Specialists
ART
Students will explore visual arts elements and concepts through a range of creative opportunities during both remote and onsite learning. They continue skill development across a variety of techniques and processes in the areas of printing, drawing, painting, collage, textiles and sculpture. The program is engaging and differentiated targeting curriculum areas, arts conventions and art styles. Students have the opportunity to share their art and the art of others.
Foundation students incorporate printing techniques and colour theory to create an array of prints. They create a mixed media garden fairy focusing on shape, pattern and visual conventions such as foreground and background.
Level 2 will make a “vegetable head” collage inspired by Italian painter, Giuseppi Arcimboldo and will create critters using a paint scraping technique similar to that of author/illustrator, Eric Carle.
Level 3&4 begin by making a bright Pop Art Poster. They create dots by rolling over bubble wrap and the poster will include a word about resilience. They then paint a colour wheel which becomes an umbrella.
Level 5 will begin the term by bringing the Mona Lisa in to the 21st Century. With printed copies of the painting, magazine pictures & paint, students will be using a lot of creativity.
Level 6 start the term by creating and painting a personalised registration plate that reflects their personality and interests. They focus on font, design and the use of motifs in art. We then try our hand at weaving.
JAPANESE
こんにちは konnichiwa! Japanese for term 4 will be looking slightly different. From Foundation to Year 6, students will be participating in smaller units which include multiple self-contained lessons. This makes it easier for students to catch-up if they’ve been unable to participate in a lesson. Through different topics, students will be exploring Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana, nouns, adjectives, sentence structure, history, culture and much more.
Weeks 1-4 – lessons will be split into Junior & Senior.
Week 5 onwards – lessons will be aligned with the curriculum (i.e. Foundation, 1/2, 3/4 and 5/6).
Foundation – Pet Hotel (remote) Nezumi wa doco, On the Farm
1/2 – Pet Hotel (remote), Mixed up Chameleon, All Kinds of Fish
3/4 – Nagasaki Kunchi Festival (remote), the Konbini, Make a Ninja Name
5/6 – Nagasaki Kunchi Festival (remote), Water Poem, Places in Japan – Shrines, Castles, Temples
I’ve been so impressed with the work and communication from students/parents last term. I look forward to working with the HEPS community during Term 4!
MUSIC
Term 4 is shaping up to be a busy one in Music for all the HEPS students. Foundation and Level 1 students will be exploring tempo, as well as learning how to read, compose and perform songs using Boomwhackers.
Level 2/3/4 students will be experimenting with different sound effects and how they are used to bring texts to life. They will also be learning how to read, compose and perform songs using Boomwhackers once they are back onsite.
Level 5/6 students will investigate and identify different music genres, as well as composing their own songs. Later in Term 4 they will experiment with rhythm and drumming. Hopefully we will still be able to perform our Christmas Concert in the last week of Term 4. More information about this will be sent out closer to the date.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
PE is a major part of learning at HEPS with a focus on developing the gross and fine motor skills along with locomotion. These fundamental skills and movement patterns are learned through a variety of different games and skill specific lessons to ensure all participant are engaged and enjoying their time during PE. If it so happens that we have inclement weather and the gym is occupied the students will be completing theory based Physical Education work within their classrooms.
Term 4 sees the focus for the Foundation, Level 1 and Level 2 students on continuing to developing their Fundamental Motor Skills and Movement Patterns through throwing and catching with a more sport focus, allowing them to understand the different throwing techniques and when to use them. These skills are developed through a variety of sequential activities and movements through both video lessons and face to face lessons with an overall focus on engagement, achieving your personal best and having a go.
Term 4 has the Level 3 and 4 students working on a Net and Wall Games Unit. Throughout this unit there will be a major emphasis on the skills of volleyball and Tennis where we will put these skills into a competitive round robin format when back at school. This unit is a great way to blend skills from a variety of sports into one unit of work. We also have emphasis on fitness as we are trying to travel the distance of the Australian coastline as a whole school community.
Level 5 and 6 students are developing their skills through a Striking and Fielding Games Unit. Throughout this unit there will be a major emphasis on the skills involved with diamond sports where we will put these skills into a competitive round robin format during 5/6 sport when back on site. This unit is a great way to blend skills from a variety of sports into one unit of work. We also have emphasis on fitness as we are trying to travel the distance of the Australian coastline as a whole school community.
STEAM
STEAM is an integrated subject area that brings together many streams of cognitive human endeavour. It is an acronym pulled from Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics. While many of these elements have been taught individually in the past, it is now clear that our contemporary society compels students to be linking these areas cohesively together to cope in a future requiring them to be immersed in a highly technological environment in order to effectively communicate, create and be productive.
The HEPS STEAM program in Term 4 will endeavour to stimulate students in a number of key areas
Term 4 sees the Levels F to 2 complete STEAM engineering projects with a focus on Civil (construction) and Mechanical (gears/wheels and robotics for level 2). Initially, students learn to collaboratively create, plan, construct and test models and inventions using conventional materials to solve physical scientific problems posed to them (expressly non-digital). Next the students will use LEGO Duplo(non-digital)/Simple Machines (non-digital)/WeDo (robotic-digital) constructions to solve and explore mechanical concepts.