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STELLA MARISNEWSLETTER

Term 2Issue 09

29 June, 2018

www.stellamaris.nsw.edu.au | administration@stellamaris.nsw.edu.au

Dear Stella Community,

Mindfulness This term Pastoral Care Teachers have engaged with Smiling Minds through workshops and mindfulness practice. ‘Mindfulness is the practice of focusing attention on the experience of the current moment, with an attitude of non-judgemental acceptance and curiosity’. We believe as a school the practice of being mindful very much fits with our philosophies around student wellbeing.

The intent of this training is to support our staff in their own mindfulness but also enhance the mindfulness of our girls here at Stella. The workshops have focused on mindfulness practice and setting good spaces for the creation of mindfulness. In such a fast-paced and busy world, mindfulness is important for so many reasons. ‘Research suggests that practicing mindfulness strengthens brain areas related to attention. This leads to improved emotional regulation, mental health and cognition.’ (Smiling Minds – Evidence based guidelines for mindfulness in schools) If you would like to join us on this journey, keeping in mind that each PC group will practice this a little differently and at different times, please download the Smiling Minds App.

Uniform The girls’ uniforms have been looking wonderful recently and we thank you for your support in this. Staff have noticed that some girls are still wearing jumpers outside of our uniform guidelines. If you are unsure about what the girls are and are not able to wear to school please don’t hesitate to ask, visit the website or download the Stella Family Handbook from the portal. A reminder that all girls in Years 7 to 10 should be in the new sports uniform in 2019. Further details about the end of this changeover period are in the Family Handbook or available from the Uniform Shop.

Reports Semester 1 Reports are available on the portal this afternoon for girls in Years 7 to 10. This report is an excellent conversation starter with your daughter about how they are progressing academically, where their strengths lie and how they are going to work on the areas identified for improvement. Hopefully, your daughter has achieved to the best of her ability during the first semester and is planning to set some academic and personal goals for the rest of the year.

Term 3 Term 3 begins for all year levels on Tuesday, 24 July. Staff will spend the Monday in Professional Learning, further developing their collective efficacy and use of effective questioning techniques. There are a number of important events in Term 3 but one very special night to put in the calendar is the Bodies of Work Exhibition on Wednesday, 22 August. This night showcases such amazing HSC work and is worth visiting with the whole family.

All the best for a safe holiday.

Sarah Carter, Deputy Principal

from the Deputy Principal

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Upcoming Events and Important Information29 Jun End of Term 2

23 Jul Staff Day

24 Jul Term 3 Commences (All Students Return)

Finance Office is CLOSED during the July

school holidays

TEMPORARY BUS STOPYou may be aware after last week's phone consultation made by Northern Beaches Hospital Connectivity and Network Enhancement Project team that the Bus Stop ID 208620 (Allambie Rd near Warringah Rd, outside KFC) needs to be closed due to safety concerns of the road works in Allambie Rd .

A temporary Bus Stop will be set up in Patanga Rd near Dareen St until all road works finish. AM School bus 693n and PM 721n will be affected. The change will start from 25 June 2018 for approximately one month.STA will inform you once the work is completed. Before the change, STA and Traffic Controllers will hand notices to all students using the Allambie Rd Bus Stop. Notices will also be displayed on site for the purposes of advising passengers.

Stella CommunityNorthern Beaches Council “Future YOUth Summit”On Thursday, a group of 10 girls from Year 10 attended the Northern Beaches Council’s first ‘Future YOUth Summit’ with a variety of other schools from around our area. It was a day aimed at young people to think about their future and how they can create a business on the northern beaches. We listened to guest speakers who all have made successful businesses and their ideas on important topics such as future trends, the future of tech, the importance of communication and motivation. These helped me work out what jobs will even exist in the future as Stuart White from Microsoft said, “85% of jobs that will exist in 2030 haven’t been invented yet”. When we are 28 there will be so many new innovations that most of the jobs now will be irrelevant, there will be robots and other forms of artificial intelligence. I listened to a presentation from Layla Metcalfe, a local naturopath and clinical nutritionist who taught us about the health and education world and how she started her own business; she reiterated the importance of a business plan. Overall the day was interesting and inspired me for the future. Holly Horswill (Year 10)

Today's youth summit was such a ball, it was a really great reality check for my friends and I at this point in time in terms of subject selection for HSC because we were talking to extremely successful business people, some of whom didn't even finish high school. It's really taken the pressure off a bit and has just given all of us some perspective, which is really nice. I think above anything what I got out of the day would that just trusting the process, sitting in the unknown and being persistent can make all the difference. I'm definitely slightly less terrified of life after high school too! Maggie Warner (Year 10)

Kristie Ferguson, Head of Year 10

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Pastoral Care

Helping you help your teenager ReachOut Parents Coaching

Struggling to know how to support your teenager with tricky issues like bullying, anxiety and relationships? Whatever the issue, you’re not alone. Thousands of parents across Australia are wondering how to support their teenager through tough times.

The good news is our qualified coaches are on hand to help you plan your next steps. Our coaches will chat online and by phone about what could work for you. They’ll provide you with professional online tools to help you build your own action plan to try out at your own pace.

And you won’t even need to travel – take part from home or on your lunch break.

Free Confidential Accessible – online and by phoneFlexible – take part in one or up to four sessionsProfessional – qualified coaches from The Benevolent Society

It’s easy to get started:ReachOut.com/Parents/Coaching

ReachOut Parents is part of ReachOut Australia – a trusted online mental health and wellbeing service for young people and their parents. Free and accessible 24/7, ReachOut Parents provides practical tips, tools and strategies to help you support your teenager through everyday issues and tough times.

‘I highly recommend coaching – it’s helped strengthen our bond and our trust.’ Kirsten, mum of 14 year old, New South Wales.

Coaches provided by The Benevolent Society.

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Innovative Learning

YEAR 7 & 8 PARENT LEARNING SEMINAR Monday, 30 July

6.30pm, College Theatre

How can I assist my daughter in her learning?

• Latest research• Attitudes to learning• Mindset theory• The importance of failure• Outcome versus Processes• Homework/Reporting• Diet/ Sleep / Technology• What are other parents doing?

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Mission

SPANISH NEWSLast week Year 9 Spanish Students had the opportunity to practice their language in a real context as well as exploring the culinary aspects of the Hispanic food.

All of them demonstrated a good knowledge of the language ordering their food and drinks in Spanish and talking to the native speaker waitress.

It was wonderful seeing them talking with confidence and so well manered.

I am very proud of this amazing group. Well done girls!

Ana Gonzalez, Teacher of Spanish

Curriculum

YEAR 11 MINISTRY OUTREACHBest wishes to Year 11 students Carly Lavings, Alice Hanaut, Maisie Norton, Sarah Ford and Jesse Noone who will be participating in the Year 11 Ministry Outreach program all over Sydney these holidays. This experience will be based at St Scholastica’s Glebe and involve students from all the Good Samaritan schools around Australia. We look forward from to hearing about their exciting adventure in the service of others. Nicola Chin, Director of Mission

ENGLISH NEWSRead For Your House

Read For Your House will be open in Moodle until the end of the holidays. Make sure you log the books you read in the holidays to earn points for your House. Mrs Christensen would love to see you in the library to borrow books to read in the holidays and also to help with any questions you have about Read For Your House.

Happy Reading!!! Alison Tedman, Head of English

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DUKE OF EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL NEWSThe Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award is offered to Stella Maris students from Year 9 to Year 12. The Award is a leading youth development program, empowering all young Australians aged 14 to 25 to explore their full potential.

This Months ‘Stella Stand Outs’ Congratulations to the 42 Silver and Gold girls who completed the Royal National Park hike last weekend. The weather was crisp yet the skies were clear and made for perfect hiking and whale watching. All the girls were organized, determined and a pleasure to walk with. Thank you to the parents and teachers for supporting these capable girls.

Service Opportunities Update Peer tutoring is now underway before school in the library. Please see Mrs Christensen asap if you are interested. Also, email Ms Stimson if you’d like to help make some classroom resources for a small underprivileged school in Kenya

August Hike Pub to Pub registration is now open. Participation in this fun run is our major fundraiser for supporting our Cambodian charity ‘Happy Days’ school which our Year 12 Gold girls visit later in the year. All Bronze, Silver and Gold girls participating in the August hike will need to register in the Stella Maris Team for the 6 kilometre component starting at Narrabeen and finishing at Newport Surf Club. Families are also welcome to join our Stella Maris team.

Linda Silburn, Coordinator of The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award.

Extra Curriculum

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Performing ArtsDANCE NEWSCongratulations to the Company Dancers who competed at Sydney Eisteddfod with fantastic results! All groups danced their best yet and made us proud!

Results are as follows: 2nd - Contemporary Company “Beauty and the Beast” (Mrs Smith) Finalist – Lyrical Company “My Immortal” (Miss Jones)

The Finals of the Lyrical groups will be held at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday 26 August as part of the Royal Gala Night which incorporates the inaugural Ballet Scholarship Soloist Finals. Please feel free to purchase a ticket from Sydney Eisteddfod https://sydneyeisteddfod.com.au/the-sydney-eisteddfod-ballet-scholarship-16-19-years/#tickets and join us for an incredible show.

First Week Back Term 3 A reminder the Dance Company has the Extreme Eisteddfod the first week back next term. Please check your emails for rehearsals. Remember you must be at the final rehearsal if you want to perform. Below are the performance times:

Sunday 29 July - Extreme Eisteddfod – Shore Grammar School, Blue St North Sydney 5:10pm (arrive 4:10pm) -

Junior Jazz “Toxic” No. 15 out of 23 Senior Jazz “Believer” No. 18 out of 23 7:10pm (arrive 6:10pm) -

James “Wake Up” No. 2 out of 23 Mrs Smith “Beauty & the Beast” No. 12 out of 23 Miss Jones “My Immortal” No. 15 out of 23

MORE DANCE NEWS Lily Boffa - Year 10 Lily has been one of the very few lucky students who has been selected to train and perform with the Locredo Dance Company. Locreado Dance Company and Program Company is a ground breaking dance company, enriching young dancers with more than a taste for performance. In fact this company is fuelling young dancer’s insatiable hunger to confidently perform within a dance company, and in turn experience dance in the “real world”. This season, Sydney based Locreado Program Company is giving 42 aspirational performing artists an experience which consolidates their already rigorous personal dance training schedules, and prepares them for a potential career in dance, both locally and internationally. These dancers are aged from 11 years to 17 years, and YES, they can really DANCE! Sunday for many young people is a day off. Not at the Locreado rehearsal studios, located in inner city Sydney. Sunday is a day of power, passion and performance. From before 9.00am, the quiet industrial end of Marrickville comes alive to the pounding sounds of avant-garde lyrical and contemporary music; accompanying soloists, small groups and entire company group pieces. The rehearsal schedule each week is varied, from technique classes, learning (and remembering) challenging choreography, to working with elite guest choreographers, including Renee Richie, Rebecca Mansueto and Matt Antonucci.

Lily is a member of the Stella Maris Dance Company, studies Year 10, 200hours Elective Dance and trains at Lamont Studios in Avalon. You can see Lily perform with the Locreado Dance Company on 21 July at NIDA Parade Theatre in Kensington. Tickets are available at http://ticketswa.com/event/we-are-one

Milani Kinkade – Year 8 Milani recently competed in the National Finals of Get The Beat dance competition where she came Runner Up for her age group. On Tuesday she flew to America where she will be representing Australia in the World Title. Not only did Milani qualify for the Get the Beat world finals in LA but she also came Runner Up in the Showcase National Finals for which she qualified to represent Australia for another World Title in Spain. Unfortunately both of these finals are held at the same time so Milani has chosen to compete in LA. Milani has had a very successful dance career to date with a number of national titles under her belt as well as being selected as an ambassador for a number of programs and dancewear brands such as Act Now Speak Later (A charity for cancer), Pure Dynamics photography and dancewear, Details Dancewear, Xchange Dance Tour Assistant, Lucy Ellis Tour Assistant and the Elite Extension Program Assistant (NZ) just to name a few. Milani has also been lucky enough to be selected for the Dream Dance Junior Company (which has been a dream of Milanis’) where she will get to work closely with Marko Panzic and top commercial choreographers from the Dance Industry.

Milani is a member of the Stella Maris Dance Company, a Stella Maris Performing Arts Scholarship Student, and trains at Elite Performance Studios in Brookvale. We wish Milani all the best of luck with her World Title and all the success for a career in Dance.

Rochelle Jones, Teacher of Dance

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SportSPORT REPORTWater Polo Congratulations to our Stella Open Red team who won the grand final of the NSSWPA competition last Friday night. This team has played well all season, only losing one close game all year. Last Friday they played Brigidine in the Grand Final. They led from the beginning and ended up winning the game 6 -4 . Congratulations to all members of the team: Tasma Woolley, Sophie Wickham, Olivia Lovell, Claudia Wolff, Charley Porter, Juliette Nankervis and Bailey Reimer. The Years 8/9 competition will continue on Monday nights in Term 3. The Year 7 competition will be on Friday nights in Term 3.

Basketball Well done to our open Basketball team who played at the NSWCCC Championships at Windsor on Monday 25 and Tuesday 26 June. The team played against the winners of all of the diocesan competitions from all around NSW. They played some great basketball against very tough competition, finishing in the middle of their pool. Well done to this team for playing at this high level of competition: Molly Dignan, Sydney Kania, April Griffiths, Bridget Smith, Skye Cselko, Hayley Hopkins, Audrey Tan, Grace Burke, Kayla Kimball and Beth Moran. Stella has had a large number of teams play in the semi finals of the Manly Warringah Basketball competition this week. Well done to the following teams who have made the grand finals: Year 8 div 2: Stella Red Year 9 div 2: Stella Red and Stella Green. Our Open Team will play in the semi final this Friday, 29 June. If they win they will progress to the grand final on 6 July. Good luck to all of these teams.

Soccer On Monday, 25 June, our intermediate soccer team travelled to Newcastle to play in the 2nd round of the NSWCCC knockout competition. Our girls took on a very strong team from St Pius X Adamstown. It was a great game, but the Stella girls dominated from the beginning, winning the game 3 – 1. This team will now progress through to the Quarter Finals of the NSWCCC knockout. This is a big achievement for the team. Well done to all of the girls: Elise Abbey, Chiara*, Alex Alle, Sienna Bousamra, Elena Buono, Kiera Coates, Molly Crotty, Milly Ford, Becky Hickey, Shay Hollman, Cybella Macindoe, Beth Moran, Piper Simons, Issy Stein, Kate Varvaressos and Madeleine Wilson-Rynell

Peninsula Cup Netball Stella Maris had six teams in the semi finals of the Peninsula Cup Netball Competition. This was a great achievement to get six of the nine teams through to the semis. All of our teams played well, with many teams losing by only 1 or 2 goals.

Our Junior A team had a great win in the Semi Final against Covenant Christian School, progressing through to the grand final. Unfortunately, the St Luke’s team were too strong for our girls in the Grand Final, defeating us by five goals. Well done to the members of the Junior A team: Mia Bergqvist, Jazmin Collins, Abi Gartner, Chloe Hatvany, Indi Kelly, Mischa Morrell, Emily Smith, Kylah Whyte and Holly Wickham.

Rugby League Development Day On Tuesday, 26 June, thirteen Stella girls took part in a girls only rugby league development day. This was a great experience for the girls. They learnt all of the skills of the game and ended up playing full games against a number of other schools in the Sydney North area.

Stella Maris Snow Team Best of luck to the Stella Snow Sports team who will be competing at the Northern NSW Interschools Snowsports Championships at Thredbo during the holidays. Our girls will be competing in a number of skiing and snow boarding races. Good luck to all members of our team: Chloe Connell, Charley Garling, Hannah Morris and Holly Wickham

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Hawaii Water Polo Team Early in Term 3, the Year 9 and 10 Stella water Polo will be heading to Waikiki to compete in the Hawaii Invitational Water Polo Championships. This team has been preparing and training for this competition since last year. This weekend they are holding a fundraising BBQ and cake stall at Bunnings. Please pop past Balgowlah Bunnings this Sunday to buy a cake or a sausage to support this Stella team!

Term 3 Sport Term 3 will be another busy term for Stella Sport. Permission notes have already been sent out for a number of sports, including Pilates, tennis and rugby. We will be competing in the Peninsula Cup Soccer Competition, the Manly Warringah Basketball Competition and the NSSWPA Water Polo competition.

BBSSSA gala days in Term 3: BBSSSA Netball: 26 July BBSSSA Basketball: 16 August BBSSSA Athletics: 27 August BBSSSA Golf: 7 September

There will also be a number of NSWCCC carnivals. Please refer to the calendar on the NSWCCC website for carnival dates and registration details.

Jenny Wickham, Sports Coordinator

..Sport continued

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inclusive innovative inspiringGail Hickey & Maree Sewell, Uniform/Book Shop Supervisors

9976 1819 or uniform_books@stellamaris.nsw.edu.au

Canteen and Uniform ShopCANTEEN ROSTER: Hours are 9.30am - 2.30pm. If you are unable to attend on your rostered day PLEASE call Bernie to arrange a replacement on 9976 1826.

Mon 23 Jul Tues 24 Jul Wed 25 Jul Thurs 26 Jul Fri 27 JulSTAFF DAY Rose Giardina

Camilla ZervosUrsula Halloway

Nina Gosford Leoni GrahamPetra Weiss

Jennifer Wood Margot Knapp

Kate Caraccio Brigid TysoeLesha Evans

Michelle Malouf

Jane HathawayNicole McKee

Elia RoyleSandra Berryman

UNIFORM SHOP Opening Times During School Terms: 8.00am-4.30pm Tue/Wed/Thu. Entry beside new Scholastica building.

The Uniform Shop will not be open during the July holidays.

My Student Account - UPDATE The facility to recharge Student Cards over the phone has been discontinued. The current options are: Deposit online through your daughter’s MSA login (funds available after 30mins to 3 hours -depending on your bank) – accessed via the portal; or recharge using BPay (funds available after 3 working days) through internet banking. Please see full details on the Portal. Purchases at the Uniform Shop can be made using the Student Card or cash. Credit card details can also be provided over the phone.

Second Hand Uniforms The Uniform Shop is not accepting winter uniforms until next February. Please contact us before bringing items in. Please bring summer dresses to us at the end of Term 3.

Jumpers Woollen and cotton jumpers are available from the Uniform Shop. The track top is only to be worn with the sports uniform; it is not part of the uniform at other times. New and second hand jumpers are available for purchase.

Full Uniform and Stationery Price lists These are available on the website. Please refer to Enrolments>Our Uniform.

Winter Uniform Prices Junior (Years 7 to 9) Senior (Years 10-12) Extras Skirt $70 Skirt $120 Jumper Wool $72 Stockings $9 Blouse $35 Blouse $35 Jumper Cotton $72 Scarf $10 Blazer $165 Blazer $200 Gloves $7 Collapsible “Stella” umbrellas $15

Sports Uniform Prices Netball $88 Water polo $115 Sport shorts $34 Tracktop $67 Limited sizes of previous style sports uniform at reduced prices Sport Polo $43 Trackpants $45 available for Year 10 2018 Previous style water polo costume (can be used for water sport) $65

Year 7 Visual Art – SEMESTER TWO For those Year 7 girls doing Visual Art next semester, the Visual Art Pack is now available from the Uniform Shop. Cost is $45. Please buy in Week 1 of next term.

VOLUNTEERS None required - Thank you

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Careers

Jeanette Ferguson, Careers Advisor

CLICK HERE for more Careers Information