Legacy projects
We love a good project here at KRCC. You can see these displayed around the foyer and down our corridor. Like all good projects, there is always a beautiful yarn behind each one. On this page you'll find the yarnings behind all our legacy projects.
Kulin 7 Seasons
See how we integrate the Kulin Seven Seasons through bush kinder here
No way Yirrikapayi (2024)
This cheeky crocodile is HUNGRY! He went hunting, but the animals wont have a bar of it! "No way Yirrikapayi, you're not eating ME today!"
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This glorious story from the Tiwi Islands is a firm favourite at KRCC. Yirrikapayi was made by Warriin Room children (3-year-old kinder) in 2024 with the leadership of Educator Brooke. He now take pride of place in our Foyer where his teeth get many examinations by curious future dentists.
Bundjil's Wings
(Reconciliation Week, 2024)
During reconciliation week, we asked families, children and students at neighbouring Middle Kinglake Primary School, to make their pledge towards reconciliation and past it onto Bunjil's wings. The thoughtfulness and love that went into each and every feather empowers us daily to continue to unlearn, relearn, reteach and to sit with our uncomfortable past.
Our deadly Taungurung words wall (Ongoing)
"Harley comes home and tells me all about Budjil and Dhandah which is awesome, but I don't know what those words mean.."
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Feedback from families informed us Taungurung language was being embedded into our service...so we created this wall to teach families the English translation of the Taungurung words we use everyday. We think that's pretty deadly!
This wall remains a constant works in progress as we continue to work across the service adding the words we use in our everyday to this display. All children from babies to our pre-preps have a chance to take part in developing these displays.
Parent Trees are Talking (2018)
Place based and relevant to the Kinglake Ranges, Parent Trees are Talking is an amazing book written by Dixons Creek Primary School with Uncle Dave Wandin, Wurundjeri Elder and Victor Steffensen Indigenous Fire Practitioner, in conjunction with Yarra Ranges Council.
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We were donated a copy after the school visited us at Bush Kinder in 2018. This book teaches us all about the healing power of good fire when use in Aboriginal Fire Management / Fire Stick practices.
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"The dead trees around Kinglake are the upside-down trees - they look like they've been flipped upside down [roots in the air] but they actually died in the bush fires'
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'It takes 4 people to get around a parent tree - they are the really super duper big trees in the forest'
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A phenomenal book for any learning service or school located in a bushfire affected area. Get your copy on PDF here
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Bundjil and Waang (2019)
Bundjil the eagle (or eaglehawk) is a creator deity, culture hero and ancestral being for the Kulin People of Victoria.​
Waang the Crow is a trickster, culture hero and ancestral being.
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​Created on Country at bush kinder, Bundjil is made from leaves gathered from Mountain Ash and Waang is created by grinding coal and local sandstone and mixing it with a glue. These gorgeous artworks created by children grace our foyer wall.
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Bundjil and Waang creation stories are found on the Taungurung Land and Waters Council website here:
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Acknowledgement of Country
We developed our Acknowledgement of Country with children in 2019, whilst yarning on Wurundjeri Country at Bush Kinder. Over the years we have shortened and reworded our Acknowledgement as our knowledge and practices change and evolve. Acknowledging that Sovereignty was never ceded is an important element in this process as we continue to reflect and grow together as a community, adapting our wording and knowledge along the way. During the coming 12-18 months, this acknowledgement will be reviewed again, particularly in regards to concepts of unceded sovereignty.
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"Here is the biik (earth), and worra worra the sky
Here are my buk (friends), and here am I
Ngun Godjin (Thank you) Taungurung People
Ngun Godjin Wurundjeri People
Who looked after this land.
We promise to do the same."
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​Our pledge is lived ever day through collecting rubbish in the parklands, caring for creatures we find, reporting issues to Parks Victoria, being sustainable, learning how to read and care for Country.
Stardust and Moonbeams (2011)
In 2009 our beautiful community was devastated by the Black Saturday Fires. We lost many beloved friends, familiy and community members that day.
We also lost our kinder, our childcare service, maternal child and health and two schools close by along with the School and Kindergarten in neighbouring Flowerdale.
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We also sadly lost children from our Kindergarten that day. This beautiful wall hanging was donated upon the opening of our new service in 2011 in loving memory of those we lost. It takes pride of place in our long hallway. Forever remembered and loved.
Creating a new normal (2010-2011)
Following the devastating Black Saturday fires (2009) a mammoth effort was made to rebuild.
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We will be forever grateful for all the donations we received from the wider Australian and International Community to help us rebuilt. From the donated chairs, furniture, books and blocks to funds, financial help and the thousands of hours of donated time given by so many, we are so thankful. Ngun Godjin (thank you) x.
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This banner recognising the people and organisations that helped, hangs in our foyer, marked with the handprints of the first children and team of Kinglake Ranges Childfen's Centre.
