Our World: Bardi-Jaawi life at Ardiyooloon | Author: One Arm Point Remote Community School

Ardiyooloon is home to the Bardi-Jaawi people and sits at the end of a red dirt road at the top of the Dampier Peninsula, 200km north of Broome in the north-west of Western Australia. Our World: Bardi-Jaawi life at Ardiyooloon takes readers inside the lives of the children of a remote Indigenous community - lives very different to those experienced by most Australians. The children take readers camping and fishing, share traditional stories and dances, show them how to find a waterhole, track, cook and eat bush tucker and animals such as turtles, crabs, oysters and clams, and make spears, boomerangs, bough shelters and bush brooms.

Created by the children themselves, it is full of colourful illustrations and amazing photographs of the students experiencing their world and keeping alive the age-old traditions of their people. In the past, the One Arm Point school at Ardiyooloon was set up to teach English literacy and numeracy skills to enable Indigenous children to 'fit into' mainstream society. Today, the integration of Bardi Jaawi traditional ways of life with a contemporary school curriculum has produced a vibrant, energetic and rich learning environment for about 100 students. The school's cultural program feature activity days and camping trips determined by the weather and seasons, and the inclusion of community members such as Elders, wardens, rangers and local police. After experiencing the activities the children make posters and create DVDs and books in the Bardi language, Standard Australian English and Aboriginal English.

Hardcover
25.5 x 25.5cm
64 pages