Students having fun creating stories using HARs Conversation cards

In the middle of the Gibson Desert, WA, is an inspiring little school where the students’ country, language and culture are respected and paramount to their learning. Life on the land is integrated with their daily lives, and understood by the teachers at Kiwirrkurra School.

A student from the desert enjoys creating her own ‘red sand’ stories using the HAR Conversation cards.

Making up stories is so much more fun using the HAR Conversation cards as prompts!

We (Margaret James and Joe Relic, from the Honey Ant Readers), had a stimulating trip into the community and felt uplifted by the students’ enthusiastic and creative responses to our HAR Conversation cards. The pictures on the cards, beautifully painted by Wendy Paterson,  mostly depict  scenes and experiences which are real to these students, who live in the red sand, hunt for bushtucker, such as goanna (HAR 11) and perentie ( HAR 15), and are experienced at handling a snake when it appears.(HAR 9).