College News
Art In The City
Our Year 7 Arts students are in the beginning stages of becoming the next big thing when it comes to stop motion animation.
To encourage their creative minds, we all journeyed to the city to explore the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (or ACMI). On display was a vast range of interactive activites such as Minecraft, shadow puppets, “old school” video games and the latest in robotics.
Students had the pleasure of venturing into the wild and wacky world of Wallace & Gromit – it was a real eye opener to see all the original sets from the films. Seeing up close and personal, characters from “Chicken Run” was a real treat, as was standing next to the very tall and very real ship from “The Pirates!”
Those who were lucky enough to create their own characters from plasticine, had the option to film a stop motion video with their creations.
Also visited on the city excursion was Hosier Lane and Federation Square. The magnificent architecture and the superb street art were truly marvelous to look at and inspired students when taking photos and sketching their favourite artwork.
Overall it was a fantastic day of learning, laughing and loads of Arts.
Leana Bailey, Assistant Learning Area Leader - The Arts
Commedia Dell 'Arte
On three different days at the start of this term, Rosa from “Make A Scene” came to our school to entertain and inform the Year 8 students about the Commedia Dell’Arte.
She started by speaking in Italian, saying that she wasn't good at speaking English and then all of a sudden she started talking in English fluently.
She told us about the 16th century traditional characters in the Commedia Dell’Arte. Some of the characters she talked about were Arlecchino, Pantalone and Il Capitano. Rosa improvised on the spot, putting a mask on and pretending that she was an owl and a witch.
She showed us a video of Commedia Dell’Arte after which she picked a few students to put a mask on and start acting - it was hilarious! They were pretending they could smell pizza and have to run around looking for the pizza.
Finally, everyone got a turn to put on a mask and pretend they were part of a play. Overall, the workshop was great and a lot of fun!
Jessica Phan, PH2
World Scouting Day
World Scouting day is held on 1 August every year to celebrate the experimental camp Lord Robert Baden-Powell ran in 1907 on Brownsea Island, England. It is also know as World Scarf day when all members of the scouting movement are encouraged to wear their Group scarf to school or work to show the comaraderie of the Movement.
The original camp ran from 1 August until 9 August. It was an experimental summer camp to test his ideas for his book “Scouting for boys”. This camp had 20 boys from all kinds of backgrounds. The boys were divided into 4 Patrols and with each patrol camping in a separate spot. They worked and played together over the duration of the camp. Each day the boys had themed activities. These included camping, observation and woodcraft. Once they had passed a few tests the boys were given badges.
Scouting has grown from those first 20 boys to over 40 Million in 2017.
Scouting in the Dandenong/Casey area is still going strong today. I am a Leader at the Eumemmerring Scout Group, which was an amalgamation of 7th Dandenong, situated in Doveton and Endeavour Hills. Scouting started in Doveton in the early 1960’s and Endeavour Hills since the early 1980’s.
Eumemmerring Scout Group was started in 2009 and was a combination of Endeavour Hills and 7th Dandenong Scout Groups. The scarf was designed by Shaun Hill, one of Victoria’s first Joey Scouts. The scarf has black to symbolise the unknown we will face in life, purple binding to symbolise the courage we will use when we confront the unknown and white binding is to symbolise the light we need to light our way through the unknown.
The group is made up of 4 sections which has both male and female youth members, Joeys (6 – 8 years), Cubs (8 – 11 years), Scouts (11 – 14 years) and Venturers (14 – 18 years). There is also another section above Venturers called Rovers. This is for the 18 – 26 year olds.
If you would like to know more about Scouting or would like to join please speak to me. I would be happy to pass the information onto you.
Margot James, Teacher