Congratulations to Sacred Heart Primary School, Pearce, who were recently featured on WIN News Canberra, as ‘School of the Week’.

At Sacred Heart, students have been learning about the importance of looking after Canberra’s waterways and the significance of local Aboriginal culture, participating in bush tucker workshops run by Aaron Chatfield from Dreamtime Connections.

Students had the opportunity to plant and taste Ngunnawal bush tucker in their newly finished Indigenous garden. The hands on experience gave the children a whole new way of seeing and using the land.

“Some of the bush tucker kind of tasted like potato chips,” said Year 1 student, Josephine Kitto.

Hudson Conroy, Year 1, said that he enjoyed learning about washing your hands in the bush. “You can get a certain type of leaf, then you wet your hands and rub them together really fast until you see bubbles.”

The workshops are part of the Ngadyung (the Ngunnawal word for water) Program, a series of educational workshops developed by Greening Australia in partnership with Icon Water, to encourage students to develop a living outdoor space.