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Drama NSW Annual Conference: ‘No Strings Attached’
Our Drama teacher Mrs Angela Cascarino was invited to run a session at the prestigious Drama NSW annual Conference. With the COVID restrictions the conference was postponed but Drama NSW ran a series of innovative Professional Development Online Sessions with international and local leaders in Arts education. Our JTCC Drama teacher was invited to lead a session ‘No Strings Attached’ on the 25 June 2020. Mrs Cascarino hosted teachers from all over NSW teaching the simplicity of developing a narrative and working with the teachers to develop play, and empower teachers to be creative and innovative with characters and narrative to lead dramatic educational practice. Her article on the cognitive and theoretical practice of puppetry as a creative discipline has been selected to be published in JEDA, the educational journal of the Arts.
Congratulations to Mrs Cascarino who, like our Creative Arts staff, continuously strives to lead educational practice and develop personal practice to bring to the classrooms
Year 10 Visual Arts Exhibition: ‘The Coronavirus Diaries’
Art is a form of communication that reflects time and place. The Year 10 Visual Arts class recently held an exhibition of their artwork based on the term’s theme’ ‘The Coronavirus Diaries’. As the title suggests, the exhibition consisted of works that were a response to the recent Coronavirus epidemic and the residual effects on members of the class. Students had six weeks to produce works based on their own choice of expressive forms which included drawing, painting, sculpture and photography. It was open to the school community during lunch and recess on selected days. Thank you to Year 10 Visual Arts teacher Mrs. O’Brien and the class for all her effort in organising this exhibition.
Year 7 Music Incursion: ‘Brass Masterclass’
This semester, Year 7 Music students have been learning about the instruments of the Orchestra. This week, Mrs Blunden's Year 7 Music class were lucky enough to have a mini masterclass. Mr Andrew Mayes, one of our Senior Music teachers, brought in a large range of his own brass instruments to demonstrate to the class.
Mr Mayes demonstrated everything from the Trumpet to the Tuba. The class learnt about how the instruments are constructed and played, and how they differ in tone and dynamics. Students were also invited to voice interest in the school band that will be auditioning later this year. We thank Mr Mayes for his time and efforts in organising this experience for our students.
Year 8 Visual Arts: ‘Now You See Me, Now you don’t’
Year 8 Visual Arts students recently completed this unit of work, investigating the conventions of portraiture from figurative to semi abstract styles. They studied the history of the Archibald Prize, Cubism and Picasso. They produced as series of drawings in figurative and semi abstract styles and extended their artmaking into three dimensional forms. These forms were inspired from African Tribal Masks, the same influence Picasso had with his invention of Cubism.
