Aboriginal Elder Delights Students

Wurundjeri elder Murrindindi earned the undivided attention of Year 5 students at Pakenham Campus during his Indigenous Culture visit to the College last week.

Students were fascinated to learn about the importance of storytelling in Aboriginal culture, how to play a game of Marngrook (a silent football game using a possum skin ball) and the differences between types of boomerangs.

He also took students on a hunt for bush tucker around the school grounds, explaining the importance of the sugar plant and the wattle tree, which has many uses for the Wurundjeri people.

Year 5 teacher Lynette George says Murrindindi is a regular visitor to the College and never fails to captivate students.

“He really has a magic way with children. They listened and asked some excellent questions,” she says.

Student Chelsea D says she never knew that the bush provided so many important things.

“There were plants and trees that you could use for weaving, making boomerangs, canoes, bowls and didgeridoos. That’s a lot of useful things!” she says.

Madeleine W. says playing Marngrook was really good fun. She rates Murrindindi’s visit as “10 out of 10”.

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