LEARNING AREAS
ARTS
Watercolour Painting – Yr 8 Visual Arts
Last term’s Year 8 Visual Arts students exhibited their artworks at the Renmark High School Spring Fair. They presented their watercolour paintings depicting Riverland native flora, where techniques learned from local artist Jacqui Mason helped to create these pieces. Students gained knowledge of local native plants and their significance in Aboriginal culture from Chris Koomatrie, Aboriginal Project Officer at SA Murray-Darling Basin NRM Board. These watercolour paintings were entered into NRM Education Calendar artwork competition where one of our students, Lachlan McDonald, was one of the winners. His artwork will feature in the 2020 NRM Calendar. This is a great achievement as there were over 230 entries and only 17 winners around the state, Lachlan being one of them. Congratulations to Lachlan and all the students who exhibited their work and entered the competition. These artworks are currently on display in the school’s front office foyer.
Darija Atsaves, Visual Arts Teacher
Light Painting -Yr 10 Photography
Over the last 3 weeks, Photography students have been learning about light painting. They have been exploring camera exposures as well as different props they could use to produce light painted photographs. We were fortunate enough to have Chad Vigar, a local photographer, volunteer to conduct a workshop for students on our school oval. Chad shared his abundant knowledge of light painting and happily shared a great variety of tools with students to take some amazing photographs. We would sincerely like to thank Chad for his time and providing inspiration to our students.
Darija Atsaves, Photography teacher
DRAMA
HEALTH/PE
Sports Education
Throughout Term 4, classes 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 have been taking part in an inter-class Sport Education Program (as the classes are running at the same time).
The practical is on Tag Rugby with the focus on team work, leadership and responsibility. Throughout the unit students were placed into teams and took on a role within their team. The roles include:
-Sports Board
-Captain
-Coach
-Statistician
-Artistic Director
-Publicist
-Umpire
After completing some training sessions and minor games they will participate in a mini premiership season starting this week. For each game that is played, points will be awarded for the win, fair play and a team chant. Each team will be rostered on to a duty whilst their team has a bye, with each participant performing their role. During one of the singles throughout the week students will be reflecting on the games and preparing for the following games.
A sample newsletters was designed and produced by the teams' publicist. Other year levels are also participating in their own SEPEP program.
U15 Indigenous State Football Team (Female)
Over the past few months Year 9 student Lara-Kate Patrick has attending a few training sessions (Renmark and Adelaide) in hope to make the U15 Indigenous S.A. Football Team. She recently received an exciting email saying that she has made the team and will be attending a camp in Melbourne (early 2020). Lara-Kate will also attend a few more training session and play some games at both Alberton and Adelaide ovals before representing South Australia in the National Carnival. All the best Lara-Kate and keep up the good work.
Bailey & Izzy tear up the track
As some of you may be aware both Bailey White and Isabella Cant recently represented the Renmark High School at the VIVA SA All Schools Track and Field Championships held at Santos Stadium. After some intense training and dedication both Bailey (U14) and Izzy (U16) excelled in their chosen events with Bailey achieving a 1st in the 1500m (with a record meet time of 4:24.11) and Izzy finishing 2nd.
Bailey and Izzy topped off an impressive weekend on Sunday in the 800m event as Bailey finished 1st and Izzy 2nd (as a 14 year old).
Due to the results Bailey and Izzy have automatically qualified to compete at the VIVA All Schools National Championships to be held in Perth in December. At this stage they are weighing up this opportunity although they have their eyes set on the National Track and Field Championships in Sydney (March, 2020).
Congratulations to you both on your efforts, keeping training hard and we look forward to following your progress.