Specialist
Visual Arts
Creating and Making, Exploring and Responding: There are two main dimensions in Visual Art, the first is Creating and Making where students explore experiences, ideas, feelings and understandings through making, interpreting, performing, creating and presenting. The second dimension is Exploring and Responding and focuses on context, interpreting and responding, criticism and aesthetics.
In their Visual Arts class students will explore experiences, ideas, feelings and understandings through making, interpreting, creating and presenting art work that is linked, as closely as possible, to their class integrated topics.
Physical Education
Parkwood Green Primary Schools Physical Education program lets children experience the fun of fitness, health, teamwork, setting goals and achieving their personal best. The Physical Education program is designed to build on the skills of each grade level as follows:
FOUNDATION: Introduces and develops Fundamental Motor Skills
GRADES 1 & 2: Builds on the Fundamental Motor Skills acquired from Foundation
GRADES 3 & 4: Progressively develops Motor Skills
GRADES 5 & 6: Advances development of skills learnt in Foundation to Grade
Performing Arts
Students at Parkwood Green Primary School participate in weekly Performing Arts sessions in which our teachers work with students to both engage creative thought, while nurturing skills in the Performing Arts. Students participate in a large variety of activities while in the classroom such as; basic rhythmic notation, compositions and dramatic films, animations and advertisements using a variety of applications and programs via technology. Through participation in all areas of performing arts, students are able to develop the skills of curiosity, imagination and creativity.
SAKG Kitchen Garden Program
The aim of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation is to introduce pleasurable food education into as many Australian primary schools as possible. Our Program emphasises the flavours as well as the health benefits of fresh, seasonal food. Dishes cooked reflect the vegetables, herbs and fruits grown, season-by-season, by the children in their organic gardens.
Our Kitchen Specialist instructors emphasise balance and moderation, and endorse the concept of preparing fruit-based desserts ‘sometimes’ only.
Science
The aim of the Science program at Parkwood Green Primary School is to encourage and enable students to; develop inquiring minds and curiosity about science and the natural world and to acquire knowledge, conceptual understanding and skills to solve problems and make informed decisions in scientific and other contexts.