Author: Sharon Wildermuth

French

Iconic French Foods- What are they? This question will be answered at the end of the term. In the weeks to come students will be learning about French cuisine.  As term three winds down all students are putting the finishing touches to their various reader booklets, rhymes and topics. Our junior students will continue to…

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Art Space- Foundation

Our Foundation students have been excitedly working away on these fantastic Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ inspired mixed media ‘masterpieces’. The entire project was created in three lessons, and embodies various learned and newly developed artistic skills and techniques; paper collage, crayon/water colour resist, acrylic painting and finished with a simple printmaking process. All students were understandably…

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French

Senior students have been busy choosing their topics for inquiry and working together on the rubrics. Congratulations to students in 3A, and particularly to Inouk, Raff and Leo Conlan, for their excellent reading of the “Le petit chat’ story booklet they have been completing, to take home to use as readers and to share with…

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Look what we’ve been doing in Performing Arts

In Performing Arts this Term students have been creating characters for games, activities and performances. Students are learning about expressive skills such as how to use their voice, body and facial expressions to portray feelings and different characters. Students are learning about movement/ dance as well as stage spacing, audience participation and voice projection. Students…

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Art Space Years 5 and 6

The year 5 and 6 students have been exploring texture and positive and negative space. They made ‘plates’ depicting bugs of all shapes and sizes by layering cardboard shapes. The students then used black and white pastel to create positive and negative rubbings of their creatures.

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What a night!

A massive thank-you to everyone who attended our inaugural Family Maths last night. The evening was a huge success with parents, teachers and students engaging with the wide range of activities and sharing their understanding. Research shows that families are the most significant influence on their children’s learning so we hope that after last night,…

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