St Luke the Evangelist Primary School

Blackburn South

Opportunity for students and families to have a high quality arts experience that is centred on self expression and identity through photography.

Creative Snapshots

Why Photography?

Aligns with other projects in the school

Contemporary Learning Project

“Taking Action that Matters.”

“ Catholic Identity”

Sustainability Project –CERES

Embeds as a tool across curriculum

Enhances the use of photograph emerging in the school

Enables all school community members to be involved and achieve success

“Our artist-in-residence explained to the parents … that photography was an amazing art form as it‟s quite levelling – anyone can create a great photo – regardless of artistic drawing skills or the quality of the camera, the thinking behind the photo is what is important – taking a „considered‟ image.” Celia Coffa

The Nature of our Project

SCHOOL COMMUNITY

To build partnership with parents, parish and wider community

Key Improvement Strategies

Linking parents to the

community through ICT

Connect with local and global communities

Take action through our inquiries to link to

community events, activities and experts

That Religious Education and Values Education underpin policies and programs

Jade in Prep

Remind the students about the values the St

Luke‟s Community

Plan for opportunities to embed the values in programming

To build inclusive and diverse partnerships with the broader school community

Through workshops parents, students and teachers had the opportunity to develop skills in photography.

The community to articulate our sense of identity: Who we are and what we believe at St Luke‟s.

A process that strengthens relationships of school community and support partnership and communication beyond the school

What we hope to create

Through this project we endeavour to

strengthen relationships within our community through our family activities and our Blogs.

Create an art piece that the community can identify with and that reflects who we are.

The process

Resourced the school with a class set of cameras and updated cameras for staff

Established a blog to reflect on and document our journey

Sourced a professional photographer and teacher

Strategically developed a timeline and implementation plan as a team

Provided professional inspiration, technique and skills

Facilitated workshops for senior and middle students

Facilitated workshops for

staff and parents

Continuing to work

with Vanessa

Vanessa conducted a workshop with the staff

Four workshops for the students from years three to six.

Mentoring from the students attending for students in junior classes

Staff create opportunities to use class cameras across the curriculum to create and to record learning, including on excursions

Family activities to develop conversations around values and identity

Parent workshops allowing students to lead the learning.

Perspective

Point of view

Use of thirds

Considered image

Lighting

Taking portraits, objects,

scenes

Developed a common

language

Whole school student/family activities

Each family was asked to share the values that are important to them.

Mentoring shares the Learning

Enables the articulation of Learning

Builds relationships

Fosters cooperation

Embed in teaching and learning

Provide the opportunity to develop skills and to incorporate new and different approaches to learning and teaching.

Strategic planning Planning for

sustainability Source expertise within

the school community and beyond.

Embrace opportunities as they arise

Community Arts Grant

Sourcing other resources School Focused

Youth Service Victorian Teachers

Credit Union Catholic Education

Science Grant

Community through the Arts

Had families across the school working together

Enabled the senior students to work with their families and others as leaders

Prepare the nominated adult from each family

to undertake the family activity

Family groups from across the school allowed parents from different levels to converse and work together

Families were able to share stories through the photographic tasks

High percentage of fathers attended the sessions

Students shared their skills by leading groups

High participation as sessions accommodated varying skill levels

A member of half our families attended these sessions

Sharing the Learning

Sharing skillsWorking as a family

Learning about other Families

Engaging

Fun

and

Involves all families Each family provides a

photo that reflects who they are as a family and something that is meaningful to their family story.

Makes a decision and takes a photo as a family.

Share the stories with the community by displaying photos at a showcase at the school

VTCU have financed this section of the journey.

One canvas / photography work that speaks about our community identity.

What will it look Like?

Open to ideas and we have a few of our own.

Students are increasingly behind the cameras taking snapshots and considered images.

Teachers are sharing the recording of learning

Recording our Learning

Our Blog Links

Visit http://slcap.global2.vic.edu.au/our blogs

Or any of our blogs at:http://www.slblackburnsth.catholic.edu.au/mydesktop/

Student voice through visual media

Student leadership through mentoring of other students and involvement in the parent workshops

Students, parents and families sharing a project together that allows all to take responsibility and share in the learning.

Steve Parish

Vanessa Macaulay

As a direct result of students using cameras on an excursion to Healesville Sanctuary, ten students were invited to a workshop with Steve Parish.

Team hopes to work with the teachers who organised this to enable these students to share some of their experiences.

Other staff looking for opportunities to allow students to use their skills including photography competitions.

Sustainability

Continue to maintain the camera equipment

Develop skills through mentoring

Embed photography across the curriculum and encourage artistic expression highlighting photography as a visual artist tool

Systematic culling, selection and storage of images

Continue using common language

Challenge…

To access all families to

complete the task

To come…

Our Photography Evening

The creation of our art

piece

Planning for 2012

Thinking…

Plan explicitly for family/

student

engagement in learning