Arts students have had a busy semester and are excited to share their recent achievements.
On Thursday 3 June, the Reception and Year 1 students from St Joseph's Memorial School (SJMS) visited the College to watch a showcase by the Year 7 and 8 Dance and Drama students. The showcase was a great opportunity for students to share what they have been learning in their dance and drama classes. Items included Long Sleeve dancing, Egyptian fan dancing and Mime, and finished with Fractured Fairytales, performed by the Year 8 Drama students. We loved hearing our young audience react and laugh to the jokes in the play, and truly appreciated the SJMS students coming to watch our performances.
Arts students have had a busy semester and are excited to share their recent achievements.
On Thursday 3 June, the Reception and Year 1 students from St Joseph's Memorial School (SJMS) visited the College to watch a showcase by the Year 7 and 8 Dance and Drama students. The showcase was a great opportunity for students to share what they have been learning in their dance and drama classes. Items included Long Sleeve dancing, Egyptian fan dancing and Mime, and finished with Fractured Fairytales, performed by the Year 8 Drama students. We loved hearing our young audience react and laugh to the jokes in the play, and truly appreciated the SJMS students coming to watch our performances.
Two of the Year 8 Drama students Akaldeep and Gurmannat describe their experience below:
We enjoyed every part of the performance! We loved the rehearsals and trying on our costumes for the day. It was so much fun being a part of the whole production. The best part was definitely when the Reception and Year 1 students came and watched our Fractured Fairytales play! They were all so enthusiastic and engaged and their little laughs made the play come alive! We thank Mrs Scott and everyone who has helped on the journey to create this show and have loved the experience.
- Akkaldeep and Gurmannat, Year 8 Drama Students
The Year 9 Drama class have also enjoyed rehearsing and performing their play Fossils by Manny Aston. Fossils is a play exploring the relationships and funny situations that arise between parents and teenagers. The class worked hard to learn lines, develop characterisation and fine tune performance skills. Fossils was performed to Year 9 students in Week 7, and formed the performance assessment for Year 9 Drama. Congratulations to all students involved.
Emilie describes her learning journey in the development of her character Julie in Fossils below:
Throughout Semester 1, our Drama class had been exploring specific drama styles created and designed by Stanislavski. I found that these acting techniques allowed me to embrace and portray my character effectively. This consisted of me exploring the character’s personality as a whole, their inner feelings, thoughts, speech and most importantly how they project them to the surrounding characters.
In the play Fossils, I played the role of Julie, a teenage girl living with her parents, AKA, the Fossils, while dealing with the trials of school, family and teenage normalities. I really enjoyed preforming in this play with my classmates. We had the additional bonus of adding music and lights to our performance. It was a great experience to go behind the scenes and learn about all of the elements involved in putting a performance together. It was very rewarding to carry out the performance in front of an audience, organise the props and work out our costumes.
- Emilie, Year 9 Drama Student
Last Friday, the Year 7-9 Music Experience classes performed in Battle of the Bands in their Rocks Bands. Students had worked tirelessly all term preparing a song of their choice, learning the necessary skills needed to perform the song accurately. Many challenges were faced along the way but, to their credit, the students overcame them and presented a really exciting Battle of the Bands performance.
Congratulations go to the Year 7 Band with Lucy, Char, Emily and Kate, who performed a Foo Fighters classic, Best of You. Year 8/9 winner was Gracie, Erin, Poppy, Ella, Emerald and Chelsea, who performed Golden by Harry Styles.
The bands will receive a six-week mentorship with a professional rock musician in preparation for a performance at Arts Night.
Semester 1 ended with an abundance of vibrant and original sculptures, drawings and paintings within the Visual Art Department.
The Year 7s captured images of delicious breakfast meals using continuous line and colour. Students learnt about the frottage technique and transferred textures onto paper. These were collaged to their school photo portraits, creating imaginative characters by adding, hats, masks, hair, clothing and jewellery. They learnt about Egyptian art and were inspired by the magic of their symbols and amulet charms. Year 7s digitally designed their own charms to protect them from bad luck, bad hair and bullies and made them from polymer clay.
The Year 8s explored autumn with its beautiful leaves and colours. Students photographed leaves in nature and the warm colours autumn displays. From these, they designed a pattern of leaves on their pages and chose different colour schemes to colour. Line and pen work were also included, resulting in beautiful autumn compositions.
The Year 9s worked on 3D sculptures in the form of architecture. They created facades of cardboard houses with emphasis on texture and shape. These houses portrayed many themes and demonstrated creativity and imagination, while exploring resourcefulness working with the recycled medium of cardboard.
Year 10 artists finished their microscopic paintings with amazing results. Using acrylic paints, they were able to show the miniscule world on a large scale. Some objects under the microscope included leaves, insects and vegetables.
Year 11 Design students worked on interior design and created a room of their choice. Once again, they produced rooms in perspective that portray many themes.
Year 11 Art students produced impressive self-portraits expressing their identities through colours, symbols and styles in a variety of 2D media. Their Visual Study’s were based on an investigation and experimentations on sculpture with ideas envisioned for large scale public sculptures influenced by sculptors throughout the ages.
Year 12s continue with their assessment tasks and are now working on their Folios. Here, they are able to explore a topic of their choice. These ideas come together to develop a final practical piece.
Well done to all Arts students for their commitment and creativity throughout Semester 1. We look forward to what Semester 2 will bring in The Arts.
The Arts Learning Area Teachers
Gavin Hughes, Jasmin Watkins, Linda Di Blasio, Romina Penna and Rachel Scott
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