Students gather for cultural excursion

Students from schools across the Peninsula gathered at Woy Woy Public School on May 16 to take part in an Aboriginal Cultural Excursion facilitated by local indigenous activist, Mr Jake Cassar.

Mr Cassar spoke to students about local edible bush tucker and also performed some Indigenous music for students with guitar and didgeridoo.

Students then walked the school grounds putting their new knowledge of edible plants to the test and practiced identifying them.

Mr Cassar also gave students an introduction to bush medicine and other basic bush skills such as how to make a fire using moss and how to make a flint and bow.

Students then got to make dessert items from bush tucker and enjoyed creating and eating wattle seed Anzac biscuits and lemon myrtle ice cream.

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Facebook, 23 May 2018

Lynn Balfour, Ettalong Public School