South Fremantle Football Club

As a part of our VEGPS/PALs project, indigenous people and Oral/Written language focus we went to Fremantle Oval to talk to two indigenous South Fremantle players Keren Ugle & Tommy Wynne. Marty Atkins helped to organise the visit and the kids took a list of awesome questions to ask.
These question and answers were added to the work we did with talking to Jenny and Darryl from the Fremantle Noongar Patrol(Walyulup Moort) and Troy, Ryley and Liam from East Fremantle Football Club.

     

Visible Photo Project

Ara and Mel lived and worked in Bangladesh for a year. They visited us and shared their experiences and knowledge of some of the kids who live there.

 

We compared our lives to a child in Bangladesh. We then spoke to the kids via video camera and sent them messages.

 






The Fremantle Noongar Patrol(Walyulup Moort) and Troy, Ryley and Liam from East Fremantle Football Club

We developed a fantastic list of questions for both groups of people. The process was:

We brainstormed aspects of Australia
If we were talking about our country what would we need to tell them about it?
(ie. Physical features, industry, language, culture, weather, animals, government, leisure and sport).

 

Applied our ways of grouping (economic, social/historical, cultural and ecological) by labelling with an ec, el s or c to these areas  - we know they aren’t mutually exclusive.
Then when they came we:

For the footballers - Got into groups based on these aspects(plus introductory) and developed a list of questions for our visitors-each child asked one of the group questions/took notes. We wrote up the answers as question/answers
For the people from the Noongar Patrol - a group started the list of questions and others added to it- each asked one question/we wrote notes and then wrote a paragraph about what we had heard.