Art shines at Tintern Junior School
Art in the junior years has moved well beyond finger painting, with Tintern’s Junior School Art Exhibition a fine example of this. Students utilised a wide range of materials, from Perspex to acetate, clay, paint on glazes, balsa wood and even nuts and bolts to create their masterpieces.
To open the exhibition on Wednesday 26 August, Tintern was joined by Marion Strong of Art Education of Victoria. Marion was originally a primary school teacher in the local area and is currently an art adviser for the Department of Education. She has been a lecturer on Art Education at Melbourne University and involved with the National Curriculum as an advisor on art education. She will be attending a world summit in November on art education – and is one of the few art educators selected to attend this conference. Her passion and knowledge of art is well respected and it was an honour to hear her speak.
"At Tintern we take the view that art prepares our young primary students towards the more specialised areas of visual communication in the secondary years. This is a real necessity as our students are immersed in a learning environment where computer skills are a requirement. To tie in with this, our Year 1 and 2 students took photographs, which they then manipulated in Photoshop," explains Mrs Kate Shearer, Junior School Art Teacher and Art Show Organiser.
"Our Year 1 and 2 students embraced this activity and produced some outstanding results, which consequently have been entered in the Royal Melbourne Show Photographic Competition for primary school students. The parents were all impressed, as were the staff, and are so proud of our girls!"
Our Year 5 and 6 students have studied the principles of Macro Photography as part of ICT. They were encouraged to view nature and their surrounds with a different perspective through the lens of a camera. They discovered that objects we often take for granted can be portrayed in unusual and creative ways. And the results were certainly impressive! Commenter’s at the exhibition were amazed by the quality of work by these young students.
The exhibition showed off 3D clay modelling, the art of typography, fashion design, interior design, photography and electronically manipulated images, as well as a variety of paintings and drawings from our students.
While the school champions the tradition painting, drawing and collaging mediums in art education, we believe it is important to prepare our younger learners for the secondary school program.
The future of art at Tintern is very bright indeed with many talented students.
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