Mogo Public School Anzac Art Competition

Bay Post-Moruya Examiner

Despite having only 29 students, Mogo Public School beat hundreds of students from across the Eurobodalla for an inaugural Anzac Art Prize by Elders Real Estate.

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00:00We're here to present awards to the Merlot Public School representatives who drew two particular paintings

00:09who were marked upon that they were very appropriate in the RSL and we had them in the Soldiers Club viewing for several weeks.

00:19We decided this year that with Easter and Anzac being so close together, everyone seems to run the Easter competitions,

00:26colouring in, giving away chocolate. We thought we'd try and make a little bit more community spirit and bring back Anzac

00:32and make it more focused on the Anzac and what it means to our kids in today's society.

00:38So we asked each school to participate to present a collaborative artwork which we then displayed at the RSL

00:45and we've decided that because we were so well received this year we're actually going to make it an annual event for Anzac.

00:52It's for the people who serve for our countries and help us at this range.

00:58Being an ex-teacher myself, I think, you know, you've got to put it in the classroom in context

01:02and, you know, get them involved with all the events that go on around Anzac Day.

01:07As generations get older, we sometimes lose sight of history and Anzac is a big part of our history

01:15and it's what's made us, our country, what it is today. So I think it's a really good thing to bring it back

01:22and have the younger generation reflect as to what Anzac is and what it will mean to them and their future.

01:29It is a day to remember and commemorate those who were before us.

01:34Well, you know, as a teacher, you really want to get the children involved.

01:37So you want them to understand it, you know, mentally, but you also want to get their writing skills,

01:44you want to get their discussion skills, their talking skills all involved,

01:49because that way it's retained much better, the logic of it.

01:53You know, if you just throw it at them and then you leave it, they'll never ever retain that sort of information.

01:59We just talk about, you know, we scaffold it all down.

02:02So we talk about courage. What does it take to have courage?

02:06How do you show courage? And it might be if Bum's been upset,

02:10you might help her by helping her around the house.

02:13So, and doing things that you don't necessarily have done before.

02:16So someone might have fallen over, so you might go and get a teacher

02:20or you might run up and get the first aid back.

02:23You might sit and help them and make them feel better.

02:28So courage comes in different ways.

02:30It's different for little children coming to school when on your first day of school

02:36or coming when you think you might have a test or something, that plan, that all takes courage too.

02:40The artwork was amazing and it was on display for about a month at the RSL Club.

02:45Also online on our elders webpage and people could vote via the voting system online

02:53or they could either vote at the RSL Club.

02:56They loved it. Yeah, they loved it. And they feel such pride.

02:59Yay! Because we're only tiny and we're competing against schools that have got like, you know, 450, 500 kids.

03:06And we're just tiny and we're just tiny little small school and we actually won!

03:12We're just tiny and we're tiny.

03:14We're tiny. And we're tiny!

03:18We're tiny! You mean?

03:20I can't buy anything, too.

03:22Hopefully. I can buy anything on the other side.

03:24That's a little bit like that.

03:26You guys are tiny.

03:27And I think that's how we can do it.

03:29And I just wanted to buy what I can buy.

03:30We'll see a little bit in here.

03:32Got some more money in here.

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