Art & Technology

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Street Food Fiesta

On Friday 28 February, students in Street Food Fiesta created their own Designer Loaded Crumbles!

The fruit toppings included Apple, Peach, Mixed Berries, and the crumble options included, Traditional, Oreo, Choc Chip or Biscoff.

After the toppings were assembled, students chose from a variety of toppings custard, vanilla ice-cream, whipped cream.. some even added a chocolate sauce.

Comments from the students included:

“easy and flavoursome”

“loved the variety in the crumble”

“a quick and easy 10 minute dessert which tasted delicious”

“something I can make at home for my family”

Joanne Steen

Art & Technology

Yr 11 & 12 Food Studies

Classes are in full swing and our students have produced an array of delicious treats. Year 11s have been learning about foods from ancient times, whilst our Year 12s have just completed their first Area of Study about digestion and health.

In Bakery Café, students have been learning to make different kinds of pastry products, this week’s feature being meat and vegetable pasties with home made shortcrust pastry. They have also been designing their own bakery product using the design process. Annotated drawings are a key part of the design process and the Year 9 and 10s have shown off their artistic skills to represent their designs.

It has been wonderful to see our students build their production skills and independently work through challenges in the kitchen. We hope the tasty products have made it home!

Amy Hooper

Art & Technology

7S Textiles

The 7S team has been weaving their creative magic into some truly fantastic textile designs for their bunting flags! Using their sharp creative thinking skills, they’ve crafted brilliant ideas that are sure to stand out. With their secondary research expertise, they’ve put together an inspiring mood board full of textile textures, colours, and patterns to guide their designs. We’re absolutely bursting with pride over their incredible work and can’t wait to see their textile masterpieces come to life! Well done, 7S – you’re stitching together something amazing! 🌟🧵🎉

Yr 9&10 Young Designers

Our young designers are totally immersed in their fashion illustration task, and they’re absolutely excelling! From streetwear to special occasion outfits, these students have been pushing their creativity to the limit. We’re incredibly proud of what they’ve achieved in such a short time! They’ve sharpened their skills by creating croquis templates, which have helped them bring their quick design ideas to life. The range of concepts they’ve come up with is truly impressive – it’s amazing to see their talent in full bloom. Keep it up, future fashion stars! ✨👗🎨

Vicky Rumble

Art & Technology

Yr 7 Systems Technology

Catapult update

Students were ecstatic to have a class competition with their finished mini-catapult projects, launching a paper ball across the room. The group that won the competition set a new room record of 6.45m, beating the previous record (5.95m) by half a metre!

Allan Qi

Art & Technology

Yr 7 Digital Tech

As part of learning about what makes a computer work, students have been understanding the language of binary; zeros and ones (0, 1). If you have ever seen the movie "The Matrix" you will see how Neo, a computer programmer gets drawn into the matrix, and of course on of the best scenes is Neo's ability to bend the matrix to his will.

Neo's mastery of 0's and 1's is why he is so good as a programmer. Take a small section of this for the background maybe ?

Now, just like Neo, in our classes in the last two weeks, we have been challenging our students to become mini Neos, as they understand and explore the world of binary. We have learnt about bits and bytes, why pixels (think computer screens) are RGB, and why are there dots in my image.

In the last two weeks students have been breaking computer code, buy understanding how keyboard letters become binary, and why the numbers have this binary representation.

Students have also created little pixel artworks using an simple 8 x 8 grid, and then add multiple web-safe RGB pixels to their art just as a computer would.