Curriculum and Student Learning 1 — Sonia Loudon

Curriculum and Student Learning 2 — Matthew Williamson

Year 8 Science and Chinese

Year 8 Science Students have been exploring the physics of light and sound recently. In Art, students are taught that the primary colours are yellow, blue and red as these colours can be mixed together to make others. However, in Science students discover that the primary colours are green, blue and red and the secondary colours of cyan, yellow and magenta can be made using the additive method.

Curriculum and Student Learning 3 — Additive V’s Subtractive Colours

Curriculum and Student Learning 4 — Additive V’s Subtractive Colours

Even then it’s not so straightforward – inkjet printers require yellow, cyan and magenta inks to make a range of colours. Why do we keep saying that red and blue are primary colours? The answer is – language and culture. A rainbow has a continuous spectrum of light, with an infinite number of different colours. In English, we say the main colours of the rainbow are blue, indigo, violet, red, orange, yellow and green. However we don’t all define colours the same way. For example, in Chinese the colours of the rainbow are red (hóng), orange (chéng), yellow (huáng), green (lǜ), cyan (qīng), blue (lán) and purple (zǐ).

Curriculum and Student Learning 5 — 8B students experimenting with light

Curriculum and Student Learning 6 — 8B students experimenting with light

Academic Awards

All students should be congratulated again, thank you to families for supporting all students to persist and grow in their learning over a challenging 2nd term. At the end of Semester 1, we also celebrate the students who achieved the highest grades in each subject. Congratulations to all!