First Nations’ culture explored

Students took lessons to create pigments and then painted with them as part of NAIDOC celebrations at Cleve Area School.

Teacher Emma Jordan said activities were run around the theme of ‘Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud’.

Students sat in a yarning circle around fake fires with the school’s wellbeing dog Gordon.

“We had an Aboriginal pigment-making art session in The Hub where the children created their own paints from flowers,” Ms Jordan said.