Gifted and Talented

As part of Riverside’s commitment to quality teaching and learning we run extension programs. A number of students were identified by teachers as having particular gifts and talents. These students were surveyed about their interests and attitudes. The students are divided into 2 groups, participating in the semesterised Enrichment Cluster.

The first group have started to meet for three periods over the fortnight. The students have commenced researching their projects which will be completed by the end of semester 1.

Some of the projects include:

• Establishing small businesses in the areas of catering, clothing design, childrens toys, landscape gardening and an animal shelter.
• Riverside Reflections (a History of the school) Volume III
• History of Avoca Surf Lifesaving Club
• Biography of a young refugee from Kosovo
• Illustrated children's story
• The history and method of cartooning
• Documentary on the history of movie making (focus area special effects)
• Illustrated poetry book

As part of the enrichment cluster students will develop skills in:

• project management
• research
• organisation
• small business management
• publication

We look forward to providing further information and progress reports on the school’s website. If you have any questions concerning the Enrichment Cluster please do not hesitate to contact me.
Ms Cassandra Morrison
Head Teacher History and Extension Programs.

Technology Crew

Riverside gives girls opportunities to excel in any field of their choice. Some girls do not like to be in the spotlight, but rather control the spotlights. Riverside has technology crews which assist with:

• sound and lighting for school assemblies
• setup of data projectors and laptops for presentations at assemblies and parent information evenings.
  

School Web Page Team Riverside gives students the opportunity to be part of a dynamic student team which designs and mainatins the school website. Learn all about modern web page design techniques and work as part of a creative and fun team of students.You may be our future webmaster!!!! Our past web masters are working in the field of web design utilising the knowledge and skills they gained with the web team. We look forward to seeing you at lunch times on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.     Programming Group So many people use computers but not many can make the computer do want they want. A number of girls are learning to program in Visual Basic. Girls start by working on simple programs which display messages and do basic calculations, but all are aiming to write their own computer games. Computer games which have been written by this group are Connect 4, Master Mind and Yahtzee.