Volvo Ocean Lovers Festival

Enrichment at Santa Sabina College takes many forms and includes our student artists submitting works for external competitions. In March the artworks of several Primary Years students went on display at Bondi Beach as finalists in the Volvo Ocean Lovers Festival.

The competition focused on promoting concepts about closed loop recycling, litter and rubbish impacts on the ocean and creative and thoughtful ways to make better everyday decisions by turning trash to treasure. Students developed their artistic intentions in artmaking and considered how these affect the look of the work, its details and an audience’s response. They were able to select and explore different aspects of subject matter in particular ways in their making of artworks. Our young artists were provided with opportunities to question and discuss the use of plastics and disposable materials and how they can manipulate and experiment with these to create original individual artworks and produce less waste as a result.

● CONSERVATION AWARENESS THROUGH ART MAKING

Wild At Art

Works Selected For The Finals

Congratulations to Ava Anderson of Year 4 whose painting, ‘Blue Breasted Fairy Wren’ won Best Artwork from a child with a disability in the Australian Conservation Foundation’s ‘Wild At Art’ competition. The competition attracted 4600 entries from across Australia.

TEN-YEAR-OLD AVA’S ARTIST’S STATEMENT IS AS FOLLOWS: I decided to research and paint Australia’s Blue Breasted Fairy Wren because it is such a pretty bird. Blue is my favourite colour, and I love blue birds.

The Blue Breasted Fairy Wren mainly lives in southern Western Australia where wheat is farmed. Even before I was born in 2012, it was predicted to be a threatened bird species, since the land where they live was logged for wheat farming. Sadly, they are now a threatened bird species. Farmers did not listen to stop wheat farming in the area.

Even though wheat is important, the Blue Breasted Fairy Wren is just as precious. I think getting the balance right between farming and Blue Breasted Fairy Wren numbers is essential to stop our whole ecosystem from falling apart. Otherwise, our beautiful Blue Breasted Fairy Wren may not exist anymore, which makes me very sad.

Chemistry

Titration Winners

In June a total of 18 Chemistry students from Year 11 HSC & IB Chemistry and Year 12 HSC Chemistry competed in the RACI Titration Competition at Knox Grammar School. The girls trained for this competition every Wednesday afternoon after school in Term 2 and all their hard work and dedication paid off.