Visual Arts  

Prep, Year One, Year Two, Year Four, & Drawing Club in Reconciliation Week 2025

During Reconciliation Week 2025, students from Prep, Year One, Year Two, Year Four, and members of the Drawing Club participated in the powerful “Footsteps Toward Reconciliation” activity, aligning with the theme “Bridging Now to Next.” Each student contributed a decorated footprint to a shared “Path of Reconciliation” display, symbolising their personal commitment, action, or promise toward building understanding, respect, and unity. In addition to the footprints, students created a beautiful leaf collage, representing growth, healing, and connection to Country. These creative and heartfelt contributions became a visual celebration of reconciliation, showcasing the school community’s shared journey and dedication to bridging the gap and walking together toward a united future.

Drawing Club Highlights – Collaborative Student-Led Projects Each week, students from Years Prep, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 eagerly come into the Art Room to take part in Drawing Club, where they work together on collaborative artworks that celebrate creativity, teamwork, and student voice.

Year 2 Drawing Club students have been exploring movement through sculpture, using basic paper construction techniques to create a dynamic group piece. Their work demonstrates a strong sense of agency as each student contributes their ideas and skills to the final design.

Year 4 Drawing Club has been working on a vibrant nighttime beach sunset mural. Through collaborative decision-making and shared creative input, the students are expressing their individual voices while contributing to a unified piece.

Year 5 Drawing Club students are creating a stunning collaborative sunset painting, preparing to enter their completed work in the upcoming Whittlesea Art Show. This group has shown exceptional teamwork, creativity, and commitment, with each student taking pride in being part of a collective artistic journey.

All artworks are currently works in progress, and it’s been inspiring to see these young artists support one another, take creative risks, and work together with purpose and enthusiasm.

PCM & PSG: Visual Arts – Boomerang Print 

Prep SG and Prep CM explored the visual art elements of line, pattern, and shape through a painting and printing project focused on colour. Students experimented with primary colours and learned how to mix them to create secondary colours. Using a range of painting methods and media, they created vibrant boomerang artworks that incorporated handprints and dot painting techniques. They used their hands to make handprints and their fingers to create dot patterns, drawing inspiration from Aboriginal art styles. Through this process, students developed their fine motor skills and gained a deeper understanding of how colours can be combined to create new ones. Their final artworks showcased their ability to use both primary and secondary colours, while thoughtfully applying lines, patterns, and shapes.

3NS & 3JA: Visual Arts - Chinese Paper Lantern 

Year 3JA and 3NS students learned how to enhance their Chinese paper lanterns by applying colour to the negative space using tissue paper. They explored the art elements of line, shape, space, and repetition as they carefully tore small pieces of tissue paper and glued them to the inside of their lanterns. By adding tissue paper in different ways, students were able to bring vibrant colour and texture to their designs, creating striking contrasts against the cut-out shapes. This activity helped them develop fine motor skills while deepening their understanding of how negative space can be used creatively in construction-based artwork.

5DG & 5SC: Visual Arts –   Japanese Carp Windsock 

Year 5DG and 5SC explored the visual elements of line, shape, pattern, colour, repetition, and unity through the construction of a Japanese Carp Windsock Streamer inspired by artist Louis Dumoulin. Students transformed their flat designs into three-dimensional forms by carefully gluing a strip of white cardstock to form the mouth of the fish and securing the top of the fin, edge of the tail, and corner of the mouth. They enhanced their artworks by thoughtfully adding embellishments such as ribbon, streamers, sequins, and fishing line, bringing movement and decorative flair to their windsocks. This activity allowed students to apply their understanding of design principles while developing their fine motor and construction skills. Each student completed their Japanese Carp Windsock Streamer with a strong sense of creativity, unity, and personal expression.

Keep Creating,

Adele Schofield

Visual Arts Teacher