Proserpine State High School eNewsletter

From Our Classrooms

Sax students enjoy live workshop and performance

A group of our saxophone students took part in a special workshop with the Andromeda Sax Quartet yesterday. The workshop focussed on the importance of making connections with other musicians while performing and connecting with their audience through their piece of music.

The Sax Quartet is a rising chamber ensemble composed of four friends, who met as students at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and formed a quartet to compete as finalists in the conservatorium’s Concerto Competition.

Our Instrumental Music Teacher Mr Finn Williams said the workshop provided our students with an insight into chamber music, which is not something they do regularly as part of the Instrumental Music curriculum.

"It was good exposure for our students to different repertoir," he said.

After yesterday's workshop, our students enjoyed watching the quartet perform at the Proserpine Entertainment Centre as part of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music Pathways Outreach Concert. Thank you Mr Williams for organising this experience for our students.

What's happening from our Food Spec Teachers

Our faculty has recovered from a very busy Term 2, and is looking forward to Term 3. Congratulations to all students who entered into the local Show Whitsunday pavilion, we had more than 40 cooking entries and more than 10 sewing items from our Year 8 textiles class. We received some great feedback from our local community. Thank you to parents for supporting your children to take part in the community event.

Looking forward to Term 3, we will be just as busy. With a new semester we have new students in our electives. Your Food Specialisations teachers have emailed families with the upcoming recipe books and permission forms.
We ask families to please complete these forms ASAP, as these are vital to your child’s engagement in the subject. Please ensure your email is up-to-date, as teachers will send a list of ingredients for weekly cooking as well as updated class information. A reminder to always pack a container for your child to take their cooked food from class to lunch or home.

Please don’t hesitate to contact your child’s teachers if you have any questions throughout the term. Email is our best form of contact. Bring on the busy kitchens and delicious meals coming out this term!

All welcome at lunchtime Sewing Club

Sewing Club is new this year and started after great interest from our junior textiles classes wanting a little more ‘machine time’. Students of all ages are welcome, and with all skill levels on Mondays at second break in K4 classroom.

Learning how to use a sewing machine and development of basic sewing skills will be our starting point. I am asking students to come with some ideas of things they’d like to create. Students have access to textiles equipment, but materials and threads will need to be purchased as they decide what they’d like to make. It would be great to see all interested students attend.