School News
Second Hand Uniform Sale
Tomorrow (Friday 31st March) between 2.45pm and 3.45pm the PPA will run our first Second Hand Uniform Sale for the year in the Gym Foyer. Stock up on a great range of uniform clothing, save on landfill and support the school. Both EFTPOS and cash accepted. Items are priced from $2 to $15 with most at $5.
School photos
Save the date: Thursday 25th May
Leading Image School Photos will be visiting Parkdale Primary on Thursday 25 May to take our individual student and Grade photos. Leading Image is a group of local independent photographers operating under the one name to provide a professional and complete school photographic service. There will be a range of different packages you can select from, full details about how to order online with your unique family code, will be sent home a couple of weeks prior to the date.
Easter Raffle
On their own initiative the SRC (Student Representative Council) will also be running an Easter raffle. A School family have kindly donated a giant Yarra Valley Chocolaterie Hand Painted Easter Bunny. He is just beautiful and weighs 3kg! The SRC students will be selling tickets this week with the winner drawn at the final assembly of the term, next Thursday.
Tickets are $1 for 3 tickets.
Term 1 Art report - From your 2023 Art Captains
Scarlett D, Sage H, Peter N and Adrian B
This term we have been busy in the Art room with drawing and painting. The Art Captains for 2023 would like to bring you an Art Report each term to show you the wonderful creativity that has been displayed across the school.
Foundation:
The fabulous foundation students indulged in epic lessons about lines, had heaps of fun making line lanterns {which are currently on display in the Art Gallery hallway.}
They made some amazing line robots, learnt about texture in their colouring, and painted some stunning colour wheel birds with their newfound knowledge of primary and secondary colours.
Grade One & Two
The wonderful one's and terrific two's also had lots of fun in their line work, and were filled with some wonderful knowledge about the artist Keith Haring, and used it to paint some stunning Keith Haring figures {Currently on display in the Art Gallery hallway and in classrooms.}
The Grade 1’s heard the Wiradjuri story of the Guulaangga the green tree frog and created some fun froggy pieces with oil pastels and watercolour paints.
The Grade 2’s learnt all about aboriginal symbols and storytelling. They then created their own symbols, that they then used to tell their very own super cool picture story using watercolour paints and inks.
Grade Three and Four
The thrilling three's and fabulous four's learnt about the wonderful artist Reg Mombassa and the 4 parts of a landscape.
They then used this knowledge to assist them in their creating of their very own beautiful landscape paintings {On display in the Art Gallery hallway and in classrooms.}
To create these masterpieces, they used watercolours and watercolour pencils. They also began learning about the surrealist artist Joan Miro, and even began creating their own dreamscape print.
Grade Five and Six
The Fantastic Five's and Spectacular Sixe's had heaps of fun learning about the inspiring artist Dawn Tan.
They then had even more fun creating some of their own wonderful art pieces, starting off with observational drawings and ending with colourful, lifelike watercolour paintings.