Students here at Room 22 have been working
extremely hard on our first project for the year, the ‘Be Inspired’ project. The contents of this project consisted of
three parts. In Part I we had to
write a booklet on an inspirational person of our choice. Part II required us to deliver a presentation to the class on our
inspirational person. Now what you’ve all been waiting for Part III of the project was all about getting CREATIVE! In this
part we could use our inspiration to create whatever we wanted. Absolutely
everybody made a fantastic creation ranging from video games to movies from
murder scenes to posters. We have managed to gather a few exceptional examples
of the unbelievable work produced for this project which you can all check out
below.
Kai’s game – Inspired by Shigeru Miyamoto
Deckard’s movie – Inspired by Markus Notch
Henry’s movie – Inspired by his family
Amos’ movie – Inspired by his Uncle
Lachlan’s movie – Inspired by his Dad, Brent
Elycias’s movie – Inspired by her sister,
Monique
Adam’s movie and pivot animation – Inspired by Ryan
Doyle
By Kai
ART
During
Art this term, our class has worked on a large variety of things. We began with
illusion-like artwork that involved writing our name (or just the first name)
in an outside arc across an A3 piece of white paper, & joining the edges of
letters to the page middle with a beam. The desired effect was to make the
letters appear to ‘shoot out’ across the page. Done well, it is rather quite
stunning.
Next,
we proceeded to drawing wiggly pictures of musical instruments. They were meant
to look inaccurate; meant to seem like they were dancing. We then paired
complimentary colours together into patterns, & decorated the instruments
with them: a patch of yellow & purple on one part of the instrument, a
patch of blue and orange somewhere else, complimented by a background of red
& green behind the instrument. More time consuming, at least by my point of
view, than the last task, but at the same a pleasure to view.
For
the coming ANZAC Day, we made poppy badges from pieces of coloured card glued
together. By far the simplest of the three, & rather quite fun to do.
Miss
Randall, the new Art teacher, is a nice person with a keen sense of humour.
What she has in store for Room 22 and the rest of the school in the following
weeks, is anyone’s guess.
By Amos
By Blake
PIVOT
This
term, many of our students have been using an animation program called Pivot.
It all started when Adam decided to use Pivot in his ‘Be Inspired - Part III’ project. Now, about half of the class uses
this simple, yet effective program. Some of the children have made some
wonderful animations, whether it be about Parkour, the Greenhouse Effect, or,
even Mr Petch. The main Pivot users are Intisar, Peng, Sean, and Adam, although
many others use Pivot too.
Here
is the link to download Pivot: http://pivotanimator.net/Download
There
are many other stickman animators on the internet, but Pivot is by far the
best. Here are some links to websites where you can download things to put into
Pivot (vehicles, backgrounds, different stickmen, etc.) Let’s get Pivot-ing!
By Adam
ANZAC DAY
On
the 11th of April, our school is commemorating ANZAC Day with an
ANZAC ceremony. As you may already know, ANZAC Day observes the soldiers who
have fought in wars, especially World War I. ANZAC Day is on the 25th
of April, the date the Battle of Gallipoli commenced.
The
Battle of Gallipoli (or Gallipoli Campaign) was an attempt by the Allies of
World War I to control the sea route from Europe to Russia. The Allies included
Britain and France, as well as Australian and New Zealand forces – the ANZACs
(Australia and New Zealand Army Corps). The plan failed due to lack of
knowledge of the terrain and a fierce Turkish resistance.
Many
ceremonies, parades and other activities are held on ANZAC Day to remember the
lives of those who participated or died in military action, particularly on the
Gallipoli Peninsula in World War I. The Dawn Service or church prayers are a
particularly important aspect of ANZAC Day. ANZAC Day is also a public holiday
and day of remembrance in New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa and Tonga.
It is also commemorated with special services and events on or around April 25
in a range of countries across the globe. These include: the United Kingdom,
France, Turkey, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Canada and the United States
(including Hawaii).
By Bianca
LIGHTWORKS
Lightworks
is a professional video editor, and has been around since 1989. Lightworks has
edited thousands of Hollywood movies in the
past, and is still proudly offering a free license for everyone. The program
offers a wide range of unique features from other video editors. Lightworks is
currently available for Linux and Windows. Compatibility for Mac OS X will be
coming soon.
Students
in Room 22 are using Lightworks for their Sleek Geeks. Lightworks will help the
students to create their short three minute video that is required in the Sleek
Geeks. All we can do now is to wish our students the best of luck, and videos
will arrive shortly. You can download the free license on the Lightworks
website.
By Khaled
WACKADOO ZOO
Over the past
few weeks Mrs Mullan has organised and planned the year two’s and three’s to
star in the Wackadoo Zoo. The students have put in plenty of time learning
their words and creating their wonderful masks. In the zoo there are five
animals: pigs that say neigh, monkeys that bray, lions that crow, goats that
bark and a cow that says meow. All these animals were happy until a professor
comes along and tries to teach the animals to make the right sound. He commits
himself to teach them and as he goes round to every cage he gets more and more
annoyed until finally when the cows continually make the wrong sound, he had
enough and he leaves. The play is filled with songs and special thanks should
go to Mrs Mullan (our Music teacher) who organised the whole performance, the
classroom teachers who helped get everyone ready in time, Ms. Randall (our
Visual Art teacher) who organised the masks and of course the students who
performed; they were real stars! I had a wonderful time being the Professor. It
was fantastic to have the opportunity to work with younger children. I even
have a new nickname around the school grounds these days… You’ll never guess
what it is!
They call me,
Professor!
SUMMER INTERSCHOOL CARNIVAL
On the 28th of March, the Friday of
week eight, five teams of energetic young students of Wattle Grove drove off in
a bus to Maida Vale Primary School to compete in the Summer Interschool Carnival.
The teams consisted of, two cricket, two softball, and a volleyball team. Put
together by Mr Sherlock, the teams prepared to compete against teams like Maida
Vale, Edney, Woodlupine, Forrestfield, High Wycombe, and Dawson Park. Our
cricket team smashed a new record of one hundred and thirty nine runs. That’s
amazing! For the second year in a row, Wattle Grove obtained the cricket
trophy! And there will be an engraving of our schools name on it TWICE. Congratulations
to all students who participated in the events and represented our school. It
was absolutely fantastic to be part of a school team that showed such
tremendous sportsmanship to themselves and all of the other teams.
