Mac Fields News Macquarie Fields High School

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Issue 4 – Term 3 AugustApril 20 162010

Calendar Events Recipient’s of PBL Raffle Prize Draw Week 4 NAME Year Wk/Term PRIZE Anudeep Singh 12 Wk 8/T2 $30 Event Monday August 8 - Year 12 Trail Exams voucher Friday August 12 Glenn 12 Wk 10/T2 $30 Event Week 5 Thoroughgood voucher Anish Pujari 8 Wk 2/T3 $20 Officeworks Monday August 15 - Year 12 Trial Exams gift card Friday August 19 P&C Meeting – 7:30pm

Wednesday August 17 HSC CAPA Showcase 6pm – 8pm FROM THE RELIEVING PRINCIPAL

Week 6 Greetings Monday August 22 Year Meetings Week Hands on High School 6pm – 7:30pm This will be my last report to you as Relieving Principal of Macquarie Fields High School as Mrs Wednesday August 24 Lockdown/Lockout Drill – p4 Crossroads Dolstra will be returning to our school in Week six of this term. Mrs Dolstra will be in her position for Thursday August 25 Year 12 Graduation Photos Crossroads four days per week and I will sit in the Principal’s chair on Tuesdays while she is seconded to Friday August 26 Crossroads other duties as part of the Principal’s Leadership

Program. I look forward to Mrs Dolstra returning PARENTS PLEASE NOTE to school to continue the strong focus we have on whole school improvement. Students absent from school Please note changes to School Attendance Policy. Where a student is absent from school, a note I would like to thank Heather Costa for her explaining the absence must be received by the school wonderful work as relieving Deputy Principal for within 7 school days. Where a note is not received the absence will be recorded as unjustified. This cannot the past twelve months and Karen Metcalfe and legally be changed should a note be received after 7 Minh Thi Tran for relieving as Head Teacher of days. Absences both justified and unjustified are CAPA while Mrs Costa acted as Deputy recorded on school reports. Principal.

On Tuesday evening, August 2nd, I was pleased

to attend the annual Fire in the Fields Concert at

James Meehan High School Community Hall.

What an exciting and wonderful showcase of the

talented arts students we have in the Ingleburn

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Issue 4 - Term 3 August 2016 October 2014 of the student artists who sang individually, as reflect on the processes used to bring about part of a choir or with a band. This was followed positive educational outcomes for all students in by some remarkably choreographed group the area of reading/comprehension. We strongly dancing. It was a spectacular evening. Our believe that improved literacy skills, especially in school was well represented with two stunning the area of reading/comprehension will dance items. The first “Happy Timmy” featured a significantly improve student engagement with wonderful tap dance routine by our tap dancing the curriculum leading to an enhanced sense of group who looked stunning in their costumes. personal well-being. While our model will be The second item, “Hello” featured our significantly different to the model used at Lyrical/Contemporary dancers in a beautiful and , knowledge of their graceful routine which was met with enormous processes and barriers or obstacles faced in applause at the end of the item. Karen Metcalfe, bringing about change helps us to guide dance guru of Macquarie Fields High School has development in this area. spent an enormous amount of time and energy training these young ladies to perform, in Mr John Wilkie and his team of presenters will between acting as Head Teacher of the CAPA then focus on the literacy continuum and where faculty. Among other highlights of the evening our school needs to focus energy and resources was the beautiful choir from Minto Primary to improve the general literacy skills of all School (who performed with the most amazing students, again with a special focus on reading enthusiasm, four lovely songs, including comprehension skills at the inferential and critical “Consider Yourself” from the musical “Oliver”); St levels. This professional learning sits nicely Andrews Primary School’s “Rock Band” and from alongside the professional learning undertaken Ingleburn Primary School at the end of the on day one of this term where teams engaged in evening a Cook Islands Cultural Dance project based learning as a process to bring supported by parents. In costume their routine about focused educational change for targeted was meticulous, energetic and exciting. What a groups within the school. great night! Maria Serafim, our very visible and supportive Director of Public Schools was also I pay tribute to our dedicated staff who remain present at the evening to help celebrate the focused at all times on developing their skills as enormous talent which is being nurtured by really well as new processes designed to enhance the dedicated “Arts” Teachers in our public schools. strategies they bring to the classroom to engage all students with their learning. Next Monday, staff continue with their professional learning program centred around I would like to extend a warm welcome to our two the Well-being Framework for Schools. On new school counsellors who began Day 1 of Monday afternoon, from 3:30pm until 6:30pm, Term 3. Samantha Freeman will be our onsite staff will listen to presentations in regard to school counsellor on Tuesdays and Wednesdays literacy improvement, especially in the areas of (odd weeks) and Paul Navoev on Mondays, reading comprehension. We are fortunate to Wednesdays (even weeks), Thursdays and have secured Mrs Tania Irons, Deputy Principal Fridays (am only). Samantha and Paul have at Leumeah High School who has been at the been quick to familiarise themselves with current forefront of change in her school in this particular caseloads and the Macquarie Fields High School area. Mrs Irons will present, to our staff, a model culture. We are extremely fortunate to have two for change as a means of encouraging all staff to such highly professional and caring people join

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Issue 4 - Term 3 August 2016 October 2014 our staff to help support student welfare and Students will also be interviewed in focus groups, learning needs. again picked at random. Many more students will be surveyed. Teachers will be interviewed and I would also like to welcome to staff, Ms Vivian lesson observations conducted by members of Kha, as an additional member of staff for the the school-based evaluation team. Faculty remainder of this year (at least). Ms Kha will work documentation also forms a part of the review. closely with our NESB students, Aboriginal Senior students and our International students to Information gathered from the evaluation will be support the development of formal literacy skills. used to develop a faculty improvement plan for Ms Kha will also work with some students in the 2017 overseen by the Head Teacher of Science, Special Education faculty. We are very fortunate Mr Bill Matchett and the Senior Executive. to be able to use special funding from Equity and International student funding to support this I would like to thank Troy Neale (Head Teacher position five days per week. History and Languages) for all of his work in organising the evaluation. Mr Stephen Fletcher from the Science faculty has resigned to pursue options in the private P&C MEETING sector and we wish him well in his new venture. Our first P&C Meeting for Term 3 will be on As soon as I have approval from staffing, we will Monday, August 15th commencing at 7:30pm. I seek a fulltime replacement for Mr Fletcher. The look forward to seeing parents at this meeting. PDHPE position created when Mr Ninopoulos left us for is currently in the ANNUAL YANCO TRIP process of Merit Selection and I will announce a On Wednesday morning, 38 students, members new permanent member of this faculty when they of the Future Teachers Club, and six staff left for are appointed sometime in the next two weeks. the annual three day trip to Yanco. While at Yanco High School (and a number of other SCIENCE FACULTY EVALUATION schools in the area) students will deliver micro- The Science Faculty is currently undergoing a lessons to students in this rural area. Staff also rigorous program of evaluation to determine have the opportunity to explore teaching in rural areas of strength and areas for improvement in NSW and foster links to further develop their own all aspects of science course delivery. Such professional learning and understanding. evaluations are a part of the processes employed in all schools to bring about school improvement UNIFORM SHOP in the context of the School Excellence Please note that the last day of operation for the Framework. The focus of our evaluation is on School Uniform Shop was Friday, July 1st. All Learning Culture; Curriculum and Learning; use sales service through the Minto store or online. of HSC data and Stage 6 Teaching and Learning in the classroom. As a part of this process some I understand that supply of uniform in some sizes parents will be randomly selected for interview, has been delayed but am assured by LOWES by phone and others surveyed. If you feel that that they are working quickly to rectify this you might have something to contribute to the problem. Please contact LOWES directly if evaluation and you are not contacted, you can concerned about uniform supply. contribute your thoughts through a P&C meeting or in writing to me personally, care of the school.

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If an out of uniform pass is required, write a note A message from the Head Teacher explain the situation briefly and give it to your PDHPE child. They should present the note at the beginning of the day to the Deputy Principal who My name is Maria Ninopoulos will issue them with a pass for one or more days and I am the head teacher depending on the situation. Where a note PDHPE. This has been my identifies issues related to uniform supply, the second year in this role at Deputy Principal will also follow up with LOWES. Macquarie Fields High School. I have loved and enjoyed every Mr Tishler minute of my leadership role at this school and Relieving Principal look forward to incorporating new and exciting ventures and innovative programs at Macquarie Fields High School in order to maximise student’s potential and achievements. The PDHPE faculty hope you enjoy the newsletter.

Mrs Maria Ninopoulos

Year 11 U-Turn the Wheel Program As part of the teaching and learning program at Macquarie Fields High School, all students in Year 11 undertook the driver Education Program, U-Turn the Wheel to Stay Alive. The U-Turn the Wheel to Stay Alive program was implemented within the Campbelltown Local Government Area in 2004. The program was run by Police from Campbelltown and Macquarie Fields Commands, together with Campbelltown City Council the Rotary Club of Campbelltown, and various volunteers from our local community.

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This program was held at our school on Tuesday situations related to identity, independence and 1 March this year and is a part of the Year 11 their changing responsibilities. Crossroads program. Students were provided with interactive activities and were given the The Crossroads Education Program will run over privilege to sit in a truck and see how difficult it three days on Wednesday 24 August (at would be to see a car as a truck driver. school), Thursday 25 August (at school) and Friday the 26 August will be run as an The student feedback was most positive!! This excursion at Cataract Scout Park. will run again in 2017. On Friday 26 August students will be expected to Thank you to all the PDHPE staff and the staff attend the excursion at Cataract Scout Park assisting in supervising Year 11 on this day! where they will be participating in a variety of initiative and team building activities. Students Mrs Ninopoulos need to be at school no later than 7:15 am for a 7:30am departure and will be returning to school by 4:45pm Year 11 Crossroads Education Program Notification Students will be required to pay $70.00 for this All Year 11 students have received a notification excursion. This includes three activities at along with a parent consent form in relation to Cataract Scout Park, lunch that will be provided the Year 11 Crossroads Program at Macquarie at the venue and the hiring of the bus/coach. Fields High School in 2016. If your child has not Payment is to be made to the front office by no provided you with a note, they can pick up a note later than Thursday 11 August 2016. For further from the PDHPE faculty at recess and lunch. details don’t hesitate to contact Maria Ninopoulos (Head Teacher PDHPE) on (02) 96053111. Crossroads is a mandatory 25-hour program designed to help all senior students address Year 8 Enrichment Course - Dance issues of health, safety and wellbeing at a time This has been another successful year for Year 8 when they face significant changes and Dance fusion students. This is the fourth year our challenges in their lives. Some of the content of Year 8 students have been offered Dance Fusion the program deals with sensitive issues. The as an enrichment course. They have learnt a school recognises this by teaching about these variety of dance styles such as Zumba, Hip-Hop, issues within the context of a developmentally Latin American, Traditional and Jazz. This year appropriate program and by providing a number of students who have shown initiative information to you about the program. The school have presented their cultural dance to the rest of program will be implemented in a manner that the class. supports the role of parents and caregiver, and reflects the ethos of the school community. Please note the student report on this course The aim of the Crossroads program is to prepare which appears overleaf. and support these students as they encounter

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Ninopoulos seemed to like being the student for a change! Dance Fusion is amazing and most of all fun, and with an awesome teacher like Mrs Ninopoulos, well who wouldn’t love it?”

Mrs Ninopoulos (PDHPE Head Teacher and Dance Fusion Teacher)

NSW Premier’s Sporting Challenge This year students in Year 7, various PDHPE elective classes and some eager staff members are participating in the NSW Premier’s Sporting Challenge.

The Challenge comprises a 10 week core period “Dance Fusion is a subject with a lot of diversity, of physical activity. exploring different dance styles such as Zumba, hip hop, Latin and Afro-Caribbean. We also got Any physical activity of moderate to vigorous to study different cultural dances. During this, we intensity can be used to accrue time for the even had Sebastian from Year 11 come down Challenge. and teach us about Aboriginal culture and his traditional dances. When it was India’s turn, we A range of awards and incentives are available to volunteered to choreograph for our class and encourage and acknowledge the work and teach them a bit about Indian culture. India, achievements of the school community being the subcontinent it is, has 22 languages throughout the Challenge. and throughout it you’ll find that each state has different foods, dances, cultures, festivals and Members of teams that have reached the even dressing styles. We based our Premier's Secondary School Sport Challenge choreography on Garba, the traditional dance of Bronze, Silver, Gold or Diamond Award receive a the state of Gujarat and Avani’s choreography certificate at the conclusion of the Challenge. was based on modern Bollywood. The class picked up both dances really well and even Mrs

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The following minimum levels of time spent in activity apply to the Awards: Mac Fit This is the second year that we have run this Daily average Average time in Year 8 enrichment course. It is predominantly a Awards activity time minutes per week practical based course, however, we do discuss per student per student the theoretical aspects of fitness and then apply them to a range of fitness based games and Bronze 30 minutes per 210 circuits. day This year the students have also been provided Silver 45 minutes per 315 with a unique opportunity to be involved in a day ‘Resistance Training for Teens’ program that is run by our teachers and is affiliated with the Gold 60 minutes per 420 University of Newcastle. They have put together day a research-based program in collaboration with Diamond 80 minutes per 560 the NSW Department of Education and day Communities School Sport Unit. This program focuses on increasing physical activity and reducing screen-time to improve health and well- being in young adolescents.

The students track their fitness progress throughout the term using the programs website Motivational Media and free app that is available. Students are also On Monday 20 June, encouraged to access this app at home so they 2016, all students can continue to log their own fitness and support were provided with others to get active. the opportunity to participate in The Premier’s Sporting Challenge is running at Motivational Media. Students watched a high the moment, in perfect timing with our Mac Fit impact cinematic presentation titled ‘Everyday program. This is another chance for students to Heroes’ that focused on student awareness of increase their regular physical activity and log the importance of self-esteem, wise decision their hours. Reflecting on their results allows making, goal setting and friendship choices. The students to see what they are spending their time 40 minute presentation focused on young people on, potentially exchanging screen time, with preventing or controlling situations that may getting their bodies moving and releasing good result in harmful behaviours. endorphins.

Miss N.Boyles

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Below are two students (Sara and Vaibhav) thoughts on the Mac Fit enrichment course:

Q1 – Why did you choose this course?

Sara – “It looked like a fun course and it is, as I really like sport. I also saw it as a good way to get my fitness levels up”.

Vaibhav – “I really love playing sport and I wanted to play properly, using the correct stretches and a range of equipment”.

Q2 – What do you like about Mac Fit? Pre-program fitness testing – how many push- ups could you do before you had to stop? Sara – “I liked the initiative games we did at the (students will also be post-tested to see if they start of the year and the fitness circuits that we have improved) have done. The ranges of activities we do are fun and exciting which is why I like it”.

Vaibhav – “I like the modified activities and the opportunities to play sport and games with my friends”.

Q3 – What are your thoughts on the University Fitness Program?

Sara – “It is a good fitness program for young teens like me as it helps you understand the importance of exercise and the impact of fatty foods on your body. I like doing the fun activities and the really tough workouts with my friends”.

Vaibhav – “You get to record your participation and activities and set goals that you want to Students using the new Gym sticks that are used achieve, using different exercises and routines”. to develop strength in a controlled manner Mr M.Day and Miss S.Worthington

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YEAR 8 GALA DAY 2016 sportsmanship and exemplary behaviour across all sports.

Great results from the students in T-Ball and Oz Tag – Milton Park Macquarie Basketball and all those who attended the day. Fields SPORT WINNERS RUNNERS UP BOYS T-BALL MFHS MFHS GIRLS T-BALL MFHS

GIRLS MFHS Soccer-Casula High School BASKETBALL

A huge thank you to the following teachers for their wonderful assistance; L Deakin, S Gibbs, J Luc, A Nguyen, S Rompies, J Sarjana, K Tangerli, C Wano, S Worthington.

T-Ball-Milton Softball Complex Mr J.Luc and Mr S.Rompies

Open Girls Netball Knockout The Open Girls Netball team has been very

Basketball-Casula High School successful this year. The girls came second in their pool on Central Venue Day 1, only losing one game to . Central Venue Day 2 was played on 25 July 2016, which included only the last twelve schools in the Participating Schools region. The girls won all of their round games Macquarie Fields Hurlstone Holsworthy and were placed first in their pool. We dominated our semi-final against East Hills Girls High Casula Ingleburn School and progressed to the grand-final, to play

th against Elderslie High School. We unfortunately On Thursday 30 June, five competitive schools lost in a very close match. battled it out in various sports to see who would be crowned gala day champions for 2016. The The girls placed second out of fifty six teams day brought us perfect conditions for the Year 8 from the South West region, which is an gala day which was successfully organised and outstanding achievement. All girls represented hosted by Casula High School. the school with pride and displayed excellent MFHS, Holsworthy, Casula, Hurlstone and netball skills and a high level of sportsmanship. Ingleburn participated in Oz Tag at Milton Rugby The girls in the Open Girls Netball team are League Park, T-Ball at Milton Softball Complex Natalya Tofa, Emily Cook, Daisy Tofa, Irena and Soccer and Basketball at Casula High Kirisome, Laorita Touch, Hana Maksimovic, Noor School. Students from all schools thoroughly Shojaiefard, Riteta Kirisome, Angelina Papalii enjoyed themselves, showing excellent and SeneTofa.

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Special Education Faculty With over half our student cohort enrolled in

senior classes, 2016 has been a busy and exciting time in the Special Education faculty. Ms Melissa Purdon has taken up her role of whole school Transition Advisor, which involves some time away from face to face teaching. However, we are pleased to welcome Mr Matthew Lee and Ms Vivian Kha, who are working with Ms Purdon’s classes this year. They are both A special thank you to Ashleigh Donovan and excellent classroom practitioners, and have Brooke Tipping for doing an exceptional job at quickly developed a positive rapport with all our umpiring the games. students. Miss N.Boyles We have also had the privilege of working with Ms Kristy Jeremiejczyk, who is currently SPORTS, LIFESTYLE AND RECREATION retraining in the area of Special Education at the We have been fortunate enough to be running a University of Sydney. Ms Jeremiejczyk new subject at Macquarie Fields High School. completed a Professional Experience placement Both the 1 and 2 unit courses have been at MFHS during Term 2, and is a highly skilled successfully running this year. Students who and enthusiastic addition to our Year 11 Work have a strong passion for sport and are thinking Studies and Life Skills Mathematics classes. We about a possible career within the sporting are sure that Ms Jeremiejczyk will be an industry, should consider choosing SLR as a 1 or outstanding Special Education teacher, and we 2 unit subject. wish her well in all her future endeavours.

Some of the modules that have been offered to the 1 and 2 unit classes are as follows; Games and Sports Application, Athletics, Sports Administration and Healthy Lifestyles. It has been obvious that students are enjoying their time in SLR and a number of students have represented the school at a regional level in Swimming, Athletics and Cross Country. Ms Jeremiejczyk and Mrs Wood working with their Year 9 and 11 Mathematics while they explore practical Both the 1 and 2 unit students are near applications of Area and Perimeter completing Term 3 and therefore are close to starting the year 12 SLR course. Students are We also said farewell to a couple of our older excited about undertaking the new units in Year students this year. Kaitlyn-Rain Trajkovic of Year 12. They are keen to display their sporting talents 12 has left to undertake a Transition To Work and achieve their sporting goals in Sports, program, and Raiden Rapo of Year 11 has Lifestyle and Recreation. transitioned to TAFE to study Animal Care full time. Another of our Year 11 boys will shortly be Mr S Rompies leaving us to undertake a full time bricklaying

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Issue 4 - Term 3 August 2016 October 2014 apprenticeship. We are very proud of the achievements of these students, who have striven to overcome a number of challenges and barriers with a determination that will serve them well in the years to come. All the best!

A number of our students are attending mainstream classes with their peers. Mr Fernando Pinget would like to congratulate Ian Kirk of Year 12, who demonstrated his enthusiasm for and dedication to his study of Software Design and Development during a recent assessment task. Ian was required to Marvin Ocsing at Coles Glenquarie develop and fault find the code for a game using the Python programming language. His outstanding work on this task earned him a mark of 100%. Well done, Ian! I would also like to acknowledge the excellent work of SLSO Mrs Rhonda Harper, who supports all of our students transitioning into mainstream classes. Her commitment to supporting students with disabilities together with her down to earth and practical outlook ensures that our students are very well looked after indeed.

Aron Boyd and Michaela Rist at Afford Industries, Students in Special Education classes are Ingleburn currently involved in a number of programs and initiatives designed to assist their entry into the workplace or further study: Community Access Program Throughout the year, our students participate in a Work Experience Program Community Access Program, with a particular Students in Years 10 and 11 have had the focus on travel training. Students visit several opportunity to participate in weekly work locations and complete activities linked to their experience placements throughout the year. academic studies in areas such as Mathematics, Employers have included Woolworths, Coles, Work Studies, CAFS and HSIE. Big thanks to Afford Industries, Sizzler and Target. We greatly SLSO Mrs Vicki Weblin for undertaking the appreciate the support of the employers who mammoth task of organising the logistics of our have provided our students with the opportunity Community Access Program and faculty to experience a variety of work environments. excursions. Special thanks also to SLSO Mrs Loris Wood, who has been on site to support students while they work. Thanks also go to Ms Purdon and Mrs Harper, who have spent so much time organising appropriate work placements for our students.

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Students from Gold class using the bus to travel in the local community (L – R Ryan Cochbain, Brendan Felton, Nicky Davis, Brock Cupitt-Hart)

NOVA Employment trainer June working with NOVA STEP Program Danielle Esaid As part of their Work Studies / Work and the Community Life Skills program, Year 11 students participated in a weekly program with NOVA Other news… employment trainer June Lahood. The  Congratulations to Scott Graham, Caitlyn workshops focused on work readiness skills, and Ryan and Ben McDonald, who were all were beneficial for all involved. successful in receiving their White Card qualification during Term 1. Dress for Success  Well done to Danielle Esaid and Alex Our female students had the opportunity to Seiuli, who have been our SRC participate in Dress For Success, which is a representatives during 2016. workshop and styling session designed to  Ms Kiss continues to use ICT to great improve the employability of women by providing effect in her Visual Arts classes. The professional clothing, a network of support and senior class has been working on movie career development tools. Our senior boys will making using iPads and the iMovie app. be attending a similar workshop for males during Students demonstrated their teamwork Term 3. skills by exploring a variety of ideas through discussion and experimentation to develop a news report – style film which they then had to edit. The results were very impressive!

Workshop at Dress For Success Head Office in Marrickville

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Year 11 Society and Culture display

 Ms O’Sullivan’s Year 11 Society and Aaron D’Onofrio working hard in Senior Science Culture Life Skills class have been using the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics as a framework to explore issues surrounding As a faculty we acknowledge the continued Intercultural Communication. Students support of parents and carers, and mainstream have also been researching countries as teaching staff. We look forward to working with diverse as Mexico, Papua New Guinea, you all for the remainder of 2016. Jordan, Portugal and Cambodia.

 The Gold History class spent a very

enjoyable day at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Ms Philippa O’Sullivan Museum in Sydney. Relieving Head Teacher  Senior Life Skills Science spent some time Special Education Faculty learning about farming practices in Term 1 with Mr Matchett.

Brendan Felton at Madame Tussaud’s

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Mathematics Faculty

Maths Peer Tutoring Mathematics Peer Tutoring is offered every day of the week except on Wednesdays. This provides an excellent opportunity for students to reinforce their learning through the support and guidance of experienced and intelligent senior students.

Every student is encouraged to join this group which is free of charge. It will help in boosting your confidence levels in Mathematics and further refine your mathematical knowledge and skills. Feel free to join these enthusiastic tutors at lunch-time in D12 from 1.20 to 2.00p.m.

Meet our friendly and highly talented Mathematics Peer tutors. They are as follows: Chaithanya Pai, Bhuvan Bhaskar, Eric Liang, Rahul Elangovan, Mahtaab Bhuyan, Tony Yang, Winson Lau, Thomas Nguyen, Mark Amos and Toung Huynh

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The Australian Mathematics Competition Year 8 The Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC) Sahil GAIKWAD was introduced in Australia in 1978 as the first Anika HUSSAIN Australia-wide mathematics competition for Hui En LIM students. Since then it has served almost all Maisha KARIM Australian secondary schools, providing Ermina HASAN feedback and enrichment to schools and Aveesha DODANWALA students. It has become the largest single event Lauchlan MILLER on the Australian education calendar, allowing Tamzid ZAKARIA students to attempt the same tasks on the same day in over 40 countries around the globe. Year 9 Brian ZHEN The AMC is a fun competition with many of the Wendy CHEN problems set in situations familiar to students Ashutosh SHARMA and showing the relevance of mathematics in Jemma VU their everyday lives. The problems are also Ray CHEN designed to stimulate discussion and can be Arik ALAM used by teachers and students as springboards Anniversary Falesa LEUELU for investigation. Year 10 This year, we have 120 students participating in Abdul KANJ the 2016 AMC. This is an exceptional turn out for Claire SAY our school and we hope that all students reach Sovanleakhena HUT their personal targets. Pratha NAGPAL Tabeea JAMAL Renee NAIDU Mathematics Faculty Awards Recipients Elizabeth APPIAH

Semester 1 - Pythagoras Awards This is an award designed to reward students Year 11 who are achieving excellent results. It is based Aaron GUAN on topic test marks, assessments, rankings or Winson LAU other academic criteria. The student must also Bhuvan BHASKAR be working consistently throughout the semester Ashraf Steven OLIFE and always display a positive learning attitude Rayyan RAHMAN and mindset. Felix NGUYEN Irena KIRISOME Year 7 Brendan FACCHINELLI Yuin MUMBULLA Marisha CHOWDHURY Year 12 Dion SAYALOUNE Kevin DANG Andre SILVA William KONG Brandon HUYNH Nazyath RAHMAN Michael DANDACHLI Shoaib FAROOQ Mahir ABDULLAH Nabila RAHMAN Page 15

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Laura TIEN Year 10 Prithvi Santana BASKAR Megha NAIR Christopher DUNSHEA Asif KHAN Sahill SINGH Jessie TRAN Rukia AL-KHALEELY Mabel TRUONG Bradley CAMILLERI Raisul MIAH James WINTER Semester 1 - Newton Awards Sheirin SAADAT This is an award designed to reward students who are working to their capabilities and Year 11 displaying an excellent attitude. It is not based Eric LIANG on performance and is primarily a reward of Adarsha PARAJULI effort. The student must also be working Leon WANG consistently throughout the semester and always Farhin TANISHA display a positive learning attitude and mindset. Lea MAUTOFU Karen D’SOUZA Year 7 Simon BERNARDO Phitinun TANASUWATGUL Aramis FAAETEETE Olive MAISA Millanetta FUIAVA Year 12 Harashada CHAURE Navid CHOWDHURY Anna KOZERA Kevin SHAJI Zaed TAISAR Queenie TRAN Sai DURVE Yash PATEL Tanveer KABIR Year 8 Gracey VAN MAGILL Alex TALLON Samin AZFAR Aditi DUTTA Nainah SHARMA Chrishan ASIRWATHAM Farzana ALI Blake CASE Glenn THOROUGHGOOD Tasmiea BASHER Jessica RANTANEN Avaneesh THATTE Monther Ibrahim SHAHHOUD Mr G Plowes Head Teacher Mathematics Year 9 Nabil CHOWDHURY David NGUYEN Lavanya VISWANATHAN Hyder SADMAN Riteta KIRISOME Eakveer CHONKAR Peter TAGA

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News from the School Library Premier’s Reading Challenge 2016

Oliver has arrived! The Premier’s Reading Challenge ends at midnight on August 19. All students participating The Library staff are really excited to announce in the challenge need to upload their book titles that the new School Library management by this date via the Premier’s Reading Challenge system, Oliver has been implemented at Link on the Student Portal. Macquarie Fields HS. This is part of the state- wide upgrade of Library systems in schools. The link is found in the Student Portal under Oliver replaced the old MS-DOS system known Other Sites> Premier’s Reading Challenge. as OASIS which had been in operation at MFHS I encourage all students in Years 7-9 to complete for 25 years. the challenge of reading 15 books from the Students can access Oliver even from home Premier’s Reading Challenge list and 5 personal through the Student Portal link. Once logged into choice books. Oliver, students can Preloved books wanted! - Browse the whole Library catalogue, Mr Perrett is organising a pre-loved book stall for - Reserve books, Celebration Day at the end of Term 3. Proceeds - Check their loan history for any overdue from the Book Sale will be donated to charity. If loans, you have any pre-loved books that are in good - Renew loans, condition, please drop them off at the collection Access reading lists such as Premier’s - point inside the Library. Reading Challenge and HSC English Area of Study: Discovery. Happy reading,

Miss K Hannaford Teacher Librarian

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