The Charter - John Wollaston Anglican Community School

The Charter
THIS ISSUE | SUMMER 2015 | EDITION 46
Head of Health and
Phys Ed completes
Melbourne Marathon
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Editor Rachel Tierney
Contributors Rachel Tierney, Anne Ford,Lonneke Holleman, Karrina Cain
Inside:
Cyber Safety
Melbourne Marathon
Girls in Engineering
And much more.......
Melbourne Marathon triumph
Lonneke Holleman our Head of Health
and Physical Education completed
the 42km Melbourne Marathon
the outstanding time of 3 hours 39
minutes and 15 seconds.
Although an experienced distance runner,
Ms Holleman had not run a marathon
and was keen to realise her goal.
In late October she flew to Melbourne
on a Friday night and after a day
acclimatising, competed in the 42 km
event on the morning of Sunday 18
October.
“Finishing the Melbourne Marathon at
the MCG was a highlight,” Ms Holleman
said. “And inspired my tired legs to run a
little faster to the finish line.”
Ms Holleman is to be congratulated on
completing the event. She has recovered
well and is keen to run another marathon
in the future. She has now qualified for
the Boston Marathon in the USA.
A tough run in the ultra competitive Melbourne Marathon for John Wollaston’s Head of Health
and Physical Education, Lonneke Holleman.
World Trampolining Champ!
Year 9 Hale House member Kai
Torsvik recently competed in the
World Trampoline Championships in
Odense, Demark.
The 31th World Trampoline and Tumbling
Championships showcased the world’s
best athletes in trampoline, synchronized
trampoline, tumbling and double minitrampoline. Athletes in the trampolining
world are amazed that Kai has only been
competing in the sport for three years
and is now ranked 17th in world!
John Wollaston Trampolining Club farewell
Kai Torsvik for the World Championships.
He is a member of the Southern Stars
trampolining club in Jandakot. The
club has been instrumental in getting
the John Wollaston Trampolining club
started.
Year 10 Outdoor Recreation students
enjoyed an exciting trip to Penguin
Island for a Sea Kayaking adventure.
John Wollaston now has an Olympic
sized trampoline permanently stored in
the gym for club members to utilise.
Early in November three groups displayed
their Sea Kayaking skills in the Ocean
under the careful of Mr Quentin Hess.
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From the Principal
Dear Parents and Friends
The
Anglican
Schools
Commission (ASC) celebrates a
significant............................
With warm wishes
Anne Ford
V.E.T. Student of the Year
Year 11 VET student, Megan Scott has
won the state STP – State Training
Provider (formerly TAFE) Student of
the Year in the Certificate II course in
Retail Make-up and Skin Care.
Megan travels to Challenger Rockingham
on Thursdays to learn how to become
a beautician and make-up artist. She is
thrilled to have had a brilliant lecturer
this year, Fran Oldfield. “Ms Oldfield
has worked in beauty her whole life
and brings a wealth of knowledge and
expertise to the course,” Megan said.
Megan said Ms Oldfield made the course
so interesting which is why the students
learnt so well. “The best days were clinic
days, when we created a salon and real
clients came in for treatments.” Megan
says make-up is the most fun but also
the trickiest.
During the course the students learn
to match colours to skin, eyes, hair and
face. The shape of the face and eyebrows
is also very important and becomes quite
technical.
She is looking forward to her Year 12
VET course when she will complete two
certificates including a Certificate II in
Nail Technology working in acrylic nails.
The School is very proud of Megan’s
achievements and wishes her continued
success in her career training.
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Budding beautician wins Student of the Year.
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John Wollaston’s Cyber Leaders are at the forefront of cyber-safety in the School environment.
Left to right: Bodhi Greenham, Georgia Fennessey, Keletso Nare and Grace Warnes.
eSmart Schools a win for cyber safety
John Wollaston starts the journey towards becoming an eSmart School in 2015.
John Wollaston is working towards
becoming accredited as an eSmart
School in 2015 due to a generous
donation by the P&F Association.
Head of Charter House Mrs Pauline
Galley has been researching best practice
in school cyber-safety and e-policies and
found the Queensland e-Smart School
system to be the preferred option.
An eSmart School is a school where
the smart, safe and responsible use
of information and communications
change processes to support the creation
of a cybersafe or eSmart environment.
technology is a cultural norm. Students,
teachers and the wider
Schools
was
school community are “eSmart Schools is eSmart
developed
by
RMIT
equipped to embrace the
designed to help
University in consultation
best these technologies
schools improve
with cybersafety, bullying,
can offer, while being
cybersafety and
education and industry
savvy about the pitfalls.
from
across
reduce cyberbullying experts
eSmart Schools provides
Australia.
and bullying.”
a framework that guides
eSmart is a series of cultural
the
introduction
of
change interventions developed by The
policies, practices and whole-school
Alannah and Madeline Foundation,
aimed at creating positive, respectful and
inclusive cultures which reduce bullying
and cyberbullying and increase online
safety.
The Foundation recognises a whole-ofcommunity approach is needed in order
to create change. The goal is to create an
eSmart Australia.
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Above: Cyber Leaders helping to reduce cyber-bullying in our community.
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John Wollaston has implemented its
Cyber Leadership Group and they are
working hard to establish cyber safety
at the School. Mrs Galley says “The Cyber
Leaders have done some terrific work
this year and I’m very proud of their
achievements.” They are helping John
Wollaston move towards becoming a
fully accredited eSmart school.
Three major eSmart initiatives across
Australia:
• eSmart Schools is currently being
implemented in over 2000 schools
across Australia
• eSmart Libraries is being rolled out to
all 1500 public libraries nationally
• eSmart Digital Licence offered to
all Grade 6 students in Australia free
in 2015
Cyber Safety is taught from early years.
Further information at: www.amf.org.au
Hour of Code
Proud Year 9 students completed an hour of computer coding with thousands of students world-wide.
Worldwide computer programming initiative
Year 9 students take to coding!
Year 9 students at John Wollaston
recently took part in a world wide
initiative to promote an interest in
computer programming.
in 180+ countries. Teacher Tracy Grant
says the students really enjoyed the
challenge, creating games, puzzles and
systems from pure computer code.
The Hour of Code is a global movement
reaching tens of millions of students
More information on Hour of Code can be
found at: https://hourofcode.com/au.
Frozen princess a reality
Ice-skating a winner for Sophie
Year 8 Charter House student
Sophie Hill recently competed in
the Australian Synchronised Figure
Skating Championships held at the
Penrith Ice Palace in NSW.
Sophie has been skating for 5 years since
she was 8 years old. Sophie skates with
Ice Synchro WA based at Cockburn Ice
Arena.
Her team is called the Bumblebees and 14
girls competed with her in the WA Basic
Novice team for synchronised skating.
Sophie says it is fantastic being part of
a team. “This year was very exciting as
it was the first time they had competed
together so it was a new experience
for everyone,” she said. “It was very
challenging but we were very happy with
the outcome of 6th place.”
Synchronized skating is a large and
fast-growing discipline of figure skating
where 8–20 skaters skate on ice as a
team, moving as one flowing unit at
high speeds while completing difficult
footwork.
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The wonder of Engineering explored
John Wollaston girls experience Girls in Engineering at UWA
This year John Wollaston is part of
the University of Western Australia’s
Girls in Engineering Programme
(GiE) which addresses the shortage
of female students enrolling in
Engineering degrees.
This joint initiative between Rio Tinto
and UWA is designed to encourage and
support more girls into Engineering as
they progress through their schooling.
Hannah Golding, a Mechatronics
Engineer in Rio Tinto Technology &
Innovation leads the programme
run by UWA’s Faculty of Engineering,
Computing and Mathematics.
“Career choices can be influenced at all
stages of education. By building skills
early, and nurturing talent at several
On 5 November, a group of Year 7 girls
and I attended the Girls in Engineering
event held at UWA. Ten different schools
attended the event, and
The boys have not been left Our group created we participated in different
this spideractivities to help explain the
out, as they participate in
hedgehog-like
science needed in order to
incursions. The School’s
first visit from UWA was in
thing, which we work in an Engineering field.
The schools were combined
May when 60 girls and boys
thought would
into different groups, so
from Years 9 and 10 enjoyed
work perfectly…
the majority of students we
a range of activities.
worked with we had never
met before. My group began with a
Year 8 student Karrina Cain relates her
two-hour session on the science behind
adventures at UWA.
Rubik’s Cubes. Only about three people
actually finished their cubes, and many
“Before attending the G.I.E Excursion,
others (despite being asked not to)
I never thought I’d be able to relate
dismantled their cubes and rearranged
protecting an egg using straws to the
them into the correct position.
science involved in Engineering.
stages, we hope to give girls confidence
in their own technical abilities that will
endure,” Ms Golding said.
After lunch, we were instructed to create
a structure out of straws to protect an
egg from falling from a set height. Our
group created this spider-hedgehog-like
thing, which we thought would work
perfectly… until it was dropped from a
metre-tall height and broke instantly.
After our embarrassing performance,
we started our final activity, creating
bamboo jackets to replicate the science
behind oil rigs.
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Year 8s expanding their horizons with a UWA Girls in Engineering incursion.
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Overall, the day was exciting and fun. I
enjoyed it greatly and would definitely
consider going again.”
Inter-House Rowing
Exhausted and triumphant. Ramsden rowers come first across the line in a tight battle for the Inter-House Rowing Cup 2015.
On Sunday 15 November the JWACS
Inter-House Rowing Regatta was
held at ANA Rowing Club.
Teams battled high winds, passing
ferries and boats and tough competition.
Congratulations to Ramsden, the
2015 Cup winners and all rowers who
competed on the day.
Year 7 teacher Mr Brady Morris went
“above and beyond” with his ongoing
commitment to the JWACS Rowing Club
during Terms 2, 3 and 4!
The President of ANA Tony Beech spoke
very highly of our students’ behaviour,
teamwork and perseverance. A proud
moment for all of us who work with John
Wollaston students.
Yours in Oars!
Lonneke Holleman
Head of Health & Physical Education
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Rain, hail or shine the crossing continues
John Wollaston’s crossing wardem always has a smiling face for the whole community.
Jeannie has gone from school mum to to our famous lollipop lady.
Always with a smile on her face Gim
Quandt (known as Jeannie) braves
all weather to help John Wollaston
students and families cross Centre
Road safely. For 24 years Jeannie has
been involved at JWACS in various
volunteer roles as well as being the
School Traffic Warden for 15 years.
for one year. After this they took a year
off, to travel around Europe and back to
Malaysia with their one-year old son. In
1979 they returned to Western Australia as
Jeannie’s husband had secured a contract
position in Useless Loop in the North
West of WA. They drove their caravan up
to Useless Loop. Jeannie was astonished
by the red dust and had never seen
Jeannie’s son, Ben Hope Quandt started
anything like it in Malaysia. She would
at John Wollaston in Year 8 in 1991
wash the nappies and
and went through to Year 12. When Jeannie the smiling they would instantly
Ben finished Year 12 his sister SueSchool Traffic
go yellow/red on the
Jane Elise Quandt began at John Warden clocks up washing line from the
Wollaston in Year 8. Jeannie began
15 years service at red outback dust.
volunteering at the School in the
John Wollaston
canteen for three years and then also
The family returned
worked in the library as a volunteer
to Perth and in 1982
Library Assistant for the three years Suetheir daughter Sue-Jane was born. They
Jane was at the School. She assisted in
moved to Kelmscott and have stayed
the Uniform Store.
in the suburb for 33 years. Her children
attended Grovelands and Westfield
When Gailene Shore started as the
Primary School and transferred to John
Business Manager she would often call
Wollaston for secondary school. Jeannie
Jeannie for relief work as the School
spent many hours volunteering at the
Traffic Warden when other wardens were
childrens’ Primary Schools and sat on the
sick. Jeannie subsequently became the
P & C at Grovelands Primary School for 14
regular John Wollaston School Traffic
years. The Grovelands PS Principal came
Warden.
up to her once and asked her “When are
you moving in?”
Jeannie immigrated to Western Australia
from Malaysia on October 16, 1975. Her
Jeannie remembers the early years at
family originally lived in South Perth
John Wollaston very well when her
where their son Ben was born in 1977. In
son Ben started and says it was very
1978 her husband got a job in Tom Price
small. Mrs Susie Harman was Ben’s
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Mathematics teacher and the class had
only eight students, Mrs Victoria Hanson
was the Principal, Mr D’Cruz was Dean
of Studies. The uniform hasn’t changed
a lot. She remembers for a short while
girls wore pants in winter but that was
about the only difference she can see.
She loves all the teachers and she loves
the School which is why she has always
volunteered. Jeannie attends the Praise
and Thanksgiving celebrations every year.
Jeannie loves seeing all her students and
families every morning as they cross the
road. She said she is very good at faces
but not at names so don’t worry if she just
calls everyone “Miss” or “Mister”.
Keeping our children safe.
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