Kempsey Adventist School students gain skills during Festival of Creativity

The Festival of Creativity is part of the school's project based learning program and encourages students to work together over a five day period to design and create a project.

"All of the students have designed their own project for the week and worked together in the groups to produce the end result," Leanne Deanshaw from Kempsey Adventist School said.

"The aim is for the students to gain life skills."

The groups of students created a broad range of projects from a KAS farm, sculptures, building an art gallery, creating a welcome sign for the school and competing in a Masterchef style cooking competition.

"The idea is to give the students a sense of ownership within the school," Ms Deanshaw said.

Nick Salmon from Collaborative Learning Network said seeing the teachers get involved along with the students is what makes project based learning rewarding.

"I teach these sort of programs all over the world and seeing the teachers get as involved as the students in these projects yesterday is incredible," he said.

"Giving the groups five days to design and create the projects gives them a deeper explanation and understanding of what it is they're doing."

This is the third year the school has held the Festival of Creativity, with a number of students' projects now beautifying the school.

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