Lakelands Primary School has been busy beautifying their school and at the same time, teaching students about the Noongar culture.
Arts specialist and teacher Kim Fitzpatrick said she had been teaching the students about the environment and Noongar culture by incorporating native plants and animals in their art work.
Their has been a mural put in the school yard of the students work that students were very proud of, Ms Fitzpatrick said.
She said the final design of the “Noongar Seasons” mural, by the year six students, was put together by a Curtin University artist resident Jacinta Curtis.
“It’s fantastic to be able to collaborate with local Universities and have practicing artists working alongside our students,” Ms Fitzpatrick said.
“It was important that the program mixed the Australian Curriculum’s priority areas of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures with Visual Arts, Science and History to give students a broad and relevant base of learning.”
Year four, five and six students made clay tiles to depict seasons or a native plant or animal.
“There are over 100 individual tiles on here...that was a lot of sticking,” Ms Fitzpatrick said.
Year two and three students glazed clay leaves, year three students painted log seats and all students worked on the huge 6.3 metre mosaic Wagyl.
Carla Hildebrandt
Journalist at the Mandurah Mail
Journalist at the Mandurah Mail
