• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer
  • Contact
  • Staff Portal
  • Search

Lutheran Education Victoria, Tasmania & New South Wales

Inspired students for life

MENUMENU
  • Home
  • About
    • Our Team
    • Strategic Plan
    • History
    • Our Statement on Mission and Ministry
    • Who We Are
  • Learning
    • Valuing Safe Communities
    • Christian Studies
    • Spiritual Development
    • Parenting and schools: A learning partnership
    • Learning in a Lutheran School
    • What is a Lutheran Education?
  • Find a School/ELC
    • School/ELC website links
    • Find a School/ELC by Name or Location
  • News
  • Careers
    • Enterprise Agreements
    • Current Vacancies
    • Working in Lutheran Schools/ELCs
  • Policies
  • Contact

Acknowledgement of Country exploration at Good News Lutheran College

2021-02-17

Teaching Indigenous perspectives can feel daunting, like you are stepping into a minefield of political correctness, bias and content and issues that make you feel vulnerable as a teacher. Caitlyn Phillip’s from Good News (Tarneit) has been engaging with Australians Together and is embracing her vulnerability as a teacher to engage students in rich and authentic learning about Australia.

“One of the best parts of our first week together was writing our Acknowledgement of Country. We used the book Respect, by Aunty Fay Muir & Sue Lawson to provoke discussion, and then used the AIATSIS Map of Indigenous Australia to research the name of the land our school is on.

We watched a video from YouTube of Wurundjeri Elder Colin Hunter Jr giving a Wurundjeri Welcome to Country which was really special to listen to! We then unpacked the difference between a Welcome to Country and an Acknowledgement of Country. Before writing our own, we knew we needed to research some examples to find out the kind of language, symbols and key ideas that we needed to include. We talked about our values and beliefs as a school, and combined those ideas to write our class Acknowledgement of Country.

Each student has their own copy in the front of their books and we made a big and beautiful version to hang at the entrance to our classroom.

This learning experience was created from ideas from my Year 4 teaching team and I am so excited by the way it has really set the tone for some of the learning we are going to do as a team and as a Year 4 community this year.”- Caitlyn Phillips’s Year 4 Team Leader GNLC.

Kim Powell

Learning Leader: Innovation

Find a Lutheran School or Early Learning Centre near you

Search now

Footer

HEAD OFFICE

Level 1 755 Station Street
Box Hill VIC 3128
T (03) 9236 1250
E schools@levnt.edu.au

About LEVNT

  • Who We Are
  • History
  • Strategic Plan
  • Our Team

Learning

  • What is a Lutheran Education?
  • Learning in a Lutheran School
  • Parenting and schools: A learning partnership
  • Spiritual Development
  • Christian Studies
  • Valuing Safe Communities

Find A School

  • Find a School/ELC by Name or Location
  • School/ELC website links

News

  • Latest News

Careers

  • Working in Lutheran Schools/ELCs
  • Current Vacancies
  • Enterprise Agreements

Policies

  • Policies

Contact

  • General Enquiries

Copyright © 2023 · Genesis Child Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in

  • Home
  • About
    ▼
    • Who We Are
    • History
    • Strategic Plan
    • Our Team
  • Learning
    ▼
    • What is a Lutheran Education?
    • Learning in a Lutheran School
    • Parenting and schools: A learning partnership
    • Spiritual Development
    • Christian Studies
    • Valuing Safe Communities
  • Find A School/ELC
    ▼
    • Find a School/ELC by Name or Location
    • School/ELC website links
  • Latest News
  • Careers
    ▼
    • Working in Lutheran Schools/ELCs
    • Current Vacancies
    • Enterprise Agreements
  • Policies
  • Contact