The Arts

Well, we have reached the end of Term 1. The students have worked incredibly hard in all the Arts subjects they have been inovlved with. They have created their own songs, sung and danced to array of music, acted and perfomed as differrent charcters, as well as painted and illustrated many colourful art pieces. Read on to see how the term finished for our students.

Prep

In Music, our Preps contiuned to explore how the use of dynamics (loud and soft), tempo (fast and slow) as well as pitch (high and low) can change music, with them singing, playing and moving to the differerent songs in class. In Visual Arts, students explored how mixing primary colours together can create secondary colours, and how adding black or white to a colour can make a colour lighter or darker.

1/2

In Music, our 1/2 students explored how the combination of rhythm and different musical notes can create a musical arrangment. They played along with songs as well as creating their own music. In Visual Arts, the continued to emulate the art style of famous artists from history, such as the colourful flowers and lillypads of Claude Monet.

3/4

In Music, our 3/4 students have explored how to combine two musical notes together to create a harmony, as well as breaking down a song into parts, that they can then recreate with musical instruments to recreate the song. In Drama, students have continued comparing the perfomance styles of improvisation and rehearsal. 

5/6

In Music, our 5/6 students have continued to explore the musical styles and instruments from around the world, including music from Latin America, as well the rhythms and beat of Blues music. They created their own songs in these styles to share with their class. In Drama, students have now blocked all the scenes in the production, with their next goal to begin memorising their lines for next term.