Specialist News

 Performing Arts

Our students have been busy exploring the exciting world of performing arts – music, drama, and dance!

In our performing arts program, students have been exploring a variety of exciting skills and projects. 

• Prep students have been learning about sound and the fundamentals of acting, including walking and talking to bring their characters to life. 
• Grade 1 and 2 students have been busy filming their dance performances, showcasing their understanding of different cultures through movement and expression. 
• Grades 3 and 4 have worked collaboratively to create indigenous scripts, incorporating musical instruments and acting to tell meaningful stories. 

• Grades 5 and 6 are in the final stages of preparing their performances, filming their acts to showcase their hard work.

  Throughout all grades, students have been rehearsing for the upcoming school concert, with some classes designing and creating their own props, while others are practicing with the props they’ve made to enhance their performances. It’s been an inspiring journey of creativity, teamwork, and self-expression!

Physical Education

This week all of the students from Prep to Grade 6 have been working on the health component of physical education. They have been watching videos about healthy eating, learning about the different types of food we need to help our bodies grow and stay healthy. In addition to healthy eating, we have been looking at how keeping active can help supercharge your brain so that you can be more alert when you are learning. To be active this week the students have been following a range of fun dances designed to raise their heart rates.

On a sour note, due to the poor weather conditions on August 28, the District Athletics Carnival at Casey Fields had to be cancelled and rescheduled. To make matters worse, the only date that this could be rescheduled for was Wednesday, September 3rd, which clashed with our whole school concert, thus meaning that we could not participate as a school, as we could not send staff to this event. I would like to again thank all students that participated in the school athletics day. Their efforts were amazing.

ART

The students in the 5/6 grades had fun designing and constructing delectable food trucks.   Here are a few examples:  

The grade 3 and 4s loved preparing a collaborative indigenous style 'bark' collage, exhibiting

some intricate cutting as well as their dot painting skills:

The preps have made an artwork in the style of Vasily Kandinski's 'Concentric Circles' tree.

To do that they learned about different sizes of circles that are then arranged on the paper from large to small and glued on top of eachother: 

The grades 1 and 2 have used their imagination by adding lines to existing animal pictures in order to place them in surprisingly new surroundings: