07-08-2012

=Week 4 - Term 3=

It's been quite a while since my last wiki entry - I'm going to try and add an entry every week this term!

__**Art**__
I've been working really hard to improve the presentation of the art room and the sports shed this term. Since we have raised expectations for students' work presentation I feel as though we as teachers need to lead the way by keeping our learning spaces neat and well presented. On the holidays Flick and I went on another Ikea trip and we found these shelves for student work examples. It was important to me that the shelves had no backing so parents and students could still see through to the art room. I've had so many kids get super excited seeing their work displayed in the windows for everyone to see - makes them proud of their efforts over so many weeks!



I struggle pretty badly coming up with new and fun ideas for different levels. I found this site [] which has helped me so much! There are so many great ideas on here and they've all been tried and tested by an art teacher named Kathy Barbro. She updates her site regularly and every time I go on I find something new and interesting to do with the kids. Next with the Grade 5/6s we will be focussing on school beautification. So we will be trying our best to improve the look of the rebound wall, tunnel and any other eye sores in the yard. [] I would love to get the kids to try this on our school beautification project!

__**Sport/Physical Education**__
Sports captains have had a meeting with me to recognise that one of their responsibilities as captains is to keep the sports shed clean and tidy. However I have realised that they don't have very many responsibilities and they're not often rewarded for their help. School captains run assembly and often have morning teas with the principal or Veronica but what do the sports captains get to do?! They represent their house once a term in our whole school events but that's about it. So I will be holding another meeting to discuss what they would like to do as the sports captains of the school.

Brendan and I have plans to paint the football posts. We have so many students who LOVE footy and if we can work together to improve the look of the oval I can guarantee the kids will appreciate it so much and hopefully it will encourage them to get more active at recess and lunchtimes.

Looking forward to putting up photos of the new-look football oval and the school beautification ideas!