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| Students have one and a half hour specialist lessons every second day, and rotate among the 6 courses in Year 7 and 7 courses in Year 8 every 12-15 lessons. |
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| Food and Fabric Heather Jack |
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| - learn about healthy dieting, food pyramid and digestive system |
| - learn to use kitchen tools, the oven, microwave and stove to make muffins, biscuits, mini pizzas, scones, pancakes, chocolate cake and fudge among other things |
| - learn to correctly thread a sewing machine and use it to create a product the student first designs |
| - examples of products made in the past include beanbags, Frisbees, small cushions, drawstring bags |
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| Hard Materials Bob Gray |
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| - learn to work with a variety of materials including woods, plastics and metals |
| - learn to use a huge range of tools and machinery to cut, bend, heat up, drill, engrave, mark, sand and saw materials including belt sanders, jigsaws, drill presses, and hand tools like hammers |
| - utilise skills learned to design, construct and decorate a product |
| - examples of products made in the past include maze games, toy trucks, jewellery boxes, CD racks, tool trays |
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| Graphics and Design Guy Marrett |
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| - learn drawing techniques involving proportion and perspective, drawing what is seen instead of what a student may think it should look like |
| - design an original product and its packaging following a design process with concepts, development, evaluation and refinement |
| - build a three dimensional model of the final product design |
| - the focus is on individual solutions to a single problem, which allows development of problem solving techniques and creativity |
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| Art Alanah Paterson |
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| - each cycle changes to a different project possibly involving clay, pastel, printing ink, paper mache, plaster, paint, dye... the possibilities are endless |
| - in the past students have made aboriginal clay pots, pacific art printing, three dimensional flowers, paintings in imitation of a particular artist (e.g. Hundertwasser), wearable art |
| - learn about the elements of art - lines, textures, shading, colour, shape and how these all influence the way a piece of art can be appreciated and interpreted by the viewer |
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| Music Kerry Scurr |
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| - learn to read music, recognise pitch and rhythm and different note types |
| - learn about elements of music and how it can be used to express or engender emotions |
| - learn about different composers and the impact they have had on the development of styles of music |
| - learn about instruments and how to play guitar, percussion (woodblocks, xylophones, glockenspiels) and keyboard |
| - begin to compose music using Garageband, incorporating pre-recorded loops as well as recording their own melodies |
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| Science Denis McKenzie |
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| - conduct scientific experiments on topics such as movement of light, electricity and how substances react under different conditions |
| - learn how to safely use electrical circuits, heating pans, beakers and test tubes |
| - students work in groups and take turns being the leader, timer, technician and reporter |
| - at the end of each lesson students come together as a class and discuss what they have discovered |
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| Information and Communications Technology (Year 8 only) Keith Smith |
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