gardening with pennington’s cockatoo group · already started by the cockatoo group •...
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Gardening with Pennington’s
Cockatoo Group
Our Aboriginal Students
Finding out about Bush Tucker plants from Brett – Jack’s dad
Preparing their plot in the schools’ kitchen garden
Painting the pots for the sculpture
Planting Warrigal Greens
seedlings that the children
had grown from seed
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
Adding a wattle seed tree to our bushland garden
Tasting saltbush leaves and Ruby Saltbush berries
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
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.