Athletics Carnival a Success Despite the Weather!

MOSMAN HIGH FLYER JUNE 2012
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Athletics Carnival a
Success Despite the
Weather!
FROM THE PRINCIPAL - SUSAN WYATT
The final carnival for 2012 was the
Athletics Carnival held at Narrabeen
Institute of Sport and while the weather
(particularly in the morning) was a
mixture of bursts of sun followed by
showers, the afternoon was dry and
greatly enjoyed. Students turned out in
force and there was keen competition for
all events. Only the high jump and the
javelin were postponed due to the wet
grounds. A slightly different program
was trialed on the day. Years 7 to 11
attended the carnival and Year 12 had the
opportunity to work on major projects or
performances for the HSC. As you know
at Mosman many of our Year 12 students
select subjects with a performance or
project and in fact many choose multiple
projects so this day working with their
teachers was highly valued.
The success of this alternative
approach was due to the participation
and commitment of our wonderful
parents. The initiative began this year
at the swimming carnival and expanded
with the cross country carnival and
continued to expand at the athletics
carnival. Parents were judges on the
track and worked with teachers in field
events. Their contribution was highly
valued by staff and students. This
involvement by parents in all aspects of
sport is instigated by the P&C sports
committee lead by Debbie Lotz and
Jane Dampney and on behalf of the
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June 2012
P&C Meeting
Contents
21st Century
Education
From the Deputy Principals - page 3
Drama Committee Report - page 3
P & C Report - page 4
Fighting the Black Dog - page 4
Year 8 Big Day Out - Field of Mars page 5
Student Stars - page 5
Year 8 Visit Taronga Zoo - page 6
Athletics Carnival - page 7
Cross Country - page 8
Geography Competition Results page 9
Year 7 Charity Committee - page 9
Year 10 Geography Excursion - page 9
Performing Arts Report - page 10
English Report - page 11
Calendar of Events - page 12
Presented by Jess Melkman
Thursday
14 June 2012
7.30pm
In the School Library
JUNE 2012
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Mosman community I thank them for the
significant difference their leadership is
making to all aspects of sport at our
school.
Speaking of success, a number of our
students have achieved recognition at the
highest level. Antoine King of Year 12
has been selected into the NSW Institute
of Sport for sailing. Nick Burton
represented Northern Sydney Region at
the state rugby championships in Dubbo
and was chosen in the CHS rugby team,
Lenke Dauda-Board will be representing
Australia at water polo in New Zealand.
Charlie Fuller and Kian Lotz trained with
the Milan soccer club in Italy and Jordan
Cooper won a gold medal in the
Australian Taekwondo championships
held in Queensland just to mention some
recent highlights.
The wonderful talent of students in
drama, music and dance will be showcased at the upcoming concert to be held
on Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st
June. Music students are engaging in
increased practice with the upcoming
tour to Tamworth. A three day tour
which will involve visiting a number of
high schools in the Tamworth region and
participating in workshops as well as
performances. Already the P&C music
committee under the leadership of Sarah
Kernaghan is planning an overseas tour
for 2013 to Italy and Austria. This
parent committee is a force majeure in
the support of music at Mosman High
School not only supporting tours but
also workshops, concerts, festivals and
much more. The relatively newly
formed drama committee with Gisela
Moser at the helm also has made an
enormous difference in supporting the
Performing Arts department at our
school and we all look forward to the
Moscars later in the year.
Another exciting initiative has been put
in place by a group of twenty Year 11
students. I am sure you will remember
the 19 Year 12 students who went to
Cambodia last year instead of doing the
more traditional “schoolies”. They built
houses for families in Phnom Penh and
worked with children in a local orphanage. Well twenty of our Year 11
students hope to carry on the tradition.
They have held their first meeting and
already established a website through
the Tabitha Foundation where
donations can be made to this worthy
cause. It was wonderful to hear Claudia
Snell and Astrid Milne who initiated
the tour last year speak about their
experiences and how valuable the
experience has been to them. Of course
Astrid and Claudia were acknowledged
by Mosman Council at the Australia
Day awards as Young Citizens of the
Year.
Year 7 on their
Orienteering
component for
Sport
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It was also wonderful to see so many
parents attending the recent parent
teacher evenings for Year 12 and then
Year 7. The feedback was extremely
positive and the teaching staff welcomed
the opportunity to discuss the learning
needs with parents. Years 8 and 9 will
soon be receiving their reports and their
parent teacher evening will take place in
the last week of term.
Two of our staff Ms Longley and Ms
Melkman recently conducted workshops
for teachers in Northern Sydney Region
at the Gifted and Talented
conference. Their presentation showcased the cross-curricular topic
developed at Mosman High for Year 7
which focused on the question “What
kind of Wild Thing are you?” The
presentation was so successful and
valued that they were asked to present
for secondary and tertiary educators at
the University of Sydney. They will be
presenting at the upcoming P&C
meeting and I encourage you to come
along and hear about the innovative and
creative programs our students are
engaging in.
Finally thank you to all families who
have responded to my recent letter and
paid school contributions. Your support
of our school is greatly valued.
MOSMAN HIGH FLYER JUNE 2012
From the Deputy Principals
- Colette Longley and John Perdriau
It’s Report Time!
How to Help your child Be a Good Self
Manager
Having read a large number of reports it
is apparent that good time management
skills can support student achievement.
Time is the one thing that we all have the
same amount of, but it’s amazing how
we run out of it and are ‘Time Poor.’ For
students it is avoidable but requires
support in achieving a consistent learning
focus. Students will be given feedback
about ignoring group distractions,
prioritising and goal setting providing the
intrinsic motivation to achieve. To avoid
being a time waster, students have to
develop consistent attitudes and habits to
manage their learning. Keep a log of
time usage during the week. The areas to
include might be:
- Day to day routines
- Travelling to and from school, chilling
out with friends before and after school
- Part time jobs ( definitely no more than
14 hours per week); jobs at home;
looking after brothers and sisters
- Recreation
- Family events; socialising and developing positive relationships
The students have been given a wonderful resource, their planner, to help
them with practical tips and resources
for improving time management.
Check out page 36. The above family
activity, plus looking at ”Musts and
Options” (page 181) will give a full
picture of how time is spent. I encourage parents to sit down with their child
and discuss the time wasters. Have a
discussion with your child’s teachers
about strategies for prioritising (page
32), goal setting (pages 161-2; pages
8-9), avoiding procrastination (page
92) and building time managing habits.
Build your child’s self awareness and
encourage them to be a better self
manager.
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Drama Committee Report
FROM Gisela Moser, Drama Committee
Mid-Year Concert 20 & 21 June
Auditions are on 8 June. Concerteria and
raffle will be organised by Drama
Committee, but ALL HELPERS
WELCOME!
An appeal to all parents of drama (and
other) students in Years 9-12 - please
complement either of the above with a
gourmet item of your choice. Once
again all donations hugely appreciated.
Raffle tickets will be available on the
night for you to win a lovely hamper, a
relaxing massage courtesy of Nordic
Health or a dry cleaning voucher (to take
care of those formal gowns and suits).
Volunteers are needed to help with selling tickets, running the raffle and catering (mainly during the intermission).
An appeal to all parents of drama (and
other) students in Years 7 & 8 - to bring
in contributions for RAFFLE.
The Drama committee will be putting a
couple of hampers together and would
hugely appreciate donations. One hamper
will be themed "Gourmet Choc-ATherapy" (Year 7) and another "Goodies
for Foodies" (Year 8). Please send in a
yummy chocolaty or 'gourmet' food
items . Drop it off at the Administration
office by Monday 11 June.
For anyone able and willing to
provide baked goodies (sweet or
savoury), to be sold in the intermission
for about $2 each, cardboard trays will
be available from the Administration
office from 18-21 June .
Come along, support our performers and
have a great night (or 2)! Updates on
http://mosmanhighdrama.wordpress.com/
We have had a generous donation of a
$500 gift voucher for a family portrait
session with photographer Tania Niwa.
This will be available via silent
auction. Particularly suited for families
with Year 12 students who might be
leaving home at the end of the year.
Get your bids in or get someone else
bidding for you.
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P & C Report
FROM Celia Harper, P & C President
2012 and Term 2 are well and truly under
way and the P&C have enjoyed some
great meetings this year. We started the
year off by hearing from the 2011 HSC
kids who spent their “schoolies” in
Cambodia building homes for the
Tabitha Foundation in Phnom
Penh. They told us about the personal
satisfaction and development they’ve
enjoyed through their experience in
Cambodia and were truly impressive. Last month we heard from SRC
leaders – Tim Snailham and Savannah
Wilkie who told us about MHS SRC –
how it works, what they do and more
about volunteering generally.
The committee groups are going strong
with the Sports Committee working hard
to build the profile of sport both in and
out of school . The market day was a
great success and in July the MHS ski
team of 10 will head down to Perisher to
compete in the Interschool Ski
Competition. Music has a mountain of
events – Tamworth tour in June not to
mention the very exciting trip to Italy
and Austria in 2013. Drama will run
the Moscars.
If you are not receiving your PIN notices please contact Tina Jackson
[email protected] so she can ensure
you are on your year group’s list.
We warmly welcome everyone to our
next meeting which will be one week
early 14 June (due to concerts on 20
and 21 June ) 7.30pm in the Library.
Jess Melkman will be presenting from
a recent university conference.
Learn about 21st century education and
how social networking can encourage
conversation in the classroom
Jess Melkman will be explaining how
she engages our kids with Edmodo and
collaboration. In collaboration, students
are working together for a common
goal. But what is that goal? How can
this be used for meaningful assessment?
Collaboration provides students with diverse learning environments and
enriching experiences that build
personal relationships, provide
challenges and work towards a
common goal. Traditional assessment
focuses on teacher-guided tasks with a
'one size fits all' assessment task at the
end. Group work develops more
student centred learning where the teacher facilitates, but the student is involved
in the decision making
process.
Later in the year the P&C plan to bring
2009 Young Australian of the Year winner (for his inspirational work with youth
in Australia and abroad). – Sam Cawthorn to speak to both students and the
wider community…. Stay tuned for
dates.
We hope you will join us in the
Library Thrusday 14 June 7.30pm.
Fighting the Black Dog
FROM Joshua Derbe 7 Yellow
On the 30 May, a group in academic
extension class, 7Y, recently organised a
sports day for the whole of Year 7. Their
hopes were to raise money for the Black
Dog Institute, for exercise your mood
week. This charity supports people with
depression, with their motto, “Because
everyone deserves peace of mind”.
Depression affects one in five
Australians, and by 2030 will be the
number one cause of disability. Exercise
is a great way to “lift your mood”, and
relieve some symptoms of depression.
Donations were collected before the
students departed for Rawson Oval.
Students Alexander McIntosh, Joshua
Derbe, Thomas Walker, Zara Whiston,
Laura Marshall, Tom Burgess, and
Ricardo Giorgi were referees for the
three sports taking place, and the minds
behind the event. These activities
included basketball, soccer, and netball. Their plans were for each group
(made up of two classes), to
participate in two of the sports.
Unfortunately, time was cut short and
there was only enough time for one. Despite this, the day was a huge
success, and a large amount of money
was raised. The students also held a
healthy food stall on Friday 1June.
Things such as homemade lemonade,
popcorn, rock cookies, sandwiches
(chicken and egg), and cupcakes made
by the kind students in Food Technology
were all sold. By the end of lunch, almost
all of the food was sold. They raised
$365 to help the cause. Congratulations
to them, and if you haven’t already, I
urge you to head to the Black Dog
Institutes website, and possibly get into
some activities yourself!
http://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/
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MOSMAN HIGH FLYER JUNE 2012
Year 8 Big Day Out - Field of Mars
Year 8 applying their mathematical skills!
Student Stars
Jordan (Jay) Cooper (Y10) travelled with
a team of 14 Taekwondo competitors
from the Spirit Taekwondo school in
Brookvale, to perform at the TANS Open
Championships at the Gold Coast 12-13
May . There were competitors from all
over Australia and NZ. As a 15year old,
Jordan had an option to enter the tournament in the 15-17 age category or in the
Open age category, Jordan chose the
later. Jordan's final bout was against a 22
year old competitor. Sparring 3 rounds
Jordan came out the winner, scoring 15
points to 3 and secured the Open's Gold
medal of colour belts (below black belt
level). Jordan is working toward the
Nationals at Homebush in June.
Congratulations to Doria Katos who has
achieved her Bronze Duke of
Edinburgh Award.
Nick Burton was selected into CHS
Rugby.
Lenke Dauda-Board made the water
polo all stars team and will compete in
NZ shortly.
Antoine King has been selected as an
elite athlete in the 2012 NSW Institute
of Sport Sailing Squad. This is an
exceptional honour and we
congratulate Antoine on his
achievement.
Tropfest movie Fish Lips, made a
couple of years ago and featuring
Paloma Leech in the lead role (placed
in the top 16 for that year) was shown
in Las Vegas where they featured
Australia's best Tropfest Films over the
last 20 years.
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Olivia Eastwood won the U15 Zone
Cross Country last week. Well done
Olivia!!!
Kemba Jessup has just come back from a
week of hockey in Tamworth. His
Sydney North schoolboys side came 7th
at the CHS boys titles, then immediately
afterwards his Sydney No.1 team won
the U15 boys division state championships, beating arch rival Tamworth 2-1 in
the final.
Three teams successfully competed in
the Balmoral Burn
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Year 8 Visit Taronga Zoo
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Athletics Carnival
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Cross Country
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Geography Competition Results
Some fantastic results in the National
comp below:
Senior category
High Distinction
Joel Harper-Harris
Intermediate category
High Distinction
Aden de Leeuw
Sam Elliot
Aiden Huxley
Joseph Russell
Distinction
Nicole Baumli
Will Davis
Michael Perry
Jasper Powrie
Year 7 Charity Committee
FROM Georgia Murcell
The Year 7 Charity Committee bake sale
in week three was a great success! As a
year we raised $314 for people who
suffer from Parkinson's disease.
The Year 7 Charity Committee would
like to thank those who donated cakes
and money.
Year 10 Geography Excursion
FROM Phil Webster, Head Teacher Social Science
On Friday May 25, Our Year 10
Geography students travelled to Long
Reef/Collaroy beaches to examine
human impacts on coastal environments.
The students conducted a range of fieldwork activities to determine geographical
processes over time and the impacts of
overdevelopment.
Despite a cold and wet start to the morning the sun shone by midday and the students displayed exceptional behaviour
and attention to detail for their external
supervisors- AUSECO.
Students will sit an assessment task on
their fieldwork activities in Week 8 of
Term2.
Katy Dalgliesh measure wind speed to
analyse the impacts of dune
re-vegetation at Long Reef
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Distinction
Max Alexander
Louis Boulter
Olivia Eastwood
Sophia Hatzis
Isabella Henry
Andrew Jones
Matthew Kong
Natasha Maimbo
Toby Manson
Joshua Riley
Laura Schutt
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Performing Arts Report
FROM John Feros, Head Teacher
This month is going to be a busy! Our
Music Ensembles are off next week to
Tamworth for a three day tour with Mr
Longhurst and Mr Hardy. They will be
performing at local high schools and
finish with a major performance at the
Town Theatre. Best wishes to all
performers.
Don’t forget our mid-year concert
(Jubilation) on 20 - 21 June. This concert
showcases our fantastic Music, Drama
and Dance talent. The concert starts at
7pm and tickets will be available at the
door - $25 family, adult $10 and
students $5.
The Music Tour to Italy 2013 is well
underway. Auditions were held
recently and the Ensembles have been
finalised. Congratulations to those
students who were successful. Both Mr
Hardy and Mr Longhurst were really
impressed with the standard of
musicianship in the auditions, but
unfortunately numbers prevented them
from taking more students. Now it’s
time to rehearse and polish for the
upcoming performances.
Blake Lovely, Lexie Dent and Myles
Horton (Year 9). All of these students
successfully auditioned for The Arts
North Drama Festival to be held at
NIDA in July. All groups performed with
polish and great execution.
Congratulations to Olivia Eastwood,
Serae Kopra, Hayley Haywood-Matty,
Isabella Hunt (Year10), Isobel Milne,
Billie Slip, Emmy Harkins, Sarah
Larkins (Year 8) and Eliana Janakis,
Keep an eye out for upcoming
performances in our School Theatre.
Music and Drama Ensembles are
completing units of work and HSC
students will be showcasing their work.
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Our Get Shorty Film Festival will be on
in November. This festival is accessible
to all years. Drop into the Performing
Arts Staffroom and get an entry form and
more details.
MOSMAN HIGH FLYER JUNE 2012
English Report
FROM Peter Papilos, Debating and ICAS Coordinator
Debating
2012 has been an exciting and rigorous
year for Debating at Mosman High!
Our two teams of highly enthusiastic
students have each learnt about the
complexities and excitement of
formalised debates and argument.
Naturally, the knowledge and skills they
have developed in Debating have had
flow-on effects into the rest of their
education.
The two teams...
Mosman Blue Team (Year 9)
Mosman Red Team (Year 10)
Isobel Kemp
Olivia Eastwood
Sarah Clark
Isabella Hunt
Jack Versace
Sophia Hatzis
Ruby Craddock
Serae Kopra
...have each stood up against Hornsby
Girls High (and in one case, each other)
to deliver strong, coherent and meaningful argument, and while they have
endured narrow defeat, they have also
had glowing wins – especially one
debate where Mosman High’s illustrious
Year 10 Team fought valiantly with
some hard core rebuttal.
Nonetheless, in all my experience of
being a debater myself, an adjudicator
and coordinating and coaching
debating, over the last 15 years – I can
state unequivocally – that the Year 10
Debate, which we won, against
Hornsby Girls was the greatest debate I
have ever witnessed – I did not envy
the task of the adjudicator, who, was
almost literally shaking in his boots as
to how he was going to announce the
result.
At this point:
* Mosman Year 9 have won and lost
against Hornsby Girls
* Mosman Year 10 have lost and won
against Hornsby Girls
* Mosman Year 9 will verse Mosman
Year 10 and
*There may be a need to have a showdown with Hornsby to decide who will
advance to the next stage!
I would like to take this opportunity to
congratulate and thank the eight
debaters for their sterling efforts, hard
work and enthusiasm – in particular,
our new debaters who, on first experience won against a selective school.
These students should be acknowl-
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edged for their skill and determination.
I look forward to coordinating and
coaching Debating again next year and
taking new and current students through
the 2013 competition.
These students have had a lot of fun
meeting new students, debating on
topical issues and learning the value of
teamwork, listening and collaborating as
well as being resilient in the face of
strong opposition, all worthy lessons
which contribute to and add value to
life-long learning.
The students meet at D16 during lunch
on a Tuesday, for live discussion around
such topics as: Education, Media,
Politics and the ways in which these
issues affect us in our daily lives.
As the Debating Coordinator I would like
to encourage all students to participate in
this extra-curricular activity and even if
you don’t get to debate this year, you
may learn about debating and be really
enthused to take it up next year!
* A reminder that the Spelling and Writing Tests are on Tuesday the 19 June – in
the hall
MOSMAN HIGH FLYER JUNE 2012
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Monday 11 June
Queen’s Birthday Holiday
Tuesday 12 June
Music trip to Tamworth Day 1
Wednesday 13 June
Music trip to Tamworth Day 2
Y 12 English Ext assessment
Thursday 14 June
Music trip to Tamworth Day 3
Y12 Business Studies student lectures
Y11/12 Drama excursion to Sydney
Theatre Company
P & C meeting 7.30pm in library
Friday 15 June
Y12 Visual Art mock exam
Monday 18 June
Y12 Business Studies assessment
Tuesday 19 June
ICAS Spelling & Writing test
Wednesday 20 June
Y11/12 Drama Excursion The Removalist
Yamaha Band Contest
Y12 Economics assessment
Jubilation Concert 7pm in school hall
Thursday 21 June
Y12 Italian Trial Speaking exam
Y12 Legal Studies assessment
Jubilation Concert 7pm in school hall
Friday 22 June
Y7 Vaccinations Dose 2
Y12 Society & Culture lecture day
ESL assessment
Friday 20 July
Y11 ESL assessment
Monday 25 June
Y12 English Advanced assessment
Monday 23 July
Y7 Maths assessment task over 3 days
Y11 Hospitality work placements all
week
Tuesday 26 June
Y12 English Ext 2 draft due
Y10 English assessment
Y8/9 Parent Teacher Night 4pm to 7pm
in school hall
Monday 30 July
Y12 HSC Trials commence for 2 weeks
Education Week
Y8 Maths assessment
Y10 Maths assessment
Thursday 28 June
Last day of term for students
High Flyer deadline
Tuesday 31 July
ICAS English tests
Friday 29 June
Staff Development Day
Wednesday 1 August
ArtsNorth Secondary Music Festival
Thursday 2 August
Australian Maths Competition
Monday 16 July
Students return
Tuesday 17 July
Y11 English Advanced assessment
Y11 Reports issued
Y10 Reports issued
Friday 3 August
High Flyer deadline
Wednesday 18 July
Arts North Music Festival rehearsal
Thursday 19 July
Y11 ESL assessment
Y10/11 Parent Teacher Night 4pm to
7pm in the school hall
NEXT “HIGH FLYER” DEADLINE
Friday 28 June 2012
email [email protected]
Dates are correct at time of printing
and may be subject to change.
Contact details:
Mosman High School
Military Road Mosman 2088
Phone: (02) 9968 1006 Fax: (02) 9968 1203
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.mosman-h.schools.nsw.edu.au
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