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After a vibrant start to the term with our Visual Arts Open Night Gallery, this semester our focus has shifted to Drama.  Students from Pre-Primary to Year 6 are diving into improvisation plays, moving like animals, using our voices to create characters, rehearsing scripts, discussing dramatic tension and playing games such as The Name Game and Park Bench.

Pre Primary students have been moving like the characters in ‘The Magic Hat’ by Mem Fox, like the sleepy bear and warty old toad, plus reciting some of the words in the story.

Year 1 students have been bringing the characters in ‘Wombat Stew’ by Marcia K Vaughn to life through voice, adding personality and emotion to this classic tale.

Year 2 students have been given a scene to act out and work as a team to create a solution to the problem, for example, aliens have been stealing important items from your house, like the TV remote control, but your parents are blaming you…what do you do?

Year 3 students have been rehearsing and performing their fable stories and learning that drama can be a powerful way to share messages and morals with an audience.

Year 4 students have performed some revamped fable stories to capture a new audience and are now experimenting with creating entire plays from just a single line of dialogue.

Year 5 students have followed the full rehearsal process to refine their scripted performances. They’ve assigned roles, planned stage blocking, and worked hard to memorise lines for polished presentations.

Year 6 students have stepped into the role of playwrights, crafting original fairytale-inspired scripts using familiar characters and themes.  Some titles have included, ‘Polly and the Pumpkin Pie Pandas’, ‘The Three Little Monsters’, and ‘The Turn of a Princess’.

Who knows, perhaps one day we’ll see some of our talented students lighting up the stage or starring on our screens. The spotlight is waiting!

The Year 7 students had an amazing experience recently at the Scitech Centre. To begin, students were exposed to the vast cosmos and the origins of the universe in the Planetarium. The night sky was projected above on the giant dome ceiling so that students could see the many constellations, including the 12 zodiac constellations. The students were then taken on a journey through the Milky Way Galaxy followed by exploration of the many other galaxies in our universe.

Students were given time to explore the many exciting interactive displays including exploration of a possible Mars settlement, and a very popular interactive activity demonstrating centripetal force. Students could explore different planets using a giant globe to project the surfaces of each planet. This linked well with our recent science topic investigating the Solar system.

The students were then involved with a ‘Sky’s the Limit’ workshop where they had to collaborate, design and test aircraft wing prototypes using an iterative process. The students had access to woodworking machinery to create their designs and then competed in a challenge to see which group had the most effective design, which allowed the aeroplane to go the greatest distance.

This free-of-charge ‘Future Makers’ excursion was provided to our school by the schools pathway program with the National Defence Industry Skills Office.

Overall, the students had an incredible day, with a lot of practical work to support the scientific theory.

Morag Lancaster and Steve Rigney

Year 7 Science Teachers