Machinima: Rowan of Rin – BELOW
As a summative task in an English and Media Arts unit, students were required to recreate aspects of one of the novels in the Rowan of Rin series by Emily Rodda, using the digital game Minecraft and the production technique of machinima, which involves …
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Blueback trailer - ABOVE
Students studied the novel Blueback by Tim Winton as part of an integrated unit that included English, Drama, Dance and the creation of a film trailer as a Media Arts summative task. They developed and planned their own sequences based on the novel's …
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Blueback trailer - AT
Students studied the novel Blueback by Tim Winton as part of an integrated unit that included English, Drama, Dance and the creation of a film trailer as a Media Arts summative task. They developed and planned their own sequences based on the novel's …
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Blueback trailer - BELOW
Students studied the novel Blueback by Tim Winton as part of an integrated unit that included English, Drama, Dance and the creation of a film trailer as a Media Arts summative task. They developed and planned their own sequences based on the novel's …
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Analysis: Contact - BELOW
Students studied the communicative power of technical elements used in Media Arts as part of a unit of work on the documentary Contact (2009) by Bentley Dean and Martin Butler. They explored and analysed the technical elements of voice-over, music, sound …
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Analysis essay - ABOVE
Students studied the use of film techniques and conventions to communicate meaning in a film genre. They watched and analysed Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) through student-led small group class discussion and analysis tasks based on production elements, …
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Digital project: Game on - ABOVE
Students collaboratively designed and implemented a computer game for a primary school audience using open source visual programming. They used an agile approach to develop a game featuring a welcome screen, a designed background, characters or objects …
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Digital project: Game on - AT
Students collaboratively designed and implemented a computer game for a primary school audience using open source visual programming. They used an agile approach to develop a game featuring a welcome screen, a designed background, characters or objects …
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Digital project: Game on - BELOW
Students collaboratively designed and implemented a computer game for a primary school audience using open source visual programming. They used an agile approach to develop a game featuring a welcome screen, a designed background, characters or objects …
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Digital project: Python game - ABOVE
Students were provided with a game that had been developed by previous students at the school using Python. They were required to correct any errors and to modify the game by creating additional features and functionality, for example new character races, …
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Written response: Life changes - ABOVE
Students listened to a story about children growing and changing and discussed the physical characteristics and different roles of characters in the book. Using a range of different images of people, students were asked to place them in order of age and …
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Written response: Life changes - AT
Students listened to a story about children growing and changing and discussed the physical characteristics and different roles of characters in the book. Using a range of different images of people, students were asked to place them in order of age and …
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Written response: Life changes - BELOW
Students listened to a story about children growing and changing and discussed the physical characteristics and different roles of characters in the book. Using a range of different images of people, students were asked to place them in order of age and …
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Response to stimulus: Managing emotions - BELOW
As part of this unit of work on managing emotions, students learnt about how their emotional responses impact on other people’s feelings. The class discussed scenarios involving different emotions. Students were asked to describe the emotional responses …
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Self-Introduction - AT (Japanese)
Students learned to read hiragana characters including long vowel sounds, voiced sounds, blended sounds and basic kanji. Working at their own pace and level, students were asked to read a self-introduction script about an imaginary character, Shinji. …
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Reading Hiragana - AT
Students had been learning the Hiragana alphabet. The system to help students learn Hiragana focuses on practising two rows of the Hiragana chart at a time, adding and reviewing hiragana at a student’s own pace. This is called the ‘Karate Belt’ system. White …
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Hiragana writing task – introductory letter - AT
Students were asked to write a short self-introduction letter to a visiting Japanese teacher following the conventions of the text type and stroke order on genkōyoshi paper. Concepts of self-introduction and expressing personal information were explored …
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Responses to listening, items on clothes and fashion - AT
Students had been learning about the language used to describe clothing and fashion. In this task, students were asked to complete listening exercises that required them to identify vocabulary and descriptive language such as colour and style. Students …
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Egg creatures – AT
Students learnt the vocabulary and structures to describe characters and objects. In this unit, students worked in Visual Arts and in Modern Greek to create and describe. In Visual Arts, students created an egg creature. They started with a background …
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Η γιορτή της γιαγιάς και του παππού – AT (F-10 Sequence)
In this mixed ability and mixed background class, the students study common themes and topics with content differentiated to reflect students’ abilities in Greek. Students studied their personal world, including family, self and relationships and the …
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