Our Lady of the Rosary School in Woburn performed at the Artsplash festival last week
By Jamie Melbourne-Hayward
Our Lady of the Rosary School in Woburn performed at the Artsplash festival last week with music and art as central themes of the festivities. Artsplash is a youth arts festival held at the Michael Fowler centre where primary and intermediate schools throughout the region come together to celebrate dance, music, drama, visual art and the World of WearableArt. Students from Our Lady of the Rosary School pitched their best songs at the packed performance venue and year seven and eight students took along their fantastic creations for the World of WearableArt show. Our Lady of the Rosary School principal Kathleen Daly says the wearable arts section of the show was a culmination of the school?s focus on cross-curriculum learning and expression. ?It?s the way to approach all learning these days, to integrate into the curriculum all the aspects of learning,? she says. Cross- curriculum learning produces ?excellent result? that works well to demonstrate ?ideas more clearly to kids than work sheets?. ?One of the student?s costumes was made of bottle tops, another boy made himself into a bed ? that was a really cool one. ?There was a tin man, and another person was a water bottle,? says Ms Daly. World of WearableArt show was an interlude to the schools? singing that was accompanied by Wellington's Sinfonietta Orchestra, The Wellington schools symphonic band and the Artsplash festival band. The kids were ?on high? at the show excited by the fact many other schools were participating in a venue packed with a large audience. ?The show has been a real big thing. ?It?s great for the kids to see professional artists and older kid?s orchestras; it gives them something to aspire to,? says Ms Daly.
