Specialist News
Physical Education
This week all of the students from Prep to Grade 6 have been working on the health component of physical education. They have been watching videos about healthy eating, learning about the different types of food we need to help our bodies grow and stay healthy. In addition to healthy eating, we have been looking at how keeping active can help supercharge your brain so that you can be more alert when you are learning. To be active this week the students have been following a range of fun dances designed to raise their heart rates.
On a sour note, due to the poor weather conditions on August 28, the District Athletics Carnival at Casey Fields had to be cancelled and rescheduled. To make matters worse, the only date that this could be rescheduled for was Wednesday, September 3rd, which clashed with our whole school concert, thus meaning that we could not participate as a school, as we could not send staff to this event. I would like to again thank all students that participated in the school athletics day. Their efforts were amazing.
ART
In grades 5 and 6 the students discussed the art work called 'The Son Of Man' by the Surrealist painter Rene Magritte. We found out why there is an apple where the man's face should have been. It was a challenge to reproduce the drawing to scale, but, as you can see, these drawings are very successful:
Grade 56 J savouring the poffertjes they have won by Being Respectful in the Art room
Grade 56 J savouring the poffertjes they have won by Being Respectful in the Art room
56 J has won home-made poffertjes from Ms Malika for demonstrating our School Expectations in class. It was the prize for Being Respectful in the Art room.
The the grade 3 and 4s discovered that you can use the inside of a roll of tape very effectively to make circles. By overlapping the circles and using different sizes of tape they created 'fishes' that were coloured brightly. As the students were designing the patterns and colours of the fish, they had to take the rounded shape of the fish into account to make sure that they did not end up with flat fish.
In Prep the students had a go at painting paper bags as a background for a monster collage. For the monster faces they perfected their cutting, glueing and decorating skills.
The monsters all looked different.
And scary?
These are some beautiful examples:
The grades 1 and 2 discussed the collage work of Clare Young. Inspired by this, the students chose an animal, cut out shapes, added patterns and colourful pieces of paper to make imaginative geese, elephants, foxes and hedgehogs.
Here are few for you to admire:
