Wrap up
The rap wrap up starts 30 June 2008.
- What have you enjoyed about participating in this rap?
- During this rap, what have you learnt about
ü Aboriginal culture and beliefs?
ü dealing with difficult times and
challenges in life?
ü cultural identity and building a
strong future?
- During this rap what skills have you developed in
ü using technology to read, write
and communicate?
ü reading texts?
ü any other skills you improved?
- What was the highlight of this rap for you?
Use the Rap wrap up activities and Rap reflection sheets to help you respond to Rap wrap up.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Welcome Rappers!
It has been fantastic having you on board for this rap. We are very interested in hearing from you this week about a few issues - choose the ones which interest you. We would like to know what you have learned about Aboriginal culture, habits which will build a strong future and a proud identity and what technology skills you have learned. Please let us know the highlight of the rap - which was the Rap Point which touched a chord in your groups as you explored identity and belonging? We called this rap Identity: sharing our stories and we have really enjoyed reading everyone’s stories each week. Identity is a rich idea - we gain our identities from our families, our culture and what we make of our own futures.
Thanks for sharing with us all!
Lizzie Chase
Rap Coordinator
June 27th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Good Day Everyone!
Today we looked back over the rap and talked about what we liked best about it and what we can remember.
The best bits of the rap:
Makayla said: “Typing up the messages has been fun.” Jesse said: “Learning about other young Aboriginal kids in the rap has been good.” Jack said: “Learning about famous Aboriginal football players on Vibe Online was great.”
Memories of each session:
Rap Point 1: Stephanie - We need to know who we are for when we get older - our kids will need to know. Jesse - Other Aboriginal people will want to know who our people are.
Rap Point 2: Jack and Makayla - Joe Williams the footballer said he didn’t want people sitting round and watching TV. He wanted people to be active and get out there!
Rap Point 3: Jesse - Mentors support you - they like you or love you. James - If you know someone for a long time, if you care for them, that’s being a mentor.
Rap Point 4: Stephanie - In the future, I will go for my goals - we need a family to support us - that’s what I will give my kids. Makayla - I want to be a police woman or a teacher. I like computers and typing work. I will show my family respect so they can respect others, when I am a mum.
See you later!
Bidwill Campus Bloggers
July 1st, 2008 at 9:19 am
Hi rappers,
SCHC students have enjoyed coming to the library for the Identity Rap.
We have pride in our health and fitness, and ourselves. Jake is proud of his Mum, who is an AEO (Aboriginal Education Officer). Robbie is proud because he found out he is Darug, and our school is on Darug Land!
Our families pass on cultural values to help us grow up. We value sharing with others, the church, learning, Aboriginal culture and reading.
We make good choices by being nice to our brothers and sisters, going to be early without arguing, learning lots when we are at school and keeping our bellies warm.
We should listen to our mentors, and be helpful to little kids in the playground.
When times get tough, we need to be brave, tell mum and dad when we need help, ignore silly people and STOP, THINK, DO.
During the Identity Rap, we all learned more about using technology to share our ideas with other schools. We enjoyed reading Ms Chase and Ms Wenzel’s replies to our blog posts. We also learned lots about ourselves!
Best wishes from SCHC @ Penrith PS
July 1st, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Good Day SCHC at Penrith PS!
I am happy that you have enjoyed the Identity Rap. Jake - it’s great that your mum is an AEO! Robbie - you discovered you are a Darug man, going to school on Darug Land. Your group has so many ways to share culturally - learning, talking and reading together. I really like your ideas about good choices and how to be good mentors to little kids on the playground.
It is so wise to reach out to others for help when times get tough, stay away from people who cause us trouble and STOP, THINK, DO.
I am so glad you learned more about technology during this rap. We have really enjoyed reading your thoughts every week and wish you all the best for a strong and proud future!
Lizzie Chase
Rap Coordinator
July 1st, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Hello everyone,
This is 6B English wrapping up the rap!
People who are not proud don’t know what they are capable of doing. We can be proud to be councillors, student librarians or participants at the sports carnival (last Friday). When we feel proud, we should celebrate with family and friends. Today we take home our half-yearly reports, and we can celebrate our hard work.
Our cultural values, tips for living a good life, and customs are passed on from older family members to the children. Jewellery can be expensive or be of sentimental value, but it is the stories that goes with the objects that are just as important. Family traditions, secret recipes - and even the shape of our noses - can be passed on.
Making good choices includes knowing when to tell the truth, choosing friends wisely, and following family traditions and advice.
We are good role models and mentors as councillors, and for K-6 peer support activities and Stage 1 buddy reading. Mentors tell us the same messages over and over. It’s good to listen to their advice.
There are many tricks for keeping ourselves going when times get tough. We should try to see the positive side. When our parents argue, sometimes just standing nearby can help them to stop without anyone shouting. We can distract ourselves from feeling bad with Gameboys, PlayStations or comedy movies. One of us saw a TV show where they suggested screaming into a pillow instead of crying and shouting about a problem.
We really enjoyed:
* Sharing ideas with other schools
* Talking to people about Identity
* Getting to know each other’s opinions
* Missing out on regular classwork to rap in the library
* Learning more about Aboriginal culture, and other cultures
* Hearing what others have to say
* Learning about the experiences of other people
* Posting blog entries on the Internet.
Thank you everyone!
6B English @ Penrith PS
July 1st, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Hello rappers,
This is 5E’s rap wrap up.
We feel proud when we take home gold awards, good half-yearly reports, and ribbons for athletics. Proud people often have a good sense of humour.
Our cultural values come from older family members giving advice. Also from religious ceremonies and family traditions.
Making good choices includes not being tempted to smoke cigarettes or drink beer when our uncles’ friends come to visit our houses. We should just say “No”.
We are good role models and mentors to little brothers and sisters. We can teach them to do gymnastics, read, dance and do maths.
When times get tough, we should try to solve it. Stop, think, do. We can get on the phone to Grandma. Just look out the window and realise some people are less fortunate than ourselves!
We really enjoyed:
* Talking to people and rapping about identity
* Understanding each other
* Telling about our backgrounds
* Learning about Aboriginal Identity
* Learning about raps and blogs
* Learning about the computers
* Sharing what we have learned with other schools.
Thank you everyone. We have had fun!
From 5E @ Penrith PS
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Good Day 6B English at Penrith PS - Your wrap up is fantastic!!
You have discussed so many issues together. I really agree with you that when people are proud of themselves it makes it so much easier to build a strong identity. Good on you for all your hard work - enjoy your half-yearly report results - celebrate what you have achieved! I really like the way you have described the good things which we pass on in our culture - stories, customs, traditions and tips for living a good life.
You have obviously thought hard about ways to get through hard times and about the importance of making good choices. You say that you have enjoyed learning from other people - well, I can say that your group has made a very good contribution in this rap!
All the best!
Lizzie Chase
Rap Coordinator
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Good Day 5E at Penrith PS - Love your work!
I really agree with your idea that that people who have confidence in themselves often have a good sense of humour! I also agree that we often build our identities through our traditions and through religious ceremonies. Keep on making those wise choices not to smoke or drink - it will really pay off in the end.
Your group was very keen on solving problems before they get too big - STOP, THINK, DO. As you say, it is really wise to reach out and talk about it and also to see that other people have troubles too. Your ideas have been fantastic throughout this rap - many thanks for sharing!
Lizzie Chase
Rap Coordinator
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Hi everyone!
Apologies from 6W English and 5P at Penrith PS today. It’s Stage 3 Privilege Afternoon and, instead of their normally timetabled rapping experience with me in the library, they’re off having some well-deserved privileges elsewhere in the school.
I hope we get a chance to revisit the Identity blog to do our Rap Wrap Ups, but Term 2 is almost at an end.
Actually, there’s no reason why new messages can’t be added to the blog after the advertised date of the rap finishing up. If you’re running behind at your school with some of your Rap Responses, please feel free to keep posting early next term!
Regards,
Ian McLean
Teacher Librarian @ Penrith PS
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Hello Rappers!
This is 5/6K’s rap wrap up:
Pride in who we are is important because memories (good or bad) make up our identity. We also need to love who we are.
Passing on our cultural values to others is important because it prevents values and traditions fom dying out. We need to pass on knowledge.
Making positive life choices are important because we need to work hard to achieve high goals and to become happy and healthy.
Learning from mentors helps us guide and be guided through tough times. We also get to learn from others’ experiences.
We think that to get through tough times you should always look inside yourself for strength and also talk to someone you trust.
Some of the most valuable lessons we learnt during the rap include:
* Learning about famous people and what forms their identity
* The importance of learning about where you come from and passing this knowledge on
* Aboriginal culture.
We developed skills in:
* Reading and understanding other peoples’ stories
* Making positive choices
* Mentoring others.
Some of our favourite things about participating in the rap are:
* Finding out how multicultural our class is
* Coming up with responses as a class
* Sharing our stories with each other
* Reading the responses from other schools
* Getting personal replies from Lizzie and Maureen.
Thanks, we had lots of fun!
Glenhaven 5/6K
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:48 pm
What have we enjoyed and learned about during this rap?
It was great to get involved and to see our words and ideas published and to get responses, especially congratulations from the coordinators. That felt really good.
Bianca says she hasn’t had to think about these things before and so some of the ideas were a challenge to understand and explain. She has decided that different things about Aboriginal culture and beliefs can be important to different families and she believes more strongly that Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people are not really different when it comes to wanting to live healthy lives and deal with difficulties. Challenges are things that are hard to do and so anyone would need to try really, really hard to get through them and not give up.
Lilly and Sarah also found themselves thinking about things they hadn’t considered before, like mentors and what they wanted for their futures, and they enjoyed that.
Cory and Miranda both felt they had learned more about the idea of culture and about Aboriginal culture.
When trying to build a strong future from your culture, Bianca says:
• Look to family and older people of the culture for stories of different experiences to help you make decisions
• Work hard in school and any courses after Year 12
• Use what you learn about teamwork, commitment and reliability from sports and sports training
• Develop stress management and relaxation skills eg from yoga which also develops balance and flexibility.
Everyone agreed that cultural beliefs are important, and as they grow up with today’s popular culture so that will influence their future as well as traditional beliefs.
And what skills did they develop during the rap?
• Finding the blog and linking to resources
• Skimming over the resource material and the blogs, to find information and ideas.
• Communicating with each other and on the internet, and writing about themselves with the “third person” when drafting their ideas.
• Listening in discussion sessions and to the voices on the blog.
We thought the listening skills were really important, especially listening to others and sharing ideas, trying to put your ideas across and learning what others think. Participating in the rap was like talking to other rappers and listening to what they said. Miranda said that even though she listens in class, she might not really focus on listening, but when discussing ideas for this rap, she really listened.
Congratulations to all Identity rappers and have a great, happy and safe holiday.
Cheers & bye from Bianca, Cory, Lillian, Miranda and Sarah at Wollumbin.
July 4th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
During this rap we have learnt about our identity and culture. Our identity includes our history, our past and present and future experience experieinces.
We had a guest speaker come to talk about his Stolen Generation experiences and how he located his family again.
We talked about mentors and how important they are to us and how important we can be to others.
We watched a video called “Babakiueria” this movie was about the Stolen Generations in reverse, it was funny and sad. It was disappointing to realise that people were taken from their families.
Heath is very excited about learning what a humpy is, he even got to see one yesterday at the zoo.
We went to the zoo for NAIDOC week, we heard some Aboriginal Dreaming stories, and looked at some Australian animals.
We have enjoyed this rap and talking to lots of other schools and Lizzie Chase. We have had fun talking about our cultrue with you all and hope you all have a great holiday.
Richmond High Year 7
July 4th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
What we have learned and enjoyed during this rap:
* We spent yesterday at Taronga Zoo for the NAIDOC week celebration. We listened to dreamtime stories about animals including, turtle, snake, frog, owl, eagle and whale.
* We have talked about our identities how they are important to who we are and where we are going.
* We talked about goal setting.
* We talked about mentors and how we can be mentors.
* We watched a video called “Babakiueria”. This movie was opposite, the white people were the ones whose land was taken from them. The Aboriginal people were the ones who took over the land.
Thanks we had lots of fun,
Year 8 Richmond High
July 4th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Good Day Glenhaven 5/6K - Love your work!
We have had so much fun reading your ideas and your wrap up shows that your group has had some very good discussions about believing in yourselves, passing on knowledge and making positive choices. I really like your point about what to do when times are tough - look inside for strength and also reach out to a mentor.
I am really glad that you have learned more about the cultures within your class and also about Aboriginal culture. It sounds as if sharing your stories has been a valuable experience for your group - it certainly has taught the rest of us!
All the best!
Lizzie Chase
Rap Coordinator
July 4th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Good Day Bianca, Cory, Lillian, Miranda and Sarah at Wollumbin!
This wrap up is very interesting. Bianca - I agree with you that people often face the same challenges in life - whatever their cultural background is. As you say, we all face challenges and need to keep going when times get tough. Your ideas about using sports skills and advice from different people are very practical. A successful life seems to be about balancing hard work with relaxation, as you suggest.
Lilly and Sarah, I hope it has been useful to think about your dreams for the future. Cory and Miranda, I’m glad you have done some thinking about culture in general and about Aboriginal culture too. As you say, out identity is not just built from traditions, it is being created by popular culture as well!
Two important skills which you learned were writing in the third person and also listening actively. I congratulate you on these - they are pretty useful!
All the best!
Lizzie Chase
Rap Coordinator
July 4th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Good Day Year 7 at Richmond HS! It is great you have been part of this rap!
Thanks for all your ideas - it also sounds as if you have been doing some fantastic extra activities! It was very valuable to listen to the speaker talking about his experiences and finding his family again - we all need to hear about the Stolen Generations.
I’ve seen the video Babakiueria as well and it is a very clever look at the Stolen Generations from a reverse perspective! I really hope you all enjoyed your zoo excursion for NAIDOC Week - thanks for being part of the rap.
All the best!
Lizzie Chase
Rap Coordinator
July 4th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Hi everyone,
Mrs Nuttall’s Year 5 group of Aboriginal students were hoping to post to the rap yesterday, but we were so busy with rehearsals for today’s NAIDOC Week assembly.
We were very proud of Robbie, who read the Welcome to Country. Some of us helped Ms Stockton to run the assembly. Some of us carried in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island flags. One person in each class won a book and a certificate for their beautiful artwork.
Billy-Dean helped Mr McLean to present the best bits of our Identity Rap responses for the audience.
NAIDOC Week assemblies are a tradition at Penrith PS and a part of our school identity.
Year 5,
Penrith PS
July 4th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Good Day Year 8 at Richmond HS! Thanks for being a part of the rap!
Those dreamtime stories you heard at the zoo about the turtle, snake, owl, frog and whale sound great!
Thanks for sharing what you have learned about identity, goal setting and mentors. I hope these discussions have been valuable for you to think about your dreams for the future.
I wish everyone in your class all the very best as you work towards your dreams, step by step. Together with your mentors, you can work towards your goals, if you focus on hard work and reach out when you need help.
All the best!
Lizzie Chase
Rap Coordinator
July 5th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Good day Mrs Nuttall’s Year 5 Group!
I’m so proud of your role in the NAIDOC Week Assembly! Good on you, Robbie, for reading the Welcome to Country. Congratulations to those of you who helped Ms Stockton run the assembly or who carried the flags.
Billy-Dean, I think it’s great that you helped Mr McLean present the best parts of your rap responses. People would have really enjoyed hearing what you have all been doing!
I have really enjoyed reading your ideas each week - thanks for being a part of this rap!
Lizzie Chase
Rap Coordinator