Issue 12 September 4 - Fitzroy High School
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Issue 12 September 4 - Fitzroy High School
4 September 2015 volume 11 edition 12 Newsletter Falconer St Fitzroy North 3068 Telephone 94881900 [email protected] www.fitzroyhs.vic.edu.au School Council Year 8, 9 and 10 Art Excel Class Parents John Melia (President) Kath Boyer (Vice President) Rick Creaser (Treasurer) Kathy Dellar Canteen Convenor Megan Ogle-Mannering Communications Convenor Susan Smith Yvette Higgins Students in the Year 8, 9 and 10 Art Excel class recently attended the exhibition TV Moore: With Love and Squalor at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. The exhibition was a solo show of works by the Australian artist, TV Moore, and featured his video and sound works, as well as digital paintings displayed within a bright blue tiled environment. The work considered society’s consumption of technology and media across high and low culture. The students were given a guided tour of the exhibition and they then participated in a practical workshop, where they learnt to create a zoetrope. All students had an interesting and enjoyable afternoon. Staff Linda Mitchell 9488 1900 Rainer Parker-Stebbing 9488 1900 Community Representative Roger Smith Built and Natural Environment Convenor Executive Officer Pauline Rice Finance Committee 15 September 8.30-9.30am School Council 17 September 6.30-8.30pm School grounds patrolled from 8:30am every morning Due to traffic safety concerns, students are required to enter the school grounds when they arrive, and not wait in Falconer Street. mark your calendar 4 September 2015 volume 11 edition 12 Newsletter performance was highly impressive. It united the room through song and dance.” -Lorien and Stella (Year 9) Year 7/8 Immunisation when 8 September where TDU who Susan J. NMR Athletics “We absolutely loved them! They were so awesome and amazing. We particularly liked how they delivered a really motivational speech amongst amazing songs”. -Billie, Violet, Georgia and Khatija (Year 8) when 10 September where Various who Duncan H. “The Nubian Gents were so talented and exciting! I really loved their performance.” -Kamil (Year 9) “The Nubian Gents inspired everyone in the crowd! They taught us that we cannot expect others to love us if we don’t F.L.Y (First Love Yourself). They presented us with a once in a lifetime experience huge thanks to Kathryn for organising this! Every member of the team was extremely talented, it was a great performance and everyone got involved!” -Ethan and Tom (Year 8) Whole School Assembly when 11 September where Gym who Jason P. Macbeth School Production when 16/17 September where Collingwood Town Hall who Kate Allison Yr 8 Splatball when 18 September where Oakleigh who Maddy G. Yr 7 Pot Luck Breakfast when 18 September where FHS Who Neil M. Yr 7 Bounce when 18 September where Glen Iris who Maddy G. The Nubian Gents On Friday the 28th of August The Nubian Gents, a dance team from Queens in New York, performed for students in Years 7-10. BACKGROUND OF THE DANCE TEAM In 1994, educator Lamont O’Neil became acutely aware of a crisis confronting teenage males in the Junior High School in where he worked. He saw an evident lack of self-esteem, negative identity and low perception of personal capability. Concerned, he decided to introduce these young men to a male fraternity-style step group designed to give them positive and productive affiliation. 100 young men in Springfield Gardens (Queens) enlisted and the Nubian Gents were born. To this day, what began as a step group continues to change lives of the young men who come through this program and of audience members. The Gents have toured England, Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, Belgium, South Africa, Spain, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand and Guatemala, sharing their message of hope, passion and love of the arts. STUDENT AND TEACHER FEEDBACK AFTER THE PERFORMANCE “The performance was riveting, energetic and optimistic. It started with a number of breathtaking urban and rhythmic dances. The leader of the group then spoke and sung about many inspirational messages relating to love and self worth. Overall the “The Nubian Gents were so incredibly talented. I loved how they transformed a self-esteem workshop into an exciting and engaging dance performance. Some students tend to always tune out whenever they do workshops like this, but because they didn’t realise what it was the performers had the kids hooked when they broke out into hiphop, step and breakdancing!” -Riley (teacher) 4 September 2015 volume 11 edition 12 Newsletter 4 September 2015 volume 11 edition 12 Newsletter 4 September 2015 volume 11 edition 12 Newsletter Immunisation Final immunisation visit for the year on Tuesday, 8th September. Final HPV & Boostrix for Year 7s & Boostrix (diphtheria tetanus whooping cough ) for Yr 8s. Reminder for parents that this is your last opportunity for your child to receive a free Diptheria tetanus whooping cough injection as next year it will only be available free to Year 7s. If you would like a consent form you can contact Natasha at [email protected]. Term Dates Term 3 ends Friday, 18th September. Term 4 commences Monday, 5th October. Year 11 VCAL Our Year 11 VCAL Personal Development Skills class is continuing our work on the garden for the purpose of growing crops to contribute to a charity by the name of FareShare who will use our contribution to give to the homeless and disadvantaged of our community. We are in the early stages at this point and have split into three teams so we can complete the project quicker. The construction group is putting together the garden beds; the gardening group is putting in the soil; and the communications group is organizing to meet with other contributors to the project and spreading the word about what’s being planned. We are having a great time working on this project as it is rare chance for us to contribute to both the community, as well as a way to give back to the school which has taught us for so long. Jacob Year 11 4 September 2015 volume 11 edition 12 Newsletter Italiano! Students have been having a great time in Year 8 Italian this year! They have studied three major topics so far “Buon Viaggio”, “Buon Appetito” and “Casa Dolce Casa”. Below are student interviews outlining what we’ve done so far and their thoughts: “I thought the excursion Term 2 was really fun! After spending the term learning how to talk about food in Italian and it’s significance within the Italian culture, we went to Ti Amos in Lygon Street for lunch. We had to order our food and drinks in Italian, otherwise we didn’t get to eat! It was terrific to really apply what we had learnt in class to an authentic experience. It was also a very interesting way to experience Italian culture.” -Lucky “It was really good to use the skills we learnt in class in a real-life experience. It really showed us that what we do in class actually can help us! We all loved the excursion”. -Jackson “When we went to the restaurant we were able to apply what we learnt in class, which really helped to improve our confidence levels”. -Alyssa “During Term 1 we learnt the words needed to navigate ourselves around a city in Italy. We had to then create an Italian Itinerary and write things in Italian about transport, time, verbs and monuments in famous Italian cities. I loved this task because I could be really creative and apply my graphic design skills”. -Jai “The Italian Itineraries were a really good learning experience because we got to learn a wide array of grammatical concepts, sentence structure and words that are really relevant if we were to go to Italy. -Minnie This term students will be publishing their own Italian websites to showcase their dream homes! Stay tuned! 4 September 2015 volume 11 edition 12 Newsletter 4 September 2015 volume 11 edition 12 Newsletter Cricket Registration Now Clifton Hill Cricket Club Registration MUST BE DONE by Saturday, 5th September to allow team allocations. Girls and boys all ages very welcome. Register online at www.cliftonhillcricketclub.com NOW Want to Run, Jump and Throw all the way to Rio in 2016? Collingwood Little Athletics Track & Field season starts soon for all aspiring athletes aged 5 to 15. Come along and have fun at our centre—George Knott Athletics Track, Heidelberg Road, Clifton Hill. No experience necessary. Little Bolters and Pre Registration: 5.30pm, Friday 18th September 2015-2016 Competition Season commences: 8.30am, Saturday 3rd October. Registrations open online soon via our website. Collingwood littleathletics.org.au and Facebook [email protected] Phone : Rohan Jones 0400 217 700