Last year I visited the UK in June. The views were spectacular as farmers ploughed some fields and mowed and baled others, creating different colours in each. The photograph above was taken from Rockingham Castle looking North across the patchwork of fields. Our Grade 3 and 4 students looked at Google Maps bird’s eye views of the English countryside before using a variety of scrap fabrics to create such scenes. Roads, country lanes, villages, trees and hedges completed the collage which are now proudly displayed in our Art Room. I hope that our students will have the opportunity to visit England’s green and pleasant land in the future.
I was born in Bendigio, Victoria, Australia and attended a 13 student Rural School, Muskerry East Primary. I was a boarder at Girton CEGGS in Bendigo for my seconday Schooling.I trained at Bendigo and Coburg Teachers Colleges before beginning teaching in Melbourne in 1975. I taught a variety of Primary classes before beginning Art teaching in 1986. I am currently in my 26th year of teaching Visual Arts and my 24th year at Taylors Lakes Primary School which is in outer north-west Melbourne, Australia. I am married with three children and outside teaching am a keen member of Rotary International. Besides my passion for Art I have keen interests in photography, travel and in Learning Technologies.
