Community Building
The Pertame community coming together over a common goal to grow in strength and cohesion
The Pertame School is strengthening community support systems, ensuring Pertame children are able to thrive within close extended family networks. It takes a whole community to raise a child. We are reviving traditional Pertame extended kinship systems to support our children learn and grow.
Pertame women gathering at Boomerang Bore to learn traditional dances (Photo: Angela Harrison, 2019)
“We all come together and everybody helps for the school holiday programs. I’m getting to know more extended families. I feel more connected with them through the Pertame program as an apprentice”.
- Shania Armstrong, apprentice
We nearly lost Pertame Language when family got separated from our homelands. It is so important to reconnect as a family and make sure our language continues on through the generations.
Kathleen Bradshaw, Pertame Elder
"By teaching children, we are also teaching adults, getting them involved with their children’s learning as well as their own. I feel 100% more connected to the Pertame community, and so do my children and grandchildren"
- Samantha Armstrong, Apprentice