Marrickville High School's Archibull Adventure
Today, the Year 10 Commerce class was introduced to the Archibull competition. They were assigned to the task of completing the theory work of this competition - information for our blog - and we were all fired up to begin straight away. Our Commerce teacher, Mrs. C. Lloyd, informed the class of what was to come. Mahsa and I also helped our teacher in explaining the blog and what exactly we needed them to complete. We were separated into groups of 4 or 5 people and were assigned a topic - climate change, bio security, careers in the industry and healthy communities - to research. At the end of the period, everyone had typed up a report on the various topics and, pending some edits, are ready to be published!
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We are now underway with completing our final Archibull design. The Visual Arts students have voted and the results are in. (Special recognition goes to Tony whose design won!) Our design will be composed of; the process it takes for a cotton plant to grow, how it is harvested, and finally, how it is manufactured into denim and other fabrics. Using the Archibull cow-planning templates, we were paired up to design our section of the bull. So far our Visual Arts class has explored and discussed many big ideas, using them to creatively express their understanding of agriculture and the cotton industry. By researching cotton and its importance in the world, our class has gained an understanding of the significance of farming and sustaining natural resources. It's interesting to see how far we have all grown; from being naive citizens that did not fully grasp the challenges that farmers face, to being assertive young adults that have the insight to understand that clothing a nation is everyone's responsibility. Here are some visuals that showcase our progression thus far: We were all super pumped about doing the presentation. After numerous hours of research, planning and enthusiastic discussion, the groups were finally ready to present their Archibull design. There were a lot of fantastic proposals and ideas flying around - maps, pockets, diagrams, process charts, denim jeans - that is was difficult to choose just one.
After the presentations were done, we decided to combine the various designs and make them into our own. We determined that our Archibull would have a blue colour scheme - shades of indigo, teal, denim, cobalt, azure, sapphire - in the design. Each student was given a blank template of the Archibull to draw their final sketches, which the class would then have to rank their favourite. Here are a few examples of the amazing designs that the students have come up with: |
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