Middle School

La Dolce Vita! The Sweet Life! Year 9 and 10 Italian Elective Pizza Making Feast

B3 and B4 had revolving doors as our Year 9 and 10 students cooked up a pizza feast. The students shared their culinary works of foodie art with a range of special friends who followed the aroma of Italy into our pop-up pizzeria! 

Students and staff enjoyed creating individual pizza masterpieces with their favourite toppings. Their pizzas were the gifts that kept giving as many staff popped in to sample Chelt’s version of Italy’s pizza a taglio - pizza by the slice. Delizioso! 

Year 10 STEM

Over the past few weeks, the Year 10 STEM class has been investigating cardboard gliders and how their shape affects the distance they can fly. For our last lesson, we were lucky enough to receive a visit from Jason Gibbs, a parent of one of our Year 10 STEM students, Evan. 

Jason brought in a full-size Pik-20B glider for the students to learn about. Jason spoke to our STEM students about the forces involved in flight, the construction of the glider and how a glider pilot keeps the glider in the air. 

The Year 10 STEM class is extremely grateful to both Jason and Evan for this excellent opportunity to see and interact with a real glider and make links between what we do in the classroom and the wider applications of what we learn about. 

Mr Cooper

STEM Teacher

Year 9 Arts

Yr 9 3D has been busy again this term working with the human form in wire and clay. Students first developed their observation skills with gestural drawings and then translated the implied movement to static sculptures using wire. They worked diligently to aim for proportional accuracy as well as implied movement in their final constructions. 

Once completed, the wire figures were attached to a pine block and photographed in 'situ' around the school campus. Students tried to capture their sculptures as though they were on a larger scale and considered how they would look in our environment. 

The 2D class have been equally industrious working collaboratively creating stencils inspired by the artist Flox and native Australian Flora and Fauna. 

Students have cut two and three layered stencils and are still working with Ms. Low to complete their compositions that will eventually don the walls around the school. 

It is very exciting to be a part of the growing creative talent that is our middle school, and we look forward to what the next semester has to offer. 

Art Faculty