Monday's Purple Group's fish making

On Monday the three year old children from Purple group made their fish for the wave of fish wall. They rolled out some clay and then chose which fish they would like to make. Pictures of native fish from Port Phillip Bay were given to them, to choose from. The children are making ceramic native fish that will become a mosaic mural on one of the walls in the Childhood Centre's entrance. The Mosaic Mural has been designed to acknowledge and pay respect to the ancestors of the land on which the centre is built. The traditional owners of the Land were the Yulukit Wilum, of the Boonwarrung Language Group. The Boonwarrung People had rules about when to catch fish. They would not catch fish fish when they were spawning, in order to protect the species and to ensure food would be available in future. The mural will pay homage to these rules that existed to protect the environment and the food supply. It will also remind us of the continuing importance of having respect for the environment. The background of the mural will be a wave shape that reminds us of the great flooding of Port Phillip Bay which has been recorded in both Western History and through the Creation Stories of the Boonwarrung People.