Performing Arts
Foundation: Students are exploring Dance in Foundation this term and ways they can move their bodies safely and to the beat of the music.
At home: Students can practise skipping, marching and galloping.
Year 1: In Term 2, year One students are exploring Music in their community. They are learning how to read, write and play rhythms and sing songs from cultures in our community.
At home: Students can practise singing nursery rhymes they know. We would love to hear some from their different cultures.
Year 2: Our Year 2 students are engaging in cultural Dance in Term 2. They have begun by exploding First Nation’s Dance and creating sequences to represent an Australian Animal.
At home: Students can discuss and practise dance found in their own cultures.
Year 3: In Year 3, students are exploring different dance trends and styles. They have been focusing on safe dances practises and will create their own dance trend sequences by the end of the unit.
At home: Students can practise the different dance combos and sequences at home.
Year 4: This term, Year 4 students have been learning Flash mob dance. They have explored the features of a Flash Mob dance and have started to work towards creating their own as a cohort.
At home: They can rehearse their dance routines and brainstorm some songs we can use in the future for dance.
Year 5: This term, Year 5 students have been looking at different genres of dance and learning the 4 dance elements: Body, Energy, Space and Time. They have practised different routines and created some of their own.
At home: At home they can practise and create their own dance routines.
Year 6: Students have been exploring Hip Hop dance as part of their Dance Battles Unit and working on their analysis skills, dance technique and how to warm up their bodies correctly.
At home: At home they can practise their dance routines and create their own.
Excellence Certificates:
Foundation: Macey Morton FG
Year 1: Aurora WILLIAMS 1B
Year 2: Saasmitha RAJASEKAR 2B
Year 3: Theo Bushell 3E
Year 4: Finn Williams 4E
Year 5: Yashika Beesam 5A
Year 6: Asi Taliai 6B
Visual Arts
Foundation: Students have been learning about collage. Investigating the artworks of Eric Carle, students have created ladybugs using small pieces of coloured paper.
At home: Paste coloured or small paper such as wrapping paper onto cardboard to create a design.
Year 1: Students have been creating their own animal habitats using paper plates.
At home: Using a paper plate students can create another habitat for animals.
Year 2: Students have enjoyed the concept of printmaking and learning the different ways prints can be created using pressure prints or leaf prints.
At home: Using sponges or even vegetables, students can create prints providing paint.
Year 3: Students have been using textiles to create their own art. Using long pieces of yarn, students have assembled this onto contact paper to create patterned designs.
At home: Textiles such as thread and yarn can be used to create art work such as finger knitting.
Year 4: Students have explored sculpture using a famous artist Alexander Caulder as inspiration and created their own paper sculpture.
At home: Give students some paper and allow them to create a 3D sculpture.
Year 5: Students have investigated the art movement of Steampunk art and created seahorses with mechanical features, then painted these.
At home: Students can create their own design incorporating steampunk features such as cogs, wheels and mechanical features.
Year 6: Students have familiarised themselves with the Pop art movement. Looking at artworks of the infamous Keith Haring, students have incorporated his characteristics to design an artwork of their own.
At home: Students can design their own pop art design by adding features of Keith Haring’s action figures.
Excellence Certificates:
Foundation: Zayd Assad FOC
Year 1: Katie Pham 1F
Year 2: Priyansh Sachdeva 2A
Year 3: Emily Gibson 3G
Year 4: Lasya Mannepalli 4F
Year 5: Raghav Patel 5D
Year 6: Lauren Li 6E
Physical Education
Foundation: Students have been exploring their ball control skills using their feet. They have been discovering the difference between kicking a soccer ball and an AFL football. They will continue to refine these skills in the next few weeks.
At home: Ask your child to show you how to hold an AFL football and play kick to kick.
Year 1 and 2: Students have been exploring their ball control skills using their feet. Students will continue to work on these skills focusing on kicking accuracy and dribble control.
At home: Set up an obstacle course to dribble around or some cones to aim a kick towards.
Year 3-6: Students have been introduced to the concept of invasion games. They have explored components of these games and identified sports/ games that are in this category. Year levels will get sport specific in the coming weeks.
At home: Ask your child what an invasion game is and can they describe them.
Excellence Certificates:
Foundation: Sierra Jose FC
Year 1: Teghvir Singh 1A
Year 2: Megan Kandel 2B
Year 3: Sheryan Shah 3E
Year 4: Aj Pasene 4F
Year 5: Omera Bhuriya 5C
Year 6: Aymen Pallippurath 6C
S.T.E.M
Foundation: Students have been describing the weather, we have looked at rainy days and also how we can draw different symbols to represent the weather.
At home: Ask your child to look outside and describe the weather – what does it feel like and what can you see in the sky?
Year 1: Students have been learning that fruits and vegetables are seasonal. We have looked at the different seasons and have been identifying what grows best in each.
At home: Ask your child what season it is now and what types of fruits and vegetables are available at the supermarket or home.
Year 2: Students have been learning about Earth and what makes it unique. We have learned that Earth is the only planet that has life because we have water, air to breath and gravity so that we don’t float away. We also learned the Earth spins around and that is how we get day and night.
At home: Ask your child for some fun facts about Earth, if possible you can also ask them to research some facts about Earth at home using Kiddle.
Year 3: Students have been analysing soil. We have looked at a range of different soil samples and described them and also looked around our school yard to determine what types of soil we have. We looked at the location of the soil, colour, what it is made up of and also possible uses.
At home: Ask your child to investigate what type of soil they can find around the home or even the park.
Year 4: Students have been learning about water on Earth, we have been using tools such as Google Earth to locate different bodies of water and look at how they have changed over time. We are also looking at how clouds are formed and how rain is a fresh source of water on Earth.
At home: Ask your child to look at the sky and describe the clouds that they see. Ask them how rain is formed. If you have technology at home, ask your child to show you how to locate water sources on Google Earth.
Year 5: Students have been exploring what makes Earth the perfect planet for life. We have looked at the term ‘Goldilocks Zone’ and explained what this means. We also looked at the night sky and how indigenous cultures used the stars in their lives – harvesting, hunting and direction.
At home: Ask your child what the ‘Goldilocks Zone’ is. You can also ask your child to find different facts about Earth and the other planets in our solar system.
Year 6: Students have created an online document to store all their information about weathering and erosion. They have looked at what these terms mean and given a range of different examples of each.
At home: Ask your child to access their work at home and add in some extra information and examples.
Excellence Certificates:
Foundation: Thomas Spiers FE
Year 1: Kiaan Gupta 1A
Year 2: Diana Roberts 2A
Year 3: Zoe Le 3F
Year 4: Steele Maynard 4A
Year 5: Patrick Irambona 5C
Year 6: Musbah Afzali 6A
