As part of our involvement in the Creative Schools programme this year, Scoil Mhuire GNS were given the wonderful opportunity to work with two artists, Brenda Kearney and Fergal Brennan. Brenda and Fergal led the pupils through the Wild Weeds animation workshops. Wild Weeds is a series of animation and drawing workshops that explores biodiversity in the school environment. Pupils explored the different plant and animal life found in our outdoor areas and learned about biodiversity and why it’s important. They explored what makes each plant different and beautiful by drawing them and by collecting and naming them in a notebook. The children worked together with Brenda and Fergal to create an exciting animation to be screened at the school and on Culture Night 2023. We can't wait to see the final product and we're sure we have some budding animators in our school.
Thank you to Brenda Kearney, Fergal Brennan, Sophie Cootes and Melanie May for organising these workshops for our school.