This year our teaching team at Anchorage Park Kindergarten held the fourth art show in our community, so we could celebrate and honour the children as artists. The children worked on their individual and collaborative art creations throughout the year and developed their understanding of what an art show meant. They began trusting the process of allowing us as their teachers to protect and look after their work safely over a period of time. Children were then driving their learning, engagement and contribution with their ideas, voices, and thoughts in a variety of concepts.

The teachers recognised and valued their contributions, creativity, perseverance, risk taking, curiosity, collaboration, patience, confidence, and experimentation in creating their unique pieces. We recognised that the children were exploring, engaging in, discovering, and learning new artistic techniques as well as exploring new art mediums.

We have had a focus on dispositions as a teaching team, and found that with the children engaging in these art experiences this provided a creative lens through which to view their creativity and the dispositions that this highlighted. We created learning stories for the children that celebrated the learning dispositions, and really enjoyed learning more about each different disposition and how they could be expressed and explored through art.

The children and families all came to view their artwork and the children were so proud of what they had done, and it was wonderful to observe the pride that the families showed in their children’s achievements. The wider Kindergarten community i.e. past students, Anchorage Park Primary, Edgewater Retirement Residents, AKA staff, the public, and families came together to show their support, help make the night a success, and support our children. We were really glad to have been able to celebrate our amazing children in this unique and special way.