By Violet Li
Cranbourne Carlisle Primary School is heading to the Parklea Pakenham Agricultural and Horticultural Show this Saturday with a giant Queen Bee sculpture made of recycled materials.
It will be the school’s first time participating in the show, which themes bees this year.
The school’s visual art specialist Saskia Rochow said the sculpture had been a collaborative piece, which took students about four weeks to complete.
“It’s pretty much like a giant humanoid beast. It’s a dress with red and yellow striped colouring with the bodice with the six arms, wings on the back, and a giant beak and it’s going to have a crown,” she said.
“We tried to make it out of recycled materials such as garbage bags, things that we found in the garage, like hazard tape, caution tape, stockings.”
Saskia said the sculpture was one of the challenges the school put forth to students who had a high ability in arts.
The school does a variety of high-ability clubs for students who display a high aptitude for different subjects across the school.
“It’s been a fun process,” Saskia said.
“There was direction from me on ways we could go about it, but that was in collaboration with the Year Six captain leaders to form the visions of the sculpture, and then all the children that were chosen from other year levels helped put it together.”
Saskia said students could go with their families this Saturday to see the giant bee sculpture in the show.
