Junior School,
South Plympton
Corrinna Smith, Year 3/4 Teacher, Junior School Curriculum Coordinator and Pedagogy Coach
On this page: Visual Arts Years 3/4 / Year 3/4 Music / Book Week Friendship Picnic
Upcoming Events
For all calendar dates, please see the Google Calendar.
| Tues 10 Sept - Wed 11 Sept | Student-Led Conferences |
| Mon 16 Sept | Visit from Kaboom Percussion F |
| Thur 19 Sept | Year 3/4 Excursion to National Motor Museum |
| Mon 23 Sept - Wed 25 Sept | Year 5 Camp |
| Fri 27 Sept | Last Day of Term 3 |
| Mon 14 Oct | Term 4 Commences |
| Fri 18 Oct | Sports Day ELC-Year 2 |
| Fri 21 Oct | Year 2 Sleepover |
Visual Arts in Year 3/4
Through Visual Arts, students learn to communicate their personal ideas, beliefs, values, and emotions, translating their lived or imagined experiences into visual forms.
This term, our Year 3/4 students are diving into the world of sculpture and three-dimensional artworks, exploring how art serves as a powerful means of expression.
Art offers children a fun and engaging way to develop fine motor skills that are crucial for interacting with the world around them. While it may seem like a solitary activity, Visual Art also provides many opportunities for positive interactions, collaboration, and group work. This term, we are encouraging our students to sharpen their observation and analytical skills, helping them grow as both artists and thoughtful individuals.
Students have been working on the following three projects:
- an egg carton animal portrait
- a pinch-pot clay fish sculpture and
- sewing a Pete Cromer-inspired felt softie of a native Australian animal.
The students loved the process of designing and constructing artworks that used a variety of art materials and required different skills to manipulate.
Here are some examples of our hard work:
Corrinna Smith
Year 3/4 Teacher, Junior School Curriculum Coordinator and Pedagogy Coach
Year 3/4 Music
In Year 3/4 Music, we are learning the Recorder. The word on the street is that parents (and some teachers) are not huge fans of this amazing instrument. However, we have learnt two BIG things to win the parents and teachers over.
- Blow softly and with control - we blow on our open hand
- Cover the holes with flat fingers (moon shape on the pads of our fingers) when moving our fingers to play different songs.
Nikki Meinel
Junior School Music Teacher
Book Week Friendship Picnic
Our Book Week theme this year was ‘Reading is Wondrous!’
From watching their teacher dress up as Wally to enjoying a Friendship Picnic, to hearing from author Andrew McDonough, to the Parade, our students were lost in a world full of wonder.
Here are a few photos from our Friendship Picnic, where students were encouraged to bring a book, rug and lunch and to make new friends.
