KLA News 

CAPA (Creative and Performing Arts)

Mrs Melita Roach

9VA

Mrs Jenny Frazier

Portrait of…? 

Focusing on painterly techniques, our Year 9 Visual Arts students created a stretched canvas artwork that reflects their identity. The influence of the world around us was a source of inspiration which was developed through skills and techniques with paint. What talent! 

Nice work to all our Year 9 Art students.

H.S.I.E

Mrs Cherie Stoessel

Lockdown Learning

O’Connor students have been really engaging well with their learning over the past two weeks of connected learning.  The HSIE teachers have commented on the good attendance at Zoom lessons and the positive way that the students have engaged with the learning tasks being posted to Compass and/or Google Classroom.  Well done kids and thank you so much to our parents and caregivers for their support and encouragement of our students during this round of lockdown learning.

Our Year 8 students will be soon making decisions about their elective choices for year 9.  The HSIE/LOTE department will be offering a number of 1 and 2 semester elective options including Finance for Home Leavers, introduction to Legal Studies, Indigenous Identity and Experience and Beginner’s German and Beginner’s Spanish courses.  Make sure you find these in the booklet when it comes out!

Finally, best of luck to our HSC students in their trial examinations this week and next!  Dig deep and do your best.

Year 9 Electives for 2022

Indigenous Identity and Experience

The Law and You

Munich to Madrid

Mathematics

Mr Peter McLeish (for Mr Mark Harris)

Year 7 have started work on length conversions and perimeter this week. They may be asking to borrow mum’s or dad’s tape measure to help them do some measuring around the house.

Year 8 students are working on statistics and learning how to calculate the mean, median, mode and range from various data sets and graphs as well as learning how to construct and interpret stem and leaf plots.

Year 9 (5.2) is having fun calculating all sorts of perimeters and areas.

Year 11 Standard is just finishing a topic on Statistics and about to start Working with Time.

Year 12 are frantically cramming for their upcoming HSC trial exams.

I found this which pretty much sums up our week. Enjoy!

PDHPE

PDHPE Department Electives Information

Year 8 into 9 Subject Selections

Students are able to elect the following subjects for Yr 8 & 9:

PASS 

Child Studies 

Yr 10 into 11 Subject Selections

Students are able to elect the following subjects for Yr 11 & 12:

PDHPE - Personal Development, Health & Physical Education 

CAFS - Community and Family Studies 

EEC - Exploring Early Childhood 

SLR - Sport, Lifestyle and Recreation 

TAS

Mr Jon Hawthorne

Mrs Anne Healey

One of the activities our small group of students at school took part in was a scone cooking session on Friday.  Thank you Mrs Healey for organising this. Mr Chapman said they were very tasty!