Specialist Team News

Visual Art

What a fantastic time! 

Our Art Show was a wonderful display of our talented Willy Kids and our amazing school community coming together to celebrate creativity and imagination. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who made this happen. It took many volunteers and preparation time to get this over the line. A big thank you to Mat for giving me the resources to make this show really special and Julia with her team of volunteers that helped display all the artwork! Here are some photos of the highlights from the Williamstown Primary School 2026 Art Show!!!     

We are looking for…..

We are still looking for full sized Coles, Aldi and Woolworths paper bags. These will be deconstructed and turned into portfolios for each student to use to take home their amazing artworks for the year! 

**Thank you to everyone who have been saving their bottle caps. We will pause this for now as we have so many in storage and need to come up with an amazing idea to display them.

ART CLUB

Term 4 is the Grade Preps turn to have fun at Art Club! Due to the Art Show, this will not start until week 6. This will give us time to clear and sort all the work from the Art Show once it is taken down.

Warm regards,

Marcia Evans

Performing Arts 

Curriculum Focus in Performing Arts                                

Prep: Students have been learning how to do down and up strums on the ukulele along to two groove tracks. They can play a C major chord and have enjoyed playing “Row Row” and singing and playing the alternative lyrics to the song. Students have also been introduced to the A minor chord on the ukulele this week.

Year 1/2: Students have been starting their lessons with dance routines by DJ Raphi. They have played some Halloween inspired songs using body percussion and boom whackers. Last week students started learning to play a new song called “Billy” on the ukulele and have learnt how to do the partner clapping game to the song.

Grade 3/4: Students have continued reading and playing two more Halloween inspired songs using the bucket drums i.e. Monster Mash and The Addams Family Theme Song. On the ukulele, students have played the songs Rhiannon and Happier using C, F and Am chords. This week they have been introduced to playing the more challenging 3 note, G chord.

Grade 5/6: Students have continued reading and playing the engaging body percussion songs Mission Impossible, and Ghost Busters from “Music Colours”. They have learnt how to do the G7 chord on the ukulele and have played the songs; Dreams and the jingle, Happy Little Vegemite’s both of which include this chord. They are also learning the jingle on the marimbas, selecting either a bass, chord or melody part to play.

Music Clubs

What a fabulous performance we had by our music clubs on Sunday at the Art Show. After a last minute change due to the wet weather, we moved the performances inside the hall (albeit a bit squishy) to a big and supportive audience. It was great to hear all the Australian songs being performed by our groups which complemented the Australian Made Theme of the Art Show.

We look forward to hearing from the music clubs later in the term, including the Final Assembly on Friday 18th December.

Warm regards,

Faye Ferry                                                       

Performing Arts & Band Teacher                            

Physical Education