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Visual Arts

Last week in Visual Arts, all students were buzzing with creativity as they explored the exciting world of construction!

• Foundation students brought their imaginations to life by creating colourful 3D paper animals, carefully colouring, cutting, and folding to make their creatures stand tall.
• Year 1/2 students began building their very own hamster run mazes. They twisted, bent, and attached cardboard, adding ramps, tunnels, and other clever obstacles to keep their hamsters entertained.
• Year 3/4 students started constructing 3D cardboard houses. They decorated the outside to give it personality and chose one special room inside to bring to life with detailed drawings.
• Year 5/6 students stepped into the role of interior designers to create miniature 3D rooms. They wallpapered the walls, added flooring, and began crafting tiny furniture and accessories from a variety of materials.

We can’t wait to see all these amazing projects take shape over the coming weeks!

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Culture Studies

This week in Culture Studies, students continued their journey into the fascinating world of French culture, exploring some of France’s most iconic landmarks. We discovered:

• The Arc de Triomphe – a grand monument in Paris that honours those who fought for France. Students worked together to recreate its shape and arches using building blocks, carefully stacking and balancing each piece to capture its form.
• The Louvre Museum – home to world-famous artworks like the Mona Lisa. Using colourful geo-shapes, students pieced together the Louvre’s distinctive pyramid structure, learning how geometry and art can work hand in hand.
• The Eiffel Tower – the sparkling star of the Paris skyline. Using matchsticks, students designed their own 2D Eiffel Towers, turning simple sticks into intricate masterpieces of lines and patterns.

The room was filled with excitement and creativity as students brought these famous French icons to life!

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PE 

Last week in PE, students in all classes continued to develop their skills and knowledge of basketball. They continued to work on their dribbling and ball handling, passing and working as a team as they played mini games. The younger students had a go at shooting using the lower basketball rings, which they really enjoyed. While the older students finished off with mini games as some students prepared for the Kingston District Basketball competition on Friday, 8th. 

This week, House Athletics was due to be held on the Friday, so students have started learning some athletic event skills, particularly shot put and discus which are quite specific actions and take some understanding. They will continue this and also develop their skills of long jump and triple jump.

This will help them be ready for our house athletics day, which will now be held on Monday, 1st September.

Kingston Division Teeball – Friday, August 1st

On Friday August 1st, our teeball girls competed at the Kingston Division Teeball competition. The girls have practised a lot over the past few weeks and further developed their skills and knowledge of the game, and as a result we headed to the competition quietly confident that they could do very well.

There were three round robin games, which our girls won 28-4, 23-4 and 35-0. Our girls were dominating but we had been keeping our eye out on the other teams and their was one team that was also winning comfortably, so it was going to be a close Grand Final.

Having scored easily in the first 3 games, after the first innings is was 2 runs each. This was going to be tense.

The girls kept the opposition scoreless in the 2nd innings while we managed to score 6, and in the end this was the deciding innings as the girls went on to win 10-8.

It was an amazing day, and now the girls move onto the Regional competition which will be held on Monday. We wish them luck for this next stage of competition.

Kingston District Basketball Day – Friday, August 8th

Last Friday we had 20 year 5 and 6 students play in the Kingston District Basketball day. Our students were really enthusiastic and tried their very best. The girls team was very competitive in all games and managed to win two, had a tie and had some very close losses. The boys had a more challenging competition, but managed to win won game comfortably and had a couple of narrow losses.

Although we didn’t get a lot of wins, all our students showed great sportsmanship, teamwork and enthusiasm.

Well done to all the students for their efforts.

Jarrod Bradley

PE/Sports Coordinator

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Term Three Week Four.

Auslan Newsletter.

In Auslan, the students have been learning how to sign all the AFL football teams. We have also been doing some revision and going over what signs, we have already learned. 

With the weather starting to warm up a little, we will now try to have some outdoor time in Auslan. The students have been coming up with some great games on the oval. These games incorporate components of Auslan. They include Auslan memory tag, Auslan fruit salad and Auslan musical chairs. 

The creativity of the students has been wonderful to observe. 

Ms. Buchan. 

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Term 3, 2025

One Voice One Song – festival of Joyful Singing for Kids at Bayside Church on the 4th of September. 

We are all so excited for this very first community singing festival and for the Le Page choir and band to perform with 4 other schools. 

Here is the link to get tickets for this event – we would LOVE to see you there! https://baysidechurch.elvanto.com.au/form/2310071d-d1a8-438c-99d4-9622f6d564b8

Grade 3&4 Mini Concert

At the end of last Term, the grade 3&4 cohort did themselves proud with their mini concert. Here is the link to the video.

https://vimeo.com/1103377039/94beced002?share=copy

A huge thanks goes to Alain Behar for taking the video

Grade 56B Instrumental Program with Cheltenham Secondary College 

This began last week and teachers and students travelled to Le Page to mentor the class in mainly brass and woodwind instruments. Here’s some pics

The grade 5&6 Music Program

We’ve been exploring a range of instruments — marimbas, xylophones, metallophones, keyboards, and the drum kit — while diving into iconic repertoire, from Coldplay classics to this week’s focus, Seven Nation Army. Along the way, we’ve been building our musicianship by learning to identify piano keys, play melodies, create bass lines, and add rich harmonies through chords.

Miss Susie