From the 

Assistant Principal

Highlights from Term Three

Rowville Primary School students have been busy in a variety of specialist classes this term. Our specialist programs enhance the learning that occurs in classrooms.

Visual Arts

Our Year Three and Four artists explored the vibrant artwork of mentor artist Ashley Mary, taking inspiration from her use of bright, candy-coloured palettes and playful organic shapes. Students created their own garden or sea-themed sculptures, experimenting with colour, shape and form to develop imaginative three-dimensional artworks. Each sculpture reflects their individual creativity and interpretation of the natural world.

Kitchen

This term, students stepped back in time and explored the fascinating world of Ancient Roman food in Kitchen Class! They experimented with traditional ingredients, ancient cooking techniques and tools, creating their own Roman inspired dishes. Students really enjoyed getting hands on, discovering how food was prepared thousands of years ago and taking recipes from one of the oldest cookbooks in history named Apicius: De re coquinaria

Italian

This term has been all about Ancient Rome in Italian! Students have been learning about Roman life, culture and language through lots of hands-on experiences, including our Year 5/6 excursion to the ROME exhibition at Melbourne Museum. Students in Years 3–6 have been getting into character as Ancient Romans and preparing mini plays and performances, while our Year 1/2 students have been exploring Italian through games, natural materials and play in the Italian Village. It has been a really fun term of bringing Italian history and culture to life!

Garden Environment

This term we have seen and felt the natural environment around us change, as we moved through the chilly, dark, wet days of Winter and welcomed in the beautiful scents and sweet, warm breeze of Spring! We spent time developing our understanding of the Eastern Kulin Nation Seasons, where we explored Waring (wombat season), Guling (Orchid season) and currently Poorneet (tadpole season). The junior children have enjoyed listening to animal stories connecting with these seasons, singing songs and engaging in a variety of hands-on activities in the garden such as nest and shelter building, seed planting and botanical illustrating. Our middle and senior school classes have enjoyed developing their skills and use of tools in the garden and have been busy pruning, composting, prepping garden beds, deadheading, harvesting, water channeling and weeding. They have also enjoyed learning about pollinators, creating ‘seed bombs’, getting creative with bush crafts, and trying their hand at some traditional weaving using native grasses. Year Six students have begun the process of planning for the Legacy Beds. These are garden beds that the year six students will prepare and plant themselves with the intention of allowing the children in 2027 to harvest the fruit and vegetables they have cultivated and left behind.

Kind regards,

Shae White

Assistant Principal