17 Dec 2013
We are very excited to be a part of the Taronga Zoo's 'Wild Rhinos' event.
Taronga Wild! Rhinos is a Wild in Art event that brings businesses, artists and schools together to create a spectacular world-class sculpture trail from the Sydney Harbour foreshore through the Blue Mountains to Dubbo and the Central West region of NSW.
From February – April 2014 the huge herd of wildly colourful rhino sculptures painted by artists and their small calves decorated by local schools, including Zig Zag Public School, will charge across NSW as part of a mass public art exhibition to help raise awareness and valuable funds for Taronga's world leading Black Rhino breeding program and in-situ conservation projects.
All the students and teachers have been busy painting our baby rhino ready to join the travelling art exhibition. Our Rhino proudly displays Zig Zag black and gold, the Zig Zag viaduct and trains, as well as our school logo.
Each class brainstormed names for the rhino and we voted as a school to name him 'Ziggle Zaggle'.
All the students have been learning about how Rhinos became endangered through our school developed Wiki on wikispaces. It has been wonderful to see the students engaged in web based enquiry and participating in the forum to share new knowledge and ideas about how to protect rhinos.
After the exhibition the rhino will be returned to us and be displayed permanently at school.