Yama2you Aboriginal experience
HSIE geography
Step into an unforgetable learning experience with our friends at Yama2you. Students will explore the deep connections Aboriginal Peoples have with Country and place, discovering how cultural knowledges and practices care for the environment and sustain Aboriginal cultures.
Through ochre painting, storytelling, and using Aboriginal tools, learners will examine how cultural works preserve oral traditions, map landscapes, and express ongoing obligations to Country. The program also introduces Aboriginal Peoples’ fire knowledges and the ways local understandings of Country guide the management of environments.
Students are encouraged to question, reflect, and celebrate Aboriginal Peoples’ enduring connection to Country.
Opportunities to taste commercially produced and certified bush tucker is available on request. Please contact our centre for more details.
Session times: 1 hour 30 minutes.
Maximum three classes per day.
Location
Your school.
Essential information
| Year | Cost |
| 2025/26 |
Full day (3 classes) One educator - $600 Two educators - $750 Part day (1 - 2 classes) One educator - $400 Two educators - $550 |
Cancellation or major changes to bookings will incur the following cancellation fees:
- within 30 days of excursion or incursion date - $600 administration fee charged
- within 7 days of excursion/incursion date - total fee charged based on confirmed student numbers
| Time | Classes |
| Morning session - 1 hr 30 min | Class 1 |
| Middle session - 1 hr 30 min | Class 2 |
| Afternoon session - 1 hr 30 min | Class 3 |
Human Society and its Environment K–6 Syllabus (2024)
Focus area outcome
Geographical information is used to plan for sustainable futures
- HS3-ACH-01 describes Aboriginal Knowledges and Practices that care for Country and the importance of Aboriginal Languages revival
Content group
Aboriginal Cultural Knowledges and Practices that care for Country
- Explain the importance of undertaking Cultural obligations to Country as part of the continuation of Aboriginal Cultures
- Examine Aboriginal Cultural works as evidence of Oral Traditions and mapping of landscapes
- Explain how Aboriginal Peoples’ Cultural Knowledges of fire are used to organise, manage and interact with Country
- Describe how local Knowledges of Country influence Aboriginal Peoples’ management of environments and World Heritage areas
Human Society and its Environment K-6 Syllabus © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2024
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