Gym work a colourful exercise

HAMPTON Park Secondary College students have jazzed up their school through art.
Year 9 and 10 art students designed and painted a mural and bollards as part of an art project.
The paintings were celebrated recently by art teachers Rachelle McLean and Lyne Facey and the school at an opening.
Ms McLean said the Year 9 kids decided to paint on the side of the gym, and after it was approved by Casey Council they painted large figures doing different types of sport.
She said they painted the figures with different coloured skin to represent the many multicultural groups at the school. The designs are to be permanent and covered with anti-graffiti spray.
The Year 10 students designed bollards made of PVC piping standing between one and 1.5 metres high.
Ms McLean said the bollards were concreted into the ground outside the Year 7 and 8 learning centre and were painted to the theme Australiana.
She said she hoped the project would continue next year.
“They were kids that hardly ever work in class but once they were out working on the murals and bollards they went into overdrive. They thoroughly enjoyed themselves,” she said.