在三月份期间，斯坦利琼斯学校的学生们着手进行了一项艺术尝试，以视觉形式表达他们对学校的理解。我们的学生咨询委员会、家长社区和教师们于去年十一月聚集在一起，设计了一幅壁画，以庆祝我们学校内丰富多样的特点，视觉上展现我们强烈的社区意识，并对学校内已有的45年盲聋儿童（DHH）计划表示敬意。

斯坦利琼斯学校自幼儿园至九年级拥有三个不同的项目，分别是斯坦利琼斯学校的社区项目、听觉/口语盲聋儿童（DHH）项目和以艾丽斯·詹姆逊女子学院为名的全女子项目。

我们通过学校咨询委员会的经费支持委托艺术家斯坦·菲尔普斯担任艺术家驻校，帮助我们将壁画变为现实。K-6年级的学生与斯坦共同完成了与肖像和风景相关的艺术作品，为壁画提供了灵感，并在壁画上用语言和手语表达了学生们认为最能代表我们学校的关键词。斯坦利琼斯学校五、六年级的学生、DHH项目和艾丽斯·詹姆逊学院的学生们，以及七至九年级的艺术学生们根据学生们的灵感共同创作了你在照片中所看到的杰作。

来自DHH五、六年级班级的Mustaan和他的同学捕捉到了壁画对我们学校意义的精髓：

我们DHH五、六年级的学生们很高兴能参与计划和绘制这幅壁画。我们都喜欢参与这个项目！画壁画太有趣了，我们还学到了绘制不同层次和细节的步骤。

我们很欣赏壁画展示了我们学校的历史，并包括了我们DHH项目的回忆，因为该项目已经存在了将近45年。壁画包括了我们DHH学生的描绘，这让我们感到受到了尊重。我们学校的学生和教职员工来自不同的文化背景，我们很高兴壁画中也能看到这一点。

当新学生和成年人来到我们学校时，他们会感到受到欢迎，因为他们会看到他们会结交新朋友。他们会感到自己属于我们学校社区。

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During the month of March, students at Stanley Jones School embarked on an artistic endeavor to visually represent what their school means to them. Members of our student advisory council, parent community and teachers came together last November to envision a mural that would celebrate the wonderful diversity in our building, visually express our strong sense of community and to recognize the 45 years the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) program has been at the school.

Stanley Jones School has had the distinct privilege of working with three different programs from kindergarten to Grade 9: the community program of Stanley Jones School, the auditory/oral Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) program and the all girls’ program under the name of Alice Jamieson Girls’ Academy.

With funding support from our School Advisory Council we commissioned artist in residence Stan Phelps to help us bring our mural to life. Students K-6 worked with Stan on art outcomes related to portraits and landscapes to provide inspiration for the mural and to include key words that students believed represented our school best. These are depicted in words and sign language on the mural. Our Grade 5 and 6 students from Stanley Jones, the DHH and Alice Jamieson programs as well as art students from Grades 7-9 then drew on student inspirations to bring forth the masterpiece you see in the photograph.

Mustaan and his classmates from the DHH Grade 5 and 6 class captured the essence of what the mural means to our school:

Our Grade 5 and 6 DHH students were happy that we got to help plan, and paint, the mural. We all enjoyed participating in this project! It was fun painting the mural and learning about the steps involved in painting the different layers and details.

We appreciated that the mural shows our school’s history and included memories of our DHH program, which has been here for almost 45 years. Our DHH students felt respected because the mural includes depictions of our DHH students. Our school has students and staff that come from many different cultures. We are happy that we can see this in the mural too.

When new students and adults come to our school, they will feel welcomed because they will see that they will make new friends. They will feel like they belong in our school community.