Spring has sprung so what better time to get into the garden!
Earlier in the year over 6 classes worked together to bring to life
Mr Mal Ibu who was entered in the Therapy Focus Scarecrow
Competition for Garden week. Over 20 schools from throughout the state entered in the competition with all scarecrows put on display as a part of the Therapy Focus exhibit where they were put up for ‘The Peoples Vote’. We were ecstatic to hear of Mr Mal Ibu’s overwhelming popularity. With his landslide win our newest garden friend earned the school two raised garden beds which included soil, vegetables and a very special visit from Sunny Sunflower and Chris Ferreira from Great Gardens.
With the arrival of Spring and the weather playing nice the students and staff ventured out to the golf course and enjoyed a wonderful day in the sun as Chris gave us all a few lessons in planting and general plant care. Sunny Sunflower was happy to keep his hands clean posing for photo’s and entertaining the kids with some funky dance moves!
A mighty team of students was gathered and they all set in to roll out the wheelbarrows and load up the beds with a healthy mix of mulch and soil to give our little fruit and vegetables a fine kick start. With Sunny Sunflower still avoiding any form of manual labour the students from TA2 and 17 took control of the worksite and had the beds filled to the brim, the plants in and well watered in no time!
A huge thank you to Bob, Pete and Jye for your wonderful last minute efforts in preparing the site area for our beds. And to Mark for distributing the remaining soil throughout the school garden areas - Lucretia & Sue - The Arts
Spring has sprung so what better time to get into the garden!
Earlier in the year over 6 classes worked together to bring to life Mr Mal Ibu who was entered in the Therapy Focus Scarecrow Competition for Garden week. Over 20 schools from throughout the state entered in the competition with all scarecrows put on display as a part of the Therapy Focus exhibit where they were put up for ‘The Peoples Vote’. We were ecstatic to hear of Mr Mal Ibu’s overwhelming popularity. With his landslide win our newest garden friend earned the school two raised garden beds which included soil, vegetables and a very special visit from Sunny Sunflower and Chris Ferreira from Great Gardens.
With the arrival of Spring and the weather playing nice the students and staff ventured out to the golf course and enjoyed a wonderful day in the sun as Chris gave us all a few lessons in planting and general plant care. Sunny Sunflower was happy to keep his hands clean posing for photo’s and entertaining the kids with some funky dance moves!
A mighty team of students was gathered and they all set in to roll out the wheelbarrows and load up the beds with a healthy mix of mulch and soil to give our little fruit and vegetables a fine kick start. With Sunny Sunflower still avoiding any form of manual labour the students from TA2 and 17 took control of the worksite and had the beds filled to the brim, the plants in and well watered in no time!
A huge thank you to Bob, Pete and Jye for your wonderful last minute efforts in preparing the site area for our beds. And to Mark for distributing the remaining soil throughout the school garden areas - Lucretia & Sue - The Arts
Friends forever!
Mr Mal Ibu has found himself a lifetime friend in Therapy Focus’s mascot Sunny Sunflower.
Over 50 students from 6 classes (aged 6 to 16) made their own special contribution to bring our scarecrow to life! From collecting the organic materials that they used to elegantly decorate his rocking chair and hat to the mammoth task of his Papier-mâché head.
The students commenced work in Week 3 of Term 1 and the final touches were added on the last week of school before the Easter Holidays.
Mr Mal Ibu shades his face from the harsh sun with his oversized farmers hat as he rests his old bones on a 12 year old wooden rocking chair. Every inch of the chair, hat and his shoes are ordained with shells, corks, leaves, bark, beans, straw and feathers. He is filled to the brim with shredded newspaper and straw to keep him warm. His enormous head is a recycled Fit Ball which was stuffed with shedded newspaper to make the shape and coated with recycled wrapping and tissue paper. His charismatic features were moulded from old fishing floats.
We are all looking forward to a very special visit from Sunny Sunflower, Chris Ferreiar and the Great Gardens Team who will install 2 new garden beds for the School to enjoy. Chris will also deliver a presentation to the winning students about sustainability, healthy eating and growing our own vegetables. We are planning to install our garden beds in our Mini Golf course and all the students will plant some vegetable, potted colour and creepers to brighten up one our favourite play areas.
Monster Madness!!
Throughout the last semester eight classes have been working hard creating their very own Baby Monsters. Each student has stuffed their own recycled baby suit with newspaper, coated the suit in paper Mache and now in the final stages, creating their monsters skin complexion using a mixture of coloured tissue paper and PVA glue. The monsters will be dressed in recycled baby clothing to give them that lifelike characteristic and each class will work collaboratively in creating their very own Baby Monster scene using a variety of recycled household and obscure like items; from a bath to a fax machine!! Look out Malibu you are on the brink of a Monster invasion!!
Spring has sprung so what better time to get into the garden!
Earlier in the year over 6 classes worked together to bring to life Mr Mal Ibu who was entered in the Therapy Focus Scarecrow Competition for Garden week. Over 20 schools from throughout the state entered in the competition with all scarecrows put on display as a part of the Therapy Focus exhibit where they were put up for ‘The Peoples Vote’. We were ecstatic to hear of Mr Mal Ibu’s overwhelming popularity. With his landslide win our newest garden friend earned the school two raised garden beds which included soil, vegetables and a very special visit from Sunny Sunflower and Chris Ferreira from Great Gardens.
With the arrival of Spring and the weather playing nice the students and staff ventured out to the golf course and enjoyed a wonderful day in the sun as Chris gave us all a few lessons in planting and general plant care. Sunny Sunflower was happy to keep his hands clean posing for photo’s and entertaining the kids with some funky dance moves!
A mighty team of students was gathered and they all set in to roll out the wheelbarrows and load up the beds with a healthy mix of mulch and soil to give our little fruit and vegetables a fine kick start. With Sunny Sunflower still avoiding any form of manual labour the students from TA2 and 17 took control of the worksite and had the beds filled to the brim, the plants in and well watered in no time!
A huge thank you to Bob, Pete and Jye for your wonderful last minute efforts in preparing the site area for our beds. And to Mark for distributing the remaining soil throughout the school garden areas - Lucretia & Sue - The Arts
Friends forever!
Mr Mal Ibu has found himself a lifetime friend in Therapy Focus’s mascot Sunny Sunflower.
Over 50 students from 6 classes (aged 6 to 16) made their own special contribution to bring our scarecrow to life! From collecting the organic materials that they used to elegantly decorate his rocking chair and hat to the mammoth task of his Papier-mâché head.
The students commenced work in Week 3 of Term 1 and the final touches were added on the last week of school before the Easter Holidays.
Mr Mal Ibu shades his face from the harsh sun with his oversized farmers hat as he rests his old bones on a 12 year old wooden rocking chair. Every inch of the chair, hat and his shoes are ordained with shells, corks, leaves, bark, beans, straw and feathers. He is filled to the brim with shredded newspaper and straw to keep him warm. His enormous head is a recycled Fit Ball which was stuffed with shedded newspaper to make the shape and coated with recycled wrapping and tissue paper. His charismatic features were moulded from old fishing floats.
We are all looking forward to a very special visit from Sunny Sunflower, Chris Ferreiar and the Great Gardens Team who will install 2 new garden beds for the School to enjoy. Chris will also deliver a presentation to the winning students about sustainability, healthy eating and growing our own vegetables. We are planning to install our garden beds in our Mini Golf course and all the students will plant some vegetable, potted colour and creepers to brighten up one our favourite play areas.
Throughout the last semester eight classes have been working hard creating their very own Baby Monsters. Each student has stuffed their own recycled baby suit with newspaper, coated the suit in paper Mache and now in the final stages, creating their monsters skin complexion using a mixture of coloured tissue paper and PVA glue. The monsters will be dressed in recycled baby clothing to give them that lifelike characteristic and each class will work collaboratively in creating their very own Baby Monster scene using a variety of recycled household and obscure like items; from a bath to a fax machine!! Look out Malibu you are on the brink of a Monster invasion!!
Fun Fun with Jub Jub
The JubJub Sensorium is packed up and long gone but somehow those catchy tunes and characters are still being heard and talked about throughout the school!! The wonderful JubJub workshops and intensive puppetry interaction has left all staff involved feeling invigorated and inspired. The students have discovered a new magical tale which is now one of the most read books and listened to CD’s in the Arts block! This superbly stimulating production has inspired the staff in the Arts Department to recreate a similar scene, it’s very own uniquely oversized puppets with an under the sea theme and music to match! Keep your eyes and ears peeled folks, it’s sure to be a Malibu spectacular. 
Castaways Sculpture Awards Schools Competition.
On Friday 1st May Malibu Schools Castaways sculptural entry was judged against 5 other schools from the local area. All 6 artworks submitted were exceptional and to be a Castaways judge was not an envious position to be in!
Our school entry “Oceanic Therapy” was a vacant beach spot which was put together by over 70 students. The main construction pieces were Ankle and Foot Orthotics (AFO’s) and a Spinal Body Brace which were kindly donated by
several Malibu families. The AFO’s and brace were carefully decorated with a collection of organic and recycled materials gathered by the students. Two recycled umbrellas were added latter in the construction process and were
ordained with woven and crumpled strips of material. Two hand painted towels elegantly finish off the sculpture.
They were sectioned into area and students were to use the colour palate provided to create any pattern/design they wished.
During the presentation the judges stressed how extremely difficult their role was in selecting the winner and commended all students for their outstanding creative efforts. This years winner was an inspirational piece called “Things with wings Specimens” created by the students of The Rockingham Montessori Primary Art Club. An unusual and strangely memorising artwork exploring the students research into “flying things” in the natural, built and imaginary worlds.
We would like to thank all families and staff who contributed to our collection of recycled materials which were used in the construction of our sculpture.
MRA Rocks Malibu!
Music Rocks Australia is now in it’s closing weeks and showing amazing results!
Over 20 students from Malibu and many surrounding Education Support Centres and Units gather together after school every Wednesday in the Malibu Activity Centre to crank out some tunes with MRA founder Dean Blanchard. Deans truck rolls up with over $60,000 worth of band equipment none of which is out of bounds for our students to try, play and rock on with!
Three bands have been formed and are already working hard on their performance track for their big debut. Last weekend at The Shed in Northbridge, our rockers joined forty bands, including some of the most elite young musicians in W.A. to showcase the best music throughout the years of rock.
“To be able to showcase children with special needs on the same stage as some of the state’s best, displaying similar ability and skills, reinforces what is possible using music as the vehicle for self-expression and learning”, says Dean.
“There are five areas of achievement that the parents of more than one hundred children with special needs in our bands talk to me about,” says Dean. They are:
- Social interaction with other children.
- Confidence to perform in front of a crowd.
- An immediate focus for activity – participation is automatic and instant.
- Creativity and communicating their own ideas.
- The children show expression and move to music, even facial expression for these kids is a breakthrough and we get much more than that.
We aim to continue with the MRA program through terms 3 & 4. If you are interested in having your child experience the wonders of MRA please contact Lucretia Ramsay from The Arts @ Malibu.
