BSC News No.34 V2

No 34 18th November
Important Dates
Thur 18th November
Opening of Student Art
Exhibition
5.30pm F Block Learning
Centre
Mon 22nd - Thurs 25th
November
Year 9 Camp
Thurs 25th November
7.30pm until 9.00pm
Rock Bands Night
Mon 29th November
7.30pm until 9.00pm
Chamber Concert
Frid 3rd December
Year 7 & 8 Swim Carnival
Sat 11th December
School Uniform Store
Special Trading Day
9.00 am until 4.00pm
Administration
Principal
Ms Vivienne Tellefson
Assistant Principal Year 7-9
Ms Heather Secomb
Assistant Principal Year 10-12
Mr Graeme McKinnon
Student Services
Mr Michael Bartley
Student Welfare Coordinator
Ms Katie Archibald
Student Leadership &
Enrichment Coordinator
Ms Kimberley Crowley
Careers Counsellor
Ms Catherine Jones
International Student
Coordinator
Ms Lauren Flannery
Principal Report
Last night we enjoyed meeting the Year 6 students and their parents who will join
our school community next year. Families were entertained by our talented and
enthusiastic Music students and were given a sneak preview of the 2010 Art
Exhibition featuring an eclectic range of highly professional pieces by students
from Year 7 to 12. Thank you to the many student and parent helpers, and to the
School Council
members who also
attended to welcome
our new families.
The official opening
is tonight beginning
at 5.30pm. Featuring
artworks from
subjects Art,
Ceramics, Mosaics,
Digital Art, Jewellery,
Textiles, Technology
Wood and
Photography, the
2010 Art Exhibition is
an impressive tribute
to the creativity and
artistic ambition of
our students and their very dedicated teachers, several of whom are currently
involved in VCAA exam marking. If you are free this evening, I highly commend
the exhibition to you.
compulsory VCE Orientation Program serves a number
of functions. For most students, it gives a confidence
building overview of the subject and provides a helpful
head start on Unit 1( Year11 ) or Unit (Year 12) work.
For a few students, it enables them to realise that the
subject they have chosen is not what they expected
and that they wish to reselect. Teachers have put a
great deal of time and thought into preparation of
lessons and materials to ensure a strong and positive
early start for our students.
Vivienne Tellefson
Principal
Year 10 Big
Day Out,
Brimbank
Park
On Thursday
the 11th of
November, the
year ten
students went
out on a “Big
Day Out”. We
Big Day Out
travelled
by
Just one of the many artworks on show at the
bus to Keilor,
2010 Art Exhibition
where we split up into groups and participated in a wide
range of activities. We were given the opportunity to
have this day because, as a year level, we were able to
The welcoming of our future Year 7 students coincides
with the final days of exams for our Year 12 students. I work hard and improve on our work practices. The
overall aim of the day was to have fun and to build up
would like to acknowledge the serious and focussed
our team work skills and to interact with people we
way in which our Year 12 students have conducted
may not have known .The first group activity we did
themselves throughout the exam period. Today’s
College News lists all the students who received subject was orienteering. We had to find all thirty clips that
were spread over the course of the park as quickly as
and school service awards at the Year 12 Graduation
last month. Three of the Year 12 awards have a special possible. After this we went from eating flour and
finding smarties to throwing eggs at each other, in the
significance . The library award is in memory of our
hope that our partner was competent enough to catch
greatly missed friend and long serving staff member,
Wendy McLean. In 2010, it is awarded to Dung Nguyen it without it breaking! I think that one of the highlights
of the day for me was throwing eggs around and
for his/her unwavering focus in private study
watching other people drop them on themselves or
throughout all of year 12. The recipient of the
throw them too hard and seeing their partner get hit by
Contribution to Music (Singing) award is Jessica
them. I think the day was a great success and I think
Trevena. We know that Genny Rogers, the Voice
that everyone who participated had a great time with
Teacher to whom this award is dedicated, would have
their friends outside the classroom. Thanks to Ms Wood
been immensely happy to know this. Genny was Jess’
and all the teachers who helped organise the day.
teacher, mentor and inspiration until her sudden death
from cancer this time last year. Genny’s influence in the Jack Nott, 10W
school lives on through the beautiful singing of her
students and fond memories of her colleagues. The
third special award is in memory of Glenn Bourke; past
student, devoted performer and great team player. We
know that Glenn would be incredibly happy that it was
awarded to Jack Anderson with whom he performed in
several Rock Eisteddfods and who like Glenn is
generous in his time, effort and commitment to other
performers.
While the outgoing Year 12, new Year 7 changeover is
a familiar cycle, each year we are surprised by how
quickly the end of year has arrived and the need to
shift our energies and efforts to the following year while
ensuring a strong learning focus until the end of the
year. Students in Year 10 and Year 11 have been given
their VCE Orientation program details today. The
MUSIC NEWS
Year 8 Textiles
Semester 2 Concerts
In Year 8 Textiles we have been making calico bags or
pillows. My bag has a patchwork heart design. I made
the heart shape and then cut out many different
patches from the scrap fabric box. I picked the different
colours and fabric patterns because they look good
together and make a creative design. I am nearly
finished and so far I am very happy with my design
work.
Kristie Dawson 8U
Rock Bands Night – Thursday 25th November
Chamber Concert – Monday 29th November
Both concerts will be held in the Performing Arts Room
and will start at 7.30pm.
Tickets $5.00 students, $10.00 Adults, $20.00 Family
ticket (2 adults and up to 2 students). Performers free
on the night of their performance.
Tickets at the door
Thursday 18th November
Acoustic Guitar and Bouzouki Ensemble - Art Exhibition
Evening
Thursday 25th November
Rock Bands Night – VCE Bands, Year 10 Band, Girl
Band, and Bands from Years 7-10
Monday 29th November
Chamber Concert - Stage Band, Concert Band, Greek
Band, Choir, String, Brass, Wind, Keyboard and
Percussion Ensembles
Thursday 2nd December
Stage Band and Strings – BMW Edge – Federation
Square
Wednesday 8th December
Choir – Boyne Russell House Nursing Home
Kristie at work in the Year 8 Textiles class
Year 7R Science
Suzanne Kurick, Head of Learning - Music
For the past few
weeks 7R have been
studying gravity and
force. For our prac,
we paired up to make
parachutes made out
of plastic bags and
little parachutes
made out of
plasticine.
Once we had finished
making the
parachutes we tested
them by standing on
benches and
dropping them while
our partner was
Kate testing her parachute
timing the fall.
This prac was a test
run for our assessment task which will involve dropping
an egg attached to a parachute.
Kate Rutherford 7R
HARRY POTTER
STOP PRESS !!!!!!!!
Need to see the NEW Harry Potter...Get your ticket at
the office. World Challenge students are running a
fundraiser and there will be a screening of the soon to
be released Harry Potter movie at Westgarth Cinemas,
Northcote. Thursday 25th November at 6pm.
Congratulations to our Year 8 Boys Hockey Team who
have won back to back State Hockey Titles in 2009 and
2010.
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC 2011
Continuing Students
Students who are interested in continuing lessons next
year will be given forms over the next week .
Acceptance into the Program will be processed in the
order of forms and payment received. (Please note,
some instruments have limited vacancies and may fill
quickly). Forms must be filled in and accompanied by
the full payment and given to the Front Office in an
envelope with the student’s name, instrument and
amount enclosed.
New Students
Students interested in learning any of the following
instruments are asked to see Ms Kurick asap:
Flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, tuba,
violin, viola, cello, double bass, guitar, electric bass,
drums, keyboard, vocals
They will be featured in next week’s college news
Academic Award
Class Merit Award
ACCOUNTING
Yeun Ling Choo
Ms West
Ozan Karhaman
BIOLOGY
Dollie Yao
Ms Gould
Rebecca Forder
M. Daskalaki
M. Daskalaki
Claudia Richetti
Rebecca Forder
CHEMISTRY
Zeming Zhuo
Ms Tangey
Rhonda Taleb
TEXTILES
Jacinta Brunt
Ms. Cowcher
Hejar Taha
Mr. Spiller
Ms. Mouratidis
Ms. Apted
Ms.Pearson
Brittany Wood
Grace Dobell
Maggie Kinross
Chaddy Mouhamed
Ms. Houston
Ms. McCallum
Yasika Fernando
Lily Vu
Annika Ring
Mr. Evert
Ms. Lockhart
Jessica Trevena
Jessa-Marie Talento
HISTORY – REVOLUTIONS
Annalivia Carli-Hannan
Ms. Bevan
Ozan Karhaman
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Jacinta Brunt
Mr. O’Grady
Yashika Frnando
ITALIAN
Xavier Herrera-Burchelli
Ms. Mazzeo
LEGAL STUDIES
Chris Scott
Mr. Bartley
Alex Lind
ENGLISH LITERATURE
Robert Summers
Ms. Sanza
Christoper Natoli
Mr. Clarke
Ms. Canale
Saizo Takeuchi
Patrick Brown
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Yeun Ling Choo
ENGLISH
Rachael Hocking
ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
Kelly Nguyen
HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
MATHEMATICAL METHODS
Wen Ru Teoh
FUTHER MATHEMATICS
Odelia Chow
Ms. Abdullah
Mr. Stringer
Mr. Torosidis
Yashika Fernando
SPECIALIST MATHEMATICS
Zeming Zhuo
Mr. Arayne
Wenja (Sherry) Ma
MUSIC
Holly Moore
Ms. Kurick
Jessica Trevena
PHYSICAL EDUCTION
Kale Claffey
Ms. Archibald
Zeming Zhuo
PHYSICS
Zeming Zhuo
Mr McKinnon
Rhonda Taleb
POLITICS
Anthony Asta
Ms. Crowley
Chris Scott
Mr. Bartley
Mr. Clarke
Christopher Natoli
Joannah Boyce
STUDIO ART
Annika Ring
Ms. Ferguson
Rebecca Forder
VISUAL COMMUNICATION AND
DESIGN
Pearly Low
Mr. Runting
Luana Tosti-Guerra
PSYCHOLOGY
Dollie Yao
Jacinta Brunt
Lachlan Downer
WENDY McLEAN LIBRARY AWARD
Dung Nguyen
GLENN BOURKE ROCK EISTEDDFORD AWARD
Jack Anderson
GENEVIEVE RODGERS MUSIC AWARD
Jessica Trevena
A.D.F. LONG TAN LEADERSHIP AND TEAMWORK AWARD
Rebecca Forder
CALTEX BEST ALL ROUNDER AWARD
Annika Ring
EMERGENCY CONTACTS !!
Could all parents ensure we have accurate contact
numbers both for themselves and for other available
emergency contact persons (other than themselves).
Student Medical Conditions
Could parents of students who have anaphylaxis or
other serious medical conditions please hand in a
completed action plan for your child to the front office.
If your child has a medical condition that the school
needs to be aware of, please contact the level
coordinator or Jeremy (school nurse).
BSC Office hours are between 8.30am and 4.30pm
Monday to Friday. Phone calls and office enquires
outside these hours will be recorded by the answering
machine.
NB: If you are contacting the school to let us know
your child is going to be absent, you can also e-mail
the school on [email protected]
Brunswick Secondary College
47 Dawson Street Brunswick 3056
Telephone 9387 6133
Facsimile 9387 0061
Email [email protected]
Web www.brunswick.vic.edu.au
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