Respect ~ Perseverance ~ Growth

Principal Matters by Mark Watson

End of Term As this week draws to a close, we have also reached the end of the second term. I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a safe and enjoyable winter break. It’s that time of year to find a warm and comfy spot and snuggle up with a good book. The school office will be closed from this Friday 5 July and re-open again on Monday 22 July. Staff will return on the 22

nd for a school development day and stu-

dents in all year groups will return on Tuesday 23 July when normal classes will resume for the third term. This newsletter contains a number of reports on recent activities, including junior debating, the Engadine Band-fest, Mufti Day fundraising, Term 2 Drama, Year 8 Medieval Japanese project and an Hospitality industry immersion week for a lucky staff member, Mrs Doherty. Enjoy. Year 8 into 9 Subject Selections While we are only half way through the 2019 school year, planning is well under way for the 2020 school year. Year 10 have completed their subject choices for next year and now it is Year 8’s turn to choose subjects for 2020. The process will get underway when we return next term. Year 8 will attend briefing sessions during the first week of term 3. These sessions will introduce the elective choices to students. On Thursday 25 July (Week 1, Term 3), we will hold an infor-mation evening for Year 8 students and parents. The evening will cover HSC minimum standards in literacy and numeracy; Elective course selections for 2020; study pathways for students from Year 9 and beyond and tips from past students on how to choose elective courses. The evening will run between 7:00-8:00pm in our school hall. We look forward to seeing you on the night. Bushfire Drill An evacuation drill was held on Monday morning to practice our emergency action plan in case we are under attack from a bushfire. While it is not fire season at the moment, the dry winter will increase the threat of bushfires in the late spring and early summer. In the case of a bushfire, our action plan is to meet in the Quad before making our way to St Ives Shops. A careful analysis of the drill allows us to iron out any complications before we have a real emergency. Sports Awards As we had all of the students together in the quad following the bushfire drill, Mrs Terrey made the most of the oppor-tunity to present sporting awards to a number of students. The girls A futsal team who won their zone grade sport competition during the autumn sporting season received a sporting medal and special mention was made of the seven Zone Cross Country students who have made it through to State Cross Country. Parent Teacher Night We held our final parent teacher interviews/conferences on Tuesday evening this week. Parents of students in Years 7 and 9 had their turn to meet with teachers and many parents had their children with them to attend the meetings. Building Works Update It is our understanding that work will begin on both of our building projects over the school holidays. ACH Clifford has been awarded the contract to refurbish C-Block and they intend to begin work next week. It is anticipated that this project will be completed at the end of this year with classes in the upgraded facilities being held from the begin-ning of next year. St Hilliers have been awarded the contract to build the new stadium. Work will not begin on this project until its Development Application has been approved by Ku-ring-gai Council. In preparation, hoarding will be placed around the construction site making it out of bounds for students and staff. We had initially been advised that this would occur this week but it will now take place from next Monday. The outdoor basketball hoops will be relocated on the Quad while the building works are underway. Holiday Activities Year 12 and Matilda While we are on break for the next two weeks, Year 12 students will be focused on study. Their trial examinations are being held in weeks 3 and 4 of next term. Many teachers are giving up time over the holidays to work with their students. In fact it is so many we have had to organise a timetable so that there are no clashes and Year 12 students can get to all sessions. The timetable is:

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Students involved in the Musical will also be at school rehearsing over the holidays. Ms Lovell will be rehearsing the Show Band from 10am until 3pm in the MFS on the 10 July and 17 July. The cast will be notified via email of their rehearsal dates. Thanks to all of the Year 12 teachers and the parents and staff involved in Matilda for your holiday time. Congratulations to:

the team of students who attended the Sydney North Regional Cross Country carnival in Gosford, seven of the students will now represent at NSWCHS Cross Country next term. See Mrs Terry’s report in the newsletter;

all the students who participated in the Engadine Bandfest last Friday. Students in both the Concert Band 2 and Strings were awarded Silver and the Jazz Combo received a gold award. Congratulations also to the staff, Mrs Andresson (Strings), Mrs Cooper (Jazz Combo) and Ms Lovell( Concert Band 2).

Best wishes Mark Watson Principal

The SRC are helping Australia @pushforbetter mental health this year with The Push-Up Challenge. Join us in supporting headspace, The National Youth Mental Health Foundation. Donate at http://www.thepushupchallenge.com.au our team is snives pushers.

A big thank you to the following families

and children who came and helped at the Bush Care Planting morning. Tracey, Libby, James, the Davey Family, Robyn, Sarah, The Suchet-Pearson family, Chloe and the Sainsbury family and or course, Penn, our Council supervisor who organised the plants for us. Sorry if I have forgotten anyone. Meredith Hunter Coordinator

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SWAGS FOR THE HOMELESS FUNDRAISER

On Wednesday 26 June, the Year 12 Community and Family Studies ran a fundraiser to raise money to buy swags for the homeless. The class have recently been studying groups within society, and decided that together, they wanted to raise enough money to buy five swags to donate to the homeless and make a difference for those in need. The students created a video for awareness of the need for homeless individuals to have a bed and shelter every night and created a mufti day with the theme of beanies, scarves and gloves. They then ran a sausage sizzle and brought in baked goods from home to sell and raise money to buy swags. Baked goods were also donated by grandparents to give to the cause. A Year 7 student by the name of Libbie D-S even made cupcakes that were decorated with mini scarves and beanies! Together with a generous donation from St Ives Lions Club, the students raised over $1000 and will be purchasing the Street Swags by the end of the term. Emily Brown TAS Teacher

YEAR 8 HISTORY STUDY MEDIEVAL JAPAN

This week to finish their study of Medieval Japan, Year 8 History students from 8T and 8E worked on a PBL project, 'Who are the Modern Samurai?'. They created and presented artworks as a part of a greater collage. As you can see their ideas are outstanding and their creativity is really on show. Adam Noronha and Gillian McGhee HSIE Teachers

YEAR 8 MUSIC

Year 8 performed their contemporary music pieces in the hall as part of mandatory music. Thanks to all students who participated. Your efforts were really appreciated, everyone had a lot of fun. Genevieve Andresson and Sally Cooper Music Teachers

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SYDNEY NORTH CROSS COUNTRY CARNIVAL A brilliant performance for our team of students who attended Sydney North Regional Cross Country carnival at Gosford on 21 June. The students’ results are amazing, and we have seven students who will now represent at NSWCHS Cross country next term. Congratulations to all participants who tried their best in each of their races. Once again, our wonderful St Ives High team illustrated their school spirit shining through and this resulted in the fol-lowing the excellent efforts:

Eliisa W 14 years girls 9th, Kirsty F 3

rd 16 years girls,

Logan S 3rd

12 years boys, Evan C 4th 13 years boys,

Jensen W 3rd

13 years boys, Ryan F 8th 14 years boys,

Tasman P 9th 18 years boys.

Good luck to all of our athletes. Further congratulations to Lynden W who came 3

rd in the 13years 200m race at KZSSSA Athletics carnival. Apologies

for submitting your result under your twins name.

Sandy Terrey Sport Organiser 2019

U15 BOYS KNOCKOUT BASKETBALL

Last Friday our students travelled to Homebush Boys HS to play in round two of the Sydney North Knockout Competition. Our boys put in a competitive performance but unfortunately were not able to match the height and three-point shooting of the opposition eventually losing 69 – 51. Strong performances by Seth S, Gavin H, Zac L and Caerwyn S kept St Ives in the hunt for most of the match. Special praise for Seth S who displayed outstanding coaching ability and leadership in our training sessions and throughout the match. Thank you Mrs Larratt & Mrs Hakim for helping to provide transportation to and from the game. Michael Kettels Head Teacher PDHPE

A BUSY TERM 2 FOR DRAMA STUDENTS

It has been a busy and exciting term for Drama. In Week 5, the Fools in Progress Theatre Company performed at the school for all of Year 7 and 8 Drama students. The Year 8 Drama class also were involved in a Commedia Dell’arte per-formance workshop, where they learnt how to use a range of commedia techniques. They all had a fun day and learnt many new performance skills. One Year 9 Drama class has also been busy making films for the Videos for Change program, with the help of filmmak-er, Mark Taylor. Watch out for their films. On Tuesday, Drama, Music and Philosophy students from Year s8 and 9 went to the Sydney Opera House to see the play The Red Tree, based on Shaun Tan’s acclaimed picture book. The students had a great day and thoroughly en-joyed the eye-catching musical performance. Cate Whittle English and Drama Teacher

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TEACHERS INDUSTRY IMMERSION WEEK

This week I participated in the Teachers Industry Immersion Week, a joint initiative between the Department of Education and William Angliss Institute. It is specifically for teachers of Kitchen Operations (back of house) and Hospitality (front of house). At St Ives we deliver both - Kitchen Operations to Years 11 and 12 and Hospitality to Year 10. I applied for a position in the Hospitality program and feel extremely privileged to have been successful. Over 100 teachers applied for the program in 2019 and only 20 teachers from across NSW were selected. Each day we have participated in industry workshops delivered by experts in their field, including molec-ular gastronomy, tea tasting, cold press coffee, wine matching, poke bowl creation, working with choco-late and latte art. The week concluded with a long lunch in which Principals, RTO members and repre-sentatives from the department of education attended. The menu included crab and cauliflower cappuc-cino, qual sausage with truffle and cherries, beef tataki and an assortment of desserts that were perfect-ly paired with Dilmah fine Teas. In addition to the lunch, Thursday night we hosted a formal fine dining dinner for 60 guests. We worked with a guest chef who has two Michelin hats, Alessandro Pavoni and served industry representatives and Directors of Education. I have definitely been inspired and have learnt so many wonderful skills that I would like to bring to the classroom. My students are definitely going to reap the benefits of my participation. My Year 11 class can look forward to making Poke bowls and having a go at molecular gastronomy in order to enhance and garnish their work and year 10 can look forward to learning about tea and using tea to make some fun, tasty mocktails. Johanne Doherty Relieving Head Teacher TAS VET Hospitality and Kitchen Operations Teacher

DEBATING NEWS

On Friday 28 June, eight students from Years 9 and 10 travelled to Killara High School for a packed day of debating for the Premier’s Debating Challenge. The Year 9 team was up first, competing against the Year 10 Killara team. The topic of the first debate was ‘That animals should be banned from all sports’. The team argued in the affirmative and despite their best efforts, the debate narrowly fell to Killara. The Year 10 St Ives team followed on and debated in the negative on the topic ‘That performance enhancing drugs be legalised in sports’ and were successful in what was an impressive battle. St Ives defeat-ed the Year 9 Killara team. Overall it was a great day with all teams having furthered their skills and developed as debaters. Following on from Friday's Round 2 debates at Killara, St Ives hosted Round 3 on Monday 1 July. The first debate was between the two Year 9 teams from St Ives and Killara High School. The topic for the debate was ‘That religious institutions should not be exempt from anti-discrimination laws’. In a fiery debate which touched on anti-discrimination, churches, and the rights of students in school, where St Ives argued in the affirmative, St Ives were successful. This takes the Year 9 team to 2/3 wins which places them in a great position leading into the finals. The second debate between the Year 10 teams was hard fought on the topic of ‘That the voting age be lowered to 16’. St Ives argued again in the affirmative and was narrowly defeated in a very competitive debate. On 2 August, the Year 9 St Ives team will compete against Killara High School's Year 10 team to decide the winner of the zone. The winner of this debate will progress through to the next stage of the Premier's Debating Challenge. Congratulations to the following students for representing St Ives with such enthusiasm. Isabella B, Ashley W, Vishwa D, Emi-ly D, Zoe T, Jack L, Jessie B, Pip R, Isla J, Keetan S, Nina K. On Thursday, Pittwater High School visited St Ives High School for a day of debating between our Year 7 and 8 teams. The first debate between the competing Year 8 teams was on the topic of 'that examinations be banned in the junior school and replaced by assessment tasks'. St Ives argued in the negative and built their argument around the central idea that whilst tests are stressful, stress is a natu-ral component of the modern life, and as schools we need to expose students to healthy levels of stress to ensure success in later life. Pittwater provided healthy rebuttals but were defeated by a fiery St Ives team. The second debate was between the two Year 7 teams was hard fought on the topic that 'All secondary schools should be co-educational'. This was the first debate for our new Year 7 team who have been working hard on perfecting their skills in the Masters Academy workshops. After some hotly contested points, the debate was won by Pittwater High School. Congratulations to all students on a brilliant day. Thank you to Pittwater High School for coming and competing at our school. Daniel Moller English Teacher Learning & Support Coordinator

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CAREERS UPDATES University courses chosen by current Year 12 students for 2020 Accounting, Arts/Humanities, Business ,Commerce, Computer Science, Cyber Security, Economics, Edu-cation-primary/secondary, Engineering, Environment, Film, Finance, International studies, IT, Journalism, Law, Marketing, Marine Science, Media & Communication, Medical Science, Medicine, Nursing, Psychol-ogy, Occupational Therapy, Science, Social work, Social Science, Security Studies, Veterinary Studies, Visual arts, Zoology. TAFE Taster Courses for Term 3 Students who are 15 in Term 3 can apply to do a 1 day per week TAFE course in beauty, hair & make-up, carpentry, automotive, IT-Coding web design, plumbing, health & fitness, health services (nursing), film & tv, cafe skills, horticulture and childhood education. See Mr Holmes for an application form and full course list. Year 10 Work Experience reminder for 2-6 December 2019 With the holidays coming up it is timely to remind you of the Year 10 Work Experience dates and to mention that the holidays are a good opportunity to find a suitable employer. Once an employer agrees to take a student for that week they complete the employer section of the work experience form, which has been emailed to student’s school email ac-counts. Students are welcome to visit me for assistance or to view the work experience database from previous years. Northern Sydney Apprenticeship & Traineeship Expo Tuesday 20 August 2019 – 3pm to 8pm The Concourse - Civic Pavilion - 409 Victoria Ave Chatswood NSW

For more information on any of these or other careers matters visit the Careers Adviser or email Mr Holmes at neil.holmes@det.nsw.edu.au or call the school on 9144 1689 ext 116.

Visit my free careers website at http://www.careeradvicensw.com to view career videos, take career tests,

view subject selection resources, links to all universities on bonus points, scholarships, elite athletes schemes, alternate entry to university, the job market, SRS and more.

This month’s kindness winners

PAIGE D-L (Year 8) “For being a good friend and always being happy.” MS FONG (Science) “For making students push themselves to reach their potential.”

Please see Ms Nunura to collect your voucher

WELFARE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

"Kindness can make a bad day good and a good day better". If everyone at St Ives High School fulfilled one act of kindness each day, imagine what a wonderful environment we would be learning in! I have set up a box in the front office to place nominations for acts of kind-ness nominating either staff or students. Please come down and fill out a green slip if a student has displayed kindness or a purple slip for a teach-er. Each month 1 green and 1 purple slip will be drawn out of the box and a prize will be awarded to the selected student and teacher. The winners of the monthly 'Kindness Award' will be notified in Sentral daily notices. The monthly winner will receive a $5 canteen voucher.

"If you can be anything, be kind" Michelle Nunura Head Teacher Welfare

‘FUN FRIDAYs’ Fun Fridays continued for staff with the theme “mismatch” Friday and PJ Friday. Michelle Nunura Head Teacher Welfare

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