Know My World Exchange

We live in an amazing time when we can share the world that we live in with other students around the world. We have the opportunity to participate in an exchange with an organisation called "Know My World".

This organisation is an educational resource that connects digital exchanges around the world. This will be the third time that Mount Annan Christian College has participated in an exchange of this nature.

The video above forms a part of our submission. It showcases our fabulous school. Enjoy!

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Positive and Negative Space

Stare at the white dot for 10 seconds, then look at Van Gogh's Starry Night below. pic.twitter.com/t4PVHbnK2v — Google Facts (@GoogleFacts) August 5, 2017 When creating a picture or artwork, positive and negative space both need to be considered. What is the positive and negative space? Look closely at the following picture: It shows the space between the faces takes on a shape. This is negative, while the faces themselves are positive shapes. What do you see in the following pictures? In your Art diary complete the following: Draw an example design of positive and negative Art then explain Positive and Negative Art. Positive and Negative Artworks. To understand Positive and Negative Art better we will be creating an Artwork like the examples below: This artwork also uses the concepts of translation, rotation and reflection which you have been exploring in Mathematics. Can you see how these are used in the shapes ab

An Award Winning Term

Our cross country team ran their best and showed great sportsmanship. Merit Award winners were given for effort at our recent Gala Day and for Science. The first our Silver Behaviour Awards. They went to a Movie Afternoon. Our Bronze Award achievers will be getting a hot chocolate and cookies. Well done to all our Award Winners this term. It's always fantastic to be able to share our students achievements and recognise their efforts.

Creating and making with textiles

This term, we have been looking at using textiles as a medium for creativity. Using wool or natural fibres to create something wearable is an ancient art. Some of the best memories that I have, when growing up was of creating felt and dyeing fabrics. This was the inspiration for the project for my Creativity project. After approaching our agricultural department for some raw alpaca fleece, the first step was to was this very dirty fleece. This was dirty, but a lot of fun! After it had dried, we dyed the wool and then felted it. The felting process takes a lot of work, hot water and soap. It requires the wool to be placed into a tea towel after it was carded to get rid of the rest of the dirt. There was a lot of enthusiasm to have a go. Rubber gloves were essential to protect little hands! This took much longer than anticipated so we have used purchased felt to make our creations The next step was to learn to sew using a needle and thread. To help this pro

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