CURRICULUM OVERVIEW (Older version)
Pitjantjatjara / Yankuntjatjara Language with traditional and
country stories:
Early Childhood
Rec
Term 1
People and kinship
Term 2
Country and land
tjukurpa
1
Me and my family
My Body
Text; “Ngayuku
Walytja tjuta”
Text: “Malany Malany
Nyaan Nyanganyi?”
Spelling:
Spelling
Revise
Teach
a
ma
Wiltja
Text; “Wiltjakutu
ananyi”
Spelling
“i”
“mi”
“ma” “ mi”
“u” “mu”
Tjukurpa
Dreaming stories from
around the local
community
Spelling
Revision
Term 3
Tracks
Animals /landscape
Natural Environment
Time, weather,
seasons
Text “Nganaku tjina
Nyangatja?”
Text; “Nyaa kumpini?”
Spelling
“tji”
Day and night
Text
“Mungangka, Kalala”
“Ngayulu paku pulka.”
Classifying
Eg edible /non-edible
Describing
habitats
Spelling:
Revise: “ka” “ku”
Teach “ki” “aa” “ii”
2
Sand Stories
Kamis tell stories about
 relationships:
Inyurpa /nganantarka
 sharing
 families
“Minga kulunypa
kutjara”
Spelling:
“pa” “pu” “pi”
Tjukurpa /inma
Dreaming stories and
inma from around the
local community
Spelling ta tu ti
3
My feelings
Text: “Nyuntu
Ngayuku Ngunytju?”
“Kunmanara”
Spelling:
nya nyu nyi
My Community
Map community name
buildings eg tjuwa, and
nearby homelands. Use
direction words
Spelling; tja tji tju
Trees & plants
(Punu)
Bush foods /
medicine
Text:
Text: “Ilykuwara
“Wankaku Ngura”
spelling:
nga ngu ngi
tjara.”
“Irmangka-irmangka”
Term 4
Texts:
Texts
Texts:
Texts:
Stories
“Nyuntu nyaa
nyanganyi?”
“Minyma Tinka”
“Wati Yukuyukunya”
“Yaaltjirikuna?”
“Kuka wiru.”
“Nyitayira kulunypa
waringku puyinytja.”
“Ku Ku Ku”
Spelling: “ka” “ku”
Spelling:
Revise “ma’ ”mu”’ “mi”,
“ka” “ku” “ki”
Teach “wa” “wu” “wi”
Spelling
ya yu yi
Primary years
4
Term 1
People and kinship
Ara Irititja
Text:
“Walawuru pala
pulkanya”
5
Ara Irititja
Text:
“Kulangka nyinanytja”
Term 2
Country and land
tjukurpa
Tjukurpa
Tjukurpa
“Kalaya ngampu
ngunti wangkanytja”
“Mamu pulka Kuru
Kutjunya”
Term 3
Seasons
Kuli
Nyinnga
Piriya
What food in which
season?
Birds and animals
Texts:
“Minyma Kakalyalya”
Natural Environment
Time, weather,
seasons
Term 4
Text:
“Ngananya Kiparaku
walingka nyinanyi?”
Relationships
Invite kamis to tell
stories about
different
relationships and
appropriate
behaviour eg. Right
skin marriage, in-laws
7
Men’s and
women’s health.
Separate girls and
boys camp out.
Learning through
aalpiri wangka
Mapping
Identify
communities and
homelands.
Name special
waterholes and
their dreaming.
Hunting
Land management
practices in
different seasons
Endangered and
extinct species
Trees and
plants
Text: “Punu
Punu -artifacts
Text:
Texts:
Text:
“Iti Warungku
“Ngali Kitiku
ananyi”
“Wati munu Liru”
Text:
Kampanytja”
Stories
6
Yankunytjatjara
Plant use.”
Research and write
report
“Minyma munu
Ngintaka”
Tracking, hunting,
cooking, carving
and sharing food
Describe how to
make –Procedural
text
How were they used?
Present report to
class or assembly
Secondary Years
8
Term 1
People and kinship
Compare languages
Text: “Yankuntjatjara
9
Ara Irititja/ Ara
Kuwaritja
10
Use Ara Irititja to
research a chosen topic
eg Land Rights, Early
Mission days, Transport,
Work, etc.
plant use”
Compare:
Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjat
jara
Old / modern
Interview people in the
community who speak
other indigenous languages
Make list of words
Compare orthographies
Texts: “Anangu Wayi”
“Yankunytjatjara plant use”
Write a letter
Make a power point or
poster to present to the
class or assembly
Term 2
Country and land
tjukurpa
Tjukurpa
Tjukurpa
Mapping
Text:
Text:
Term 3
Birds
Weather
Natural Environment
Time, weather, seasons
Research information
about different birds
Research words about
weather
Write story or poem about
weather using descriptive
words
Write a report.
Write a poem or story
book about birds
Term 4
Text
”Kalayaku Puuta”
Text
“Minyma munu Ngintaka”
Choose books to read to
Junior Primary and Primary
classes
Write own book of story or
poems.
Produce and present to class.
Read to younger children.
Timeline - Iritinguru
kuwarikutu
Interview people of
different ages to discover
how things have changed
over the last 100 years
Present to class or
assembly
Produce a class book of
findings for the school
library
Stories
Write own book of story
or poems.
Produce and present to
class.
Read to younger children.