05 Dec 2018
Throughout Term 4, teachers have been collecting samples of student writing produced in their classrooms. Teachers then nominate their students’ best efforts to the WIN team who read all the entries and select the best scripts. Entries were judged across year groups and courses in the junior school. The entries were judged on their cohesion, sentence structure, spelling, punctuation, grammar and how well they addressed the task.
After a long judging process the Term 4 winners were decided. They are as follows:
Year 7 - Kai Avis – Visual Arts
Year 8 – Yalani Mead - HSIE
Year 9 – Grace Liew – Science
Year 10 – Isabella Goodwin – Dance
A short excerpt from each of the student’s work reveals the high quality of writing produced.
Year 7 Kai Avis – Visual Arts
As I stepped out of the door from my house, I instantly felt the warm air cover me. I started to walk down the stairs. As I stepped out of the shadow from my house, I squinted as my eyes adjusted to the bright light. Even more warm air blanketed me as I could feel the rough sand beneath my feet.
Year 8 – Yalani Mead - HSIE
It’s been a long time since we last saw our home land Hawaiki and I don’t know how much longer it will be till we reach land. Every morning I wake up and walk around my boat and collect all the lifeless people that gave up overnight. We’ve lost over half our tribe from running out of water and food and the rest of us are holding on by a thread. I am just about to give up hope before my wife yells out, ‘Look. Over there. There’s a long white cloud and beneath, I see land!’
Year 9 – Grace Liew – Science
Wind gushed past my fair-skinned face as I tugged my small wooden boat up to the island. As I finished tying my boat against a shed, the sirens blared in my ears a warning of a tsunami. I saw people running outside from their homes and hotels. I heard the screams of ‘RUN! RUN!” I looked back behind me, towards the ocean and witnessed the furious water rushing towards the island.
Year 10 – Isabella Goodwin – Dance
Tying together exceptional choreography and an outstanding accompaniment are the creative costume designs by Bruce’s wife, Marian Bruce. Throughout the whole piece, the most prevalent colour is red. There is an emphasis on this colour as it can be related to many emotions such as love, anger, hate, passion and lust; all of which are evident in relationships.
When dealing with the 1960s the issues and social behaviour at the time are reflected in the use of red as it was a time of passion, free love and a lot of hate and anger towards the government concerning the war and other events.