Senior Years News

Senior Years Exam Period

The Semester 2 internal examination period for Year 10 and 11 students begins on Monday 13 November and concludes on Friday 24 November.

Throughout the exam period, students will have ample time to revise for their exams so that they can prepare well. The end of semester exam period is an important opportunity for students to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding, and their readiness for the year ahead.

Parents and students can access the exam timetable here: 

SchoolTV provides some valuable resources to parents to help support their children through the exam period. Find out more here: Exam Jitters | Good News Lutheran College (schooltv.me)

Year 10 Art

Here are the Year 10 artworks shown at our mini after-school art show on Wednesday, October 18, (in conjunction with the Parent-Teacher Interview night):

Since the start of the semester, our compositional work has been focused on painting using acrylics and I am very proud of the students’ array of work.  The “inter-positioned animal” pieces were for the students to learn to paint within shapes.  There's a lot of warm and cool colours in the set examples and some blending to be considered too.  The class needed to learn to mix their paints accordingly.  In the end, all this class’s paintings – animals, fruit bowls and landscapes - were an achievement of the set goal and were expressive in their colour and blending.  Artist, Margaret Nes, was quite a favourite inspiration.  The students who painted the fruit bowl in the arched window used lots of bright colour and bold brushstrokes. Two interpretations of Nes’ landscape were of note.  Ruby Kienc’s landscape with its blue-purple mountains and the red-yellow sky. And Benjamin McNaughton’s mustard-green hills, and dark brown foreground with a green river.  Benjamin did well with his blending.  He has good control with the brush and has created a feeling or mood with this painting.

The collaborative mini canvases depicting Bonnard’s detail from Coin de table a manger au cannet, 1932 proved fun for all after our visit to the NGV.  This task was a pre-cursor for those wishing to head in the direction of Year 11 Collaborative Art.

Now that Term 4 has begun, Year 10 Art will be working with soft pastels and oil paints.  Both mediums have the similar principle of “darks before lights”.  At the time of writing the class has already primed some rocks with purple paint and outlined an eye in black marker pen in preparation for the Painting Eyes On Pebbles activity.  Pastel-wise, the class will begin with something simple so they may understand 3D shape, colour, and shading.  Fruit is an excellent way to start.  One apple or one pear will be set up, and maybe a light placed on it to show the shadow.  Or similarly, a shoe, etc.  Students will start with putting in the “brights”, the next step involves adding the “darks” and then the “lights”.  Later, the class will focus on a sky with clouds that they may blend, or even a sunset. The trick is to start small.  We may use Margaret Nes landscapes and buildings for this too as she simplifies everything – brilliant reds against black – easy for blending and learning.

In addition, the Year 9 Photography students have been studying ways of composing photographic artworks.  They all printed out their most favourite composition created by them thus far.  It was wonderful to see an array of different imagery, ideas and formats used.  These students were definitely thinking “outside of the box”.  Manya Gupta, Mackenzie Paterson, and Tiahna Stancik-Wisselink had all produced variations of “the basketball hoop looking up to the sky" theme, and Tiahna had utilised the ‘Rule of Thirds’ exceptionally well in her resultant composition.  'The sky's the limit'!