Issue 8 - Seaview High School

Issue 8: DECEMBER 2014
1 December
As the year draws to a
close it is with pleasure
that, once again, I
reflect on the school’s
many successes.
Year 10 Aqua cs
2 December
Year 9 Aqua cs
8 December
Year 8 Aqua cs
10 December
Reports Distributed
12 December
End of Term 4
I cannot help but be amazed
by the range of ac vi es students have
been involved in throughout another very
busy year including, but not limited to; Year
Level camps, a,er school sports, knock out
compe ons, beach volleyball, a ski trip,
World Challenge Expedi on, Interna onal
Women’s’ Day, Harmony Day,
Reconcilia on Day and Remembrance Day
ac vi es, Open Night, Short Term Study
Tours and exchanges, Dance, Drama and
Music performances, a musical,
achievement Assemblies, Pedal Prix, Youth
Forums, Educa onal Conferences, Student
Leadership, 40 hour Famine, the Formal and
Gradua on.
Students have also been extremely ac ve in
and amongst the community, fundraising,
crea ng public artworks, working with our
local schools and the Marion City Council.
year as a TfEL Pilot school and I am
delighted with the progress we have made
with 21st century teaching and learning
strategies. Staff con nue to use their
crea ve skills to create engaging, rigorous
and relevant tasks, based around problem
solving and deep thinking for understanding
that serves to stretch our students
intellectually as learners.
In the New Year, work will begin on our
exci ng new development to deliver an
Advanced Manufacturing Skills and STEM
curriculum. This upgrade is being informed
by all available research about the nexus
between pedagogy, technology and the
design of learning spaces. Several exis ng
buildings will be redesigned to create
mul ple centres of innova on across the
whole school, with 21st century pedagogies
and Advanced Manufacturing Skills
embedded in all areas of the curriculum and
across all year levels. Iden fied areas
include Science laboratories, ICT Rooms,
Technology and Kingston (Senior) Centre.
Other areas of the school also scheduled for
an upgrade include the gymnasium, middle
school classrooms and the crea on of a
purpose built Dance Studio to
accommodate the increased numbers in
Dance.
I thank the dedicated staff, families,
volunteers, current and past students and
members of our community who invest
their me and energy providing these
Exci ng mes at Seaview!
opportuni es at our school.
The complete range of curricula and co
curricula ac vi es is recorded in the 2014
School Magazine, which is available this
week to those who ordered it. Students will
be able to collect it from Student
Services with their reports; however, if you
missed out, you will find some of the
highlights on the school website.
We are also approaching the end of our first
At the end of Term 4 we say farewell to Mick Dineen and Ying Yao who are leaving a,er many years at Seaview High School- I
thank them both for their collec ve years of service to the school and wish them all the very best in their new direc ons.
As well we acknowledge Davis Bourne, Kahlia Hosking, Ben MaBson, Adele Rostron, Steve Lindner, Andrew Cavallaro, and Chris
Congdon who are comple ng their current contracts, David Dowling and Rainer Hering who will be on leave next year and
Steve Mor mer and Grant SuBon who are re ring from the VI Unit.
In 2015 we welcome Alice Jenkins, who will join us to support our expanding Dance program and Tim Crowe-Mai as Vision
Support Program Coordinator. There will also be a number of contract posi ons, which we will be in a posi on to announce
next year.
In 2015 the Year Level Managers will be:
Year 8 Manager - Virginie Bajut
Year 9 Manager – Sue Houghagen
Year 10 Manager – Chris Higgs
Year 11 Manager – Cheryl Gigney
Year 12 Manager- Bill Stapleton (Deputy Principal)
They will work with teachers to further develop and deliver a range of Year Level ac vi es, including community based
programs, camps and excursions and con nue to work closely with staff and families to support the maintenance of rou nes
such as aBendance, diary, uniform, mee ng deadlines and homework comple on.
I would like to thank the staff for their passion, dedica on and ongoing commitment to our con nuous improvement.
.
I would also like to thank members of the Governing Council, in par cular Di Karakitsios as Chairperson, for the contribu ons
they make to our school.
This year the Council has been involved in the following ac vi es:
•
Par cipa ng in a range of commiBees
•
Hos ng the Year 8 Parent welcome
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Suppor ng Open Night
•
Parent Transi on
•
Ra fying school policies
•
Reviewing the Material and Services Fees
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Planning the redevelopment/improvement of the school
2015 promises to be another ac on-packed year as we con nue our focus on providing the best learning outcomes for
students in our care.
Un l then I wish you all a resKul and safe holiday season and look forward to working with you all again in the New Year.
Penny Tranter
PRINCIPAL
Seaview High School Uniform Shop - New Opening Times
The Uniform Shop will now be open on Tuesdays from 8am - 10am and Thursdays 2pm - 4pm. This includes the week before
school commences (Tuesday, 27/1 and Thursday, 29/1). Please see our website www.seaviewhs.sa.edu.au for an updated
price list.
SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS
Year 12 Award Winners
SPECIALIST MATHS WORKPLACE PRACTICES MUSIC PE BUSINESS & ENTERPRISE CHEMISTRY DANCE CHINESE ESL VISUAL ARTS ENGLISH COMMS -
Connor LuckeB
Siobhaun Brown
Hayden Skinner
Zoe Underwood
Madeline Ilee
Connor LuckeB
Kyri Karakitsios & Emily Raymond
Ping He
Xinyue Yin
Xinyue Yin
Thomas Foster
PHYSICS HEALTH MODERN HISTORY MATHEMATICAL APPLICATIONS BIOLOGY DRAMA FOOD AND HOSPITALITY IPP INTEGRATED LEARNING MATERIAL PRODUCTS MATHEMATICAL STUDIES PHOTOGRAPHY RESEARCH PROJECT -
Connor LuckeB
Madeline Ilee
Nathan Doney
Angelique Struwig
Catherine Hopkins
Alicia Beale
Nadia Travis
Angelique Struwig
Tiffany Cameron
Nellie Leimareff
Connor LuckeB
Kelly Adams
Connor LuckeB & Hayden Skinner
Long Tan Award
Natasha Bromley (year 12)
Charlie Gregory (year 10)
Caltex All Rounder Award
Hayden Skinner (year 12)
Whole School Award Winners
YEAR 8
YEAR 10
ALL ROUNDER – WILL TUCK
ACADEMIC – MINH LAM
SPORTS – MALE JAKE MCGUIRE
OUTSTANDING ATTENDANCE – ALANA MOXON, SOPHIE
O’DRISCOLL & JAKE PALMER
ALL ROUNDER
– RACHEL RATTUS
ACADEMIC – JAKE BEAUMONT
SPORTS – MALE JACOB MCDONALD
SPORTS – FEMALE TEAGAN GREENHILL
OUTSTANDING ATTENDANCE – SHUJING LI, NGAT
MAMO, NICHOLAS WHITEFORD & HUI XU
YEAR 9
ALL ROUNDER – MOLLIE SNELGAR
ACADEMIC – DYLAN LAM
SPORTS – MALE JOSH KARTABANI
SPORTS – FEMALE SARAH MACKMAN
OUTSTANDING ATTENDANCE – REBECCA TOOMES &
JARRED WILLIAMS-STROMER
YEAR 11
ALL ROUNDER – NELLIE LIEMAREFF
ACADEMIC – XINGCHEN LIU
SPORTS – MALE ALEX RAMADHANI
SPORTS – FEMALE DANIELLE WONG
Valedictorian Speech
Good evening ladies and gentleman, my name is Hayden Skinner, and it is my privilege to
talk to you tonight on behalf of the Seaview High School class of 2014.
I remember standing in front of the parents and students
from my Primary School delivering my valedictorian speech a
mere 5 years ago. I remember saying “we are all big fish
going into an even bigger pond” and boy did I underes mate
it. We were young, fresh faced and very impressionable. To
put it simply we didn’t even know what we didn’t know.
Transi oning into high school was a big deal, completely
different from Primary School. No longer did teachers do
everything for us, we had to begin to stand on our own two
feet. No longer could I wake up 10 minutes before school
started and just walk over to school. I had to become
independent and catch a bus to and from school. Probably
the biggest change of all though, was I couldn’t come home
and watch TV un l I went to bed. Sadly there was a thing
called homework.
At first, Year 8 was daun ng. I s ll remember the very first
day, all of us were siQng in the top of the Year 8 centre, all
clinging onto the friendships formed during our me at
Primary School for support. 4 teachers stood there, Mr.
Traeger, Mr. Coleman, Ms. Bonner and Mr. Anderson.
Within minutes of arriving in the Year 8 centre, we were
split into caregroups, taken right out of our comfort zones
and placed in a class full of new people that would
eventually become our home away from home. Of course
there were friendship groups that formed quickly and some
groups seemed to be at odds with others, but at the age of
14, social lives and drama is a teenagers number one
concern. But regardless of ini al friendship groups, right
there, right now we have all become friends and I have the
greatest respect for each and every one of my fellow
graduates siQng here tonight.
For the first few weeks I didn’t know my way around the school and arrived late to
so many English lessons, uninten onally of course… However, I quickly became
used to a day in the life of a high school student. I remember geQng deten on for
not doing my homework, I thought “who needs homework anyway?” but now I
know, our teachers weren’t inten onally trying to make our lives hard, they were
trying to prepare us for year 12 where it is literally do or die.
By year 9 I was used to the differences between primary school and high school, I
realised, no longer was a science lesson mel ng chocolate in a “homemade” ice
cream tub double boiler, no longer was PE dodge ball and no longer was
mathema cs basic arithme c. Year 9 saw the implementa on of the two sub schools Kingston and
Pitman, which allowed us to develop a healthy compe ve edge. We looked up to years above us
and expected the new year 8’s to do the same, to learn from us and our previous experiences.
I have now learnt, all experiences are useful, good ones can provide pleasure, and uncomfortable or
bad experiences are simply a part of life and you learn to move on. I dare say that they are the
experiences we learn from most.
Year 10 marked the halfway point of our me at Seaview. I knew my strengths, and I enjoyed
learning music theory and guitar 5 mes a week in an awesome environment, with teachers that really understood their field.
Furthering my vocabulary and reading books were both surprisingly really enjoyable parts of English, although the pages upon
pages of essay work that came a,er weren’t so…
However I also knew my weakness, I wasn’t good at mathema cs and certainly would have never spoken in front of a crowd. I
could barely speak in front of a class of 20. But it was those uncomfor ng feelings that gave me the mo va on to try hard,
seize every opportunity that I could and develop myself further, as evidenced by being about to complete Stage 2 Specialist
Mathema cs and also having the pleasure to be here tonight to speak in front of you all. I believe it is how we respond to
uncomfortable situa ons and experiences that determine who we are as people.
During Year 11, we plunged even further forward. Classes could now be moderated as we were well into SACE stage 1, which
meant no longer could teachers be lenient on due dates for assignments. So in a weird way, I thank the teacher who put me in
deten on for not comple ng my work. It allowed me to mature enough to take on and successfully complete year 11.
All of the years previous had given us most of the necessary skills and work ethics that we needed if we were to undertake the
all-important, dreaded and feared year 12. I had heard that Year 12 was going to be challenging but boy was I wrong. It was
extremely hard. 400 word assignments, tests every week, an occasional exam here and there, they weren’t fun but we had
been given the tools and skills necessary to remain organised. Year 12 is all about organisa on. Regardless of whether you
have exams or a 30% folio task, week one you are told the due date. 10 months away may seems like a long me but if you
didn’t remain organised and mo vated to complete every single task along the way, you simply wouldn’t pass year 12. I would
like to commend everyone gradua ng tonight as we have all managed to keep the balance of our school and social lives. We
have put the blood, sweat and tears and are now so close to reaping the benefits of our hard
work.
A,er today we are no longer school students, but go on to live separate lives that are so
diverse that the majority of us may never see one another again. But something we all have
in common is that the skills that we have acquired to take on the wider world have been
taught to us at Seaview High School.
I thoroughly enjoyed my me at Seaview, it provided me with many opportuni es to further myself and also acquire a great
group of friends. We will go on from here, hesitant about leaving the safety net of high school. However, we won’t look
backwards for very long. We will keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things, because we are curious and
curiosity will keep leading us down new paths.
SACE Results
The SACE Board of SA has advised schools that Year 12 SACE results will be released to students on
Thursday, 18 December 2014.
The SACE Record of Achievement and the Tertiary Entrance Statement will be received in separate envelopes and every
effort will be made to ensure these documents are received in the same postal delivery. Students will also be able to use the
SACE website to access their results and ATAR/TAFE SA selection score by using their personal PIN. If students have not set
their PIN or have forgotten it they are advised to reset this before the results release date.
It is important to remember that the ATAR score indicated on the Tertiary Entrance Statement DOES NOT include any bonus
points that each of the Universities offer to students under their individual schemes. These bonus points are added to the
student’s university aggregate and can quite significantly change the value. Most of these points are applied automatically
with the exception of Flinders University where if a student holds a School card, Health Card or receive Youth allowance they
are eligible to APPLY for a further 2 bonus points. Students must download and complete the application form by Friday, 12
December. Note that the form requires a delegated school signature and stamp. Students are encouraged to check their
recalculated ATAR with each of the Universities they have applied for. Contact details for the universities are as follows:
Uni SA
- Students can use the Uni SA’s bonus points calculator at unisa.ed.au/bonuspts and/or to call 8302 2376
Adelaide University
- Student Centre 8313 5208 / 8313 7335
Flinders University
- Admissions/Prospective Students Office 1300 657 671 or 8201 3074
Year 12 Preferences
After students receive these results there may be a need for some counselling around the choices their scores present. For
example a student’s ATAR score may be considerably higher than expected and allow them to enrol in University courses not
considered initially. Conversely, if results were not as good as expected there may be a need to reconsider selections or seek
advice on alternative pathways. To support students with this, each of the major Universities are conducting Preference
Information Events as outlined below:
The University of South Australia (UniSA)
Flinders University of South Australia
Preference Informa>on Event
On Campus Presenta>on and Drop-In Session
Monday 22 December
Monday 22 December
4.00pm-6.30pm
11.00am-3.00pm
Brookman Building, City East Campus
Health Sciences Lecture Theatre Complex, Flinders University
hAp://www.unisa.edu.au/Calendar/Preference-Informa>on
-Event/
City Drop-In Session 1 (State Library)
The University of Adelaide
Tuesday 23 December
Preference Informa>on Night
2.00pm-6.00pm
Tuesday 23 December
Hetzel Lecture Theatre, State Library, North Terrace
3.30pm – 6.30pm
North Terrace Campus.
City Drop-In Session 2 (Flinders Victoria Square)
Hub Central (Behind the Art Gallery)
Monday 5 January 2015
hBp://www.adelaide.edu.au/schools/events/
10am-4.00pm
Ground Floor Foyer, Flinders University Victoria Square, 182
Victoria Square
Please note that students can change their preferences to most courses up until Monday, 5 January with no loss of
“guaranteed equal consideration”. Another support for students in considering their options are two videos produced by
the University of South Australia, with one giving information on what to do when receiving their results and the other
when students receive an offer.
The link for the UniSA results release video is as follows: hBp://youtu.be/H20A7022ZJ8
The UniSA offers release video can be found at: hBp://youtu.be/H480eaIM6ZA
An alternative/additional support is being offered at the Burnside library with details outlined below:
University Offers
The main offer release date of the 15th of January and is an
excep onally busy day for SATAC and as a result is introducing a number of changes that will streamline the way offers
are made and reduce the need for applicants to log onto
their server or contact them about rou ne maBers. Details
of these changes will be included with the leBer of offer on
this day.
Scholarships
ship opportuni es via the University websites or by contac ng the relevant scholarships office. A list of these can be
found on the SATAC website www.satac.edu.au/pages/
scholarships. Commonwealth Government Scholarships are
also outlined on this page.
If there are any urgent queries or further support is needed
when school has closed for the summer break, please contact me on my mobile on 0439 809 464.
Each year all the Universi es offer a range of scholarships
and grants worth many millions of dollars. Not only do scholRichard Harrington
arships provide financial assistance they o,en include over- COUNSELLOR
seas travel. Students are encouraged to inves gate scholar-
VET (Voca>onal Educa>on and Training
Seaview High School’s VET Program has expanded
significantly in 2014 which has meant that more
students are accessing flexible curriculum choices
and individual pathways in suppor ng students to
complete their SACE.
83 Students were involved in VET courses with 44 students
from other schools aBending a Seaview based course. These
courses included Cer ficate II and III in Media (Anima on),
Cer ficate III in Rural Opera ons (Animal Care & Husbandry),
Cer ficate III in Technical Produc on (Music), and Cer ficate I
in Auto (Mechanical). In 2015 the Cer ficate III in Aqua cs will be offered with
places for all these courses s ll available although places are limited. Please
contact me if you have any queries.
A recent highlight of the schools VET program was the gradua on of the first
cohort of students from the Cer ficate III Media course Seaview. This was held at
the Stamford Plaza on North Terrace on Tuesday, 17 November. The night was
hosted by the Academy of Interac ve Entertainment (AIE) who auspice the course.
The keynote address was delivered by the head of the recently opened Adelaide
campus of AIE, Robin Potanin who has wide experience in the games and
anima on industry both here and overseas. It is most gra fying to see at the
moment that 5 of our gradua ng students have been accepted into the AIE’s advanced diploma course next year. Robin’s
address was followed by the showing of the student’s final anima on films that they had produced over the 2 years of the
course and light refreshments.
Richard Harrington
VET COORDINATOR
Year 10 Science - Greenhouse Effect
Student Voice Audit Team
A team of four students have been involved in a process of
audi ng the learning at Seaview High School to explore how
students have voice in their learning. Students can have voice in
their learning in many ways, such as being evaluators, planners, decisionmakers, researchers, teachers and advocates. The Student Voice Audit
Team (SVAT) will be presen ng their findings to staff in week 9 and
making recommenda ons about how students can have voice in their
learning in 2015, as well as facilita ng an ac vity for year 8 and 9
students.
Professor Guy Claxton – Building Learning Power!
In Week 5, five staff members aBended a session with Professor Guy
Claxton from the United Kingdom, along with teachers involved in the TfEL PILOT from other schools across the state.
Professor Claxton shared his knowledge and research with staff on ‘learning power’.
Learning power can be explained as a mix of disposi ons, lived experiences, social rela ons, values, a tudes and beliefs that
shape a person’s engagement with any learning opportunity.
Understanding what learning power is and how it relates to learning is essen al for anyone wan ng to develop learning
power in themselves or in their students. The 21st century approach to learning requires that we ‘do’ learning with students
and not to students; as students learning to learn is the most important skill. This helps students build their learning power
and equips them for careers and life beyond school in the 21st century.
2014 PILOT Student Tes>monials
“It made me realise how I think when I’m solving a Maths problem, and how I try to train myself to think with a growth
mindset” (Year 10 student)
“I think the Pilot is good because we are in a new century now, so we need new ways of teaching and learning to build 21st
century skills” (Year 9 student)
“It has opened my eyes to other aspects of learning, rather than work coming from a textbook” (Year 10 student)
“I now think posi vely when it comes to school work and am more concentrated” (Year 10 student)
“It made me feel intrigued. It made me want to learn more about the 21st century and how new techniques of learning will
help us progress” (Year 10 student)
How do I help build Learning Power at home?
Instead of asking your son/daughter what they did at school today, try asking the following:
When did you no ce yourself most interested and curious today?
Was there a me today when you were especially confused? How did you respond?
When were you most crea ve today?
How else could you have learned what the teacher taught?
Year 12 Photography
Sports
Year 8/9 Knockout Boys Volleyball
Year 8/9 Zone Badminton
Year 8/9 Girls Volleyball Team
4th in the state
Beach Volleyball
The KESAB Awards
were held on Friday
Nov 28th in the new
Tonsley TAFE site
redevelopment,
formerly the
Tonsley Mitsubishi
Factory site.
Seaview High School
Music acous>c guitar
students and singers
from Years 10 and 11
performed
confidently as over 150
guests entered the new
site prior to the official
speeches and dinner.
The event was hosted
by media personality
Amanda Blair and
included dis>nguished
guests from industry
and environment
ministers and
the new Marion City
Council Mayor Mr Chris
Hanna.
Amanda Blair
commented on how
professional and
confident our young
performers were and
they received a rousing
applause for their effort
in what was a very
formal, corporate
event performance
experience.
Well done and
congratula>ons to
Rachel RaAus, Stacey
Gallacher, Leilani
Gonzalez Figueroa, Paul
Blaze, George
Karakitsios and Fox
Davies.
Trent Wickers
Arts Coordinator and
Director of Music.
Year 9 Aqua>cs
Pedal Prix
Term 4 has seen an engineering focus in
Year 9 Pedal Prix. Students have focused on
a bridge building task with the goal of
building the strongest and most cost
effec ve bridge.
The project saw some interes ng designs and illustrated
to students the importance of a good plan. The
aBached bridge held a staggering 135kg, at which point
we ran out of weight.
Being the final newsleBer for 2014 I would like to
thank the many people who have made a contribu on
to Pedal Prix over the course of the year. It was a
challenging year for all involved and I am extremely
proud of what we achieved in our first year! Onwards
and upwards.
Chris Congdon
Pedal Prix Teacher
Japanese News
Congratula ons to Heather
Haller who is the recipient of the
Seaview Mishima Scholarship for
2014.
Heather will travel to Mishima High, our sister school in
Japan, in April next year and home stay with a Japanese
family for two weeks. Heather will also experience Japanese
school life and sightseeing around Tokyo. We hope she has a
fantas c trip filled with many new and culturally different
experiences.
Nicole Moody
Japanese Teacher