AS part of last week’s Power Intercultural Program carnival, more than 280 students ran out in guernseys they designed to represent the eleven schools involved.
Of the guernseys, Pinnacle College’s design, as created by year 10 student Asraa Al-Sarraf, was judged to be the winning entry, based on its look and the explanation she gave for her design.
Asraa is the sister of Zahraa Al-Sarraf, who won a competition in 2018 to become Port Adelaide’s CEO for the day.
Asraa was presented with a 2020 Port Adelaide Indigenous guernsey as well as a $300 voucher for her school to spend on sporting equipment from REBEL sport. Here is Asraa’s explanation for her guernsey design:
I’m really happy that I won because I am able to represent my school and all of the nations I have added to my guernsey.
This isn’t the first time my family has been involved with Port Adelaide. My sister, Zahraa Al-Sarraf was CEO for the day at the club. She spent the day there and met heaps of amazing people and I’m happy that I get to share the experiences she did and I just think it’s been amazing.
As soon as I heard about designing a guernsey for the Power Intercultural Program, the first idea that came to mind was incorporating many different flags from around the world. I decided to choose countries that my classmates were from in order to incorporate their countries into my design. I decided to place the flags on the bottom half of the guernsey, which surrounds the animal I chose to make the main attraction.
Flags that were chosen for the guernsey include the Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, Australia, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Bosnia etc.
The animal that I chose to represent my guernsey was an eagle. The eagle was placed directly in the middle since it is the main focus of my design because every other design surrounds the eagle. The reason why I chose an eagle instead of the many animals I could have picked was because it reminds me of my school. An eagle symbolizes freedom, courage, victory, inspiration, pride and power. A few of the symbols that I personally believe symbolise my school and classmates is power. The eagle is known for being powerful and once my classmates work together to reach a certain achievement, we all feel powerful and confident to get through anything.
Another design I decided to add was some Indigenous Australian art which was placed across the top and the back of the guernsey. They are a big part of Australia and since I am incorporating many flags from around the world, the art was the finishing touch to my guernsey to link everything together.
