Visual Arts

VISUAL ARTS 

We have been busy creating our whole school display titled ‘Wominjeka’. This word means welcome in the traditional language of the Wurundjeri people. This display acknowledges the traditional owners of this land and enables students to make the connection between themselves and the land where our school is. 

Our inspiration for this display comes from elder Aunty Joy Murphy’s book ‘Welcome to country’ and is a collage of the land our school stands on. The traditional owners of this land ‘The Wurundjeri people’ offer gum leaves as a sign of welcome. 

The name Wurundjeri comes from ‘wuren’ meaning white river gum and ‘djeri’ meaning witchetty grub. 

You will notice we have created the three white river gums that we are lucky to have on our land at St Joseph’s. We have also added witchetty grubs.

Our display is up at the front of the main classroom building and will continue to grow and adapt over the next few weeks.

Students across the school have used dye and oil pastel to create gum leaves and our year Three and Four students have water coloured some amazing witchetty grubs. 

Over the next few weeks you will notice some animals start to emerge. 

Please take the time to pop in and have a look and ask so stop and admire the incredible white river gums we have in our playground. 

Kind Regards, 

Marta Cummings 

Junior School Coordinator & Visual Arts Teacher