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!
