Term 4 ~ Grade 5/6

The majority of this term has been spent on creating Scrapbooking memento pages with the Grade 5/6 students. These will be on display at school and also at the Graduation Evening for the Grade 6 students.

At the beginning of the term, students created these radial symmetry paper relief sculptures. They looked amazing on display in the Art Room!

Grade 5/6 ~ Artwork from Term 2

CD loom weaving

As part of our Threads and Textiles unit, Grade 5/6 students learned how to do circular weaving using unwanted CDs and DVDs as a loom. They also learned how to create pom poms.

Basket Weaving

To tie in with NAIDOC week and students' integrated topic of the Stolen Generation, we investigated the artwork of the Tjanpi Desert Weavers. We focused mainly on the baskets that these women wove out of natural materials. Sharing the story 'Collecting Colour' by Kylie Dunstan was a great introduction for this activity.

5/6 ~ Space Odyssey

"There's a Starman waiting in the sky...." 

The Grade 5/6's have been singing along to David Bowie in the background as we created some 'out-of-this-world' artwork this term!

Elon Musk, with his Starman aboard the Tesla Roadster, was the inspiration for the following artworks. They were created using chalk pastels and glitter paint.

NASA recently released some 'Mars Needs You!' posters - would you like to become a Martian?!?!?

You can download these high resolution posters from NASA (for personal use) by clicking on this site. The Grade 5/6 students enjoyed discussing the graphic elements of these posters and had a go at improving their Visual Communication skills by designing their own 'Explorers Wanted' posters.

Students also spent some time in Art painting some tyvek sheeting to create a large mat (Mars' surface) for their STEAM project....