Where is Mr. Randall?

. . . . riding his bike from Adelaide to Melbourne

The SMILE (Supporting Medical Innovation for Life Enhancement) Foundation provides financial assistance to families whose children suffer from rare diseases as well as much needed funding into medical research.

You can follow Mr Randall by clicking the here

HSC Visual Arts - New Case Study

Frames Work Sheet

Local Art Gallery Case Study

Visit a local Art Gallery and write an exhibition review.

Length – 500 words 

In your review you need to make comment on the following;
- The role of a gallery in a local community.
- How the artist became associated with the Gallery.
- How the Gallery supports the Artist.
- Review an artwork in the exhibition using the Frames Work Sheet
- Submit with your work some published material, information sheet, flier or business card - proof that you visited the gallery.

Local Galleries to Visit

- Hat Hill Gallery - 3 Hat Hill Road, Blackheath -

(02) 4787 7033

- Blackheath Art Gallery - 44 Govetts Leap Road, Blackheath -

(02) 4787 8800

- Katoomba Fine Art - 98 Lurline Street, Katoomba
(02) 4782 1220

- Nolan on Lovel - 56a Lovel Street, Katoomba
(02) 4782 6231

- Lost Bear Gallery - 5/146-148 Leura Mall, Leura
(02) 4784 1440

 

Before you go - call them to check opening hour.

Christian Education - Orphans in the classroom

Hosea 14:3 .. in you alone do the orphans find mercy. 
Matthew 19:14 ... Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." 

From Wiki - 

In the common use, an orphan does not have any surviving parent to care for him or her. However, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), and other groups label any child that has lost one parent as an orphan.

I recently had the opportunity to attend a presentation by Greg Beech CEO from Homes of Hope.  He highlighted the overwhelming and distressing problem of orphans in our world. He explored the reason behind the UNICEF definition of an orphan, which includes children who have lost one or both parents. This definition sees the global proportion of orphans as 1/13 children.  Commonly a child will loose their father, leaving the mother and child in a most desperate situation, often resulting in the eventual abandonment of that child. In Jakarta, Homes of Hope are raising funds to build an orphanage to house up to 60 children. 

In affluent Australia there are school children who are in many ways orphans. Although they are not suffering the same plight as those in developing countries, nevertheless, they are abandoned and in alone in the world. Our orphans come from broken or multiple homes, living with Grandparents or careers, or with parents who have lost patience with an 'out of control' teenager. These are the children who are accountable only to themselves; they put themselves to bed, launder their own clothes, find their own money, prepare their own meals, care for their siblings and even are responsible for nursing other family members. Their lives are troubled and out of their control, they come to school without adequate food, without the basic school equipment, unwashed and out of uniform.

I wonder whether we need to care for these students as the orphans that they are.

Christian Education must emphasis the Christ in Education. If Jesus was at our school what would he be most concerned about?  I see Jesus ensuring that our orphans were fed, warm, washed, clothed, rested, listen to and understood, well before the bell rang for the start the school day. Jesus would give them the care and security all children deserve, see that their physical and emotional needs were met and then "off to class." 


Within our schools we need to consider how we can provide the facilities that our orphans need; breakfast clubs, fresh lunches, clean bathrooms and washrooms, counselling, medical and health assistance, spare clean uniforms and casual cloths . . . (?)

I think that Jesus would be one of those teachers who would always be late to class. 
Oh, and Jesus would teach Design and Technology.


Just a teacher thought,
Ian Randall

CJ Hard At It

As the HSC deadline approaches the students step up to the mark

A blackboard of inspiration!

What a great classroom idea!

Even more Chocolate!

click to view student work

90% of Success

"90% of Success is just showing up" Woody Allen 

an unrelated image showing 90%!?

Good education provides students the confidence to get involved in life.
Participating in an enriched school experience is essential for students to develop confidence within themselves, so that they will not shy away from opportunities which come their way.
When students leave school there are so many ways they can participate in their community; joining an acting society, volunteering, participating in sport or a music group. It is often through 'showing up' that you make new friends, establish contacts and encounter further opportunities.
As teachers let us continue to encourage our students to get involved and provide opportunities for them to do so.

Just a teacher thought,
Ian Randall

Leadership Development Day

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Our Students thinking through a team building exercise.

Chocolate Artists

click here to view CHOCOLATE ARTWORKS

Chocolate Tasting at Josophan's Fine Chocolates, Leura

Year 9/10 Painters

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Year 8 Painters

Photo's from Year 12 Camp

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Megalong Valley Film Festival

Saturday 23rd July

Megalong Valley Community Hall

7pm

Mr Randall's own film is now online - click here

Good luck to all our students - I hope the judges will love our work!

New Films

We're getting ready for the Megalong Film Festival

Some films for you to preview.

The Monster 

The Sucking Horror

Lost

End of the World

Taken

Run School Girl Run

The Megalong Horror

The Kidnapping

enjoy,

HSC Visual Arts Student - Cassia Trist

Showcasing some completed paintings by Cassia Trist

"My Pokemon are sad"

These artworks express Cassia's sadness about the death of Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of Pokemon, who died in the Japanese earthquake - click here to view her paintings.

My pokemon are sad:

 Why the tears?

There are tears in all the paintings because the creator of pokemon

(Satoshi Tajiri) has died so they show their sadness by crying for the

pokemon creator Satoshi (Tajiri) as also my sadness since I grew up

with pokemon had had adored the work from Satoshi Tajiri.

The puddles in the paintings show how long they have been crying for.

They have been created in their own habitats.

The types i have created are water, physic, air (normal) and grass.

Each painting expresses also what they are doing. Some pokemon catch

and eat prey due to their teeth and claws.

The names of these pokemon are pythion, batorn, merog, meruse, snagon,

keape and floam.

Each of my pokemon have been created based on two different

animals,objects and other things.

by Cassia

HSC Assessment Calendar - Just in case you've lost it

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Yummmm

9/10 Design & Technology

Our first practical lesson designing Handmade Chocolates was a great success!

HSC ArtExpress

Artexpress is an exhibition of high scoring HSC student work selected for exhibition.

Students are to go to 'Inside ARTEXPRESS' Art Gallery of NSW website.

View each of the students artworks selected for exhibition and view the videos.

Select 5 artworks and (using Notes) write out the following;

Artist:

Title:

Theme of the work:

How does the work reflect the Subjective Frame?

How does the work reflect the Structural Frame?

How does the work reflect the Cultural Frame?

How does the work reflect the Postmodern Frame?

Yr 9 Hike - WE MADE IT!

"There and back again"

Thanks for keeping us in your prayers.

Yr 8 Students working hard

Nearly Finished ! 

HSC Visual Arts students making great progress on their 'Body of Works'

Click here to view a sample of preliminary drawings and paintings the students have created in preparation for their final works.

I am very pleased and encouraged with the progress the students are making.

- Mr. Randall

'CJ' with his iPad - by Vanessa-Jane

HSC Visual Arts - Assessment Writing Task, 10%

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Year 9/10 Artists

Year 9/10 Art students are making wonderful progress in the creation of their Landscape paintings.

It has been delightful to see the various ways the students have interpreted the project.

Well done to all.

Please take a moment to view their preliminary drawings and painted studies.

click here

Sunset by Zaria

Year 7 Abstract Paintings

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HSC Visual Arts - First Assessment Task

Due This Friday!


Term 1, Wk 3, Body of Work Proposal, Visual/Verbal in-class presentation, 10%
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Focus Exhibition

Yr 9/10 Visual Arts will be studying a new traveling exhibition of Australian landscape painting from the National Gallery of Australia - click here

Santa's Nativity

First prize for guessing the uninvited guest!

7/8 Graphic Novels

Congratulations to Yr 7 & 8 Visual Arts / Design & Technology Students on the publication of their first Graphic Novel. All stories and artworks were created by the students themselves over a number of weeks. For most students this was their first experience of PhotoShop and Graphic Design. Well done to all!

Order your copy of Yr 7 & 8 Graphic Novels

Price $15 - full colour

click here to see some sample pages.

7/8 Environmental Sculptures

These sculptures are from nature, created in nature and are inspired by nature.