Calculators swapped for paint brushes

Year 10 mathematics students at Brisbane Water Secondary College swapped their calculators for paint brushes over the last week to transform their drab classrooms into exciting, bright learning environments, according to college principal Mr Pat Lewis.

"With materials donated by Campbell Home Hardware of Woy Woy and Dulux Trade Centre at Gosford, students put their mathematical skills to a new use in measuring and designing the figures for the walls and learned many new decorating skills which will no doubt serve them very well as future homeowners," Mr Lewis said.

"Where once were dull and peeling walls, dragons and flamingos now parade producing environments which students will love to be in.

"Imagine loving to be in a maths classroom, only at college.

"Further along the corridor, the college's music teacher Kristy Faulkner, who has taken students to so many awards in the Kool Skools competitions, has displayed another of her immense talents by transforming the walls of the corridor into a back stage look which again will be wonderfully inviting to students.

"This beautification program is totally in keeping with the major refurbishment of both campuses of the college which is scheduled to resume in the new year and further enhances the attractiveness of the whole college."

Press release, December 7 Pat Lewis, Brisbane Water Secondary College