Growing up Aboriginal in NSW: Virtual Living Library (FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS)

Growing up Aboriginal in NSW: Then and Now 

• FREE for PRIMARY School Classrooms
• Date: Tuesday 24 November 2020
• Time: 1:30pm – 2:30 pm

Join us in an interactive Zoom session where students and teachers will have the opportunity to have a conversation with a “Living Library,” Uncle Richard Campbell, #28, a Stolen Generations survivor from the Kinchela Boys Home, and with local Aboriginal student representatives from West Kempsey Primary  school.

Learners will be able to engage with Aboriginal perspectives, ask questions and learn about the experiences of our presenters growing up as Aboriginal people in the past and now, this free video conference brings our Living Library experts into your classroom.

Registrants will be sent an information package that includes a video link to be viewed in the classroom prior to the event, to allow teachers to prepare their students for a wide ranging and personal conversation with our Living Library subjects. Additional teaching resources will also be  provided that can be used following the event to supplement the classroom experience and link it to the Australian curriculum.

Learners will be able to engage with Aboriginal perspectives, ask questions and learn about the experiences of our presenters in the past and now, as Aboriginal in NSW, this free video conference that brings our Living Library experts into your classroom.

Registrants will be sent an information package that includes a link to a video to be viewed in  the classroom prior to the event, to allow teachers to prepare their students for a wide ranging, and personal conversation with our Living Library subjects. Registrants will also be provided with additional teaching and learning materials that can be used following the event to supplement the classroom experience and link it to the Australian curriculum.

Questions will be posed to the speakers by a moderator. You may pose your questions to schools@reconciliationnsw.org.au in advance, or via the chat function on the day.

This event is for classrooms in NSW. Each session is limited to 100 classrooms/schools.

This event has been provided through NAIDOC Local Grant funding, administered by the Commonwealth of Australia’s National Indigenous Australians Agency.

We hope you will register for our event!

The Reconciliation NSW and KBHAC teams