The Wiradjuri language is being kept alive as last year's year 1 class at Turvey Park Public School created a picture book dedicated to new words they had learnt over the term.
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Wiradjuri elder Aunty Gail Manderson led the class of 24 students to broaden their understandings of her culture.
"It's very important for everybody to have an understanding of our culture, because then they can get to know us better and we can also have an understanding of their culture and we can get along better," she said.
Aunty Gail has been teaching the Wiradjuri language at Turvey Park Public School since 2015 from kindergarten to year 2 and said she was proud of the students' creation.
"We put together a book last year as part of their course and the children were brilliant; you only have to look at the artwork," she said.
"I'm looking forward to the next book we do."
Year 2 student Annie McKelvie, 7, said her favourite word was gin, which means heart in English.
Year 1 teacher Beck Driscoll said the Wiradjuri dictionary was based on the words that the children had learnt over the 10-week term, as well as some new words.
"The children had a go at drawing under some guidance from myself and Aunty Gail and the end product is all by them," she said.
"We will continue the Wiradjuri language as long as we can and Aunty Gail is an asset to our school.
"The kids responded so well to the language lessons and we are incredibly proud of what they achieved in the making of this book."
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