Following a very successful inaugural year, we would love you to join us for the 2021 Wildy Fringe.

Please see below for the exciting program of events we have planned.

Monday 8 November
Creative Industries Day

• 5:40pm for 6:00pm start - Year 9 Creative Industries Showcase
• 7:15pm - Playlab & Year 10 Creative Industries Showcase

Tuesday 9 November

• 5:40pm for 6:00pm - Year 7 Creative Industries Showcase

Wednesday 10 November

• 5:40pm for 6:00pm - Year 8 Creative Industries Showcase

Thursday 11 November

• 5:40pm for 6:00pm - Screening of the Year 9 Film and Animation miniseries, ‘Wesley’.

To RSVP and book you spot for an event, please click here.

Art

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas and the elves in our Wilderness Art Department have been busy! Our clever Reception creatives have made a set of four Christmas cards featuring the theme, 'What Christmas looks like to us'. These beautiful cards are available for pre-order and are perfect to give to your family and loved ones during the holiday season.

Wilderness Christmas Cards
$8 per set of four
Pre-order here.

To support the special relationship formed between our Duke of Edinburgh students and the children from Anglicare SA's Foster Care Program this year, all proceeds from sales will be donated to their program.

Orders close on Wednesday 27 October (Week 3), and will be distributed via your daughter's Form during Week 6.

Year 12 Visual Art Exhibition

On Thursday 14 October, Ms Jane Danvers, officially opened the 2021 Year 12 Visual Art Exhibition titled ‘Shifting Positions’. The event was well attended by family, friends, students and staff who came to congratulate the 11 young artists on their achievements.

Ms Danvers addressed the students warmly and spoke to each of their works celebrating the conceptual maturity shown. She acknowledged the efforts and bravery of each of the girls, acknowledging the process and vulnerability involved in exhibiting their artworks as emerging artists.

The beautiful, challenging, and entertaining work continues to be exhibited in the Art Centre gallery until Thursday November 4 during school hours with their folios, which demonstrate the students’ extensive creative journeys this year.

Brooke Porter
Head of Art

Year 3 Teacups

In the final week of Term 3, the Year 3 students in Miss Brittany Neeb’s class celebrated their achievements with a small Tea Party.

Over the course of Term 3, the girls learnt how to hand build teacups, plates and spoons using earthenware clay. They sculpted, painted, and glazed their work focusing on the form and shape of something we use almost every day.

They had smiles from ear to ear, they were utterly delighted with the work they created.

Brittany Neeb
Teacher of Art

Music

There is a myriad of events approaching for the Christmas season, as well as our end-of-year events. Please click here to see a comprehensive list of the ensembles involved in the upcoming events and when final rehearsals will be this term.

If you have any queries, please contact your daughter's Ensemble Director or the Music Office.

Instrumental and Vocal Lessons

Instrumental and vocal lessons commenced last week and will run throughout this term. Once your daughter has reached their semester quota of 16 lessons, your tutor will inform them that they will pause lessons until the 2022.

A reminder that if you wish to cease tuition, please inform the Music Office by the conclusion of Week 7.

AMEB Awards

Late last term, we had several students undertaking their AMEB examinations on several instruments, please congratulate our saxophone girls from Year 6 who all did exceptionally well.

• Elena Tsmaidis Grade 5 Clarinet (Comprehensive) A
• Jennifer Zhou Grade 5 Clarinet (Repertoire) A
• Livia Podreka Grade 4 Clarinet (Repertoire) A
• Zoe Khan Grade 3 Saxophone (Comprehensive) A+
• Alyra Nguyen Grade 3 Saxophone (Comprehensive) A
• Eva Baggio Grade 3 Saxophone (Comprehensive) A

We will be listing other names in future editions of the newsletter.

Adelaide Eisteddfods – More Success!

We congratulate Annika Ganesh (Year 6) on her recent success in the Adelaide Piano Eisteddfods. Annika entered several categories (listed below) and was highly successful in all of them, leading to her being awarded the Music Teachers’ Association Inc. Grace Barbara Turner Award for Excellence in Performance. This prestigious award has four prizes; for piano, strings, wind and vocal, and Annika was selected for the award for her performances on the piano.

The Special Award Winners Concert for the 2021 Eisteddfod Award Winners will take place as a radio broadcast early in 2022. 5MBS recorded performances to be used in this broadcast on Sunday 17 October, where Annika played 'Nocturne no. 21 in C minor' by Chopin.

We congratulate Annika on this wonderful recognition and success of her music.

• Piano Solo (12 Years) 1st Prize
• Modern Piece Solo (12 Years) 1st Prize
• Romantic Era (12 Years) 1st Prize
• Piano Recital (11-16 Years) 2nd Prize

Performance at Regis Kingswood

On Wednesday 20 October, the Piano Trio arranged themselves to go and play for the residence of Regis Kingswood. They performed a 30-minute classical program of music to the delight of their large audience!

Congratulations to Annecy Cheung, Isabelle Yu and Alice Jia, as well as Mrs Vanessa Abela for giving their time in support of the community.

Anna Lenartowicz
Head of Music

Drama

Year 11 Drama Students Present 'Little Fish'

In a time not too distant from our own, a new synthetic chemical is discovered in the waters of the Port River Estuary, increasing threat to the residents of the Adelaide Dolphin Sanctuary.

Meanwhile, Adelaide residents become restless at the sightings of a half-man, half-dolphin creature labelled the 'Port River Monster'. While environmentalists apply pressure on the government to respond urgently to the pollution of the river believing that the toxicity of the water may be responsible for human mutation, sceptics claim it to be a hoax by 'deluded greenies with a hero complex' aimed at bringing down the government and big industry.

What happens when one girl comes face to face with the Port River Monster? If we are all just little fish swimming around in a big pond, what possible different can any of us make on our own? Can one little fish really take on a big shark?

I wrote this play based on some initial ideas the girls had for a performance with a social and environmental message that incorporated a supernatural, sci-fi hero origin story. We have worked with Mrs Simone Burzacott-Gorman and workshopped the piece with volunteers from the Adelaide Dolphin Sanctuary to ensure that we convey a story which has Adelaide’s own dolphin community at its heart.

This is a special story about the complexities of belief, faith, science, industry and the human impact on the environment – and on each other. The show runs for approximately 70 minutes and features a surprise cameo appearance from one of our very own scientists!

Please join us for the Year 11 Drama Production, 'Little Fish', playing in the Newman Theatre on Wednesday 27 October and Thursday 28 October at 6:00pm.

Click here to book your tickets.

Aldo Longobardi
Head of Drama