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Junior School Production – Years 3–5
Dick Tracet and The Case of the Missing Robot
The excitement is building as students in Years 3–5 continue rehearsals for the upcoming Junior School Production! Students have been enthusiastically developing their performance skills through singing, acting, movement, and ensemble collaboration, while also building confidence and creativity on stage. The production has already become a wonderful opportunity for students to demonstrate teamwork, commitment, and resilience as they work together towards performance week. We look forward to sharing this vibrant celebration of the Performing Arts with our school community very soon.
Round Square Collaboration – The Red Thread
It is with great excitement that our 3D Art students are participating in an international Round Square collaboration titled The Red Thread. Working alongside Round Square schools from around the world, students will create an artwork featuring a symbolic red thread woven throughout the piece - a thread that will also appear in artworks created by participating schools globally.
Each artwork will reflect the culture, identity, and creativity of its school community while also incorporating subtle clues connected to another participating school. Through this collaborative artistic experience, students are exploring the transformative strength of the Arts as a powerful tool for connection, communication, and global understanding. The project beautifully embodies the Round Square ideals of Internationalism, Creativity, and Collaboration, reminding students that despite geographical distance, we are all connected through shared human experiences.
Year 9 Theatre & Music Production Excursion – ACMI
Our Year 9 Theatre and Music students recently attended an exciting excursion to ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image), where they participated in a practical workshop focused on mockumentary filmmaking.
Throughout the workshop, students explored how filmmakers manipulate and adapt the conventions of traditional documentary filmmaking to create satire, parody, and exaggerated realism within the mockumentary genre. Students analysed the techniques used to blur the line between fiction and reality, including interview structures, camera techniques, narration, awkward character interactions, and comedic timing.
The workshop provided students with valuable insight into collaborative devising processes and visual storytelling, which they are now applying within their own classroom projects as they create original mockumentary films. Students are currently using these skills to develop character, tension, humour, and social commentary within their collaboratively devised works, while strengthening their understanding of film language and contemporary performance-making practices.
Rebecca Bettiol
Learning Leader ‑ Arts & Design
As part of the study for Visual Communication Design (VCD), the Year 12 VCD students attended the Made to Move and John Golling’s exhibition at the National Gallery Victoria Australia at the Ian Potter Centre at Federation Square on Friday 27th March. Made to move presents from the NGV’s holdings of Australian jewellery spanning 1960 to 2020. Students also viewed John Gollings, Australian photographer and his collection of his architectural photography that bridges modernism and the present day, celebrating Australian architecture through a surreal lens.
We then walked to the NGV where we discussed Westwood and Kawakubo’s artwork and fashion pieces. After lunch, students explored the Games World exhibition at ACMI as part of their games and interactive experiences exploration.
This visit provided inspiration for student’s folio work and school-assessed tasks through viewing different design exhibitions from all design fields of messages, objects, environments and interactive experiences as part of their folio work this year. We are brainstorming different ideas and researching contemporary designers and their work as part of their research along with observational drawings, site visits and interviewing their target audience as part of their analysis for their studies. I have heard many exciting ideas, and I am looking forward to seeing what ideas they have come up with for their designs.
Emily Sacco
Arts/ Design Teacher
The Visual Arts room has been buzzing with noise, excitement, and creativity as Year 3–5 students work on artworks and robot costumes for the Junior School 2026 Production. Students have enthusiastically explored the script Dick Tracet and The Case of the Missing Robot while designing imaginative robot-inspired creations and backdrop scenes for the upcoming performance.
Our talented students are creating vibrant A3-sized mixed media projection pieces using paint, collage, metallic papers, and recycled materials. These artworks showcase bold colours, patterns, and futuristic designs that will help bring the production to life on stage. Alongside these works, students are also constructing creative robot costumes using recycled cardboard as a base, experimenting with texture, shape, and wearable design elements.
The atmosphere in the art room has been energetic and collaborative, with students sharing ideas, solving creative challenges, and encouraging one another throughout the process. It has been wonderful to see students confidently take artistic risks and express their individuality through their work.
The excitement continues to grow each week as students see their ideas transform into finished pieces. We warmly invite our school community to come along and enjoy the Junior School 2026 Production and celebrate the incredible creativity, imagination, and teamwork of our Year 3–5 students.
Vibha Tripathi
Visual Art Teacher
