Creative Industries and Food Studies
Welcome Back to Term 2. We have some wonderful projects planned this Term.
Year 7 Design Technologies will look at traditional wood working to make wooden trucks or advance manufacturing techniques to create LED Lamps using CAD and CAM.
Assessment Due Dates
Truck: Practical Task Week 8, Exam Week 9
LED Light: Design Folio Week 8
Year 8 Food Studies will explore new foods and will be assessed on making pizza's with new flavours.
Assessment Due Dates
Practical task: Week 7
Folio Task: Week 8
Year 8 Media Arts will explore symbolic and technical codes in media and will be creating a stop animation or looking at developing skills in photoshop to create Media Art designs.
Assessment Due Dates
Stop Animation: Project Week 9
Movie Poster: Responding - Week 6, Making - Week 9
Year 8 Visual Art will explore drawing techniques, creating an erasure animal drawing and digital analysis.
Assessment Due Dates
Stop Animation: Project Week 8
Year 9 Design Technologies will look at different wood techniques such as laminating and bending to make a wooden ukulele. They will also explore advanced manufacturing techniques to laser etch designs onto their ukulele.
Assessment Due Dates
Ukulele: Practical Task Week 8, Exam Week 9
Year 9 Design Engineering will explore Autodesign Inventor in detail, understanding how to create multiple part design and assemble them to create animations.
Assessment Due Dates
Inventor Folio: Practical Task Week 9
Year 9 Food Studies will design a meal suitable for the canteen, focusing on health eating options
Assessment Due Dates
Practical task: Week 7
Folio Task: Week 8
Year 9 Media Arts are looking at the world through a different lens - Macro. Inspired by artist Slinkachu, they will create their own Media Art in miniature photography.
Assessment Due Dates
Photography: Project Week 8
Year 9 Visual Art will be inspired by consumerism and create 3D clay models for food vessels, exploring the social and economic order that promotes the acquisition of goods and services in an ever-increasing amount.
Assessment Due Dates
Clay: Project Week 8
Year 10 Design Technologies will complete their Tambour Box assessment task they begun last Term, refining skills in the senior workshop and evaluating factors that impact design solutions.
Assessment Due Dates
Tambour Box: Practical Task Week 7,
Exam: Week 9
Year 10 Design Engineering will explore the world of engineering to design a tower that can withstand the most amount of pressure.
Assessment Due Dates
Report: Under Pressure Week 8,
Year 10 Food Studies will look into food science and creative aspects of decorative baking. They will design and create their own cup cakes for their assessment task.
Assessment Due Dates
Practical task: Week 7
Folio Task: Week 8
Year 10 Visual Art
Can you wear it or is that art? Students will spend this Term creating wearable art that explores colour and 3 Dimensional shape.
Assessment Due Dates
Wearable Art: Responding and Making Week 8
Year 11 Industrial Technology Skills will continue to build skills looking at wood joints and furnishing skills to create a darkboard cabinet
Assessment Due Dates
Cabinent: Practical Task Week 7
Year 11 Vet Construction
Students in Construction have been powering through their theory component and will begin their practical tasks this Term creating a working horse.
Assessment Due Dates
Working Towards Competency
Year 11 Vet Engineering Pathways
Students in Engineering Pathways have been powering through their theory component and will begin their practical demonstrations in the metal workshop building competency on a variety of metal machines.
Assessment Due Dates
Working Towards Competency
Year 11 Design will look at design styles and using this as a influence to create a speaker design, demonstrating their design process.
Assessment Due Dates
Design Folio: Week 7
Year 11 Media Arts in Practice will be making their persuasive advertisement that they planned last Term.
Assessment Due Dates
Marking Practical Task - 30-45 second moving image Week 7
Year 11 Film, TV, New Media will be creating a short film based around the theme "The Switch"
Assessment Due Dates
Marking Practical Task - 45 seconds - 5 Minutes moving image Week 7
Year 11 Visual Art will continue with understanding art as code to create a completed artwork and folio demonstrating their process.
Assessment Due Dates
Folio & Artwork: Project Week 8
Year 11 Visual Art in Practice will continue with their Looking Inwards unit to create a resolved artwork based on their Term 1 planning.
Assessment Due Dates
Artwork: Project Week 8
If you have any questions or concerns around this Term assessments please contact your child's classroom teacher or myself.
Lorinda Stiles
Head of Department - Creative Industries and Food Studies - Year 8A to 8E
lstil21@eq.edu.au
