COLOURFUL WAY TO CELEBRATE
Students at Musgrave Hill State School have found a creative way to fly the flag to encourage athletes at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
MUSGRAVE Hill State School has come up with a colourful way to celebrate the upcoming Commonwealth Games.
Year 6 students have studied colour theory and how colours affect our thinking and the psychology of athleticism.
The students then came up with a project called Flags of Encouragement.
The students were tasked
with designing a rectangular flag, which encompassed what they had learnt.
The brief was to create a flag bold enough to be seen from a car, and would encourage not only the athletes but the school community. The 10 best designs were then chosen to be printed on to 1.8m flags.
To realise this goal financially, students in every class in every year level contributed to creating a quality artwork that would be sold at an art auction.
Each piece was crafted around the curriculum content for each year: Year 1 pupils created paintings using texture, line, and colour; Year 2 came up with illustrations for three Aboriginal Dreamtime stories; Year 3 made paintings using symbols and symmetry; Year 4 concentrated on the Impressionists and Expressionists; Year 5 created posters themed on a social issue; and Year 6 made two collaborative art pieces as well as their flag designs.
The art auction raised more than $3000 for the arts department, which enabled the school to print the flags.
The words on the flags – imagine, inspire, peace, strength, teamwork, excel, believe, reach, strive and persist – are words used within the school to encourage each other to do their best.
The flags will fly along the school’s Kumbari Avenue frontage in 2018.