Year 7 Cain House - Melbourne Grammar School

Wadhurst students and parents can obtain further information about our Confirmation Service from Rev.
Eleanor O’Donnell ( elodonnell@mgs.vic.edu.au or ph. 9865 7709). Preparation for the Confirmation will
begin at Wadhurst in the last week of Term 2; there will be six sessions.
Rev Eleanor O’Donnell, Wadhurst Chaplain
NEWS FROM THE ART ROOM – MORAN PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION
Wadhurst students are invited to submit works in competition for the National Moran Contemporary
Photographic Prize (“Moran Prize”). The Moran Prize promotes contemporary photography and excellence
in photo-based work, including all types of analogue and digital photography. Images can be either colour
or black and white.
Entrants to the Moran Prize are asked to interpret “Contemporary Life in Australia” with an emphasis on
Australians going about their day-to-day lives within their environment.
Finalists work will be exhibited at The State Library of New South Wales from 16 th July and a subsequent
touring exhibition.
All photographs will be submitted to Mr Cawood for approval before submission with a signed parental
consent form. Consent forms can be collected from the Art Room and on the Art portal page. If you require
any further information regarding the competition please take a tour of the Moran website
www.moranprizes.com.au
Mr Adam Cawood, Visual Arts Co-ordinator
7 CAFFIN 1 TO WOODEND
Best wishes to the students of 7 Caffin 1 as they head to camp this Sunday 20 May. The bus returns with
the boys at approximately 3.00pm next Friday.
MATHEMATICS EXAMINATIONS
Please note that Year 7 students will participate in the Semester One Mental Mathematics Test on
Thursday 24 May and in the Mathematics examination on Thursday 31 May. The Year 8 students will have
their Mental Mathematics test on Friday 25 May and their Mathematics examination on Friday 1 June.
VISIT TO THE AUSTRALIAN CENTRE OF MOVING IMAGES
LIGHTS! CAMERA! ANIMATION! On Tuesday the 1 st of May, 2012, twenty Wadhurst boys set off to
discover a new world, the world of animation. We departed school at 9:30am catching public transport up
St Kilda Rd to Federation Square. As we stepped off the tram, we then were debriefed about our day at
ACMI by the one and only Mr Cawood.
Once we entered ACMI, we were introduced to the ACMI mentors and were told what we were going to be
doing that day. Once our objective was clear we then headed up to the animation labs, which contained
some very comfortable seats. We were shown different types of animations that were made by
extraordinary animators.
Our goal was to make a 3 second animation, which equalled to 99 drawing frames! There were two
different types of animation. There was the animation where you draw random creative lines and patterns
down the digital film-strip or the animation where you draw a character or an object sequence in each
frame. The mentors showed us some interesting and productive ways to use photo shop and enhance our
animations.