Stage 3 HSIE Geography | Yama2you Aboriginal experience

Georges River EEC

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.

Program information

Suggested timetable

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

Syllabus outcomes and content

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

Teacher information

Cost 2026

Full day

(3 classes)

One educator - $600

Two educators - $750

Part day

(1 - 2 classes)

One educator - $400

Two educators - $550

Student numbers

3 Sessions per day

Maximum 1 class per session with up to 30 students per class.

Risk management plan

 Risk assessment provided.

Preparation

Set up – please meet Yama2you and/or Georges River EEC staff member/s 1 hour before first session.

Learning space – please provide a suitable learning space for the duration of the day

Program length – 1 hour 30 mins

Clothing

Sports uniform

Sports shoes

Raincoat in case of wet weather. Please no umbrellas.

Staff and student welfare

 For medical or special needs notify staff prior to program.

Extreme or wet weather

Program may be modified, postponed or cancelled due to predicted extreme temperatures, bush fire danger, heavy rainfall, high winds or dust storms.

Please view our trigger points for postponement and cancellation.

Trigger points for cancellation

 See our bookings page

Cancellation policy

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.
  • Weather or fire danger cancellation – $0

Risk management

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