Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program

The kitchen garden program engages students to grow, harvest, prepare and share fresh seasonal, nutritious food. Through the hands on activities of both cooking and gardening, students learn life skills and at the same time foster an appreciation of wholesome food that they themselves have created. The program offers wonderful satisfaction for the students to grow from seed to harvest to table. It’s busy times in the garden, part of our upcoming working bee will be invigorating our soil in the productive beds to get sections ready for planting Autumn crops of soft herbs, braccias, perineal leaves, podded pea tee pees and more. Wheelbarrow licence testing and tool certification is underway and the students have been rigorously participating. In the kitchen classes both, 3’s and 4’s have had a wonderful attitude about creating and trying the menu with lots of excitement and discussion about ‘how delicious’ the meals are. In the coming weeks we will scrutinise the rations of the first fleet and put together a menu with only complimentary ingredients from the garden, true to life. The terms menus will be featuring some authentic first settler recipes to tantalise our wide eyed historians.

We look forward to an amazing term in Kitchen Garden. Kath Jones Bill Winchcombe

Kitchen Specialist & Garden Specialist

FINDON WORKING BEE The Kitchen garden program will be putting together a

lovely little feast to show our appreciation for our Findon Twilight Working Bee workers, so if you can

spare some time on

Friday 22nd February 4:00pm-6:00pm please come along for some good times in the garden.

Physical Education Being prepared for P.E Just a reminder that it is an expectation for students to be in full school uniform, including protective and supportive shoes for Physical Education/sport. This also includes wearing a hat and sunglasses (term 1 and 4). It is expected that students are equipped with appropriate footwear/ hat and glasses. It is also advised that students have a drink bottle. Sporting opportunities in 2019 There are many sporting opportunities in 2019 including a variety of house events such as cross country, athletics, district events, Hooptime and many more exciting events! Again, the year six students have the opportunity to participate in interschool summer sports in term 1. These include Hotshots Tennis, T-Ball, Volleyball and Cricket against other schools in our district. Students will begin competing in week three this term. Students are required to attend Friday morning training before the game (8:15am).

Foundation: Fundamental Motor Skills Foundation students will begin their P.E journey at Findon by being introduced to minor games and activities that require cooperation and attention such as parachute play, whistle games and running games. Students will participate in a Perceptual Motor Program (PMP) throughout the year. This is a movement-based program which helps younger students improve their coordination, fitness, balance, locomotion and eye-tracking skills. Later on in

the term, foundation students will work in small groups with a variety of sporting equipment at activity stations to develop their Fundamental Motor Skills (FMS). FMS are basic movements such as throwing, kicking, running, jumping, hopping and catching.

Year 1 & 2: Fundamental Motor Skills Our grade 1 & 2 students will be starting out the term by participating in minor games and activities that are familiar to them. Some of these activities will be parachute play, rob the bank and tiggy games. Students are required to work together

and listen to instructions while developing their coordination skills. Later on in the term, students will be participating in modified sport games like endball, matball and other minor games to get them working in teams and helping the students to develop their fundamental motor skills.

Year 3 & 4: T-Ball During term 1, students will begin by participating in a number of familiar modified and minor games to develop their fundamental motor skills and cooperation. They will complete the beep test which is a multi-stage fitness test used to measure cardiovascular fitness. They will participate in Cross Country and Athletics training as these events will be occurring in term 1. To round out term 1, the students will be completing a unit of T-Ball to develop their striking, fielding and throwing skills.

Year 5 & 6: Cricket Year 5 & 6 students will begin by participating in a number of familiar modified and minor games to refine their fundamental motor skills and cooperation. They will complete the beep test which is a multi-stage fitness test used to measure cardiovascular fitness. They will participate in Cross Country and Athletics training as these events will be occurring in term 1. Towards the end the term, the students will be completing a unit of cricket to develop and refine their striking, fielding and throwing skills.

Jonathan Brown – Physical Education Teacher

Performing Arts: Welcome back to Performing Arts. What an exciting year ahead we have, with our whole school Arts Festival promising to be bigger and better than ever before! We also have our annual ‘Athon’ coming up, which will be announced shortly! Our Performing Arts room is home to some new exciting instruments, which will be used during the year. As always lots of fun, interesting and innovative learning happening throughout the year!

Foundation: Drama – Puppet Unit This term the Foundation students will be focusing on Drama. This unit will concentrate on developing their expression, voice, movement and creativity. They will explore a variety of plays, theatre games and storytelling techniques through the use of puppets. Students will also

begin to learn the fundamentals of Performing Arts and its genres; dance, music and drama.

Year 1 & 2: ‘Once Upon A Time’ - Drama Unit During this term students will be focusing on drama. They will be looking at a range of classic fairytales, where they will look closely at the characters, voices and storylines.

Students will recreate, make their own interpretations and also create their own fairy tales over the course of the unit. They will learn a range of drama and performance techniques.

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Year 3 & 4: ‘Anti Bullying’– Drama Unit This term students will learn about acting and how to creatively transform themselves into different characters. Their stimulus will be around ‘Anti Bullying’ stories, raising awareness on bullying and different ways to deal with certain

situations. Students will participate in a range of workshops focusing on their voice, confidence, expression and gesture. Students will learn how to unpack a script, scenes and practise memorising their lines. In small groups they will work on short ‘Anti Bullying’ plays, which they will present to their class.

Year 5 & 6: Radio Drama Unit This term students will focus on the art and drama of radio and radio presenting.

Students will create their own radio stations, presenter characters, interviews, weather and traffic reports, music top 10, quizzes/competitions and radio

adverts/jingles. They will do this in small groups, while working collaboratively with their peers to produce podcasts and segments. Students will learn about the drama concepts used during radio presenting and the importance of voice

and intonation to capture their chosen audience.

Choir Both Junior and Senior Choir will begin this term. All students are invited to join and come along to the weekly rehearsals. The choir aims to teach students the fundamentals of singing and performing and also work on teamwork, in a fun environment. Students will work on a selection of songs, as well as an item for this term’s assembly.

Junior Choir, ‘Junior Jazzy’s’: Foundation - Year Three (Rehearsals – Friday recess 2nd half)

Senior Choir ‘Foxy Roxy’s’: Year Four – Year Six

(Rehearsals – Friday lunchtime 2nd half)

Nicole O’Connell – Performing & Visual Arts Teacher

Visual Arts Welcome back to all our Findon students! We are thrilled for another creative year in the art room! We are very excited to be continuing our journey with Media Arts this year, with a whole bunch of interesting and innovative units for all our learning teams! We can’t wait to see the amazing pieces you create, especially in anticipation for this years Arts Festival!

Year Foundation: Theme: Look At Me – ‘self portraits, colour & shape’ This term, the Foundation students will focus on Creating and Making using a variety of materials. Students will learn about portraits by exploring a variety of famous self-portraits and then draw their own monochromatic self-portrait. This activity will be completed twice, once at the start of the year and again at the end of the year to see the development of portrait drawing over the year. Students will also be learning and working with colours and geometric shapes through colour mixing and collages.

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Year 1 & 2: Theme: Lego Portraits – ‘line, shape, colour, clay’ This term, students will learn and explore the art of Lego and how it has made an impact in today’s society. Through our findings, students will learn how to draw a Lego self-portrait concentrating on line and shape using a variety of materials including clay when constructing their Lego self-portrait clay model.

Year 3 & 4: Picasso Abstract & Cubism – ‘self-portraits, line, shape, colour & sculptures’

This semester students will complete an artist study on Pablo Picasso. Students will research the history and famous paintings of Picasso, particularly concentrating on portraits. Through the study, students will draw a self-portrait using the abstract and cubism drawing techniques. Students will also create a

sculpture inspired by the artist using a variety of materials in their creative pieces.

Jenny Trajkovski – Visual Arts Teacher

Year 5 & 6 – Pop Art - with Nicole O’Connell (5/6 MS, EM & IK) and Jenny

Trajkovski (5/6 JW & AS) Students will be introduced to Pop Art, learning about its culture, style

and influences. Students will explore, research and analyse the work of famous artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Students will choose a recognisable pop culture object, celebrity or modern day piece

and create an interesting composition using a variety of art and design principles. Students will have the option of recreating and reinventing iconic Pop Art pieces or

using them as inspiration to create their own individual piece, capturing the essence of the style.

Items needed for the Visual Art Room: Do you have any:. Old cd’s Newspapers Magazines House paint Men’s long sleeve shirts Big plastic sheets that can cover tables for painting