Electives Term 3
Welcome to Term Three Electives
We are are now half way through our term of electives and we thought it would be great time to share some of the amazing learning that has been happening across the Arlington campus.
Outdoor Education
With Clinton
These children love to get outside and get their hands dirty! They have been busy working in the gardens, building cubbies using natural materials, and cooking around the campfire as well as a host of other outdoor activities.
Theatre
With Paul
The children are busy working on a series of self devised short plays and scripts which they will present to the other groups at the end of the term.
Photography
With Sophie
The children have been getting very creative taking photos within the classroom of various objects as well as around the gardens in the school yard. The children will also learn how to use photo editing tools to edit their photos and make a portfolio of all their creations.
Circus & Juggling skills
With Michael and Emily
Ever wanted to juggle? Scarves, balls, clubs, rings, chainsaws….no, wait, that’s too noisy!
These children have been busy improving their hand-eye coordination as well as learning to use other fun apparatus such as diablo, devil sticks, balance boards and unicycling! But there is absolutely no clowning around! :-)
Basketball Skills
With Rosie
In this elective the children are learning to shoot hoops and practise a variety of different basketball skills including shooting, passing, dribbling, and rebounding.
Stop Motion
With Claire
This term the children are learning how to make their own short film using different forms of stop motion animation techniques.
Biological Drawing
With Victor
In this elective the children are having an excellent time learning how to draw living things, use a microscope to make observations and draw various single celled and multicellular organisms.
Chess
With - Jury Kurchatov (Chess Coach & Math Teacher from Chess Australia)
This children are enjoying another fantastic term on developing problem solving skills, improve memory and patience whilst having a lot of fun learning chess.
3DPrinting & Programming
With Karl von Moller and Bronte Howell
This term we are running a mixed elective and the children are learning to use our new 3D printer, learning design skills creating simple designs using Tinkercad and combined with learning some basic programming using Arduino.
Program Coordinator
For more information about the Electives program you can find me in The Careers Hub office upstairs in Blackhall at the secondary school.
Bronte Howell
Careers Practitioner