Specialist

Art

Amanda West

In Term 3, students will view, discuss and draw inspiration from artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. NAIDOC week will mark the beginning of this artistic journey and we’ll explore a range of art forms throughout the term, including modelling, drawing, collage and textiles. Artworks will include a clay turtle, a paper weaving and a woven concentric circle. Specific skills will be developed while making artworks, such as rolling, joining and printing onto clay, threading needles and weaving with yarn. Connections between music and art will also be explored through drawing lines, shapes and using colours that reflect the sounds students hear in Aboriginal music by Ash Dargan and William Barton. Students will have regular opportunities to share and discuss their artworks during Visual Art sessions.

Auslan

Michelle Webb

In Term 3, students will be introduced to Auslan and how we can use our hands, facial expressions and body language to communicate. Students will learn how to fingerspell the alphabet and how to sign their names. They will learn how to sign the numbers 0-20, as well as their colours. To complement the colour unit, students will learn to sign the song ‘I Can Sing a Rainbow’. We will also look at the signs for farm animals and how we can describe their size and texture. Auslan sessions will be very hands-on, involving lots of group work, role play and songs. Videos will be used to complement each lesson, so students can get a closer look at the finger and hand movements involved in each sign. This is a new language to everyone across the school, so we will focus on the power of ‘yet’. We can’t do this… yet! I don’t know how to sign this word… yet! We will embrace the school values of Aspiration, Grit, Kindness, and Respect as we encourage each other to have a go at this new and exciting language. 

Performing Arts

Ellie Foster

In Term 3, students will continue with Music lessons for the first few weeks as we further explore ukulele and other tuned instruments. During these lessons, students will learn how to respond to pitch and simple rhythm patterns. Later in the term we will begin lessons in Dance. Students will explore a range of fundamental locomotor (such as skipping, leaping and galloping) and non-locomotor movements (such as turning, twisting and stretching) in response to engaging, culturally diverse, age-appropriate music. By the end of Term 3, students will work in small groups to create their own short choreographed dance sequences to perform in front of peers. Throughout the term, students will continue to develop listening skills, teamwork, self expression and respect for their classmates as they engage as active audience members when sharing performances.

Physical Education

Chris Steele

In Term 3, students will focus on refining and consolidating running, dodging and sequenced movement skills with correct action, accuracy and a variety of speeds. Through fitness activity and games, they will engage in moderate to vigorous activities. Students will also explain the contribution rules and procedures make to the safe conduct of games and activities and will apply these in games. Students will also concentrate on skills specific to teeball, cricket and catchball.