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The Creative Cave

Today saw the return of the Art Cave, newly renamed The Creative Cave. We got to enjoy a modified version of the Jane Lander classic, Quick Draw. Thank you so much to the wonderful parent volunteers for making this happen. We loved it!

Art Cave Fun!

We have had so much fun in Art Cave this year, all thanks to the wonderful Jane Lander! Students have enjoyed experiences they wouldn’t ordinarily get to, including tie-dying, lino printing, ceramics and more.  Thanks Jane,  we’ll miss you next year.


Year 6: Tie Dying

Just a reminder for all our Year 6 students: Jane is organising a wonderful end of year opportunity for Year 6 – tie-dying in the Art Cave!

Students who wish to participate are asked to bring in a washed white cotton t-shirt (no polycotton). Students have the option to bring in an item besides a t-shirt eg. socks but it must also be cotton or the tie-dye will not work (no jumpers or caps).

Please ensure you bring in your cotton item clearly labelled with your name ASAP!

Claymation


This afternoon we had a screening of the Stage 3 Claymation films that our students have been working on in Art Cave with Jane and Alex. Students worked in groups to create a short animation of 15 seconds in length, using different backdrops, clay, playdoh, and other props. Students used the stop-motion animation technique of taking 5 frames per second, then playing the images in order to create the sense of movement on the screen. Some groups even went beyond that and added sound effects and music to their short animations. Below is a compilation of all our claymation films.

Art Cave

Thank you to our wonderful parent volunteers Jane and Alex who ran our first Art Cave session for the year last Friday. Students began creating some beautiful artworks based on our Science topic microorganisms using ink and straw blowing. They’re going to look fantastic when they’re done!

Tie-Dye!

A huge thank you to Jane for continuing the Year 6 Art Cave tie-dye tradition. Students did a fantastic job making their shirts! Just remember to not wash them with the whites.

Year 6 Tie-Dying

Just a reminder for all our Year 6 students: Jane is organising a wonderful end of year opportunity for Year 6 – tie-dying in the Art Cave!

Students who wish to participate are asked to bring in a white cotton t-shirt (no polycotton). Students have the option to bring in an item besides a t-shirt eg. socks but it must also be cotton or the tie-dye will not work (no jumpers or caps).

Please ensure you bring in your cotton item clearly labelled with your name by Monday 6th November (next week).

Education Week Celebrations!

A huge thank you to all our grandparents, parents, and friends who came along to Education Week Celebrations today. What an amazing day! This week we are celebrating Creative and Performing Arts. We started off with an assembly acknowledging all the amazing and creative performers we have at THPS, showcasing our band, junior and senior choirs, public speakers, stage 2 dance group, and the Sapphires aerobics team.

Education Week 2017: THPS Band Hello by Adele

Education Week 2017: THPS Band Rock Around the Clock

Education Week 2017: Jack’s speech

Education Week 2017: Ella’s speech

Education Week 2017: Seb’s speech

Education Week 2017: Rebecca’s speech

Education Week 2017: THPS Junior Choir I See the Light

Education Week 2017: Willow’s speech

Education Week 2017: Celeste’s speech

Education Week 2017: THPS Senior Choir Africa

Education Week 2017: Ember’s speech

Education Week 2017: Georgie’s speech

Education Week 2017: THPS Stage 2 Dance Group Chameleon

Education Week 2017: THPS Sapphires Aerobics Team
In the afternoon session, our amazing Year 5 and 6 students visited classrooms from K-4 and taught a series of art lessons including play doh monsters, bunting, hand dinosaurs / peacocks /butterflies, kaleidoscopes, writing styles, pattern design, collages, superhero / character sketching, sock puppets, paper planes, graphic art / shading, and zentangles. I am so incredibly proud of the efforts our senior kids went to today. They thoroughly enjoyed the experience of working with the younger students and it was a whole new world seeing the classroom from the teacher’s perspective!

A special thank you to Jane, our Art Cave guru and her team of volunteers for their efforts in working with classes and curating the Lower Hall and Community Room for our Art Gallery. It was so wonderful to see a huge turnout of families and friends to Education Week 2017!