Fir Ridge students complete murals for middle school

Last week students enrolled in Fir Ridge High School’s summer program partnered with East Portland Community Center to participate in a service-learning project. About a dozen students travelled to Parkrose Middle School where they completed two murals that captured that school’s Positive Behavior Support acronym ROCK, which stands for resonsible, organized, cooperative and kind. Students collaborated on every step of the project. They developed the designs, chose which walls in the school they thought would be most appropriate for each mural, and drew and painted each illustration.

Fir Ridge students pose after completing their mural

After completing the murals on Wednesday the group dead-headed roses at the International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park.

Students complete one of two murals they designed.

Today we celebrated the student’s hard work with pizza and evaluations at Fir Ridge. Molly Davies, the principal at Parkrose middle school, stopped by to express her appreciation of their efforts, and why having positive murals in her school is important. In the evaluations students mostly wrote about their appreciation of the freedom they had with the project. It was something that was theirs from start to finish.

Students learn about dead-heading from volunteer coordinator Robbie