Creative & Performing Arts 

Congratulations to all of the students who performed at the HSC CAPA Evening this term.  It was a lovely evening and the students had a fabulous time presenting their major works, projects and performances for an audience of parents and friends. 

Next up is the Year 7 & 8 Gallery and CAPA Evening on Thursday 5th December 2024 in the School Hall.  Put this date in your diary and more details will be available early next term. 

School Musical 2025

We are still unpacking and putting away costumes and props from this year’s Musical, Mary Poppins and we are starting to talk about Musical 2025. Check out the photo of the bags of laundry returning, it is crazy!!!.  Now the discussion has turned to…”Will we have enough cast members to do a School Musical in 2025?  If yes, what Musical will be doing in 2025?”.  Students were asked to express their interest in participating via a Google Form that was due on the 25th September. Stay tuned for more details about Musical 2025!

Dance and Drama

Congratulations to the Year 12 Drama class on completing their HSC Drama Practical Examinations on Thursday 29th August.  The students were very nervous, but extremely professional on the day.  Well done to all!

Congratulations to Olivia Berrios, Jasmine Bonello, Noah Douglas and Tyler Lloyd from the Year 12 Drama class on their nomination for Group Performance for ONSTAGE 2024.  Congratulations to Jasmine Bonello for her nomination for Individual Performance for ONSTAGE 2024.  ONSTAGE is the annual showcase of exemplary performances and projects by the 2024 HSC Drama students. This is an amazing achievement and we are so proud of you all.

Congratulations to the Year 9 Drama students on their performance at In The Spotlight Drama Festival. They performed on Monday 5th August at Campbelltown Arts Centre and represented Elderslie High School admirably. Congratulations to Madison Croudace Year 11, for her excellent work as part of the VET Team who worked on the In The Spotlight Drama Festival 2024.  Congratulations to Mikayla Marshman Year 9, for her fabulous hosting of the event for evening performances. 

Elderslie High School’s Dance Spectacular was held on Friday, 13th September 2024.  The evening was a huge success and we thank our Partner Primary Schools for their support of this event.  We are already looking forward to 2025!!!

We are thrilled to be part of the 2024 Schools Spectacular “All 4 One” We have been allocated 9 Dancers in the Combined Dance section. We have many dancers who are beginning rehearsals for the 2024 Schools Spectacular. Congratulations to Kalsika Nenadic for being accepted to perform with multiple specialised dance groups. Congratulations to Kimberley Smith and Ella Smith who will be performing with the Aboriginal Dance Company. Eight dancers have also been selected to perform in the Combined Dance section “Breath of Life”. The Elderslie High School Dancers are Ella Hudson and Amber Alden from Year 7, Alysah Bliss and Phoebe Lee from Year 8, Scarlett Bowser, Kirra Douglas and Emily Radisic from Year 9, Ruby Cullen and Lilly Ockers from Year 11. Rehearsals start early in Term 4, with the BIG show on the 29th and 30th of November. With many cancellations of Schools Spectacular in previous years due to the pandemic, it is great to be back performing in this HUGE show. 

Ella Smith and Kimberley Smith from Year 11 recently performed with the Aboriginal Dance Company at the Seymour Centre as part of the State Dance Festival. They attended a week-long rehearsal with members of Bangarra Dance Theatre to learn and perform the work. Congratulations Ella and Kimberley!

Take a look at the wonderful design on the Aboriginal Dance Company T Shirt. The image and graphics have been designed by Kimberley Smith of Year 11. All members of the NSW Public Schools Aboriginal Dance Company and Associate Program are proudly wearing the T shirt designed by Kimberley. 

The Drama Ensemble are preparing for their CAPA Evening performance in rehearsals each week.  They are playbuilding a piece about a school excursion to an art gallery and developing some performance art, as seen in Caravaggio’s Tableaux Vivants.  We are developing our understanding of the principles of art, rhythm and movement.  The students are really enjoying playbilding their piece for the evening.  

Music

Congratulations to the Year 12 Music class on completing their HSC Music Practical Examinations on Wednesday 11th September.  Thank you to all of the students who supported the Year 12 students with their performances.  Well done to all!

Visual Arts 

Congratulations to the Year 12 Visual Arts class on submitting their HSC Body of Works on Monday 28th August. It took a lot of bubble wrap and brown paper to get all of their beautiful artworks ready for the courier to deliver them to the Marking Centre.  Well done to all!

In other classes, Year 7 have been designing and making ceramic tiles based on a preliminary study of the Great Barrier Reef and what is happening to it. They have been inspired in this by a few artists, in particular, Jason Decaires Taylor whose concrete figurative sculptures have been submerged in underwater museums around the world. The sculptures attract biological marine organisms to grow on them, becoming colourful and part of  the life of the sea.  Year 7 have also been creating landscapes with collage included, based on the work of famous Australian artist, Albert Namatjira.  

Year 8 Visual Arts students have made recontextualised and appropriated artworks based on the Pop Art of Roy Lichtenstein and his cartoonesque artworks, adding collaged contemporary images and bright colour to their own works. They are beginning collaborative dinner party sculptures referencing again Pop Art and sculptures by Claes Oldenbeg and his soft, large artworks of pegs, icecreams, cherries and many more.

Year 9 have painted self portraits, again using the Postmodern idea of appropriation and recontextualisation. The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo and her surreal self portraits have been the inspiration behind these artworks.

Year 10 have created ceramic masks, referencing historical ceramic masks. This program gave them the chance to research mask making, in particular ceramic masks throughout art cultural history, finding out the uses and meanings of these objects.

Year 11 students are pursuing a variety of media experiments and subject matter in their quest to find materials and techniques that will show their ability and skills in their HSC body of work. They are also examining artists and artworks through case studies that will continue into Year 12.

The following students have entered their artwork into the Fisher’s Ghost Art Competition.  Maddison Simpson, Angus McKenzie, Riley O'Malley, Lindsay Carr, Caleb Whitehead, Harry Barker, Cooper Skrzypek, Akira McCarthy, Charlotte McKenzie, Evie Moores, Zali Ryan, Amanda Vongpoothorn, Molly Simpson, Cooper Lee, Scarlett Bowser, Cybella Monro, Lucy Egan, Verity Woodward and Remy Goodacre. 

It is all systems go in Visual Arts and we are all looking forward to a prosperous and practical Term 4.  

Farewell Year 12, we hope you pursue artmaking in the future.

CAPA Faculty