Specialist News

WHAT'S HAPPENING IN VISUAL ART

At Weeden Heights Primary School, we are continuing our exploration in collage, painting, drawing and model making.

The preps have created beautiful animals for their whole class waterhole and is now displayed within the school.

Grade 1T and grade 1/2D have responded to the text Suri's Wall by creating drawings on book pages - depicting scenes from the text. They are now painting blocks to create a wall art piece. This will be installed soon.

The grade 2/3 and 3/4's have completed their window collages and they look amazing!! such detail and beautiful use of colour. These will be on display soon to also check out!

They are now beginning to paint a window scene from the text - within the art room.

The grade 5/6 classes have begun their matchbox diaries and these are stunning! Their plans highlight their own identity and what inspires them - their heritage, dreams and interests.

The Visuals Arts Program with be linked and integrated with other curriculum areas and parents are welcome to support the program. The Art skills explored are based on the elements and principles of visual art : line, shape, colour, tone, form and texture, unity, harmony, balance.

PE NEWS

We had a great start to the interschool sport days.  I was pleased to hear the students encouraging others in their team.  We had some close games and even a draw.  Well done to our basketball who got a win on the board and the T-ball team who came a draw.  I was so please this week to have teams coming to me asking to practice at recess and lunch time.  If you are able to help out on a Friday morning please let your classroom teacher or myself.  Even if you can only help out one week it would be greatly apprechiated.  

THIS WEEK IN PE

We had started our Athletics practice in prepration for our Athletics day.  We are very lucky to have a coach from Athleics Australia giving the students some extra tips on how to throw, jump and run.  Check out SeeSaw for some great videos.  

ATHLETICS DAY

Coming home this week will be information reguarding our Whole School Athletics day. Our athletics day is on Friday 22 March 2019.  We will be attending Monash Athletics track at Central reserve for our Annual Athletics day.  It is a great track that is tucked away and we will have it all to ourselves.  

If you are able to help out on the day can you please fill out the form on the permission slip, your help is greatly appreciated. 

CROSS COUNTRY

Another date for your diary is 26 April from 9-11 will be our annual cross country event.  It is another whole school event at Billabong reserve.  

WHAT'S HAPPENING IN STEAM.

Term one is all about coding.  The senior and middle students are coding on the computers using code.org.  Our junior students are learning about coding through lessons in the classroom.  We have talked about parts of the computer and what coding is.  We have developed our own algorithms using pictures and words.  We have used lego blocks and developed a series of photographs to follow.  Students have learnt about how to take a good photograph and will make their own pictorial algorithm.