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Term 4, Week 8
Highlights 28 November 2017
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SYDNEY SECONDARY COLLEGE | LEICHHARDT CAMPUS P: 9560 2355 | F: 9550 9397 | E: [email protected]
PRINCIPAL’S REPORT - Melinda Bright
Student Leaders 2018 With such an impressive bunch of candidates I am happy to say that the student leadership team has been extended to 12 for 2018. The following students are in our new leadership team (in no par cular order): Rosemary Manners Ishwor Koirala Casper Poutsma Kaelen Crawford Emannuella Ku Sophia Favalaro Lucy Crawford Jasmine Poulikakos Grace Anthes Miles Thomson Illiana Jones Jordan Coquio Senotore The group has a secret project they are going to work on for the next two weeks. At the end of week 9 they will elect their own captains and vice captains with no gender restric ons. I think we have a wonderful leadership team for 2018.
Good news comes via email every now and then Story 1 I caught the 444, 829am bus from Petersham Sta on this morning. There were 4 of your pupils, three male and one female who moved to the side and gestured for me to get on the bus first. I felt so respected and it was just
lovely to see young people presen ng this type of courteous behaviour.
Story 2 On Sunday,12 Nov 2017, Jasmin G ….. par cipated in the long walk called "the bloody long walk " run by Australia MITOCHONDRAIL Disease Founda on. The walk started at 7 am from Palm Beach and finished at Manly Beach. The total was 35 kilometres. Jasmin walked with my two friends and there were a few other young people who also joined this event. The founda on had received about 1.6 million on that day which it will be benefit to people and family who has the disease. As a mother I am so proud of her kindness toward others. She and my friends took about 8 hours to finish. A 35 km walk was a big thing for a 13 year old girl but she didn't give up. This message would be a great example to encouraging to others kids to be ac ve, be healthy and be kind and be brave to do a big thing like this.
Staffing Update We are delighted to announce the permanent appointment Lisa Hartemink as our Head Teacher Human Society and Its Environment (HSIE). Lisa was selected through merit selec on and will replace Tracy Goldstein who has been on leave for the past 3 years.
IF YOUR CHILD IS
GOING TO BE
ABSENT PLEASE
NOTIFY THE
SCHOOL BY
9.30AM IF
POSSIBLE
Last day of
school for all
years is Friday
15th December
Number Crunchers took place in the
School Hall on Monday of week 4. It was
an awesome day where students from
Orange Grove PS, Leichhardt PS and SSCL
came together and competed against one
another to solve a range of maths
problems. Once everyone arrived, we
formed mixed groups and had to come up
with a maths related name for our team.
We started out with a quiz and the year 6
students had the opportunity to compete
against each other in a knock out
numbers event. A er recess, we had a
few more quick fire quizzes but with
special rules which would change what
we write down. At the end of the day,
individual and team point scores were
tallied up and the top two teams had to
compete in a ‘best of 3’ event to decide
the ul mate winner. The day was
extremely successful and everyone
enjoyed making new friends and having
fun with maths.
Jackson Bun ng, Year 7
Year 7 team from SSCL
Year 8 Score Keepers
Powerful Pythagoras Pi People
Rise and Shine
Term three was a big one and we have taken the holidays to rest and recover, but now we are back for
our final term of amazing drama c pursuits!
Year 7 are learning all about script work. They have selected their scripts for their assessments and are
busy learning lines, blocking scenes and characterising for their assessed performance or radio play.
Year 9 are delving into Shakespeare, learning how to perform with purpose and understanding. They
have also been fortunate to watch some live theatre which will result in a theatre review.
Year 10 have a big term learning the art of playbuilding. They have dived straight into the crea ve
process as their assessment involves performing their scenes at the Performance Night in Week 6.
Theatresports
Extra Curricula Theatresports group have been mee ng every
Wednesday morning at 8am to develop their improvisa on skills
and learning the rules for Theatresports games. They have
shown significant improvement in their confidence and their
abili es and have been crea ng really entertaining scenes. Again
we cannot thank Declan enough, our Coach and former student
of Sydney Secondary College, Leichhardt Campus.
Our Junior Team competed in the Junior Theatresports Schools
Challenge on Thursday 26th October at Newington College and
came 4th. This means that they are progressing to the semi
finals at Roseville College this week.
Yoga
Yoga will now run on Monday
A ernoons at 3:20 pm in GC.01 Mrs
Boerma runs a yoga class. Please feel
free to grab a note off Mrs Boerma or
just pop in and join us. Absolutely no
experience required, just an open
mind and a willing nature to start
your week in a really posi ve way.
Junior Theatresports
Team : Henry Twomey,
Fergus Ryan, Elsa Wright,
Ben Tresno‐Turner, Angela
Cai
DRAMA
KOORI ART EXPRESSIONS 2017 Congratula ons to the students involved in Koori Art Expressions 2017!
This year’s theme was: ‘OUR LANGUAGES MATTER’.
The students completed all their artworks and hopefully all their work will be exhibited at the
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences on Wednesday 22nd November from 5:45 to 7:30.
The four artworks produced for the exhibi on included a video, a ceramic map, a flag collage and a jigsaw puzzle collage.
The contribu ng ar sts were:
Video: Marley‐Ann Edwards, Rosie Manners and Azra Yilmaz.
Ceramic Map: Savannah Fynn, Skye Willaims, Azra Yilamaz and Kate Eggleton.
Flag Collage: Bonnie Zawetz, Annaliese Benjamin and Keteya Weatherall.
Jigsaw Puzzle Collage: Rosie Manners, Azra Yilmaz, Kate Eggleton and Marley‐Ann Edwards.
ABORIGINAL ART AND CULTURE WORKSHOP
On Friday 1st December 2017 at Sydney Secondary College Leichhardt Campus there will
be an Aboriginal Art and Culture workshop from 1pm to 3pm.
The campus is working in conjunc on with the Sydney College of the Arts/University of
Sydney to provide this workshop.
There are only a few spaces le to fill so pop into GA. 24 and tell me if you would like to
be part of the workshop.
Thanks,
Mark Cras
The ‘Ceramic Map’
We s ll managed to fire the clay even though the kiln wasn’t working at the me. As you can see it took on some extra charac‐teris cs. An example of the elements work‐ing in our favour, (aesthe cally).
On Thursday the 26th of October, North
Annandale Public celebrated it's annual
whole‐school event: Italian Day. A few of
Leichhardt's talented year 10 Italian
students were invited along with their
teacher, Ms Doyle.
On the day, our lovely students arrived to
find all the students and their teachers
dressed in the colours of the Italian flag.
Five students from Leichhardt helped the
primary school children with all sorts of
ac vi es: a Michelangelo drawing ac vity,
a mosaics workshop, a puzzle
to reassemble the regions of Italy, making
pizza dough with the kindergarteners and
an Italian spelling bee compe on.
At lunch me the students and
teachers ate delicious pizza and gelato. At
the end of the day, each year
group performed on stage; they danced 'La
Tarantella' a tradi onal dance from Naples,
the children acted out scenarios in Italian,
such as ordering at a café, and they sung
various Italian songs. The audience of
parents and grand‐parents was delighted.
Martha and Luca from year 10 delivered a
heart‐warming and inspiring speech about
their love of Italian, their experiences on
exchange in Tuscany and the benefits of
studying the language in high school. They
highly recommended that the year 6s keep
up Italian in their secondary schooling. Our
year 10 students did a fabulous job of
demonstra ng exemplary student a tude
and acted as true role‐models.
Thank you Ms Oxley from NAPS for a
wonderful day!
Maddison Doyle
ITALIAN DAY AT ANNANDALE NORTH PUBLIC SCHOOL
NOTES FROM THE MUSIC
FACULTY
This week Year 7 and 8 students performed
brilliantly during our second semester Music
Assembly! As Year 8 has been learning about
Rock Music this term, students performed a
number of rock songs as a class. They performed
a range of repertoire star ng with early 1950’s
rock songs like “Rock Around the Clock” (Bill
Hayley and His Comets) and “Hound Dog” (Elvis
Presley) through to songs from the 1960’s and
70’s like “Dreams” (Fleetwood Mac), Smoke on
the Water (Deep Purple), Sweet Home Alabama
(Lynyrd Skynyrd ), “I Shot The Sheriff”( Bob
Marley) and even more recent songs like “Seven
Na on Army” by the White Stripes. 8 Music 1
class finished off with a Medley of “Smoke on
the Water” (Deep Purple), “Never Tear Us
Apart”(INXS) and “Ring Ring” (ABBA) which
really capped off the Year 8 performances with a
bang!
Then for our grand finale, year 7 took to the
stage performing the epic movie theme
“Chariots of Fire” by Greek composer Vangelis.
110 Students from 7 different music classes
performed the theme on a range of instruments,
par cularly featuring pitched percussion such as
xylophones and glockenspiels. We had other
instrumentalists on drums, un‐pitched
percussion, keyboard / synthesizer, piano,
acous c guitar, bass guitar, clarinet, Saxophone,
Trombone, violin and more. Our music
assemblies are ge ng bigger and bolder year
a er year and as a faculty we are extremely
proud of all students involved!
8 Music 3 perform “Rock Around the
Clock” by Bill Hayley and his Comets
Tom shreds a killer solo while
performing “Smoke on the
Water” by Deep Purple.
A view from the sound desk!
8 Music 3 perform “Rock Around the
Clock by Bill Hayley and his Comets.
Ash pumps up the crowd while performing
“Seven Na on Army” by the White Stripes
Violet, Ben and Prospera performing the medley featuring
songs from ar sts such as Deep Purple, INXS and ABBA.
Check out the Year 7 Woodwinds!
Year 7 Brass sec on performing “Chariots
of Fire” by Greek composer “Vangelis” Glocks galore!
Year 9
Year 9 have been working on several
composi on and performance tasks. In class
we have been arranging and rehearsing 20th
century orchestral pieces to cater to our wide
instrumental diversity in the classroom,
including Alto and Tenor Saxophones,
Trumpets, Trombones, Flutes, and French
Horn, along with Piano and String sec ons.
Most notably, we worked on a select few
themes from Gustav Holsts’ seven‐movement
orchestral suite, “The Planets”, Op. 32,
including the theme from Jupiter and Mars.
And recently rehearsed a beau ful
arrangement of Antonin Dvoraks’ Symphony
No.9 in E minor, “From the New World”, Op.
95, B 178, specifically movement II. Largo.
Composi on tasks in year 9 focus on using ICT
programs such as Musescore and Finale to
notate musical ideas and arrangements. This
allows students to experiment more with their
composi ons, as they can hear them played
back through MIDI sounds, and alter them as
they go. It provides students with the
opportunity to include a myriad of
instruments that would otherwise be hard to
come by – many students have taken to
including full orchestras, with Bassoons, Tenor
Trombones, and Tubas, as well as less
conven onal instruments such as the
Harmonica and the Bagpipes.
Year 10
Have come a long way from the start of
elec ve music last year and are now confident
ensemble players. They have developed their
performance selec ons and their instrument
choices to present some very interes ng
group assessments. This year alone they have
studied and performed music from Australian
folk and contemporary, film music and
popular music of today. As they go to
Blackwa le Bay for taster week some of these
students will same the music offerings there
so they can get ready for what’s expected at
the Senior campus.
Both years 9 and 10 are currently working on
performance pieces for the Year 10 farewell
later this month. Pieces are being rehearsed
and rearranged as we speak, with exci ng and
crea ve ideas coming from both years.
