Class 1 Heartshine have spent their first two terms in the Shearwater primary school, engaged in meaningful, busy, beautiful work. Already this year, they have sewn their names on their school hats, made drawing mats for their desks, rasped and sanded wood blocks to create blackboards and bound their own beautifully hand drawn “vowel books” of Australian birds. Currently, they are finishing up the woven bags which will house their recorders until the end of Class 2.
These useful objects of beauty take great care, skill, patience and the will to sit down every day to keep going. The work is a sensory delight, from the roughness of the wool to the sweet smell of the beeswax, the audible rhythm of rasps on wood, to the visual rhythm of the weave, over and under.
In a world where everything is available at a click, isn't wonderful that our children here at Shearwater have this experience. They are grounded in the knowledge that everything comes from somewhere and someone, and that it is their own continual care and effort, day by day, which brings these objects into fruition.
Belinda Kelly
Class 1 Teacher
These useful objects of beauty take great care, skill, patience and the will to sit down every day to keep going. The work is a sensory delight, from the roughness of the wool to the sweet smell of the beeswax, the audible rhythm of rasps on wood, to the visual rhythm of the weave, over and under.
In a world where everything is available at a click, isn't wonderful that our children here at Shearwater have this experience. They are grounded in the knowledge that everything comes from somewhere and someone, and that it is their own continual care and effort, day by day, which brings these objects into fruition.
Belinda Kelly
Class 1 Teacher