Learning about seedlings

Middle Years A class spent some time during term 2 studying soil types, rock types and how to grow seedlings. We spent a lot of time working at the CDP depot and started growing seedlings in the Food Ladder greenhouse. We grew herbs like thyme, oregano, mint, coriander, and basil, and we also grew some sunflowers.

We discovered that in Ramingining we have lots of clay in our soil and the rocks around here are all sedimentary rocks, which are mostly sandstone. We learnt about soil nutrients and why we use potting mix to grow seedlings.

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Slackline fun!

We have been learning how to slackline during some of our afternoon sessions. Slacklining if kind of like tightrope walking, but the rope isn’t a ‘tight’ cable, it’s a long piece of webbing that technically doesn’t get tight and always has a large sag when loaded. This means that when someone stands on it, it bends down and wobbles a lot making it really hard to walk along. We are practicing our skills and slowly getting better at it.

The three secrets to slacklining are:

Keep your eyes on the opposite end of the line right where it meets the tree.
Keep your arms wide and high.
Keep your feet facing forwards, not sideways.

Learning on Country Program

What we’ve been up to in Term 3, 2018

We have teamed up with the ASRAC rangers in Ramingining who have been teaching us some useful skills like hunting for maypal (seashore creatures), spear making, collecting paperbark, making shelters, and collecting and using cycad nuts.

We go out on country every second Friday, and in between we have lessons at school where we focus on learning the yolngu language associated with our previous Learning on Country trip. In future we will try to post every week about what we have been doing.

Check out the photos below to see what we’ve been doing out and about around Ramingining area. (Scroll over photos for captions or click on them to see full screen)