THE WEEKLY PINES Manly Selective Campus Northern Beaches Secondary College
Academic Excellence Personal Best Giving Back to the Community Ms Cath Whalan Principal : Mr Tony Rudd Deputy Principals: Ms Barbara Bannister
29 August 2014 – Newsletter No. 26
From the Principal gardens. As a school, we are very fortunate to have one of only five full time Caretakers still employed Creative and Performing Arts Exhibition in NSW Department of Education and Communities Congratulations go to all of our talented students schools and to have somebody as capable and who both displayed work and performed at the supportive as Ms Thelander is an even greater Annual Creative and Performing Arts Exhibition. At bonus. the official opening on Wednesday, in excess of 500 people visited to marvel at both the variety and quality of work presented by our students.
As with every year, the highlight was the works displayed by our HSC Visual Arts class. While only quite a small class this year, it did not detract from the exhibition at all. These works will be packed up in the next week and sent off to the Homebush HSC Marking Centre where I am sure the HSC markers will be as equally impressed as we all were.
In addition to the artworks, the crowd was also entertained by our Dance and Vocal Ensembles, as well as solo performers, Connor Lambrou, James
Wilkes and Jack Fay. Again, each of these Water Filter performances showcased the exceptional talents of As a result of countless hours of fundraising and our students. negotiations, our student led Environment
Committee has been able to have installed into our Congratulations to our Creative and Performing school canteen a water filter and dispersion unit. Arts faculty staff, so ably led by Ms Karen Blundell, Following studies conducted by the committee in along with Ms Chloe Woodward for her work with late 2013 and earlier this year, there was a concern the Dance Ensembles and Ms Lucienne Howard about the number of plastic drink bottles that were who continues to amaze with the arrangements put being discarded by students each day which had forward to test our Vocal Ensembles. either been brought from home or purchased from
our canteen. Jill Thelander – Horticulturist
Over most of the last semester our Caretaker, Ms In an endeavour to reduce the amount of plastic Jill Thelander has been undertaking a Professional discarded in our school, the committee has Learning course conducted by the Department of negotiated for the installation of the water unit so Education and Communities through Ryde TAFE. On that students and staff can fill reusable drink Tuesday, I was fortunate to be invited to the bottles, thus reducing the number of bottles graduation ceremony for all participants as they bought and then discarded. were presented with their Horticulturist qualification. This initiative now sees Ms Thelander One student who is very happy to see the unit qualified to expand on the work that she does for installed is Georgia Brown, chairperson of the our school on a daily basis in caring for and Environment Committee and driving force behind maintaining the grounds, including our oval and the negotiations with the supply company. We all ______Manly Selective Campus 138 Abbott Road, North Curl Curl NSW 2099 Phone: 9905 3982 / Fax: 9905 7772 Email: [email protected] P&C website: www.manlypandc.org.au hope that our school community, and our From The Deputy Principals environment, appreciates this new facility.
Both Deputy Principals have attended the annual State Secondary Deputy Principals Association conference this week. It has been an opportunity to forge networks and connect with people from many other areas. Guest speakers have included Dame Pat Collarbone from the UK who spoke about learning change management in education, Professor Jenny Gore who spoke about the professional learning practice of Quality Teaching Rounds and other research currently being undertaken, Jonathan Nicholas who spoke about youth mental health issues and well-known columnist and social commentator Jane Caro.
Dame Pat Collarbone spoke eloquently about the Melbourne Declaration, a document that Senior Executive at our school used to guide the whole Executive planning day held earlier this term. Two goals emerged from the declaration that guide all of us involved in education.
Goal 1: Australian schooling promotes excellence and equity. Goal 2: All young Australians become successful learners, confident and creative individuals and active and informed citizens.
These goals are indeed worthy of our full attention.
Barbara Bannister and Cath Whalan
Preliminary Year Examinations We would like to wish our Year 11 students well in their final week prior to their Preliminary Year final examinations. We encourage all students to use this week very wisely; to ask those last minute questions of your teachers about any area of work that you are unsure of. Students should be well into their routines of concerted study prior to these examinations. Teachers are only too willing to spend time with you to ensure understanding of concepts and processes before you go into examinations. Spend some time this weekend writing down any questions you might have and bring them in to class next week for clarification. This is one more step in your preparation towards Higher School Certificate examinations next year. We are confident that you will continue to do your best in all aspects of your preparation. Tony Rudd Principal
From the Mathematics Faculty
For all those who tried last week’s paradoxes – here are the solutions.
Grandi’s series Consider 1 – 1 + 1 – 1 + …. Is the answer 0, 1 or ½? Or all three? Approaches: [A] (1 – 1) + (1 – 1) + (1 – 1) + … = 0 + 0 + 0 + … = 0 [B] 1 + (– 1 + 1) + (– 1 + 1 ) + (– 1 + 1) + … = 1 + 0 + 0 Vocal Ensemble Update + 0 + … = 1 Second Deposit Due for the Spain and Paris Tour [C] S = (1 – 1 + 1 – 1 + 1 – 1 + …) , so A reminder that the second deposit of $500 is due 1 – S = 1 – (1 – 1 + 1 – 1 + 1 – 1 + …) = 1 – 1 + 1 – 1 + to the finance office on 1 September. 1 – 1 + 1 … = S 1 – S = S 1 = 2S Second Hand Uniform Shop S = ½ Open: Tuesday 2 September from 8.00am until
9.15am Potato Problem Location: Under the TAS block The weight of water in the fresh potatoes is 99% of For more information contact: Sandra Salmon 100 kg = 99kg [email protected]. Let x be the weight of water lost when they dehydrate (i.e. x kg of water is lost) So the final result is (99 – x) kg water Wraps for Love However, the final result can also be expressed as Wraps for Love is wrapping up! Please send in your (100 – x) kg of potatoes which contain 98% water, knitted squares as soon as possible, no later than that is 0.98 (100 – x) kg water 12 September. Equating Barbara Harrison (99 – x) = 0.98 (100 – x) Librarian 99 – x = 98 – 0.98x 1 = 0.02x x = 50 Therefore 50 kg of water is lost and the potatoes Please Note: weigh 50kg The P & C Meeting will not be held Wednesday 3 September because of the Thank You to Missing Square. Volunteers Evening. Bill Hawkins Stuck? Look at the hypotenuse! For all band students and their families and friends, this evening is inspiring and entertaining and well To all our Volunteers – THANK worth attending. YOU One of the things that makes Manly such a great SWO, conducted by Mark Brown, is considered one school is our volunteer community….and we'd like of the leading school wind orchestras in Sydney. to say thanks! Parents and friends volunteer in so Craig Driscoll will add an exciting program from the many ways for our school. At Manly, we have Jazz Orchestra and our special guest conductor, Mr volunteers who help in the canteen, behind the Adrian Keating, will conduct MSC’s accomplished scenes at the musical, with the band program and String Ensemble and join in on his violin. performances, at working bees for the grounds and costume store, at the clothing pool, by assessing Join us in the foyer before and after the concert the digital portfolios for Year 10, by organising the with more music from Craig and senior jazz Year 7 welcome, by arranging and distributing food students. and drinks at Open Days and performances, on the P and C committees, and maybe in other ways too! The Independent Theatre, But most of us will only know those who have 269 Miller Street, North Sydney. volunteered at the same time we have. Tickets: $30 Adult; Student and concession: $15 So please, if you have volunteered at the school in the last year, come and join us on Book now with this link. Wednesday 3 September from 6.30 to 8.30pm in http://sa2.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/EventSea the Foyer for a drink or two and some finger food, rch?presenter=AUINDEPENDENT&event=MANSEL& and a little light networking amongst your school killLogin=true community. We will need to know numbers for catering, so NOTE: Bookings via the Independent Theatre please RSVP to: Meron Clark at website will also be possible soon (they have not [email protected]
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