Learning and Teaching 

Prep 

This week in Prep, students have put on their mathematician hats while focusing on sharing, using hands-on activities. The students have enjoyed working together and learning different ways to equally share amongst different sized groups.

Prep Children Share Their Wonderful Holiday Recounts

After a well-deserved break, the Prep children returned refreshed and full of enthusiasm. One of the first things they couldn’t wait to do was tell their teachers and friends all about their school holidays. 

As part of our writing focus, the students worked on recounting their holiday experiences. It was wonderful to see how their writing skills have developed over the year. Their creativity, detail, and growing confidence as writers really shone through in their work.

We are so proud of our Prep writers and the wonderful effort they put into their holiday recounts. 

Media Arts

This term the grade 5 and 6 classes are learning about Media Arts. We are learning about stop motion, voice acting and even creating our own animations. 

We are using a program called Scratch. This program allows us to code, create and record our very own animations. I successfully created a game called Yellow Bird (inspired from flappy bird) and it is in its Beta stage, which means it is playable but not yet fully developed.

I used codes such as gravity, timer and username variables. I also created different costumes (looks) for my character and different backdrops for when different things happen. You can see my game when you go to Scratch and search “Yellow Bird - Beta!”

This is a screenshot of the gravity code in my game. 

Most of the game is fully designed by me without any tutorials but I used a tutorial for the gravity code. 

If you create an animation in Scratch, there are tutorials designed by the Scratch team to help you make animations or games. 

Thomas Fairmaid 

Picasso Cow 

Last term in Art, our Year 6 students began a very large and exciting project under the guidance of our talented Art Teacher, Kathy Shelton, with the wonderful support of parent volunteers Kara and Shawana.

The project links directly to the students’ Biology unit in Inquiry, exploring the theme of balance in nature. The design is already taking shape with incredible detail, and next week the children will begin painting our cow.

Stay tuned for more updates as this colourful masterpiece comes to life over the term!