Gardening with Pennington’s

Cockatoo Group

Our Aboriginal Students

Finding out about Bush Tucker plants from Brett – Jack’s dad

Preparing their plot in the schools’ kitchen garden

Painting the pots for the sculpture

Planting Warrigal Greens

seedlings that the children

had grown from seed

Caring for the Bush Tucker Caring for the Bush Tucker plants in our schoolplants in our school’’s s

kitchen gardenkitchen garden

Old Man Saltbush

Adding a wattle seed tree to our bushland garden

Tasting saltbush leaves and Ruby Saltbush berries

Aims of the program• Connect our students to their

Indigenous heritage through plants and plant use

• Involve parents in the learning process

• Provide opportunities for all students, Indigenous and Non-Indigenous, to learn about the use of plants in everyday life

Already started by the Cockatoo Group• Investigating use of native plants for food and medicinal purposes

• Planting seeds in pots

• Development of a plot in the school’s kitchen garden with the

help of a parent, including use of pot sculpture to decorate

• Beginning to plant and care for plants in the kitchen garden plot

• Addition of a specialised tree to our bushland garden

More to do• fruit trees planted

• rehabilitation of our Indigenous plant garden at the completion of

the building program

• Development of a sensory trail for all students that connects the

kitchen garden with our fruit trees, our Indigenous plant garden, our

bushland garden (The Magic Forest) and our flower and leaf garden.