Term One in the Art Room

We are looking forward to an exciting year in the Art room. It is wonderful to see our students returning to school so motivated. Rodney Wyatt will be joining us again teaching the three Year 2/3 grades and we welcome from Year 6 Mikayla, James W. and Ava as our Art Captains.

The Prep/1 students will begin the year learning about the materials available, where things are and how our lessons operate. I look forward to seeing the Year 1 students help guide our new Preppies. We will be doing hands on creative activities to reinforce the use of tools such as scissors, brushes and glue sticks. We are very lucky to have past teacher, Karen McLennan joining us again in many of these lessons.

Years 2-6 will also revise how to help our lessons run smoothly. All the students will begin their new sketch books and design their covers.

Where possible, this term our activities will align with the schools Enquiry topics of family, community, Australia and exploration.

The upper grades will be learning about the elements of Art. This year they will also be looking at specific artists. In Term 1 the artists will include Tom Roberts, Sidney Nolan, Frederick McCubbin and the Heidelberg School.

The Art Extension Program will continue this year. In Term 1 six children from Year 3 will be designing and creating a dome shaped mask. They will create a Rubricks chart to help with their self assessment and will also record notes in the Art Extension diary.