It’s been a measured, meandering journey, but today we proudly launched our 2023 Year 9 Humanities project “Curdies’ Tales: Stories of the river by its people”. Our 2023 Year 9 students, (current Year 10 cohort), hosted a morning tea and welcomed the people who contributed to our oral history collection of narratives that recounted peoples’ memories of the Curdies River Catchment area. Our guests learnt of the background to the project and the field trip to to the Curdies estuary at Peterborough to help our students get a sense of time and place as they prepared to record and publish the oral histories of people who lived, worked and relaxed in the Curdies River catchment area. The 15 community members our students interviewed were acknowledged as were the five people who provided written pieces for our publication. The contribution of Barb Mullen and Fiona Mackenzie as editors was recognized as were Kerry Vickers and Peter Younis from the Heytesbury and District Historical Society who provided images and maps for the text. Our guests were presented with an appreciation certificate and a copy of our booklet by Humanities teacher, Carolyne Wakefield, and they enjoyed sharing stories with the students and their peers. We are considering a second print run of our booklet, so if you would like a copy of “Curdies’ Tales: Stories of the river by its people”, please contact the School. Thank you to everyone who contributed in anyway to this legacy building TAP project. Comments are closed.
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