Art /Cultural/ Music / PE & Health
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PE and Health
In the last two weeks of Health for Term Three we have been concluding the Departments Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships curriculum. Each class and all students have been exploring and developing an understanding and awareness of how to create and manage better relationships with family, friends and peers. This has been a wonderful program to develop students empathy and appreciation of their own strengths and that of others.
The overarching topics we have covered have included;
- Emotional Literacy
- Personal Strengths
- Positive Coping
- Problem Solving
- Stress Management
- Help Seeking
- Gender Identity
- Positive Gender Relations
I have thoroughly enjoyed teaching this program and seeing the students grasp these ideas and implement them in the classroom and the playground.
In PE we continued to develop the skills, understanding and awareness of Netball. I have incorporated simple and fun games and activities which the students have loved playing while at the same time developing their netball skills. Without doubt the hardest skill to grasp is the no stepping and pivoting skills and this is something that the students need to continue to improve on.
Jarrod Bradley
PE/Health/Sports Coordinator
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Visual Arts
Last week all students continued to work on their Paper Mache sculptures by adding paint and extra features to make their sculptures colourful and realistic.
Foundation students painted their donuts and added an extra drizzle of paint and some coloured elastic band for sprinkles on top.
1/2 students painted their ice cream cone and scoops, also adding a drizzle of paint and sprinkles with a cherry on top.
Year 3/4 students painted their animals then added extra features, for example feathers for wings or hair, pipe cleaners for a tail and/or google eyes.
I am so proud of all the students Paper Mache sculptures; they have all worked hard to create these amazing pieces of art and they seemed to have really enjoyed the whole Paper Mache process with incredible results. Awesome work LePage!
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Culture Studies
This week in Culture Studies we continued to explore Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders art techniques and natural resources that were used to create their artwork, these materials included ochres (minerals) or clay to make red, yellow, and white paint and charcoal to make the colour black. They made brushes from bark, plants, twigs, hair and feathers and also used their fingers and sticks to paint with. Their unique style of artwork was known for their rock, bark, sand and body decoration which were represented within the form of x-ray, dots and symbol techniques. There is always a purpose to the artwork, weather it is representing a connection to a particular ‘dreaming’ story or to the artist.
Once students understood the connection to ‘The dreaming’ and their art, they were able to begin to create their own symbols, understanding that each Mob (family) has their own set of symbols that are not allowed to be represented by another Mob (family). Students were inspired by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artworks and techniques that they explored to create their own unique art piece by using their own symbol/s designs and the dot art technique.
All students were able to use the sandpit to help connect to the land like the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders did as they created their own unique symbols that were drawn in the sand.
Foundation students were inspired by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artwork, where they were able to create their own unique symbol/s within a handprint, which incorporated the dot art technique.
Year 1/2 students were also inspired by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artwork, where they were able to create their own unique symbol/s within a boomerang shape, which incorporated the dot art technique.
Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 students were also inspired by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artwork, where they were able to create their own unique symbol/s onto a piece of thin wood or a square shape piece of paper, which incorporated the dot art technique.
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