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MACARTHUR NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION CHAMPION SCHOOL 2019

On Friday November 1st, at Camden Civic Centre the Award night for the Macarthur Nature Photography competition was held. The works are on display at the Narellan Town Centre. Our school has numerous students submit photographs. This was an extracurricular opportunity to showcase their talents, and they did not disappoint. We had nineteen students enter. Our school was judged as the overall CHAMPION PHOTOGRAPHY HIGH SCHOOL of the Macarthur Region for the Fourth Year in a row.

Our Award winners were:

 Jade Pritchard (Year 11 Photography): ‘Meraki’

Overall Secondary School Winner Nature Close Up Category: 2^nd Prize

 Paige Jenart (Year 11 Photography)

Flora Category: 1^st Prize

 All these students were invited to the 2019 Macarthur Nature Photography Competition Award Night. Other students who participated in the exhibition were: 

This significant award coincides with the increased popularity of Photography and Digital media as a subject at our school. In 2019, we had six Photography and Digital media classes from Year 9-12. Congratulations to all our students who entered the competition and Photography teachers, especially Photography teacher Mrs. Hume for all her coordination of this event. We look forward to continued success in 2020. 

YEAR 8 VISUAL ARTS EXCURSION; CAMPBELLTOWN ARTS CENTRE

On Wednesday October 30th, all the Semester 2 Year 8 Visual Arts class visited the Campbelltown Arts Centre. All up approximately 90 students took part in this excursion. All students completed their Critical Study Assessment Tasks on this excursion.

Campbelltown Arts Centre is South West Sydney’s premier cultural venue. The centre aims to engage, inspire and respond to the issues of the region’s communities through the production of contemporary cultural programs. The Centre’s program is multidisciplinary and spans Visual Arts, Music, Dance, Theatre, literature and social history.

The classes focused on this term’s thematic study of three-dimensional form. Students had fun exploring various aspects of the Arts Centre with emphasis on the Sculpture Garden. They visited the Japanese Teahouse Gardens and had an informative introductory talk by their Visual Arts teachers about selected contemporary works from the Sculpture Garden.

Congratulations to all the students on their excellent behavior and application to the task. Thank you especially to Mrs. Fenessy for her presentation and organization of the day and to Mrs. O’Brien, Mr. Peters (Presenters) and Mr. Barton (Year 8 Coordinator) who assisted with the excursion on the day.

YEAR 7 MUSIC INCURSION: BRASS QUINTET  

On Friday November 8^th, all Year 7 Music students were involved in a very successful Brass Quintet Incursion at School in ‘F Block’. A brass quintet is a five-piece musical ensemble composed of brass instruments. As a common ensemble group, the brass quintet has a broad repertoire containing musical genres from madrigals to jazz.

The incursion involved our Music teachers along with Session Musicians, Musicians from Corrective Services NSW and North West Wind Ensemble. They formed a Brass quintet that demonstrated the instruments of the brass family including the Trumpet, Piccolo Trumpet, straight Trumpet, Bugle, French horn, tenor Trombone, Bass Trombone, Euphonium and Tuba.

The incursion reinforced concepts in a fun way of their ‘Instruments of the Orchestra’ unit of work, which students studied in class. Along with the demonstration of different instruments, students had the opportunity to ask questions and answer questions about the instruments. Thank you especially to Mr. Mayes for organising this event and to Mrs. Morton and Mrs, Blunden who assisted on the day.