Within the CLP, students will explore colour, form, communicating their emotions, and how their actions travel and have an impact; much like a pebble dropping into a wishing well, and creating ripples outward.<\/p>\n
\u201cEach student involved will create their own wishing well to start with, and each session we do, we\u2019ll place coloured stones in the water, see what happens, capture that, and learn about colour theory,\u201d Ms Maddaford said.<\/p>\n
\u201cInquiry and the creative process can really help students to understand big concepts, the world we\u2019re in, and process them in a completely different way.<\/p>\n
\u201cPainting is a really great avenue for kids to decompress and explore.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Maddaford and Briody will work with students one day a week to develop a co-constructed mural as they go, drawing ideas for the children\u2019s \u201cexplorations.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMairin is a painter, and we\u2019re really interested in putting a mural outside at the bottom of the school, by the road.<\/p>\n \u201cThe idea is that it\u2019s a connection with the community. If kids are involved in it, when they leave the school and walk past, they can think, \u2018I was involved with that,\u2019 and keep a connection to the school beyond their time here,\u201d Ms Maddaford said.<\/p>\n Briody will also help teachers across the school to bring the creative process into their classroom, whatever their teaching and learning intention.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m interested in process. In devising this program, it\u2019s becoming more and more about the process of artmaking by which people can digest the world,\u201d Briody said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s about demystifying art as this siloed discipline, and trying to make it far less scary. People are sometimes scared of art, talking about it and making it, but it\u2019s as natural and as essential as digesting food.<\/p>\n \u201cYou don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen. Kellie and I will be working with the kids to encourage them to be confident in whatever they enjoy doing, similarly with the teachers, just to have confidence in their own instincts.\u201d<\/p>\n Principal Kate Robinson said visual arts are a big focus at Mount Pleasant Primary School as a through-line to learning and development.<\/p>\n \u201cWe really do value being able to work collaboratively with students, and an artist, without focusing on an outcome. Kellie has even run art intensives,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s about the process of making art and how beneficial that is for children, especially at the moment, given what we\u2019re going through collectively as a community.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a way for children to express feelings and emotions, to learn to collaborate and cooperate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MOUNT Pleasant Primary School has received a Creative Learning Partnerships grant to collaborate with artist Mairin Briody. Visual art teacher Kellie Maddaford said Briody\u2019s work, which has featured wind turbines, gelled with the school\u2019s term four inquiry units which ask the students to think about their impact, so she got in touch with her. \u201cWe […]<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/10\/Portal-M-Briody-239x300.jpg\")