Year 7 Design Technology:

Year 7 DAT students will be exploring sustainable design and problem solving how to reduce waste produced in a kitchen.  They will follow the design thinking process to prototype a solution to solve this problem.

9 Design Technology:

Year 9 DAT students will explore computer aided design and manufacturing combined with traditional wood working skills to hand craft a ukulele. They will evaluate their process and find product at the completion of their project.

9 Design Engineering:

Year 9 TES students are looking at aerodynamics and following the engineering process to design a propeller powered car that is fuel efficient. They will understand the basics of aerodynamic principles to help design and justify their concepts.    

Year 10 Design Engineering:

Year 10 TES student are looking into structural engineering using the engineering process to solve and design problem while understanding foundations of engineering.

Year 10 Design Technologies:

Year 10 DAT students are looking at advance manufacturing along with CAD & CAM to design a skate deck art. Students are exploring the history of technologies used to create Skate art in the past while developing their own graphical skills using Adobe. Students will also create a skate deck using the laminating process and vacuum forming. 

Food Technologies:

Year 8 students will focus on teaching students how to eat a balanced diet to ensure that they are getting all the essential and non-essential nutrients that their body needs every day.

Year 9 students explore how food supplies nutrients which allows the body to function and develop from infancy to adulthood. Poor food selection may result in problems that can affect your way of life. Making good food choices can be difficult, as there is an abundance of food available. In this unit, students will examine the factors that contribute to good nutrition and learn to make healthy food selections.

Year 10 students are looks at the role that food plays at special occasions. It investigates the significant and reasons for celebrating ways to prepare foods for small- and large-scale catering occasions; what to consider when planning food for special events and the importance of presentation and display of foods. You will follow a workflow plan and use correct food-handling skills to organise and prepare foods for a variety of fun and interesting events.

DANCE

All of our Dance classes are currently working on their theory tasks. Students have been responding to dance works across a range of styles such as popular dance, lyrical and hip hop. Our theory units wrap up in Week 3 and students will then move onto choreography tasks where they get to create their own routines.

Dance Squad have been training hard two times a week with Miss Starkey and Miss Doorley to get their jazz and contemporary routines completed for their upcoming performance at the Ipswich Show on Friday 13th May at 9.30am. Please come down and support our students when they perform for the first time this year. Dance Troupe are continuing to work on their technique with Ms Dixon on Tuesday mornings. 

This term we will be auditioning Year 6 students for our Dance Excellence Academy which launches in Year 7, 2023. The program aims to extend students in the performance arena with a focus on technique, strength and flexibility. If you have a student in Year 6 who would like to trial for the Damce Excellence Academy please contact Miss Starkey jxsta12@eq.edu.au

DRAMA

Year 8 Drama students are further developing their knowledge of the Elements of Drama this term. After showcasing their acting skills last term, students will now be sitting in the director’s chair, considering how they apply this knowledge to create dramatic meaning .

Year 9 Drama students are exercising their quick thinking skills as they enter the improvised world of Commedia Dell’Arte. With both practical and theoretical assessment this term, students will explore this heritage style that still underpins many comedic works today.

Year 10 Drama students have started exploring Verbatim Theatre in this term’s unit, “Time to Find the Truth”. Through two assessment tasks, students will become immersed in this unique style that uses interview transcripts to create theatre based on the real words, of real people, about real events.

Music

Year 7 Music are excelling in their practical units to understand how the elements of music informs the performance and creation of popular music. Mr Coles’ classes have begun learning guitar and vocals to perform in Week 4 while Mr Ezzy’s classes have begun writing their own popular songs for submission in Week 3. We are looking forward to hearing their upcoming performances and compositions in the coming weeks.

Students interested in additional support, or simply to learn, are encouraged to attend guitar club which will be running next Thursday 28th April at second break in the music rooms.

Year 10 Music have just finished their first major project – producing their own radio show examining a genre of music and how it is represented across the globe. The students have done an absolutely amazing job writing, recording and producing their first production! The students have now begun their composition unit, examining compositional intent and how the elements of music support direction and inspiration. They will be producing a number of compositions for their radio show including theme song, advertisements, segment introductions and finally their own song. Although challenging, the Year 10's have been rising to this new challenge exploring their own creativity and capability.

Instrumental music is back in full swing preparing for upcoming performances. The difficulty and quantity of pieces are increasing each year and students have been enthusiastically practicing and rehearsing before and after school. Many of our beginners will be entering rehearsals in Week 4 so please keep an eye on emails to see if your child may have some extra commitments. With the increase in repertoire and challenge, all instrumental students will need to begin practicing at home within a regular schedule. Please continuing to support our developing musicians and the outstanding dedication they have been showing all year. 

Growing bands means new equipment! Our brand new bass guitars and rosewood marimba.

VISUAL ART

Year 8 Art students will explore and evaluate erasure through responding to artists who have used erasure in their art across cultures, times and places.   Students identify and analyse how other artists use the visual conventions of line, texture, shape, movement emphasis and balance to create observational drawings of endangered, vulnerable and extinct animals, applying this knowledge in their art making.  Students will communicate messages associated with sustainability and biodiversity through manipulating drawing techniques and processes such as blind contour and contour drawing, stippling, hatching and cross hatching. They will reflect on and explain how an artwork is displayed to enhance its meaning and use this knowledge in planning their own display to further their message about sustainability and biodiversity.

Year 9 Art students will continue to explore memento mori, building knowledge on the use of symbolism and visual conventions in their own work and that of others and the connection between these visual conventions as well as practices and viewpoints that represent their own and other’s ideas on life and death. They will focus on the acquisition of skills and the learning of art making techniques with a focus on 3D construction. Students will manipulate the visual conventions of form, space, texture, contrast and pattern in expressing their understanding of the joy of life in sculpting a ceramic skull. 

Year 10 students will explore the world of Wearable art, also known as "art to wear" which refers to individually designed pieces of handmade clothing and jewellery created as fine or expressive art. You will immerse yourself into the world of Wearable art, inspired by the themes, materials, and the design of garments as expressive forms of art. 

MEDIA ARTS

Year 8 students identify and analyse how representations of social values and points of view are portrayed in a local indigenous legend, and then through media artworks they make, distribute and view. They evaluate how they and other makers and users of media artworks from different cultures, times and places use genre and media conventions and technical and symbolic elements to make meaning within their animations. They identify and analyse the social and ethical responsibility of the makers and users of media artworks through the design of their setting and characters.  

Year 9 students are to assume the role of a radio host and create a segment discussing a topic relating to their target audience.