Art Panels

Most of you would have seen our murals last year. We think they look great and would like to share Donna's and Courtney's speech that explains what they mean.








'Kia ora and welcome. Today we unveil our first set of murals at Fitzroy School. Each part of this mural "Puna Matauranga" represents our community, our school, us. This mural represents who we are and simply shows the shape of our school life inside and out of it. We thought long and hard about what was important to us. The Kowhaiwhai pattern represents the importance of Maori culture to us. The white is the life that flows all the way through us, the red shows what and who has gone in the past, especially our ancestors and the black is the unknown or the challenges we all face.


We planned for ages before deciding what was to go on the panels. We thought the elements needed to be really important to us all. Firstly the school library came into mind. Also sport was a huge part of our school so we painted the sports panel and of course our local environment was important too so the Te Rewa Rewa Bridge was included. These three things make up the larger panels. The smaller panels represent the native trees and birds in our school grounds. Four of them have our traditional House trees in them - Puriri, Koromiko, Rata and Totara.


After about three weeks of hard work the mural was completed and here they are today.
We thank Mr Stoddart for inspiring us and helping us to make the mural the way it is. We'd like to thank all the students who took part in the painting and the many school kids who painted a leaf or a line.
THANKYOU!