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Visual Arts / Culture Studies

All students enjoyed creating thoughtful Mother’s Day / Special Person’s Day crafts to celebrate the important people in their lives.

Foundation and Year 1 students created colourful tissue flower posies, carefully folding, shaping, and arranging tissues to form beautiful flowers.

Year 2 students created plasticine flower artworks on cardboard, using shaping and modelling techniques to design bright and textured floral pieces.

Year 3/4 students designed and createdmagnet pipe cleaner flower bouquets, twisting and shaping pipe cleaners into detailed flowers and leaves.

Year 5/6 students created more advanced pipe cleaner flower bouquets, demonstrating creativity, patience, and fine motor skills as they constructed and arranged their flowers.

All students put a great deal of love, care, and creativity into their special gifts.

Students also began creating Elements of Art artworks, where they explored the seven elements of art in greater detail: line, shape, space, colour, value, texture, and form. Students demonstrated their understanding by drawing and designing examples that represented each art element. This learning helped students develop a deeper understanding that the Elements of Art are the fundamental building blocks used to create, analyse, and understand all visual artworks.

Mother’s Day Wrapping Paper Design Competition

Congratulations to Jade, the winner of our Westfield Southland Mother’s Day Gift Wrapping Competition! 

Thank you to everyone who participated and shared their beautiful creations. We loved seeing all the creativity and care put into each entry! 

Enjoy your prize, Jade!

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PE 

Over the past two weeks students in all years have continued to develop their skills and understanding of the game of netball. We have had a strong focus on always catching with our hands (not with our arms), passing to a partner with accuracy, appropriate speed and at a easy to catch height. There has also been a focus on always watching the ball during a team game, so that you don’t let your team down, but also don’t get hit by the ball.

Students have been developing their sills which has culminated in some final games incorporating these skills. The year 5-6 students played netball games and leant the rules, the preps to year 4 students played modified netball games to use their new skills, but also have an understanding of developing game play and game scenarios.

It has been a fun unit of PE, and everyone has had a great time.

Jarrod Bradley

PE/Sports Coordinator

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Music Newsletter

Preps:

This fortnight in Music Prep, students have continued developing their understanding of rhythm by practising crotchets, quavers, minims and crotchet rests using tapping sticks and clapping. They have also begun a short unit of learning that aims to introduce students to playing the ukulele. Students will focus on plucking strings and learn some simple chords.

1 / 2

In Years 1 and 2, students have been building on their knowledge of rhythm from the previous two weeks and playing more complex patterns, including semibreves, semi quavers and quaver rests. They also practised writing different rhythms on a whiteboard and clapping their own patterns. Students will begin an introductory unit to playing ukulele by focussing on plucking strings and strumming simple chords.

3 / 4 

Students in years 3 and 4 have thoroughly enjoyed learning the basics of guitar. Students have learnt about the features of guitar, including frets, tuning pegs, the sound hole, body and neck. Over the next few weeks, students will be learning to play simple riffs that they can play on one string and begin experimenting with power chords.

5 / 6 

Students have been continuing to develop their understanding of how films are made. After focussing on different shot types, students have been creating short sequences which they have been editing using iMovie. Whilst editing these sequences, students have been experimenting with cutting tools, trimming and using different transitions. Over the next two weeks, students will be exploring how to film a scene between two characters with a focus on over the shoulder shots and recording dialogue. 

Broadcasters

This week in Broadcasters students continued experimenting with iMovie and the amazing templates that it offers for editing different styles of movies. This fortnight students will be creating their own simple scene that focuses on sound effects and soundtrack and how these contribute to the tone of the scene.