Secondary
9/10 Visual Art
This term the class have been given the task to create a self-portrait in the style of Australian contemporary artist Del Kathryn Barton. Focusing on the Barton style of portrait and her materials use, as well as looking at other artists who have produced significant portraits including Picasso, Rembrandt and Australian artist Brett Whiteley. Students have analysed the artists that have been the studied using the frames and conceptual framework and concentrating on materials used and the artists practice and style.
Barton's materials use that the students are replicating on their artworks includes the use of watercolours, acrylic paint and acrylic paint pens and black felt tip: and the self-portrait including all the required elements featured in Barton’s portraits such as animals, Australian flora, and dot painting.
Congratulations!
A BIG congratulations goes out to Year 11 Visual Design student Katelyn Shean who has been announced a Regional Winner in this year's annual statewide Harmony Day poster competition. Katelyn receives $150 for her winning design and goes into the running to be announced the State Winner later this year. Katelyn has been invited to Sydney for the award giving ceremony. This is a massive achievement and demonstrates Katelyn's excellent Visual Design abilities. Well done Katelyn!
Congratulations also goes out to Year 7 student Matilda Cox for receiving a Highly Commended in this year's Harmony Day poster competition. Matilda is one of 10 students across the state to receive a Highly Commended. Matilda entered multiple poster designs into the competition and her hard work has paid off! Well done Matilda!
Ms Packwood
Visual Art/Visual Design Teacher
Year 7 Technology Mandatory
Year 7 have successfully completed their aprons and transitioned into the food unit. As a class we have completed a series of demonstrations and practical lessons. Students prepared and cooked some delicious choc chip biscuits and pancakes in their first week. Keep an eye out for their scones and scone dough pizza coming up in the next week.
As part of this unit students will be learning about safety, hygiene, and equipment in the kitchen. Everyone has engaged really well so far, and I can’t wait to see their quality food products in the future. A reminder to all students that you need to bring your own clean apron and enclosed leather shoes to every practical lesson.
Ms Golden
Year 8 Technology
It always seems like the favourite time of the year for this cohort when we transition to food technology. The Year 8 class make such great behaviour choices when in the kitchen, effectively using their time to create quality food products. The Year 8 class have prepared rice paper rolls, banana bread muffins and rainbow rice paper rolls.
The most difficult being the precision cuts and wrapping of the rice paper, most students managed to master the skills by the end of the lesson.
Ms Golden
Year 11 Textiles and Design
The class has now completed the under the sea theme textiles art piece. They practised and then applied a series of embellishment techniques such as heat manipulation, felting, hand embroider and patchwork. The students then layered these techniques to create depth and visual interest using only fabric.
The class is now moving onto learning about properties and performance of textiles items and will be producing a dress using complex fabrics and construction techniques.
Ms Golden
Year 9/10 PASS Event Management
Year 9 & 10 PASS (Physical, Activity and Sports Studies) students have been working hard developing round robin draws and running events as part of their Event Management unit of work.
Students developed a draw for Years 4, 5 and 6 to rotate through different sports each Friday Week B. Students constructed draws, collected scores, set up activities and ran each event. We look forward to continuing this event and building our connection with primary students for the remainder of the term and in future units of work.
On Thursday 1 June 2023, members of the PASS class spent the day coordinating and running the Southern Regional Touch Carnival here in Boorowa. Prior to the event students developed a round robin draw, allocated teams to each field, developed result sheets and created a list of required equipment. On the day students were in charge of timing, announcements and collating results. All students have been working extremely hard this term to develop their organisational and event management skills.
Jess Bromfield - PDHPE Teacher