Little Footsteps, Big Future

By Mrs Jo O'Brien, Assistant Head of Junior School Learning and Teaching

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day is held every year on 4 August. It's an opportunity for the whole community to celebrate the curiosity, innocence and enthusiasm of our children.

Radford College's Early Learning Centre (ELC) embraced this year's theme Little Footsteps, Big Future by participating in a variety of collaborative activities. We started the celebration by reading the focus picture book I Saw We Saw by Yolngu students from Nhulunbuy Primary School and Ann James and Ann Haddon on Gossan Hill.

Following this shared story time, the children engaged in play-based learning experiences with an Indigenous cultural focus and created a collective artwork using their footprints. The Radford ELC is proud to share our ongoing commitment to cultural responsiveness by acknowledging and respecting the culture, history, traditions and country of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

Further information:

Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Island Child Care (SNAICC) is the national peek body representing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children. Children’s Day is an initiative of SNAICC – National Voice for our Children. You can read more about National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day on the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Island Child Care (SNAICC) website.