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Creative Arts

Junior dance fun!

Junior dance has started! We had our first lesson this week and what a great success it was as we introduced dance to 38 young dancers from Prep to Year 2. On Tuesday, we introduced students to the role of improvisation and allowed students to use expressive movement to present a dance, which communicated ideas to their peers.

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Very melodramatic

Year 9-10 Elective Drama students have been turning their hands to full blown 19th Century Melodrama. They have looked at the English models with their preoccupation with spectacle and sensation, stock character types, the codes that audiences expected such as the bass voiced villain, dressed in black and soprano for the suffering heroine, of course, dressed in white.

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Old scholars excel in stage productions

The annual Tasmanian Theatre Awards, known as the Errols after Tasmanian Hollywood star, Errol Flynn, were awarded last weekend. Congratulations to all the winners especially old scholar Andrew Casey (1989) for his Best Supporting Performance (Male) for The Effect (Loud Mouth Theatre Company); and to old scholar Ryan Ennis (2013) for the Community Theatre Judges’ Award: Emerging Scriptwriter for Watching (produced by Fawkes Theatre Company).

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Junior Dance news

This year we are introducing JUNIOR DANCE for students from Prep-Year 2. This is very exciting and we can’t wait to start this initiative in the early years. Whilst dance is a good source of fun exercise for young children, it is also a creative outlet.

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Year 3-6 after-school Drama opportunity

Drama is great way to build skills in communication, problem solving, build confidence and learn how to navigate group dynamics. Here’s a chance for students to explore all these possibilities through a non-threatening, inclusive activity-based introduction to drama and performance.

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Effie Pryer, IWD breakfast guest

Effie Pryer is a young artist who has been painting and exhibiting for a number of years in Hobart. Effie’s family mo​ved to Hobart when she was three, and she enrolled at ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ»ÆƬ in Year 4 when her mother started work next door at GYC. She always loved painting and expressive arts, from an early age, and Art classes at ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ»ÆƬ in Years 7-10 were what she looked forward to

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2018 College Calendar available

The 2018 College calendar has been printed and mailed to families last week. We hope you will begin to review and mark in dates important to you and your family. The calendar will also be availabl

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Bell Shakespeare partnership

​The renowned Bell Shakespeare Theatre Company has announced that ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ»ÆƬ's Head of English, Mrs Jan Marcenko, is one of just 30 teachers nationally (just two from Tasmania) to receive a Regional Teacher Mentorship. This mentorship gives ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ»ÆƬ a fully-funded, year-long mentorship with the company.

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Creative Arts hub development update

The Fra Angelico Creative Arts Centre will provide students with two new fine arts classrooms, two new sound proof music classrooms, a new creative studio, seven new practice rooms with adjoining recording room, print making room, a new courtyard, an outdoor walkway and improvements to the adjacent landscaping.

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Carols from the choir

Following the special K-2 carols presented to parents at ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ»ÆƬ​ there have been several more opportunities for the community to enjoy carols from our lovely choirs.

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