Bush tucker book on the write track
Remote Northern Territory students are preserving their cultural cooking methods one page at a time. STEPS Skills for Education and Employment (SEE) students in Gunbalanya are sharing indigenous stories through a book writing project. The budding authors are excited to see their book, which is about fishing, hunting and bush tucker in the local region, […]
Nicole is working, living and learning in Galiwinku
For the last year our trainer for STEPS Skills for Education and Employment program, Nicole Webster, has been teaching language, literacy and numeracy in the remote Indigenous community of Galiwinku. Located on Elcho Island just off the coast of the Northern Territory, Galiwinku is home to the Yolngu people. With clear, blue ocean beyond the […]
Growing words, beans and connections at STEPS Garden Milingimbi
To support literacy and numeracy learning, the SEE students of Milingimbi started a greenhouse garden at the STEPS grounds in March this year and it’s attracted a lot of positive attention. The garden saw Federal Member for Lingiari the Hon Mr Warren Snowden visit and the Hon Lynne Walker member Nuhlunbuy also called in. Both […]
STEPS student success: Gao gains new job, new skills and new friends
One of our much loved students 20 year old Gao Vang is a Hmong lady from Laos. After losing her father during the Secret War, she and her younger sister were adopted by an aunt and brought to Australia as refugees. Gao came to STEPS to improve her language, literacy and numeracy skills and has […]
Window on the Wetlands visit supports student learning at STEPS
Earlier this year our Casuarina and Palmerston literacy and numeracy students enjoyed an excursion to Window on the Wetlands at Beatrice Hill (or Ludawei) followed by a picnic lunch at nearby Fogg Dam. Our Casuarina trainer Ranald Anderson put together worksheets and questions for the students to complete during the excursion and even purchased a […]
Ratjpa Mala: Sowing seeds for learning
In the community of Galiwin’ku, some 550 km north East of Darwin, a group of men got more than they bargained for when they took part in a landscaping & gardening training course recently. A common goal of all of the men who join the Ratjpa Mala class (In Yolngu language: Ratjpa: dark reddish/brown soil, […]
