Specialist News
DISTRICT ATHLETICS
CONGRATULATIONS to all competitors who attended the district athletics carnival last Friday. Ripponlea students are commended for their wonderful sportsmanship and competitive spirit. It was a tremendous day with 6 students qualifying for division athletics, Cece Michaels, Natan Qu, Ben Freedman, Tav Shedlash, Ariane Russell and Aliyah Green. The division carnival takes place this Friday, 6th September at Albert Park and we wish our students all the best on the day. Thank you to Julie Nield and parent helpers, Heidi Skillen and Bron Weingott for their hard work in running the discus and Claire Brooks for her support in crowd management on the day. Big congratulations must go out to Jo Ritson, the success of the day is a credit to her and her P.E/sport program here at Ripponlea.
F-2 ATHLETICS CARNIVAL
On Tuesday the 17th September our F-2 students will take place in their House Athletics Carnival. This will take place on the oval from 9.15am till morning recess at 10.40am. This event will be lead by Miss Jo and the School House Captains. Please come along and support our F-2 students in this athletics event where students will score points for their House in fun running, jumping and throwing events.
Please ensure students wear a hat, have appropriate running
footwear and either their House t-shirt or House colours on.
Next fortnight on Friday the 20th of September we will finish off the term from 1.15 - 2.15pm with all students taking part in the Colour Fun Run which we have been fundraising for. Please bring a plain old t-shirt that students can wear which might be ruined from the colour powder. We welcome all of our community to come along and be involved in this fun filled final event of the term.
Please continue to fund-raise online and ensure all funds are
transferred by the deadline of October 4th.
GYMNASTICS – GRADES 3-6
On the last week of school (Monday – Thursday) students in Grades 3-6 will take part in a daily gymnastics lesson delivered by Gymnastics 4 Hire as part of meeting the P.E Victorian curriculum. For comfort, please encourage students to wear shorts under school dresses and avoid wearing tights on these days to minimise time lost getting changed. Students will be required to exercise in bare feet for safety reasons.
ART ROOM UPDATES: 1&2
Year 1&2's will soon conclude their Jean-Michel Basquiat studies. Their project was to re-create the famous work Pez Dispenser (1984) using materials and techniques of their choice. After completing some experiments using charcoal, pastels, texta and grey leads, students then evaluated which material was suitable for their recreation. During this study, students learnt about the characteristics and style of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work while also learning about his life in New York City, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Andy Warhol. Each of the student’s masterpieces contains Basquiat’s signature items: the crown and SAMO (Basquiat’s street art name).
ART ROOM UPDATES: 3&4
According to the art education philosopher Herbert Read: children from ages 11-14 develop an ability to draw realistically, moving away from abstract and cartoon drawing. This is an important stage in children’s development as artists because they begin to understand how to represent depth and perspective. This term, students in year 3&4's are learning the fundamentals of landscape drawing and painting. We are learning how to create a three-dimensional illusion on a two-dimensional surface. Understanding that objects in the foreground appear larger than objects in the background is important
in capturing this illusion. Students have drawn on inspiration from Indigenous artist Albert Namatjira to give them some ideas for their own drawings.
Students will paint their landscapes once their drawings are complete. They will be required to mix their own colour pallet and in preparation for this have completed a series of colour mixing trials and swatches ready for the painting to begin. Stay tuned for the work in progress on this project.
