The Yarra Junction Primary School took its students on a trip around the world for its Global Day event where they embraced worldly cultures.
The event marked the end of the school’s cross-curricular Global Unit where students expanded their horizons through visual arts, culture, science, performing arts and physical education.
“They loved it,” physical education teacher Brooke Nisi said.
Throughout the day, specialist teachers rotated classes and cultures which gave the students plenty of engaging activities.
Students were encouraged to wear cultural attire to represent their backgrounds while other students wore the colour of their favourite flag.
“Majority of the school dressed up. We all dressed up, including the teachers, we loved it,” visual arts teacher Kylie Field said.
Ms Field taught students about Egyptian culture and tradition through making an Egyptian headband, crafting secret hieroglyphic codes and dipping paper in coffee.
Ms Nisi introduced sports from different countries.
“I did Canada and we had an ‘off-snow’ snowboarding incursion, which was super fun.
“We had Spain and we did the matadors, the running of the bulls. The kids had masks and they were running towards a red flag.”
The culture and science class looked at Indigenous Australian history where they cooked damper.
Ms Nisi said the day was a good chance to expose the students to the rest of the world.
“We’re a very Anglo-Saxon dominant school, so for them to learn different cultures and expose them helps all the kids,” Ms Nisi said.
It was the first time Yarra Junction Primary School hosted a Global Day which made good use of the time when teachers had to do their semester planning.
“Then the specialists have their kids for the whole day where they could do something special together.
“So we’ve tried to make it a big thing where we aren’t just filling in time while the teachers plan on a planning day,” Ms Nisi said.
