All About Australia Day / Whose Country Are We On?
Whose Country Are We On?
Children find the Traditional Owners of the land your service is on, learn their name for Country and help write the service's own Acknowledgement of Country.
How to run it
- Look up your area on a map of Indigenous Australia and with your local council or land council resources.
- Share the name of the local Traditional Owners and, if the community shares it publicly, their word for hello or welcome.
- Talk about what an Acknowledgement of Country is and why we say it.
- Have children suggest words and pictures for the service's own Acknowledgement.
- Display it near the sign-in and read it together at the start of the day.
You will need
- map of Indigenous Australia (printed or on screen)
- large card
- markers
Make it easier or harderYounger children can add handprints or drawings; older children can draft the wording and present it.
My Time Our Place · Outcome 2, Outcome 5Children learn about the Traditional Owners of their local area and express respect in their own words.
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