Recently, year 8 Digital Technology students were given the opportunity to develop their computer programming skills with the support of Daniel Manu from the Adelaide Robotics Academy. These students experienced advanced skill development in block coding, specifically looking at EV3 LEGO Mindstorm robots. Students were able to incorporate logic movements and incorporating sensor controls. Students were able to apply these skills with a one on one battle within the sumo ring.
Mrs Kate Rowberry
Soon, a major artwork will be installed at the College, which has been a collaborative design by students ranging from year 7 to 10. This was created as a response to their learning of Saint Dominic with their Community Living Week teacher Ms Kate Lymn. This artwork will be a large black aluminium laser cut design that has predominately students designs cut out. This is an exciting opportunity to have a permmanent mark left by our students on our school.
Ms K Lymn
The Kaurna Plants Sculpture was initiated through the need to somehow acknowledge the rich language of the Kaurna people. Within a small grassy courtyard six rectangular totems were constructed with mosaic and ceramic embellishments.
Each pole has written ceramic Kaurna words for plants, while they are also surrounded by ceramic tiles of native plants to the Adelaide plains. Year 6 Visual Art students created the plant designs, while Community Living Week Participants used mosaic to cover the totems with colours reminiscent of pigments used by indigenous people .
This sculpture was supported with the linguistic advice by the Kaurna Warra Karrpanthi Committee, who were able to advise on appropriate words and the pronunciation for students. Kaurna Elder Ivan Copley performed a smoking ceremony for the opening for the artwork, for which our principal Dr Helen Riekie officiated. Cabra Sisters, students, and their families were invited to this opening organised by their Art teacher Ms Kate Lymn.
Ms Lymn
As part of a year 9 Ceramic unit of work students researched Aboriginal Dreamtime Stories and used their own visual language to depict these. They also researched the work by Australian ceramicist Susan Simonini as part of their visual study and looked at the way layers can be hidden and exposed through underglaze techniques. Each student chose a Dreamtime story and depicted the visual landscape that they could interpret. They used symbols of animals or vegetation within these stories as negative white spaces that exposed ‘windows’ to the landscapes underneath.
Ms K Lymn
A year 9 class recently completed their unit on ceramics, with a particular focus on abstracting patterns. They created their own original patterns and then used the sgraffitto technique to then carve back into these with botanical patterns. Their tea sets consisted of a teapot, 2 cups, a milk jug and a sugar container with spoon. The teapots were finished off with handmade cane handles.
Ms Lymn
During semester 1, a group of year 7 students created a collaborative artwork in the style of Immants Tillers. They each responded to research of personal histories by Indigenous people and the experiences they have had. The students each created a part of a larger artwork of the South Australian Flinders Rangers and incorporated the imagery of the Sturt Desert Pea, which is native to that area.
A group of year 6 students have undertaken a Kaurna research based art project. They responded to native South Australian plants that were used by the Kaurna people. These students created original drawings in response to these plants, which they then turned into ceramic tiles. Their artworks will be incorporated on 6 totem poles at the college and mosaic tiles will be added by Community Living Week students. Kaurna words of plant names have also been incorporated with this artwork. We have been most appreciative to be able to use these words thanks to the Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi Committee.
Here are a few images of the development of this project.
Ms K Lymn
The following sweets were created by a group of year 6 students.
A group of year 6 students created ceramic houses in response to historic buildings in Adelaide. They were able to ‘visit’ these buildings via google earth and create sketches of what they could see.
Ms Lymn
glenunga art space
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