Year 8 News

Brainstorm Productions:  Wired

Last week, Year 7 and 8 students participated in Brainstorm Productions' performance, Wired.  The performance follows the journey of two students whose lives are spiralling in different directions: one towards stress, anxiety, and overload, and the other towards depression and disconnection. When their worlds collide, the audience must help them choose a different path.

Wired is an interactive theatre experience that tackles some of the big issues affecting Australian students, including social isolation, bullying, online safety, school stressors, family relationships, and pressure from social media. It addresses barriers to help-seeking and provides strategies for resilience, problem-solving, goal-setting, and positive mental health.

Developed in consultation with a clinical psychologist and based on current research, this engaging mental health program for high schools is designed to stimulate discussion and complement existing well-being, (cyber)bullying, and mental health programs.  

Students actively participated in and enjoyed the performance.  Follow-up education units will be running in Homegroup sessions over the following couple of weeks.

Science

This term in science, the Year 8s started a unit on microbiology and started looking under microscopes at different cells. Students then took a step back to appreciate the bones and muscle tissues, before they will look again at cells relating to these tissues, under compound light microscopes. 

Students were engaged Tuesday afternoon when asked to outline themselves on big pieces of butcher’s paper courtesy of Jenny the Librarian and began drawing and labelling their different bones and muscles.  

The Tech School excursion in August will complement the microscope and cell learning students are undertaking in science this term.

Art

Year 8 

Students have been learning about perspective drawing this term. They have learnt about, practised, and created artworks in both one and two-point perspectives. They started by writing a name in 3D block letters and adding one-point perspective to their letters.

Students have started to understand and draw a city street in two-point perspective in a chosen theme. Students have added features and details to their buildings that match their chosen theme. 

Karen Anders

Year 8 Team Leader