Basil Sellers Art Prize Excursion Photos

Here are some more photos from last week's excursion to the Ian Potter Gallery. I would like to thank Ayden's mum, Michelle, for these. We would also like to thank all the parents who helped out during our excursion last week!

We walked from our school to the gallery.

We were given a tour of some of the art works in the gallery.

Then we were free to look around....

and answer some of the questions posed by the gallery.

Here is the work that won the prize,

Establishment of a Parents Gardening Club

School Council Facilities committee has recommended that a gardening group be officially formed in order to more effectively coordinate the gardening plots in the school. Members of the Facilities Committee and school staff will be in attendance. We wish to invite all interested parents to attend this meeting on Wednesday 7th November at 5.00pm in the meeting room opposite the school office.

Research Project on Assessment.

A letter is being sent home with the children this week. It outlines a research project that some teachers are involved in over the next 6 months with Professor Marilyn Fleer at Monash University. The letter outlines the project “Assessment beyond borders: Potentive assessment in Primary School”. The project is looking at varied ways to assess children both at school and at home. It also includes consent forms for you to fill out and return to school as soon as possible. We would appreciate your support in this research project.

Gusto! Excursion

Gusto! A culinary history of Victoria We will see the rich culinary history of Victoria in this exhibition, featuring gastronomic treasures from our collections – from the first Australian cookbook, published in 1864, to an actual World War I army biscuit.

Gusto! explores Victoria's historic and contemporary culinary landscape, covering subjects such as the history of viticulture, Indigenous foods, sustainable food practices, fine dining and food rationing, and also features the fascinating stories of significant Victorian culinary figures including Jacques Reymond, Rita Erlich, Guy Grossi and Stephanie Alexander.

The program has been divided into blocks: equal time looking at the Gusto! exhibition, in the computer lab having a look at the online resources, showing how research is done using the library catalogue and  seeing some other parts of the Library to tie in with the research aspect (eg. the Newspapers room).

We will be leaving school on Tuesday at 9.15AM and returning at approximately 1.30PM.  If you are able to accompany us please contact your home group teacher.

http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/event/gusto-culinary-history-victoria

Basil Sellers Art Prize Excursion

We had a great time yesterday at the Ian Potter Gallery excursion where we saw the exhibition of the Basil Sellers Art Prize. We explored the relationship of Art with sport and investigated the intentions of the artist in connection to their art. The students were given the opportunity to use their research skills when trying to answer some of the questions the gallery posed.

We will be using this experience to look further into visual literacy and critical literacy of art during term 4.

Students looking and discussing the photograph by Christian Thompson.

The staff at the gallery gives a talk about some of the pieces of art at the gallery.

NAPLAN

The NAPLAN results went out to parents last week and we hope that you have received this safely. The results of the set tests were valid for April 2012 as it takes the examination body quite some time to deliver the results to the school. We would like to stress that NAPLAN is a snapshot of student achievement and reflects their ability to manage the ‘test genre’ as well as their aptitude for the five disciplines represented in the test.  Although most students managed to cope with the timed aspect of the test, there were few who were adversely challenged by this restriction. NAPLAN test is designed to give an idea of where the students are placed after their first three years of schooling (Prep to Year-2) and needs to be considered as a culmination of learning to this point. We would also like to stress that this is one of many forms of assessment and while we understand that parents consider NAPLAN as an important form of assessment, we do not consider it in isolation. We use a range of assessment tools available to us to accurately determine where the child is placed across the curriculum. 

Research Interviews

During week 1 and week 2 of this term, students will be planning and carrying out their interviews for the research inquiry. The main objective of this interview is for the students to discover different conceptions of the term 'research' by asking purposeful questions to people who use research in their profession. By collecting this data, and sharing it with others in the Neighbourhood, we hope to collate an insightful picture on research and the act of researching.