Our Year 8 Visual Art Students have been inspired by the local artist Melski Mcvee to create their own paintings focusing on Australian flora and fauna. They have been working extremely hard to create some original compositions utilising acrylic paint and paint pens. We are excited to see their finished Artwork so we can share it with you all.
ASC offers accelerated Maths learning content for our year 7, 8 and 9 students. It was wonderful to see such commitment from our Year 7 students bright and early on Monday morning, displaying our four school values: Respect, Appreciation, Responsibility and Perseverance.
Our Parent Information Sessions for 2021 student enrolments will be held on Tuesday 25th August. These sessions will provide information about the College, key dates, orientation and information about new programs on offer for 2021. To register go to https://www.schoolinterviews.com.au and enter booking code bgkyh. There are two timeslots available to choose from, 5pm or 6.15pm.
Our Media Academy students have been given a 20 day Photo Challenge where they capture 20 themes in 20 days. This challenge encourages them to look at their environment through the lens of the camera with themes such as colourful, nature, curves, and shadows etc. At the end of the Photo Challenge students will pick their best photos to create an audio visual montage, which will introduce editing skills. Later in the term they will be given a short film task, introducing basic filming techniques.
Our 16 ASC Academies have commenced this week, registrations for some academies are still available via the Qkr! App. Academy registrations are open until the end of next week. Students had great fun participating in our AFL and Contemporary Arts academies yesterday.
We are delighted to start Term 3 off with the creation of ceramic tiles with our Year 7 students. Their tiles have been inspired by the work of ceramic artist Courtney Mattison, she creates her art as a way of drawing peoples attention to the protection of our planet and oceans, which our students have really engaged with. We can’t wait to see all of the tiles finished and displayed together.
Our college Teacher-Parent interview night was held on Wednesday 22 July. It was great for our teachers to receive so much positive feedback regarding learning, programs and support offered at ASC. Some fantastic work is being produced by our students and families are pleased with their child’s progress.
This week select students and parents in years 7,8 and 9 attended an information session about the new ASC Sports Elite Pilot Program – SEP. A pilot program will take place in Semester 2 this year with the launch of the 2021 Sports Elite Program to officially commence next term. Head of Health and Physical Education Mr Daniells provided parents with a tour of the Sports Hall and Mr Wheeler – SEP teacher showed parents the amazing new fitness suite. Students are keen to get started and are looking forward to the semester ahead.
Information in regards to the 2021 Sport Elite Program will be sent out to all parents next term.
Year 7 & 8 Wellness classes have been having lots of fun with their team building games over the last few weeks. Students have been doing lots of building and creating; marshmallow towers, cup stacking, mind fields and spider webs. They have been focusing on their collaborative and communication skills and will start to look at resilience and coping skills over the next few weeks.
In Printmaking, our Year 9 Students have drawn inspiration from tarot cards and the work of artist Bryn Perrott. They have engaged with drawing, painting and printing to create a series of Lino prints using both one colour and two colour reduction techniques. I’m sure you can agree their hard work is paying off with these fantastic outcomes.
