Oakleigh Grammar students bring global citizenship to life through mural project

Junior School students astatine Oakleigh Grammar person explored themes of planetary citizenship and taste transportation done a collaborative mural task completed during Term 1.

The inaugural brought together Year 2 and Year 5 students, who worked broadside by broadside successful a bid of structured sessions successful the school’s creation room, guided by Junior School Art Teacher Vibha Tripathi and impermanent muralist Candela Alconada.

Principal Mark Robertson and Junior School Art Teacher Vibha Tripathi with students.

The task invited students to bespeak connected identity, diverseness and belonging, translating the conception of internationalism into a shared visual work. It formed portion of Ms Tripathi’s Teaching Impact Fellowship with the Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership, centred connected the theme Creativity for Internationalism.

“Our Junior School students person developed their mural-making skills, combining technical artistry with a meaningful exploration of ‘Internationalism’,” Ms Tripathi said. “The completed work present stands arsenic a vibrant and enduring symbol of planetary unity within the school.”

She added that the task fostered collaboration, taste consciousness and an appreciation of divers perspectives crossed the student cohort.

Detail connected the mural.

The mural besides reflects Oakleigh Grammar’s broader individuality arsenic an planetary school, with its program aligned to the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme and its rank successful the Round Square network. These frameworks beforehand planetary mindedness and values-based acquisition from the aboriginal years, with a absorption connected internationalism, enactment and service.

Principal Mark Robertson said the inaugural strongly aligned with the school’s acquisition vision.

“Congratulations are extended to our Junior School students under the adept tutelage of Ms Tripathi connected the completion of the mural reflecting the Round Square ideals for internationalism expressed done creativity successful art,” helium said.

Students working connected the mural.