Hello everyone, have you noticed that as the autumnal colours brighten our days are getting nippier! We are about to welcome in winter, and as we do, our school will come together to deepen our ongoing growth and understanding of our First Nations people. Reconciliation week will culminate with our Reconciliation Assembly on June 3rd. …
For the last two weeks students have focused on one work inspired by Andrew Brook’s portrait of Marcia Langton from the WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture at the NGV Exhibition. Students worked with portrait photos of themselves, embellished the background with images that speak to the viewer about who they are as a person, and …
Visual Art – Weeks 3 and 4 Multi-media self portrait Read More »
This term we will make links with the NGV Exhibition WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture. Self Portraits and Portraits: Children’s self-portraits can be windows into how they see themselves and can reveal certain aspects of a child’s world and his or her experience of self. Self-portraits provide a visual means through which children’s deepest feelings …
After many, many months, our whole school gathered to sing! Congratulations to everyone for an uplifting and meaningful Harmony Day Assembly, and BRAVO for sharing our Harmony Day sentiments through your fabulous singing. Bravo too, to all the students who signed up to perform in the ‘End of Term Variety Concerts’ for the Yr 3/4 …
Week 8 and 9 Over the past few weeks, students created a new work reflecting on the main themes and understandings we have drawn from the Bark Ladies exhibition at the NGV. Students reflected on the work of the Yolŋu artists, their use of materials sourced from the country and their connection to country and …
As we continue our skill development of hand and eye coordination through the code of tennis and bat-tennis, the students expressed they wanted a little home group competition! Therefore, through student agency, I worked with our health and wellbeing leaders in 56 to create a mini tennis round-robin! From setting up the tennis nets at …
‘It is customary for Yolŋu artists who paint Country and the stories it holds to use materials collected from Country…’ Last week students explored their immediate surroundings and collected natural materials to make their brushes. Their aim was to further explore the idea of mark making and pattern and experiment with a range of materials …
Hello to everyone. This Term is romping along and I am loving how our music sessions are unfolding across the Neighbourhoods. The question above has emerged as an observation from the Yr 5/6 students as they were watching an animated response to Ligiti’s 1958 electronic sound piece ‘Artikulation’. There is a resonance with the Yr …
When we see visual representations of sound, do we hear it better? Read More »
Week 3 saw the senior students engage with the annual Swimming Carnival, which was held this year at Fitzroy Pool. It was a fantastic occasion which allowed the Year’s 4-6 to challenge themselves in four different swimming events; Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke as well as Butterfly. There was also the opportunity for our Freestyle Relays, which …
Welcome back to school everyone. It is soooo good to be back, and to feel uplifted by how happy we feel being together again. There are plans afoot to make 2022 another year of wonderful ’Adventures in Music’ for whole school experiences. Although we patiently wait for the safest of COVID times before resuming singing, …