New design unveiled

A project that started last year came to fruition at Reidy Park Primary School with the unveiling of a new logo on school apparel.

Reidy Park Primary School Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students were charged with the mission to represent and symbolise the school community through an Indigenous perspective and that hard work paid off with the new logo design.

The design was a follow on from an earlier undertaking allowing students the opportunity to work with Boandik Elder Aunty Michelle Jacquelin-Furr in creating permanent artworks to enhance the recent school refurbishment.

The students under the guidance of Aunty Michelle created a range of symbols representing flora, fauna and notable landmarks of the region. The artworks were then professionally laser cut and now enhance the school’s quad.

For the logo project, the indigenous students worked with Aboriginal Education teacher Hannah Proud, to source inspiration from the previous art designs to brainstorm sketches that represented the message ‘Reidy Park Primary School- Community and Country’.

Students took Indigenous symbols created for the art project; they then applied them to create a design that was presented to Aunty Michelle Jacquelin-Furr for consideration.

Once the process was finalised, the students were able to see their ideas brought to life. The land the school is built upon is represented through the lake symbols, the homes the families come from are illustrated with the circles and the school is represented as the centre of the design. Finally, the link between school and home is shown through the animal tracks.

The newly embroidered Reidy Park Primary School t-shirts were presented to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island students on February 21 during a morning tea attended by the families of those students, in the school library.