Following the success of our Family Maths Night, i would like to share some information about another extra-curricular event that was held at school during the week. Thanks to Chris Hulse our Literacy coordinator for organising this program. Chris has written a short report about the activities for you to read.

Gallery For A Day and Mark Wilson literacy incursions

On Monday and Tuesday this week the children of Chelsea Primary School enjoyed a double session of immersion in literature and art.

 Mandy Cooper of Gallery for a Day set up her portable collection of artwork from children’s literature in our MPR. The children were invited to be “art detectives” .  They could choose any one of Mandy’s collection of picture books and compare the pictures with the original in the collection. There were animated discussions about similarities and differences the children found in the pictures. My class were very excited to discover a couple of original “Tashi” drawings!

Mark Wilson, award winning author and illustrator of such books as Journey of the Sea Turtle and Angel of Kokoda, shared his love of animals and especially endangered animals with the children. They learnt about the inspiration for a number of his books and how he comes up with the ideas for his delightful illustrations. The children learnt the artist’s tricks for drawing animals and people. With his encouragement “Everyone can draw” the children were very proud of the results. As Mark said in his email to me today “Thanks for a great day today with a wonderful bunch of kids…Their enjoyment and enthusiasm is infectious”

Follow this link to see some photos of these incursions.