Art Club

This term the wonderful Art Club students have been working hard to paint a very, very big backdrop for our school’s upcoming production, Puffs.

We are almost finished, and we are all very excited to finish painting the final details and to show Ms McGaw! Here are some sneak peaks of the backdrop and everyone having a lot of fun.

Miss Mia Kelly

Visual Arts and Design Teacher

Year 9 Design

Students in Year 9 Design have been creating some very cool, innovative and beautiful designs this term. Drawing from their knowledge of the Bauhaus movement, they are following the Bauhaus design principals to design new furniture for the new school. Here is a sneak peak of some of the students’ brilliant designs (all works in progress). We are very excited to see how they resolve.

Both the Year 11 and 12 Visual Art students recently visited Pulse Perspectives which features 61 selected artworks from 2022 Year 12 students across 36 WA schools. The artists explored themes around mental health, social pressures, gender, culture, environmentalism and technology. This year there were many very impressive artworks made from a range of different mediums and materials, using sculpture, painting, photography and drawing to name a few. Also featured were St George’s graduates Ela Findlater and her artworks Drained and Dissevered, and Jana Bezuidenhout’s ceramic sculpture Body Bag. It was wonderful to visit the exhibition and see the amazing artworks of St. Georges students exhibited amongst the other young talented artists. Taking the students to Pulse Perspectives is a particularly special exhibition for students.

In the Visual Arts, it is always fantastic to visit AGWA, as students are exposed to an enormous range of artworks and always return inspired and invigorated.

Miss Mia Kelly Visual Arts and Design Teacher

Sailing Winds Up

This semester we had yet another amazing opportunity to go sailing every Thursday after school with Mounts Bay Sailing Club. Students learnt how to master the controls of a pacer boat safely and in the last lesson, attempted to sink other people’s boats, which was loads of fun! We ended up sailing on a high, with new knowledge and friends. Students were able to take part in sailing and sailing concepts, powerboating and stand-up paddle boarding. The last lesson saw students racing to collect tennis balls for points. The catch, students were able to capsize each other to steal the points. It will run again in Term 3 and Term 4 if students are interested.

Mr Oliver Bratley Year 9 Student

The sailing co-curricular this semester has been an amazing experience, alongside sailing we have had the opportunity to try motor boating and stand-up paddle boarding! My favourite thing we did was play a game where we had to collect tennis balls worth a certain number of points each out in the open water and see who got the most points. The funniest thing from sailing has definitely been when Owen fell off the boat because I let go of the steering stick (tiller) by an accident.

Overall, it has been an amazing and highly recommendable experience.

Miss Quinn Slater Year 8 Student

Courage to Care - Modern History Incursion

Year 11 Modern History students participated in an incursion on Tuesday, hosted by the Courage to Care organisation, about the Holocaust. The guest speakers shared stories of Holocaust survivors, rescuers during the Holocaust and provided real-life examples of how to be an upstander. Our guests were impressed with the students’ maturity, knowledge on the subject and kindness showed. I was incredibly proud of how our students responded to the challenging issue.

Miss Katie Wilkinson Humanities Teacher