As South Africa does not host many national art competitions, to provide our pupils with the opportunity to accrue additional points for Art Colours, we liaised with Dr Rexleigh Bunyard’s initiative, The Rainbow’s Child – a musical designed around a number of social responsibility aspects including the health of the earth, recycling, and learning through alternative avenues. Consequently, an annual, national art competition was launched through the Roedean Department of Visual Arts & Design, in partnership with the MTN Art Foundation and the United Nations. The latter body relies on our entries to collate teaching tools in the form of theatre masks designed for the various characters in the musical. These tools will be used in schools set up in refugee camps.

More information around this ongoing project can be viewed at www.therainbowschild.com