We are creative communicators ...

German

All classes have one German lesson per week with Frau Edwards.  In German lessons, students use language in context through familiar routines, games, songs and repetition. They exchange greetings and information making connections between English and German.  A range of learning experiences allow students to gain confidence using the language.  

Knowing about language and relating it to the students own experiences helps them to make connections that link to every day literacy.  Words can look similar but sound different, questions marks are used and nouns have capital letters in German.  Language learning lends itself to cultural awareness, making comparisons not only with Australia and Germany but also  individual students' cultural backgrounds and experiences.

Characters (puppets) visiting from Germany, Felix (a frog) and Franzi (a duck) play a key role in encouraging the students to use the language to communicate.  They are part of a program created by the Goethe Institut for the teaching of German language and add to our learning experience by sharing their adventures with the students and engaging in the learning experiences with us.

Please encourage your child(ren) to tell you about what they have been learning in German. See what they can teach you!  

Mellor German lessons are on Monday (M2, M4 and M5) and Tuesday (M1 and M3).

(Frau) Libby Edwards

Elizabeth.Edwards559@schools.sa.edu.au 

The Arts in Mellor

The Arts

In Mellor for 2021, each classroom teacher will explicitly teach each of the Arts subjects of Drama, Music, Dance, Media Arts and Visual Arts, as well as exploring these in discovery time. All arts areas will engage students through purposeful and creative play in structured activities, fostering a strong sense of wellbeing and developing their connection with the world.

Drama

The students in Mellor this year will be making, performing, analysing and responding to drama. Students will become aware of role and situation as they listen and respond, explore voice and movement and learn how their ideas can be expressed through role and story.

Students will focus on making connections with Aboriginal Dreaming Stories and Australian animals to form the basis of drama productions.

Music 

Throughout the year, students will explore with sounds as they learn to listen to, make and perform music. They will become aware of rhythm and pitch, beat and tempo and learn to differentiate between sounds and silence, and loud and soft sounds. They will learn to compose music, using notation to represent the music they have created, and perform music while keeping in time with group members.

Students will focus on listening to Aboriginal music, representing animals and creating our own music to sound like animals.

Dance 

Through Dance in 2021, students will become aware of their bodies, and explore space, time, dynamics and relationships as they make and observe dances. Students will observe various cultures' dances and gain an understanding and appreciation of how dance is often a form of storytelling.

Students will focus on selecting and organising their own movements in their own dances and perform them to an audience to tell a story.

Media Arts 

Media Arts in Mellor will involve students engaging with communication technologies and incorporating their Drama, Music, Dance and Visual Arts to design, produce, distribute and interact with a range of print, audio and screen-based artworks. Students will learn fundamental skills and processes to communicate in different forms such as movies and songs.

Visual Arts 

Mellor students will be exposed to artworks and discussions around why and how they are created, as well as become aware of visual conventions and learn to notice visual detail. They will experiment with applying visual conventions such as line, shape, colour and texture, as well as looking at different forms, styles, techniques, materials and technologies to create their own artworks.

Students will be focusing on various artists, in particular Indigenous Aboriginal artists, to explore the techniques they have used and to then create their own artwork. 

Painting