The Year 6 students are nearing the completion of an eighteen-month program that commenced when they were in Year 5. The Evernow 2024 Project was designed as part of the Festival of Perth Education Program. Boorna Waanginy was built from conversations, and they’re at the heart of our creative engagement with Forest Crescent Primary School.
This project invites students to be impacted by an environment, to be curious about its past, to imagine its future and to make a choice about their role in its present.
It will demonstrate the depth and variety of its future and choose its role in the present. It will demonstrate a depth and variety of art forms, as well as the capacity for art to interpret history, science, culture, and the imagined world. A finite area of school grounds has been designated. Experts and artists will lead the students in imagining what that little patch might have been like—or will be like—in five distinct periods: three in the past, one in the future, and one, which they can determine, in the present. Each of the projects will culminate in a tangible outcome, collectively engaging a variety of artistic languages and processes.
The students have been busy preparing the Bush Block near the kindergarten, ready to plant native seedlings and create an outdoor learning area. Thank you to the Year 5 teachers from last year and the Year 6 teachers this year, who have helped the students participate in this amazing program. I can’t wait to see the finished product at the end of this term.
Mr Andrew Holmes (Principal)
