St. Nicholas of Bari Catholic School Tessellation

The creation of the tessellation representing St. Nicholas of Bari Catholic School was a

collaborative and creative endeavour. The initial stage of our project consisted of

brainstorming ideas around how we could represent our school and community using images,

words, logos, etc. The grade seven students volunteered numerous ideas and created small

tessellation samples to demonstrate what could be included in the overall design. We

narrowed the ideas presented by focusing on the message we wanted our tessellation to

convey. The goal was to give the viewer a sense of what our school is all about, inside and out.

We decided to include a drawing of our school, which was created by a grade seven student,

and a drawing of St. Nicholas of Bari, created by a former student. This depiction of our school

and the representation of our patron saint gives the viewer historical information about the

physical building and the school’s origin. The students wanted to also express the emotional

aspect of our school in our tessellation. They wanted to convey the feeling of being at St.

Nicholas of Bari student. Students decided to accomplish this using descriptive words and

colour. We selected words that characterize the people in the building and represent our

school community. The colour yellow was chosen because of its warmth and luminous quality.

The idea was that being at St. Nicholas of Bari is like being touched by a warm bright ray of

sunshine. We also decided to use different fonts in our tessellation to represent the various

heritages, traditions and innovation that can be found at St. Nicholas of Bari. The final product

is a creation which depicts our school in a manner put forth by students and staff and is meant

to give insight as to what it feels like to be a part of such a great school community!