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Gardening with Pennington’s
Cockatoo Group
Our Aboriginal Students
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Finding out about Bush Tucker plants from Brett – Jack’s dad
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Preparing their plot in the schools’ kitchen garden
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Painting the pots for the sculpture
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Planting Warrigal Greens
seedlings that the children
had grown from seed
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Caring for the Bush Tucker Caring for the Bush Tucker plants in our schoolplants in our school’’s s
kitchen gardenkitchen garden
Old Man Saltbush
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Adding a wattle seed tree to our bushland garden
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Tasting saltbush leaves and Ruby Saltbush berries
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Aims of the program• Connect our students to their
Indigenous heritage through plants and plant use
• Involve parents in the learning process
• Provide opportunities for all students, Indigenous and Non-Indigenous, to learn about the use of plants in everyday life
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Already started by the Cockatoo Group• Investigating use of native plants for food and medicinal purposes
• Planting seeds in pots
• Development of a plot in the school’s kitchen garden with the
help of a parent, including use of pot sculpture to decorate
• Beginning to plant and care for plants in the kitchen garden plot
• Addition of a specialised tree to our bushland garden
More to do• fruit trees planted
• rehabilitation of our Indigenous plant garden at the completion of
the building program
• Development of a sensory trail for all students that connects the
kitchen garden with our fruit trees, our Indigenous plant garden, our
bushland garden (The Magic Forest) and our flower and leaf garden.