In time for the September opening of our 2024-2025 school year, we had a mural completed by artist Anais Lera. This mural is a result of a Community Mural Application that we submitted to the City of Richmond. Our goal was to have a visual representation of how our students, staff and parents feel about McRoberts Secondary, in particular with respect to our school focus around community and connections, and we are so proud of the final product.

Before creating her design, Ms. Lera consulted with our students, staff and our parents via our PAC to hear what McRoberts Secondary means to them. Please
see her Artist’s Statement below:

Growing by Anais Lera

During my visits at McRoberts school I saw a lot of kindness and dedication. Adults, teachers, school staff and parents play a crucial role in nurturing students’ growth by providing academic support, emotional guidance, and a safe learning environment. Their dedication ensures that students develop not only intellectually but also socially and emotionally, preparing them for future success.

With this design, I wanted to present the school as a garden, an ecosystem where adults are the gardeners, diligently looking after and cultivating students to help them blossom into their full potential. The BC native flora symbolizes the students growing and blooming, while the hands, represent school staff, teachers and parents. The variety of the native flora symbolizes the cultural diversity and inclusion. The native flora includes:
- Pacific dogwood
- White Trilium (turns dark pink when aging)
- Douglas Aster
- Trout Lily

I have chosen them for their graphic interest, their variety and colors. I took the liberty of giving a little imaginary twist to some of the flowers while respecting their identifiable silhouette. For a complete harmonized ecosystem with vegetal, mineral and animal, I have also included very graphic crystals, and a local species of starfish (ocher star) supported by a pattern of ocean undulation.