Students from Hume Central Secondary College (HCSC) are getting a taste of university life as part of a program to encourage budding arts students to consider tertiary study.
The Smith Family (TSF) and RMIT University’s ‘SmArts’ program is being offered for the fourth time at the school, to encourage years 9 and 10 students to recognise their potential to work in arts professions and trades.
The program, which started last week and will run until August 4, has taken students out of the classroom and into lecture theatres and university workspaces.
They have been learning how to create stop-motion films.
HCSC students were joined by students from Wyndham Central College.
The students were taken to the National Gallery of Victoria to visit the Kaleidoscopic Turn exhibition, which brings together works by artists who use colour, light, sound, movement and space so as to influence and inspire their stop-motion films.
HCSC assistant principal Snezana Veljanovski said the students had loved their immersion in university life.
She said most had been selected because of their artistic abilities, so they could explore their post-schooling options in art and design.
“It’s about raising expectations about going to university,” she said. “We want the students to aim high.”
TSF’s Victorian general manager Anton Leschen said the program was designed to help the students get the most of their education, “stay at school to complete year 12, and aspire to fulfilling careers in the field of their choice.”
