Greenside Primary School (see
Friday, 28 October 2011)
today celebrated the Diamond Anniversary of the very day of its official opening by Dame Sybil Thorndike.
A new film was shown to the assembled school of art historian Alan Powers describing and explaining the Gordon Cullen mural with a clarity accessible to children and adults alike.
Throughout the year groups children have been studying the school architecture and its mural.
The Cullen painting provides a distinguished and very special feature of school identity for pupils, teachers, parents and local community. Its content also presents vivid images reflecting life at the time of the school’s post-war rebuilding.
Thus it serves as both a totem and as a unique teaching resource intimately connected with the school’s own history.
An elegant 60th birthday display effectively reinforces these functions of the school mural.
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