Year 7 have been making 3 colour reduction lino prints this term in Visual Arts. A challenging but effective technique.

Year 8 have completed an etching self portrait this term and they have done a fantastic job.

Year 9 and 10 Visual Arts completed a variety of artworks exploring and developing their own ideas and techniques during Term 2. Some of their imaginative and creative work is now on display in the Hub.

Year 9 and 10 Visual Arts are currently finishing off their chair sculptures during Term 3. This is always are fun project and the chairs show the diverse ideas of our students.

Year 11 Visual Arts students have completed all their preliminary assessments for the year. Their final assessment task required students to create a mini Body of Work based on the theme of “identity”.

Year 12 Body of Works

This year saw 5 Senior students finish in Visual Arts with 5 amazing Bodies of Work.

Students work in the Expressive Forms of Sculpture, Collection of Works, Printmaking, and Painting.

Each student worked hard throughout the year to achieve a successful result. They each followed a plan and extended their knowledge and Art Making Practice in the various medias. Much of the work was completed at home during the earlier COVID period.

3 of the students works are currently displayed in the HUB.

Antoinette McManus

Mathilda Brennan

Jade Borg

Year 9/10 Drama

This term the students have been exploring Shakespeare through the play, “Romeo and Juliet”. As part of the assessment task for this term, the students were required to practice and perform a monologue scene from “Romeo and Juliet”. Attached are some photos of the monologue performances. Thank you to Mrs Cathie Cahill for teaching the 9/10 Drama Class for most of this term and Mr Stephen Knight for marking the monologue performances.

Year 7 Music

Year 7 Music students began the term by playing a couple of rock’n’roll songs such as “Jailhouse Rock” and “Old Time Rock and Roll”, followed by a couple of more contemporary songs. They have also been introduced to the concept of ‘Duration’, which covers all the timing aspects of music. Their learning culminated with the performance of their group percussion tasks.

Year 8 Music

This term Year 8 Music students have learnt to create their own song using either GarageBand or the Jam Studio Website. The students were required to create a practice song by following instructions to learn how the software works. The students have worked very hard to create engaging songs, many of them attempting the extension part of the task that required students to create a vocal melody or solo section.

Year 9 and 10 Music

Year 9 and 10 Music students have composed songs as part of their Message Song topic this term. The students were encouraged to research a political, environmental, or social justice issue, look at songs written about similar issues and then create their own song. The students were also encouraged to compose in the style of a song or band, which has improved the quality of their compositions.

This is a song by Jess and Jack about Freedom of speech

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BM_qMPAp66FXogd5w2qoSQqYxbWb_2A7/view?usp=sharing

This is a song by Luke about domestic violence

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m_zYxGUWjt_9HbS5qrpjUisrAMfbqL_h/view?usp=sharing

Year 11 Music

This term Year 11 Music students have studied the theatre music as their focus topic. Students were required to perform two songs for their Yearly Exam, one of which was a song from a musical. I would like to congratulate the students for the quality of their performances.

Year 12 Music

Usually Year 12 Music students get to perform their HSC songs for their parents at an evening concert. However, this year due to COVID restrictions the concert took place in the daytime with only the Year 11 Music Class as the audience. I would like to thank Wayne Le Compte for videoing the concert and Matt O’Brien for recording the audio. Each family has been given a USB containing a beautifully prepared video of their son/daughter performing their four HSC pieces to share with family and friends. This concert was held a week before their actual HSC performance exam and was a valuable practice for the students, particularly this year because the students have not had any opportunities to perform. The four Music students are Jorja Scott, Hugh Tuckwell, Molly Burrows and Riley Maher. A special thank you to these four students who have given huge amounts of time to prepare music to perform at almost every school event.