Press Club - Episode 2

Just a quick note to inform you that the second episode of the Princess Hill Press Club can now be accessed through the Intranet section of the website. The username and password has been published in week 6 edition of Talking Point and will be again in the next week edition.

Peer assessment

Neighbourhood 1 has spent the last three weeks investigating and developing our understanding of what an assessment is. We have looked at various projects produced by students around the school and discussed and recorded our ideas on different elements, that put together, make a successful project. After collating these information generated by the students, and discussing further the exact wording, we are now in the process of producing a rubric. This rubric will then be used by the students to peer assess the projects produced by their fellow learners in the neighbourhood.

Incursions

We were very fortunate to have two special guests in our neighbourhood last Wednesday.

Laura Pearse came in to our neighbourhood and presented her incredible VCE media project she created last year. Laura, who is a god-daughter of Julie Effemey, graduated from her high school last year and is currently on a gap year. For her project, she created a film inspired by Jim Henson which incorporated puppets and live action actors. She gave an inspiring talk about her filmmaking journey, through the processes of designing and creating her puppets to storyboarding and directing her wonderful film. It was lovely to see the enthralled faces of our students as they watched the final product at the end.

Laura shows introduces our neighbourhood to one of her creations.

Laura with her fox puppet.

On the same day, Bruce Kane from Australian Broadcast Cooporation came in to our neighbourhood to show us a funny animated short called "Teach Maths To Your Dog". After the viewing, Bruce received some insightful feedback from our students.

Bruce Kane introducing the animated short.

We would like to thank both Laura and Bruce for giving up their time and providing our neighbourhood with rich and exciting presentations.