Aunty Delmae

Aunty Delmae

Last week Aunty Delmae visited SJV. Last year we adopted Aunty Delmae as the tribal elder for our school. She is a descendant of the traditional owners of the land on which our school is built. She sang for us a welcoming song which was unlike any song we had ever heard. She explained that the song had no words or music but came from the images in her mind. Each time she sings the song it is different because it changes according to the images she sees.
Aunty Delmae explained that the images she sees are of the Australian bush and the animals that live there.
When we returned to class, we began to draw the images we saw when Aunty Delmae sang.