PREP

In HASS (Humanities and Social Sciences) students are currently exploring how stories from the past can be communicated through photographs, artefacts, book and oral histories.  Ms McWatters (Aboriginal Student Success Teacher) spent time with the students teaching them Aboriginal Dreaming stories.  Students learnt that Dreaming stories were not written in books but handed down as oral history.  Aboriginal people use stories to explain how the land came to be.  The students listened to the creation story of Tasmania and had lots of fun pretending to be in the ice age.  They also learnt the Dreaming story about taraba (the Tasmanian devil) and were amazed when Ms McWatters brought one in from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.  The students favourite story was 'How the birds got their colours'.  Most Dreaming stories have morals which explain how to behave in Aboriginal culture.  The students thought the moral of the story about how the birds got their colours, is 'good deeds will be rewarded'.