The real thing.

There is no stock photography anywhere on this website. Every picture below was taken at Tiny Town, of Tiny Town: the school first, and then, hung in pride of place, its artists.

Outside

A large grassed yard with jungle gyms, slides and a painted tyre path, wrapped around a building you could not mistake for anywhere else.

Tiny Town's playground with wooden climbing frames, slides and a path of painted tyres across the yard — The yard: jungle gyms, slides and the tyre path.

The Tiny Town building, painted green and yellow, with animal murals and clipped hedges along the front — The school from the front, murals and all.

A wooden playhouse with a red roof, yellow slide and tyre seesaw on the Tiny Town lawn — The playhouse and the tyre seesaw.

Children playing on the slides and painted tyre path in the Tiny Town playground — Playtime on the tyre path.

The Tiny Town building from the yard, with solar panels on the roof and murals along the wall — From the yard, solar panels included.

Inside

Cot rooms for the smallest, reading corners for the biggest, and murals on more walls than not.

The Tiny Town cot room, a row of white cots beneath a cow-jumping-over-the-moon mural — The cot room, under the cow and the moon.

A Tiny Town baby room with a cot, a ball-pit playpen and a painted tree mural — The baby room: ball pit, cots and a painted tree.

A Tiny Town nursery room with a cot and changing dresser against soft teal walls — A quiet corner of the nursery room.

A Tiny Town classroom reading corner with a bookshelf and labelled cubby storage — A reading corner: every classroom has one.

School days

The ordinary days and the big ones: worksheets and number games, dress-up days, and graduation. The stickers over the children's faces are deliberate — their faces are theirs to keep.

A group of Tiny Town children working at the green tables, holding up their worksheets, with paper stickers covering their faces — Worksheets, held up for inspection.

A Tiny Town child in full clown face paint and a rainbow wig on a dress-up day — Dress-up day, taken very seriously.

Three Tiny Town children at a pink table working through a number activity together, their faces covered with paper stickers — Number work at the pink table.

Framed Tiny Town preschool diplomas awarded to the school's graduates, with paper stickers covering the graduates' names — Graduation day: diplomas ready to go home.

By the artists in residence.

Photographs can only show you the school. These show you what comes out of it: two self-portraits in chalk, each one signed by its artist, and labelled the way real work deserves.

A chalkboard self-portrait drawn by a Tiny Town child, signed Boipelo, with a bright sun — Boipelo
Self-portrait with sun
Chalk on blackboard

A chalkboard self-portrait in a pink dress, drawn by a Tiny Town child and signed Bailey — Bailey
Self-portrait in a pink dress
Chalk on blackboard

Works from the collection of Tiny Town Nursery School. The artists retain all bragging rights.

Pictures only go so far.

Come and stand in it. That is the only way to really know.

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