School News
Children's Book Week: dress up day alert
We are excited to be celebrating Children's Book Week this year, in the week beginning Monday 21st August. The children will participate in some fun, book themed activities during this week and hear their teachers read some of their favourite stories. We will also have a dress up day on Friday 25th August where we invite students to come dressed as their favourite book character or author.
Below are some simple costume ideas to ensure you are well prepared for this special event.
- Pyjamas- characters from Peter Pan, Llama Llama Red Pyjama, The 117-storey treehouse (Andy and Terry’s pyjama room)
- Onesie- most of us have a onesie in the cupboard which could fit with a book character e.g. Lion in the Wizard of Oz, Dog in Pig the Pug
- Ghost (white sheet)- Casper the friendly ghost, Ghost from How to scare a ghost, The barking ghost (Goosebumps), Ghost pirate treasure (Geronimo Stilton)
- Any super hero costume- various super hero books
- Princess dress- Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Princess in Black series, characters from Rainbow magic series
- Red clothes with a black nose- Clifford the big red dog
- All one colour clothes- crayon from The Day the Crayons Quit
- Black clothes with a homemade mask/hat/toy- e.g. The Hungry Caterpillar, 101 Dalmatians, any Mr Men/Little Miss character, Pig the pug etc.
- Soccer/Football/Basketball/Netball player- Tinny Timmy series, Diary of an Australian Football League legend series, Diary of a basketball hero, Netball dreamz series
- Macca the Alpaca- Matt Cosgrove has printable resources on his website to dress up as Macca or Al: https://www.mattcosgrovebooks.com/new-blog/2018/8/12/dress-up-as-macca-the-alpaca-or-al-from-alpacas-with-maracas-for-book-week
Children are welcome to dress in any book character costume, bring along their favourite picture story book or alternatively, can attend in their normal school uniform. We are looking forward to seeing all the creative costumes!
Concert – ‘Parkdale Steps Back in Time’
Yesterday all our grades made a voice recording of their class song which will be used as a backing track when they perform at the concert on Tuesday 5th September.
Melanie from Qantem spent the morning in the Performing Arts room with her professional recording equipment, and each group had the chance to make a perfect recording of their song.
Once the students are up on stage at The Palais, the backing track will allow the audience to hear the student's own singing clearly; unfortunately their voices are just not strong enough to carry to the back of the auditorium without this support.
Over the last few weeks, students have working really hard practising in their classrooms and in Performing Arts lessons to be word ready for the recording. Now it's time to start perfecting their dance moves...
Our Grade 5 students have been busy in their Media Arts lessons designing posters for the school concert. Focusing on their learning intention "we are learning to make media artworks for a specific audience and purpose", the students used Gelli print making techniques combined with digital design elements to create event posters.
Congratulations to Tammy and Isobel in 5R who designed the poster which has been selected to formally promote the event.
