NAIDOC Week.

So I've taken those opportunities as they presented.

And then more recently, sort of trying to embed whole school kind of number fluency programs where it's, are you collecting data on number fluency where you can get a snapshot of how these kids that maybe do struggle with the decoding of um pat math assessments and essential assessments word problems not knowing where to start if you just put a page of numbers in front of them how do they what sort of automaticity have they got uh and so trying to and i've used some of brad newman's resources for that he's got like some diagnostic assessments around addition and subtraction and multiplication and division So we're playing with that in a bit of a pilot phase at the moment.