Dear Families and friends,
Over the last week the Angwin children have been immersed in their investigations!
The highlight of the week has been our trip to the Botanical Gardens and Art Gallery.
At the Botanical Gardens we were lucky to view Jeannie Baker’s “Circle”
exhibition, a collection of her original collages that have been photographed
for her book focussing on the migration journey of the Godwit birds, from
Australian shores, through south east Asia up to Alaska. This is where they live and
breed before moving back to the Southern Hemisphere in the warmer weather. It
has given us a taste of how an author and illustrator plans and create such a
book using the medium of collage. We were then fortunate enough to experience the amazing
seed collection museum, showcasing plants, seedpods and their uses in the
beautifully presented glass cases inside an amazingly old building, right in
the centre of the Gardens.
After a picnic lunch the children enjoyed a short bus journey up to the
Art Gallery. There we were met by 3 guides, amidst a busy gallery to view
different Indigenous works of art, including bark painting, the first art work
purchased by the Gallery depicting traditional Aboriginal housing alongside the
Murrumbidgee River. We then moved on to see more contemporary art including an
incredible tent which the children thoroughly enjoyed!
We are looking forward to following up the provocations shared with the
children through this experience in the weeks to come. We have much food for
thought!
We wish Mrs Rocca well as she goes off to complete her final teaching
practicum before she is ready to graduate.
Kind Regards,
Pip and Coney
