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Teacher: Renee Hall
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Term 1, 2026 - Media Arts
Learning Through Our CARE Values
Welcome back to the school year. During Term 1 and 2 of Performing Arts, we are exploring Media Arts - a subject where creativity, communication and digital skills can shine through, especially through the lens of our CARE values — Collaboration, Achievement, Responsibility and Empathy.
Each year level engages in hands-on learning experiences that connect media skills with real-world understanding and positive behaviours.
PLC (Foundation Level)
Our youngest learners are discovering how media connects to their everyday lives.
Collaboration: Brainstorming the types of media we see and use every day, such as animations, music videos and computer games.
Achievement: Taking photographs of shape-based artworks to celebrate learning and success.
Responsibility: Creating posters that demonstrate safe and respectful iPad use.
Empathy: Making stop-motion animations that explore colour mixing and how colours can represent emotions.
End of Term Project: Producing a PLC video showcasing what students have learned about their day and school structure.
SLC (Year 1/2)
Students are building confidence with technology while learning to communicate ideas clearly.
Collaboration: Creating a class set of technology rules and learning how to use Google Classroom responsibly.
Achievement: Using photography, storyboarding and captions to show what a Growth Mindset looks and sounds like.
Responsibility: Designing advertisements that explain how to use equipment safely and correctly.
Empathy: Developing social stories inspired by Someone Else’s Shoes, recording audio to match facial expressions and emotions.
CLC (Year 3/4)
Learners are analysing media messages and creating meaningful content.
Collaboration: Comparing media artworks and discussing the messages they communicate.
Achievement: Using timer photography to convey the idea that “failing is learning.”
Responsibility: Creating videos that demonstrate how to be a positive role-model superhero.
Empathy: Designing soundscapes that explore what empathy might sound like.
YYLC (Year 5/6)
Our senior students are applying advanced media skills with purpose and creativity.
Collaboration: Brainstorming and identifying values expressed in media artworks.
Achievement: Creating PowerPoint advertisements for a new toy or educational game.
Responsibility: Designing comic strips linked to familiar stories, such as Pinocchio or The Boy Who Cried Wolf, to explore taking responsibility.
Empathy: Producing a music video designed to support and teach their Prep buddies.
Through Media Arts, MPPS students are not only learning how to create and analyse media — they are developing essential life skills that reflect our CARE values every day.
Welcome back to the school year. During Term 1 and 2 of Performing Arts, we are exploring Media Arts - a subject where creativity, communication and digital skills can shine through, especially through the lens of our CARE values — Collaboration, Achievement, Responsibility and Empathy.
Each year level engages in hands-on learning experiences that connect media skills with real-world understanding and positive behaviours.
PLC (Foundation Level)
Our youngest learners are discovering how media connects to their everyday lives.
Collaboration: Brainstorming the types of media we see and use every day, such as animations, music videos and computer games.
Achievement: Taking photographs of shape-based artworks to celebrate learning and success.
Responsibility: Creating posters that demonstrate safe and respectful iPad use.
Empathy: Making stop-motion animations that explore colour mixing and how colours can represent emotions.
End of Term Project: Producing a PLC video showcasing what students have learned about their day and school structure.
SLC (Year 1/2)
Students are building confidence with technology while learning to communicate ideas clearly.
Collaboration: Creating a class set of technology rules and learning how to use Google Classroom responsibly.
Achievement: Using photography, storyboarding and captions to show what a Growth Mindset looks and sounds like.
Responsibility: Designing advertisements that explain how to use equipment safely and correctly.
Empathy: Developing social stories inspired by Someone Else’s Shoes, recording audio to match facial expressions and emotions.
CLC (Year 3/4)
Learners are analysing media messages and creating meaningful content.
Collaboration: Comparing media artworks and discussing the messages they communicate.
Achievement: Using timer photography to convey the idea that “failing is learning.”
Responsibility: Creating videos that demonstrate how to be a positive role-model superhero.
Empathy: Designing soundscapes that explore what empathy might sound like.
YYLC (Year 5/6)
Our senior students are applying advanced media skills with purpose and creativity.
Collaboration: Brainstorming and identifying values expressed in media artworks.
Achievement: Creating PowerPoint advertisements for a new toy or educational game.
Responsibility: Designing comic strips linked to familiar stories, such as Pinocchio or The Boy Who Cried Wolf, to explore taking responsibility.
Empathy: Producing a music video designed to support and teach their Prep buddies.
Through Media Arts, MPPS students are not only learning how to create and analyse media — they are developing essential life skills that reflect our CARE values every day.
Term 1, 2026 - Performing Arts Timetable
Please note that changes to specific class allocations may occur during Term 1 :)
Term 4, 2025 - Music
In Term 4, students will be engaging in a creative and exciting journey as they explore key musical elements and work towards a final performance for our Christmas Carols Evening. In Week 1, students will focus on the musical Element of Structure and Form. They will learn how music is organised, recognising patterns such as verse and chorus, and understanding how composers use structure to shape a musical piece. We are excited to create soundscapes and our own lyrics to match different themes and meanings. In Week 2, we shift our attention to Timbre and Texture. Students will explore different instrumental and vocal sounds (timbre) and how layers of sound (texture) are used to create interest and emotion in music. From Weeks 3 to 10, the focus will be on preparing for our much-anticipated Christmas Carols Evening. During these weeks, students will begin rehearsals, applying what they’ve learned throughout the semester. The rehearsals provide a rich opportunity to develop performance skills and to bring together key musical elements:
Beat – keeping a steady pulse while singing or playing
Rhythm – understanding and performing the patterns of sound and silence
Pitch – singing in tune and recognising melody
Dynamics – using volume and expression to convey feeling and mood.
As we work towards our final performance, students will also learn about stage presence, teamwork, and the joy of sharing music with others.
We look forward to celebrating their hard work and talent at our Christmas Carols Evening, a highlight of the school year!
Beat – keeping a steady pulse while singing or playing
Rhythm – understanding and performing the patterns of sound and silence
Pitch – singing in tune and recognising melody
Dynamics – using volume and expression to convey feeling and mood.
As we work towards our final performance, students will also learn about stage presence, teamwork, and the joy of sharing music with others.
We look forward to celebrating their hard work and talent at our Christmas Carols Evening, a highlight of the school year!
Term 4 , 2025 - Performing Arts Timetable
Please note that changes to specific class allocations may occur during Term 4 :)
Term 3, 2025 - Music
Hitting the Right Notes: A Symphony of Sound and Rhythm
Get ready students as we jump into the vibrant world of music, exploring the building blocks that bring sound to life. Each week, we’ll unlock a new Element of Music —beat, rhythm, pitch, tempo, timbre, texture, form, and structure—and discover how these pieces fit together to create amazing performances.
Students will get hands-on with their voices, body percussion, and a colourful mix of instruments like the glockenspiel, drums, clapping sticks, and boom whackers. Through singing, moving, and playing, they’ll sharpen their musical skills and creativity while having a blast making music as a team. We are looking forward to building creativity, coordination, and musical awareness while having fun making music together!
Whilst all year levels will be learning to record their musical creations using a version of notation (music symbols), please see below some of the experiences each year level will be immersed into.
PLC: Explore sound and silence, experiment with ways to use and control voice, movement and instruments, create and practise chants, songs and rhymes, and build soundscapes of different environments.
SLC: Rehearse and perform songs and instrumental music, create simple compositions using rhythm symbols, follow cues and repeat patterns.
CLC and YYLC: Explore gradual dynamic (soft and loud) and tempo (slow or fast) changes using voice, instruments and technologies; Explore rhythm and pitch patterns; Improvise and create music with different structures; and, record the resulting compositions. For example, using an existing song melody and replacing the lyrics with a new message.
Get ready students as we jump into the vibrant world of music, exploring the building blocks that bring sound to life. Each week, we’ll unlock a new Element of Music —beat, rhythm, pitch, tempo, timbre, texture, form, and structure—and discover how these pieces fit together to create amazing performances.
Students will get hands-on with their voices, body percussion, and a colourful mix of instruments like the glockenspiel, drums, clapping sticks, and boom whackers. Through singing, moving, and playing, they’ll sharpen their musical skills and creativity while having a blast making music as a team. We are looking forward to building creativity, coordination, and musical awareness while having fun making music together!
Whilst all year levels will be learning to record their musical creations using a version of notation (music symbols), please see below some of the experiences each year level will be immersed into.
PLC: Explore sound and silence, experiment with ways to use and control voice, movement and instruments, create and practise chants, songs and rhymes, and build soundscapes of different environments.
SLC: Rehearse and perform songs and instrumental music, create simple compositions using rhythm symbols, follow cues and repeat patterns.
CLC and YYLC: Explore gradual dynamic (soft and loud) and tempo (slow or fast) changes using voice, instruments and technologies; Explore rhythm and pitch patterns; Improvise and create music with different structures; and, record the resulting compositions. For example, using an existing song melody and replacing the lyrics with a new message.
Term 3, 2025 - Performing Arts Timetable
Please note that changes may occur during Term 3 :)
Term 2, 2025 - Drama
Bringing Back the Drama!
As students continue to discover and explore their creative sides using the Elements of Drama, such as Voice, Character, and Movement, we are also excited for students to thrive in new challenges for Term 2.
Performing Arts' Drama Units across MPPS will link to each Learning Community's MAPPEN topics about PLACE, including: Where We Live, Places and Spaces, Our Island Home, and Australia and Our Neighbouring Countries. Please see each year level's term outline below:
PLC: Explore the movement and voice of different animals in different situations, inspired by Indigenous creation stories.
SLC: Explore how to tell the stories of different moods and tensions using body movement only - no facial expressions. SLC also have the opportunity to explore and respond to the drama performances and intended messages of various Indigenous creation stories.
CLC and YYLC: Create project presentations that explain and compare how Drama roles, performances and spaces are used for their intended audiences across different cultures, including the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture.
As students continue to discover and explore their creative sides using the Elements of Drama, such as Voice, Character, and Movement, we are also excited for students to thrive in new challenges for Term 2.
Performing Arts' Drama Units across MPPS will link to each Learning Community's MAPPEN topics about PLACE, including: Where We Live, Places and Spaces, Our Island Home, and Australia and Our Neighbouring Countries. Please see each year level's term outline below:
PLC: Explore the movement and voice of different animals in different situations, inspired by Indigenous creation stories.
SLC: Explore how to tell the stories of different moods and tensions using body movement only - no facial expressions. SLC also have the opportunity to explore and respond to the drama performances and intended messages of various Indigenous creation stories.
CLC and YYLC: Create project presentations that explain and compare how Drama roles, performances and spaces are used for their intended audiences across different cultures, including the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture.
Term 2, 2025 - Performing Arts Timetable
Term 1, 2025 - Drama
WELCOME BACK STUDENTS!
We are thrilled to welcome everyone back for another exciting school year! We hope you had a fantastic break and are ready to dive into new opportunities, challenges, and experiences. This year in Performing Arts, we have an engaging and creative journey ahead as we explore the exciting worlds of Drama in Semester One and Music in Semester Two.
Drama offers the opportunity for students to express themselves creatively, think outside the box using team work, and develop confident storytelling skills through improvisation, script work, and performance.
The whole-school will begin to explore the elements of drama, including role; character; relationships; focus and tension; mood and atmosphere; voice; movement; situation; space and time.
Whilst all year levels will participate in Performing Arts' Start-Up Program to set expectations and encourage C.A.R.E values in Drama, see below the terms units each year level will be exploring:
PLC: Make and present puppet shows about caring for others in the classroom, and explore facial expressions and body language of different feelings based on the text 'My Many Coloured Days.'
SLC: Re-enact fairy tales with finger puppets, and script-write a drama performance inspired by the text 'The Magic Hat.'
CLC: Improvise mini drama performances of 'Dora the Explorer' scenes that present characters collaboratively problem-solving using unknown objects in a backpack; and, script-write a drama performance inspired by the text 'Where the Wild Things Are.'
YYLC: Analyse collages of window sceneries from Jeannie Baker's text 'Belonging' and script-write a drama performance that is inspired by the picture book's symbols.
Check out the blog throughout the term to catch-up on Performing Arts' highlight moments!
We are thrilled to welcome everyone back for another exciting school year! We hope you had a fantastic break and are ready to dive into new opportunities, challenges, and experiences. This year in Performing Arts, we have an engaging and creative journey ahead as we explore the exciting worlds of Drama in Semester One and Music in Semester Two.
Drama offers the opportunity for students to express themselves creatively, think outside the box using team work, and develop confident storytelling skills through improvisation, script work, and performance.
The whole-school will begin to explore the elements of drama, including role; character; relationships; focus and tension; mood and atmosphere; voice; movement; situation; space and time.
Whilst all year levels will participate in Performing Arts' Start-Up Program to set expectations and encourage C.A.R.E values in Drama, see below the terms units each year level will be exploring:
PLC: Make and present puppet shows about caring for others in the classroom, and explore facial expressions and body language of different feelings based on the text 'My Many Coloured Days.'
SLC: Re-enact fairy tales with finger puppets, and script-write a drama performance inspired by the text 'The Magic Hat.'
CLC: Improvise mini drama performances of 'Dora the Explorer' scenes that present characters collaboratively problem-solving using unknown objects in a backpack; and, script-write a drama performance inspired by the text 'Where the Wild Things Are.'
YYLC: Analyse collages of window sceneries from Jeannie Baker's text 'Belonging' and script-write a drama performance that is inspired by the picture book's symbols.
Check out the blog throughout the term to catch-up on Performing Arts' highlight moments!
Term 1, 2025 - Performing Arts Timetable
Performing Arts Room
As we explore Drama and Music in 2025, our Performing Arts room displays and uses:
- Anchor charts to visually support what we learn
- A C.A.R.E values wall to remind each other on how to approach learning and respect others e.g. positive risk-taking; making mistakes
- We acknowledge that sound and collaborative activities can overwhelm students' emotions and mindset at times. To support sensory needs and wellbeing, we offer a 'Break Space' with sensory toys, sensory tiles and the mental health continuum so students can describe their emotions.
Mernda Park School Choir
Maddi, our wonderful PE teacher, will again be taking the Mernda Park Primary Choir groups. Thank you Maddi!
Junior Choir Group: Monday at lunchtime in the Stadium
Senior Choir Group: Tuesday at lunchtime in the Stadium
Junior Choir Group: Monday at lunchtime in the Stadium
Senior Choir Group: Tuesday at lunchtime in the Stadium
Mernda Park Ukulele Club
Rhece, our wonderful SLC teacher, will continue to be taking The Mernda Park Ukulele Club. Thank you Rhece!
Who: Years 2-6 are welcome to participate.
When: Changed to Thursday at Recess with in the Performing Arts room.
No experience necessary. If your child is interested in joining the Ukulele Club, please speak to Rhece.
Who: Years 2-6 are welcome to participate.
When: Changed to Thursday at Recess with in the Performing Arts room.
No experience necessary. If your child is interested in joining the Ukulele Club, please speak to Rhece.
