Every Friday in the Senior team, Prep Tech allows students to delve into languages, digital technology, clay modelling, and visual arts.  Students spend a term at each subject, learning, exploring and creating new things.  Senior students are thoroughly enjoying this opportunity to explore new areas and enhance a wide variety of skills.

Languages 

Students in Room 14 for Prep Tech have been exploring the diverse cultures of both Spanish and French.  In French lessons with Mrs Dempsey, students have been learning greetings, months of the year, numbers, and days of the week.  In their Spanish lessons with Miss Ross, students have been learning greetings, numbers, colours, animals, and food.

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Digital Technology

Students in Room 12 have been working on creating video games in Prep Tech this term.  They have learned how to code a character to move around a world, create levels within the game, code various objects to be either obstacles or treasures and code the consequences of colliding with these objects.

Visual Arts 

Students in Room 11 have been working on a big art project with Ms Ingram during Prep Tech.  Our art is inspired by the artist Claude Monet.  We began by creating some observational drawings of water lilies and then used oil pastel to create huge water lilies, blending three colours together. We used a sponge painting technique to create a background that looked like sparkling pond water.  We then created leaves with pastel and made them glossy by adding PVA glue over the top.  Finally, we pieced the elements together to create our masterpieces. 

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Clay Modelling 

Students in Room 13 have been with Mrs Pearce learning about the technology design process.  They have identified a stakeholder to create a clay product for, thinking about their interests and needs.  Students then designed and made their products.