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The Weekly Newsletter of Sydney Boys High School Vol 17 No 16 3 June 2016
From the Principal university James Wolfensohn remembered I High Talent him as a pirate in the play and introduced him Congratulations to our DaVinci decathlon to fencing. At two job interviews later in life, his winners –Ryan Borges, Peter extracurricular activities at school and Boylan, Marcus Borscz, Liam university had more to do with him getting the Heng, Eric Holstrom, Ryan jobs than did his academic credentials. His Jepson, Adrian Panas and lesson to the boys was to grasp all the Thomas Schanzer. They opportunities that they could while at school. G My speech to the assembly is reprinted below: were first in code breaking and second in English, philosophy, Special Guest Mr Michael Diamond (SHS 1952), mathematics and chess. Well done indeed, coaches, parents, staff and GPS representatives, boys! Thank you also to their mentor Ms welcome to our winter sports assembly for 2016. Eggleton. John Tian (11E) won bronze at the Boys selected for GPS teams in Rugby, Football, H SEA Pacific Championship in Manilla in the Volleyball, Cross Country and Fencing are being Men’s Team Epée. James Siu (10M) won a honoured today. I would like to thank the dedicated second gold medal in the Men’s Sabre Team sports staff, headed up by HT Sport Mark Pavone, Event. Great job, boys! At the NSW School who create the environment in which our boys train Championships, Senior Boys Sabre, gold went three times a week and compete on Saturdays. I to Garry Huang (12F) with Kinzey Rahardja want to thank our great team of teachers, parents (10E) winning bronze. In the Senior Boys Epée and our Old Boy contributors, paid and volunteer - our co-curricular program just wouldn’t function William Zeng (10T) won a silver medal with without you. I thank you on behalf of the boys. Roy Zheng (10E) winning bronze. Our Fencing MIC, Dat Huynh (SHS 2004), has Student Personal Accident Insurance expanded the fencing Students of Sydney Boys High are covered for program and included an activities associated with the school, including: inaugural celebratory dinner N sport, approved work experience or at the end of the season. community activity programs. This cover is High boys compete in foil, epée and sabre. Our 24/7. The terms, conditions and benefits that teams have recently been successful at National School Team Championships in various disciplines. can be claimed under the policy are explained John Tian and James Siu are very talented on our school website. Please refer to competitors representing Australia in international www.sbhs.nsw.edu.au/wellbeing and click on competitions and winning at that level. Our new O ‘insurance policy’ to find out more. Head Coach, Feng Yeng (SHS 2000), won a NSW title in 2009 and earned a gold medal in Senior Reports Men’s Team Open Foil at the 2010 Commonwealth Boys in Years 9-12 should have brought home Fencing Championships. Dat has been their reports to discuss with Coordinating the Coaching as well as assisting in you. If you haven’t seen your the coaching of foil. Thank you to Mr Dean Nguyen T son’s report, don’t accept an for his assistance in creating a dedicated fencing website and developing a Fencing Committee. explanation. Please insist Thank you to our coaches for raising the standard that he does what he has to do for his of our fencing and to the parent supporters of the Clearance Form and that he books in for an sport. appointment. Alternatively, he can come before or after school to see me and if I am free Cross country running is now a very successful E I will discuss his report with him. sport at High, with the U16s winning the Winter Sports Assembly Intermediate GPS point- Special guest Michael Diamond (SHS 1952) score championship last season. Thank you to spoke about the great benefits that his co- Rebecca Dam again for curricular involvement while at High had on his her efficient and enthusiastic organisation S life after he left. His career in fencing stemmed and management of the sport and to her staff from his part in a musical production. At Clay Kesting (now retired) and John Prorellis.
Thank you again to Head Coach, Dani Andres, for his of focussing on the task. We have all seen that turning point coordination of the coaching program and to his coaches moment in sport when success or failure determines the Kenneth Liu (SHS 2014) and Jason Garrett (SHS 2014) for their outcome of a campaign. assistance, particularly with statistics. Thank you to Glen Schofield for his advice and support with record keeping and Noted biographer, Peter FitzSimons, performance statistics at GPS / CHS events. Of great help at praised the strong focus that John Eales the holiday camp were parents Mrs Nancy Zhang, Mrs Pei brought to the victorious World Cup Hong, and Jennifer McGrane. rugby team of 1999. In that competition there were several high-stress moments Football is growing even bigger in the school this year with 40 that could have gone either way. In the teams. Thank you to MIC Geoff semi-final against South Africa the Tesoriero for his great dedication and scores were tied at full time after a last minute penalty goal passion for developing the sport. kicked by Jannie de Beer. The sides were still locked together Thank you to Tony Dunn who has after 17 minutes of extra time. The Wallabies stuck to their returned to coordinate our program game plan but couldn’t break through until Stephen Larkham again as Head Coach. Thank you to kicked a 48m dropped goal to seal the win – his first success at the coaching staff: Jason Hayhurst drop goal in his representative career. What a moment to (first grade), Finch Twarlow (second grade) and Stephen Birch choose to attempt it! In the final, despite suffering eye gouging (third grade). Thank you to the parents of the 1st and 2nd XI who and very robust defence, the Wallabies held firm with their supply such great catering for the boys. Thank you again to the discipline to beat the French 35-12. Australia won the World teaching staff who contribute so much to the Saturday cup because each man knew his job, did it well and served the competition program: Julie Eggleton, Kety Manolias, Ingrid team in the way the coach planned for him to do it. Pepe, Mina Genias, Madeleine Rigby, Rosy Tracey and Natalie Luu. Thanks again to Tony Nimac for his continued input into The next year in Wellington, the Wallabies played the All Blacks the administration and development of the football program at and were down 21-23 with little time left to play when they were High. awarded a penalty. The team kicker, Stirling Mortlock, was on the sideline, injured. John Eales had to take the kick from 30 Volleyball is again a highly competitive sport, thriving under the metres out and 15 metres in from touch. He carefully rehearsed guidance of veteran strategist, Michael Kay. The boys took out his kicking routine – three steps back and 2½ across. He both first and second grade GPS Championships last year and visualised his approach and strike of the ball – ‘head down, the 16s were successful at national slow, follow through to the posts’. He followed the teaching of level in Melbourne. Despite the the great All Black kicker Grant Fox. Eales kicked the goal and growing competition from GPS retained the Bledisloe Cup for Australia. Focus, visualisation, schools and the occasional knockout rehearsal, execution. performance by one or two state schools, High has been dominant in You perform the way you train. Attend and take training this sport for a decade. Thank you to seriously. You need to make the right decisions at the right time our Old Boy coaches and staff for making the sport the while distracted by stress. Great self-regulation, strong powerhouse that it is. visualisation and sustained focus will ensure you and your team perform to your abilities. Standards – ethos – tradition. Play Matt Cotton has worked conscientiously as MIC of rugby and for yourselves, play for each other, play for High! I congratulate has brought enthusiasm and a changed style to our rugby all the boys who have been selected for GPS competition. You administration. Andrew Walters (SHS 2003) is taking first and are deriving the benefit from participation in team sports that second grade, with Sam Gribble (SHS 2006) and David Knox’s will be enduring in terms of skills learnt, dispositions acquired support as backs and skills coach. Thank you to George and and memories retained. Good luck in the contests ahead. Con Barris who are managing the 16s. Our Junior progam is Dr K A Jaggar managed very well by Mick Aldous, Paul Scrivener and Geoff Principal Stein. Thank you to all the supportive parents in the Rugby Committee: particularly, Tracey Whittaker, Eddie Dorahy and Julie Fox, for giving their catering, administration and organisational support to High Rugby.
Often in sport, we experience moments of exhilaration when we are successful and despair when we are not. In either case we must be wary of what Alan Jones called taking a snapshot of the moment and crowding around to look at it while the game carries on in the background. We need to immediately refocus on the next play or moment in the contest. Often just after such moments of emotion we are at our most vulnerable. We tend to make additional errors. We are accessing our emotions instead
Meet the Prefect Intern to extend this attitude towards all aspects of school life and anything beyond Year 12.
Reach out. Reach High Luke and Jayden Schofield Prefect Interns
From the Canteen The High canteen relies heavily on the support of dedicated parent volunteers, who assist Karen and We are the twins, Luke and Jayden Schofield and we're Tracey each week. This ensures extremely privileged and honoured to be your prefects of that all profits are returned to school community. In such a prestigious school. Coming here in Year 9 was addition, prefects serve at canteen windows during definitely a challenge and keeping up with the high recess and lunch. standard of work and sport was nothing to dismiss. The competitive nature of the High boys in both sport and We would like to thank the following parent helpers for academics was what struck us as a different, but week of 17 May. compelling culture. MON: Susan Mitchell, Binita Ghosh To explain a little about ourselves, we decided to tell a TUE: Minhua Zhang, Carrie Waring, Sharon Wang story about a sporting event that we competed in. When WED: Stephanie Fung, Emi Matsuoka, Mark Zhu we were in Year 9 (in 2013) we signed up to our first All THU: Arti Shah, Glenda Green, Annie Yu Schools Triathlon (swim, bike, run). We'd been training for FRI: Jenny Beer, Edwina Henningham, Ellen Feng, a few weeks and were eager to see how we would Lien Tran perform. On race day, everything was prepared - our gear in transition was set, our hearts racing and our minds Our sincere thanks also go to the back-up volunteers, ready. The starting horn went. The race had started. We'd who have offered to fill gaps in the roster at short notice. come out of the swim in a reasonable time and a A reminder that chicken corn soup and steak and onion respectable place. However, on the bike course, Jayden roll is also available, in addition to the range of healthy, was cycling around a corner, when he clipped his pedal hot and cold foods. Why not place an order before bell on the ground, flipped off his bike and slid off the track, time in the morning to avoid missing out. scraping skin off his back, shoulder and knees, making Usha Arvind him unable to finish the race. Although Luke finished the President Canteen Committee race, he couldn't catch up to the front pack and was holding lower speeds than expected. It was only after the race that we realised Luke had a flat tyre the whole cycle House Polo Sale leg, significantly lowering the speed on the bike. Despite Coloured polo’s only. the race not going as well as we'd planned, we still Sizes available: enjoyed ourselves and we'd learnt an unforgettable • SAXBY – 12, 14, XL,2XL,3XL lesson; if there is something worth achieving, there will • always be obstacles in the way. You just have to have McKAY – 12, XL, 3XL that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles • EEDY – 14 to whatever it is that you want to accomplish. So boys, we • RUBIE – 12, XL, 2XL, 3XL encourage you to enjoy the ride through High, make every • TORRINGTON – 12, 3XL moment count, every aspect of school life worth • FAIRLAND – 12, M, L, XL, it because, after all, we only have one chance at it so 2XL make it a good one. Normally $30 – now 50% OFF - $15
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From the Junior Library We got a little distracted by Genre issues and forgot to shout very loudly that we have purchased a very good eBook deal from one of our eBook suppliers - Wheelers.
Our boys can now access over 900 eBooks from • 1100 titles in Wheelers; new releases include: Wheelers - so have a look at the Website on Oliver Front North Face, the Nest and the Way We Roll page and download one of these lovely books. These books are not on Oliver until the Education Department clears us to put them onto our system, but they can be borrowed by our students and our clever IT guys can figure out how many have been loaned. Some of these books are already in our library as paper based books and some are classics. They are a mix of books to stock up our beginners’ eBook collection. Wow! That’s over 2000 books in total! It’s really easy to As of one month ago when I chased down our eBook pick a title you think you’ll like. You can select many filters: figures from our two suppliers, our students had borrowed your favourite author, genre, new releases or popular 1031 eBooks from OverDrive and 59 books from books. Wheelers. This was ¼ of all the books borrowed from our library in the 9 months since eBook borrowing Read, my fellow students. Take advantage of the became possible. infinitude of free information within these metaphysical treasures to improve your mental faculties. If a human Richard Ding our Junior Library Prefect who works for our being starts off as a humble acorn, then books are the library for no Award Scheme Points has written an article nutrients and water in the soil which enable it to transform at our request about our new eBooks: into a towering, formidable oak tree. Grow to become young men capable of facing any challenge the world Library News decides to throw at you. Build the foundation to support Hello everybody, this week’s article is about eBooks. In your endeavours as you reach for the apex of the addition to the library’s massive collection of physical mountain of success. As Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor books, there exists an even larger selection of electronic of the French, put it best: books floating around in cyberspace, waiting to be read. “Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the eBooks are becoming quite a significant medium for people who move the world.” reading. A quarter of books borrowed last year from our Dare to become one of those people. libraries were eBooks – that’s hardly surprising. eBooks Richard Ding can be obtained almost instantaneously online, they don’t Library Prefect need to be carried home and can easily be read on the laptops/other devices you carry every day. Additionally, Makeitspaces in our Junior Library you can highlight memorable passages and make notes. Shourov Quazi came in to the Junior Library to say that There’s also ease of returning the book when you have this course was having a second go at beginning, next finished reading it – just a couple of clicks and you’re Monday. This TAS and Peer Teaching initiative will be done. hosted by the Junior Library computer area at lunchtimes on Mondays. Any Juniors who want to learn programming Our library has two systems in place for borrowing and coding can come along. eBooks – Wheelers and Overdrive (check both out, they contain different collections). They can be accessed via Donation thanks Oliver. Last time I checked there were: Another donation of very popular Junior books came in from Wendy Dar – Mother of Joseph in Year 7. These are • 925 titles in Overdrive; new books include: A great books and it is very thoughtful of you Wendy. Conspiracy of Kings, Blood War, Gathering Anyone cleaning out books from home who thinks they Blue, The Giver would suit us - we are always very grateful. Junior Library
National Chinese Eisteddfod 2016 In terms of the results for the group category, I would like Monday 28 March was a day filled with triumph. As a to congratulate the SBHS 13-15 Year age group for student who has participated in the National Chinese Mandarin Speakers for coming in 2nd place. The team was Eisteddfod (poetry recital) every year since 2013, I can comprised of James Fang, Allen Guo, Justin Liu, Lenard say without a doubt that this year was the most Jia, Jack Jiang, Jason Wang, Michael Woo, Oscar Wu, exhilarating and competitive of them all. However, from Royce Xiao. Congratulations boys! the lunchtime rehearsals to the last minute alterations, every single High contestant was able to demonstrate the Nevertheless, Sydney Boys High School did manage to focus and hard-working ethic, which provided Sydney secure the middle stand of the podium in one of the group High with outstanding results. categories. It has been an absolute honour working with each and every one of these boys and it is with utmost The National Chinese Eisteddfod comprises of an pleasure to be able to introduce to you the winners of the individual and a group based competition. In terms of the 2016 National Chinese Eisteddfod 16-18 year age group- results from the individual category, I would like to James Jiang, Samuel Zheng, Daniel Hu, Eric Shen, David congratulate Vitaly Kovalevskiy (Year 7) who came 3rd in Wu, Chenhao Liu, Chris Chang, Jeffrey Yang, Justin Lin the 8-12 year age group for non-native speakers, Yeong and Esmond Ye. You should all be extremely proud of Meng Li (Year 8) who came 2nd in the 10-12 year age what you have accomplished! group for Cantonese speakers, Royce Xiao who came 3rd in the 13-15 year age group and Justin Liu who came 2nd However, none of this would have been possible without in the 13-15 year age group for Mandarin speakers. the constant support and guidance of Ms Zhang and Ms Dai. Thank you so much for believing in us and helping I personally participated in the 16-18 year old age group us discover our full potential! for Mandarin speakers. Unlike previous years, my heat this year was filled with past gold, silver and bronze trophy Finally, to the boys, thank you for making my last year at recipients. Although I didn’t come away with a podium High such a memorable one! Although we’ve achieved finish, it was, hands down, an absolute honour competing something great, we’re far from achieving true greatness, against some of the most outstanding students from so remember always to keep getting up, keep dressing across the state and I was definitely able to learn so much up, keep showing up and never give up because all of you from every single one of them. are outstanding people inside and out, so keep at it and hopefully all of you will be able to achieve similar results in the future! Esmond Ye Year 12
P&C High Family
2016 Combined SGHS and SBHS P&C Meeting 7 for 7.30 pm Thursday 16 June 2016 – SBHS Great Hall All parents are warmly invited to attend the annual Combined P&C meeting, this year hosted by the SBHS P&C. We are very excited to present our guest speaker, Dr Andrew Martin, who will present on the subject of Motivation, Engagement and Achievement: Pathways to Personal Potential. More details regarding Dr Martin’s presentation are available separately in High Notes. Parents are strongly encouraged to attend this important and informative event, which is relevant to parents of boys - from Year 7 to the HSC. Supper will be available from 7pm. All contributions of a plate for supper will be gratefully received. P&C Facebook Page Help us to communicate with you – please like the P&C’s Facebook page www.facebook.com/sbhspandc
This Week’s News Upcoming Diary Dates x The school is looking for assistance with the regular laundering of tablecloths. If you or anyone you know might be able to provide this service please contact Ms P&C Meeting Powell: [email protected] Monday 8 August Staff Common Room, 6:30pm x The SBHS Site Development Plan 2011-2020 is currently being reviewed. Parents can view the plan by logging on to the Parents’ Portal. Community views regarding the areas that should be prioritised are sought. Comments may be emailed to [email protected]
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2016 Term 2 Week 05, Saturday 30 May 2015 GPS GPS Round 1 Team Against Result Scorers V Riverview 1st XI Riverview 1st XI Drew 0 – 0 Drew 0 – 0 2nd XI Riverview 2nd XI Drew 0 – 0 Lost 0 – 2 3rd XI Riverview 3rd XI Lost 0 – 2 Drew 0 – 0 4th XI Riverview 4th XI Lost 1 – 3 Jack Karnaghan Lost 0 – 4 5th XI Riverview 5th XI Lost 0 – 6 Lost 1 – 2 6th XI Riverview 6th XI Lost 1 – 6 Joshua King Won 3 – 0 Faiyaz Alam (2), Alex Mao, 7th XI Riverview 7th XI Won 4 – 3 Anthony Yu Won 3 – 0 8th XI Newington 6th XI Lost 1 – 3 Jerry Sung Won 2 – 1 9th XI Riverview 8th XI Lost 1 – 2 Darren Fung Lost 0 – 3 10th XI Barker 10th XI Lost 0 – 2 Lost 0 – 3 Samuel Zheng, Desmond Ho, 11th XI Riverview 9th XI Won 3 – 0 Raiyan Yousef N/A 16A XI Riverview 16A Lost 0 – 4 Won 2 – 1 16B XI Riverview 16B Lost 0 – 1 Lost 0 – 3 Damian Chan, Tim Lam, Kore 16C XI Riverview 16C Won 3 – 0 Wilson Lost 0 – 2 16D XI Riverview 16D Drew 0 – 0 Won 4 – 1 16E XI Riverview 16E Drew 0 – 0 Won 2 – 1 Thomas Jiang (2), Adam 16F XI St Patrick’s 16F Drew 3 – 3 Steele N/A 16G XI Grammar 15H See 15Hs N/A 15A XI Riverview 15A Lost 0 – 1 Lost 1 – 2 15B XI Riverview 15B Lost 0 – 2 Won 1 – 0 15C XI Reddam House 15C Lost 0 – 3 Won 3 – 2 15D XI Knox 15E Lost 0 – 5 Won 3 – 0 15E XI Riverview 15C Lost 0 – 2 Won 3 – 1 15F XI Riverview 15D Drew 0 – 0 Drew 1 – 1 15G XI Knox 15F Won 2 – 1 Ryan KC, Jamie Nguyen N/A 15H XI Grammar 15E Lost 0 – 12 N/A 14A XI Riverview 14A Lost 1 – 4 Ikko Ehode Arimoto Lost 0 – 7 14B XI Riverview 14B Lost 0 – 8 Drew 0 – 0 14C XI Riverview 14C Lost 0 – 3 Drew 1 – 1 14D XI Scots 14C Lost 1 – 5 Kaeshikan Ravi Raj Won 4 – 0 14E XI Scots 14D Lost 1 – 4 Edwin Guo Drew 1 – 1 14F XI Riverview 14D Lost 0 – 3 Lost 0 – 5 14G XI Newington 13F See 13Gs N/A 13A XI Riverview 13A Lost 0 – 3 Lost 2 – 5
Team Against Result Scorers V Riverview 13B XI Riverview 13B W/O Lost 0 – 4 Andrew Huang (2), Jimmy 13C XI Scots 13C Won 3 – 2 Huang Lost 0 – 6 13D XI Riverview 13C Lost 0 – 5 Lost 0 – 3 13E XI Newington 13E Lost 0 – 3 Lost 2 – 3 Nethun Batuwantudawe, 13F XI Riverview 13D Won 2 – 0 Samir Uddin Lost 0 – 1 13G XI Newington 13F Lost 0 – 4 N/A Wins 6 Wins: 11 Losses: 25 Losses: 16 Draws: 6 Draws: 6 Byes/Internal: 0 Byes/Internal: 0 Goal For: 27 Goal For: 39 Goals Against: 105 Goals Against: 64 Washed Out: 1 Washed Out: 0
Dolan Cup leader board: Golden Boot Leader board: Golden Gloves Leader Board: 7th XI = 5 points Faiyaz Alam = 2 1st XI = 0 goal conceded 11th XI = 5 points Andrew Huang = 2 2nd XI = 0 goals conceded 16C = 5 points Thomas Jiang = 2 11th XI = 0 goals conceded 13Fs = 5 points 16C = 0 goals conceded 15Gs = 4 points 16D = 0 goals conceded 13Cs = 4 points 16E = 0 goals conceded 15F = 0 goals conceded 13B = 0 goals conceded 13F = 0 goals conceded
MIC of Football Report Saturday was our first round of the GPS competition Congratulations to Thomas Nimac, Marcus Plataniotis against Riverview. Due to Riverview being short on and Finley Hayhurst who represented the school for the teams many of our teams had to play against higher combined GPS team to play in the Combined opponents. The boys did very well considering the Independent Schools of NSW Championship. They circumstances. ended up winning the competition with all three boys playing a significant role in the team. Well done!! Both the 1st and 2nd XI had setbacks at the start of the day with boys pulling out due to illness and injuries. They both did very well to come away with draws against one of the competition favourites. Geoff Tesoriero MIC of Football
Thomas Nimac, Marcus Plataniotis, Finley Hayhust selected for the combined GPS team
Volleyball Results SHS vs BC/TSC/NC/SGS, Saturday 28 May 2016 (Term 2 Week 5)
1st / 2nd / 3rd / 4th Grade, 16B’s, 15A’s and 15B’s all had 3-0 Wins. 16A’s and 14A’s had 2-1 Wins. 14B’s had 1 – 2 Loss. (1st, 2nd & 3rd Grades vs BC @ BC; 4th Grade vs SGS @ SGS; 16A’s & 16B’s vs SGS @ SGS; 15A’s & 15B’s vs NC @ SHS; 14A’s & 14B’s vs TSC @ SHS). 1st Grade: 25-16; 25-21; 25-18; 3-0 Win. 2nd Grade: 25-11; 25-21; 25-9; 3-0 Win. 3rd Grade: 3-0 Win. 4th Grade: 21-15; 21-11; 22-20. 3-0 Win. 16A’s: 20-22; 21-15; 21-14. 2-1 Win. 16B’s: 21-10; 21-11; 21-16. 3-0 Win. 15A’s: 21-15; 21-7; 21-14. 3-0 Win. 15B’s: 21-11; 21-15; 21-13. 3-0 Win. 14A’s: 6-21; 21-18; 21-16. 2-1 Win. 14B’s: 21-13; 18-21; 18-21. 1-2 Loss.
Statistics for 1st and 2nd Grade are shown in the table below:
28 May 2016 vs Barker Skill First Grade Second Grade % of serves kept in play Shane Chen 100% (10) & Kalvin Xu 100% Yirong Shen 100% (10) (10) Alvin Tam 100% (8) Jerry Chang 100% (3) Thomas Nguyen 100% (4) Harry Park 94% (16) % of serves that were kills Shane Chen 80% (10) Thomas Nguyen 75% (4) Harry Park 69% (16) Jonathon Zeng 72% (27) Jerry Chang 67% (3) Alvin Tam 69% (8) % of spikes kept in play Ben Coan 89% (18) Dylan Goh 100% (4) Harry Park 86% (7) Harjas Ahuja 94% (16) Wanyu Tang 85% (13) Eli Montuno 86% (21) % of spikes that were kills Ben Coan 78% (18) Eli Montuno 86% (21) Aidin Karahasan 71% (17) Dylan Goh 75% (4) Harry Park 71% (7) Harjas Ahuja 72% (16) % of blocks that were kills Jon Luo 88% (4) Serve reception accuracy Aidin Karahasan 100% (5) Alvin Tam 93% (7) Ray Gu 92% (18) Ben Wu 82% (14) Wanyu Tang 92% (12) Eli Montuno 67% (6) Passing accuracy Ryan Gu 100% (5) Jonathon Zeng 100% (4) & Eli Montuno Wanyu Tang 93% (12) 100% (3) Shane Chen 88% (4) Alvin Tam 92% (6) Ben Wu 88% (6)
High Spirit
SBHS v’s Shore Results
13A 0-74L 13B 45-21 W 14A 22-5W 15A 12-43 L 15B 51-0 W 16A 0-10L 16B 43-22W 2nds 24-12W 1sts 12-36L
Team of the Week: 2nd XV
1st XV Report Our clash against Shore marked our first home game of the posts, breaking through the Shore defence the GPS season, allowing us to prove ourselves in front untouched. However, conceding 3 simple tries put us too of a familiar crowd. Fortunately, several players had far behind on the scoreboard, being unable to recover returned from injury, providing us with a full strength the lead and unfortunately being defeated with a final starting squad for this important fixture. The 1st XV was score of 35-12. ready to attack against Shore, inspired by the remarkable victory of our 2nd XV, 24-17.
Perhaps our focus on attack during the week led us from our defensive goals as a team, as Shore scored two tries, breaking soft tackles and making quick metres. We soon realised the necessity to shift momentum and returned to our defensive roots and positional play, applying pressure and securing an essential turnover in our attacking half. This led to a lineout close to the line, where we executed a swift move to cross the line for the first time.
Our attacking of the set piece remained exceptional in the second half, where Daniel Zhang scored a try under
High Spirit
SBHS v’s St Josephs Results
13A 14-26L 13B 5-57L 14A 17-12W 15A 19-26L 15B 32-55L 16A 0-45L 16B 19-55L 2nds 0-80L 1sts 0-38L
Team of the Week: 14s
Going into the game against Joeys we knew that it was efforts in an attempt to reinvigorate our approach to the not going to be easy even though we were playing the rest of the season. Cs and we knew Sydney High had not had a very good history against Joeys because they have been such a Honoured to play on the historic St Joseph’s pitch, we big rugby school for many years. This made us even began the game matching quite well with our opponents, more determined to win. We were straight away on the who were considered to be one of the best in the 3rd XV back foot when Joeys scored the first try. Through the competition. We played well with our field position, and man of match, Joshua Zheng's, great running we were mustered remarkable defensive efforts to shut down our able to go to the break with the score line of 7-7. Once oppositions fast paced attacking formation. again we were on the back foot when they scored again increasing their lead to 12-7. We were able to hit back Although losing, we move beyond our disappointment with two consecutive tries and take the lead to 17-12. and use it as a learning curve to improve in our future Although we were ahead, we still had 5 minutes to go matches. Every game is an opportunity to put all our and we all knew just one try could change the whole efforts onto the field with nothing to lose, and only game. However, although we didn't get the ball much in become better players in the process. the last five minutes our defence held strong and we made all our tackles to come out on top. This keeps us CHS U16s Success undefeated (3 from 3) and we hope to keep this status A huge congratulation to after playing our next game against Kings. Great work Archie Fox who was selected boys! to start in the 1stXV for CHS U16’s. What a great 1st XV Report achievement! The third round of the official GPS season saw us face a tough and physical opponent at Hunters Hill, St Joseph’s Well done from all involved College. Training throughout the week had been tireless, with SBHS Rugby. although our squad was beginning to feel the strain of Mr Cotton playing week after week, with somewhat disappointing MIC Rugby outcomes. We used this game to focus and simplify our
Sydney High Tennis
“It is not about the size of the dog in the fight, but about and in the 2016-17 GPS season. On behalf on the team the size of the fight in the dog.” we would like to thank Mr Matthew Cotton and Mr David Deep for their massive commitment towards the High tennis program. Stevie Young
Stan Jones Cup 2016 On 24 and 25 May, the top four players of the High first grade tennis team headed out to Rockdale Tennis Centre to take part in the annual CHS Stan Jones Cup. Our team comprised of Matthew O’Sullivan, Andre Putilin, Samuel Yu and myself. We came into the tournament with a lot of confidence that we could finally beat our bitter rivals, Endeavour Sports High.
On the first day of the tournament we played very strong RIFLE SH TING tennis against our Pool B opponents and made it through to the semi-finals, which were on day 2 of the Cessnock Shoot 2016 tournament. The very next day we once again proved to On 21 May 2016, 16 Shooters consisting of Ciaran be too strong against our semi-final opponents Menai Farrell (12M), Julian Tu (12E), Kentaro Takahata (12M), High School and set up another blockbuster rubber John Huang (12R), Denny Fu (12M), Daniel Tian (11E), against the old enemy, Endeavour Sports High. With a Nathan Wong (11F), Tom Nguyen (11S), Wentao Ruan great first doubles performance from Matthew O’Sullivan (11F), Dallas Yan (11E), James Jiang (11F), Henry Deng and Samuel Yu to win 6-1, and Andre Putilin and myself (10E), Ricky Li (10F), Kai Mai (10R), Alexander Tan (9F) to win 6-2, we were on the right track to claiming to Stan and Frank Zhou (9M) assembled outside Malabar Rifle Jones Cup. With the vital singles matches to come, we Range. They were raring to go; ready to make the knew that we had to seal the rubber here and now. In the arduous 5 hour trip to Cessnock Rifle Range to compete first singles match Samuel Yu outlasted his opponent 6- in the annual Cessnock Open Prize Meet. After arriving 3 to extend our lead, however, I was not able to seal the at the Cessnock range, they put up their own tents, victory only to lose 6-4 in a tight affair against my very relying only on their camaraderie and plastic mallets. talented opponent. With the score being in our favour 3- After idling around and eating dinner, we went to sleep 1 we only needed one more match to win the rubber. to the sounds of a rave far off in the distance which played well into the night and the morning after. Thankfully Andre Putilin was the perfect man to get High over the line dominating his opponent to a 6-0 win and We woke up early and immediately packed our tents up, finally sealing a long awaited victory against our arch so that we wouldn’t have to do so later in the day. We rivals to win the Stan Jones Cup for the 2nd time in 15 also set up our rifles for the shoot, which was to be 3 years. It was a supreme team effort from our boys to get matches of 2 sighters and 10 shots, at 600 yards, the victory. Hopefully we can emulate this success in the but after some technical difficulties with the next round of the CHS State Schools Championships electronic targets the first match was declared invalid.
This was great news for some like me who hadn’t shot Regarding the matches, many shooters had impressive their best but bad for some who had done really well, but performances and Nathan Wong had an incredible nonetheless the shoot went on. With the Open Prize comeback, shooting a 48.5 during the second match, Meet now scaled down to 2 matches of 2 sighters and 10 improving on his score by 9 points. This recovery shows shots, we knew each match and by extension, each shot, the sheer mental fortitude of our senior shooters, that counted even more than before. It was tense as we took comes with experience and skill. Another new shooter, the experiences from our last shoot and went down to Ricky Li, ranked 2nd in his 2nd match in C grade, winning shoot on manual targets. The difference between a medal. Despite this being his first shoot, it manual and electronic targets may seem small, but in demonstrates his potential; he ranked above Zhikai Mai, practice it can throw many shooters off, especially our who also won a medal. Zhikai came 3rd with the same new generation, who had only been shooting on the score as Ricky, but lost on countback. 4th place was electronic targets. The delay between the shot and the occupied by another new shooter, Frank Zhou, who shot marking can throw off a shooter’s rhythm if they aren’t a great score 46.2, improving on his previous score by 8 used to it, and it also has the potential to make them points. Frank showed his effective adaptation to the worried about each shot as they have more time to think multiple changes in the wind which had previously taken about it, possibly ruining their next shots. The wind also him by surprise. A moment of silence for John Huang, fishtailed; it went in two opposite directions at the start who was on track for a possible (a score of 50) but shot and the end of the range. This provided yet another three 4s at the end of his shoot, making his score 47.4 challenge that even experienced shooters had trouble rather than 50.4+. During the first match, Ciaran and with, and as a result, no A Grader had a perfect score. Wentao showed magnificent scores, with rankings of 4th and 7th respectively, with Ciaran shooting a 48.4 and Despite all that was against them, our shooters shot Wentao just missing out with a 48.3. The highlight of the marvellously, taking the 3rd to 10th spots overall in C event however was when Denny Fu won the raffle of a grade. Denny Fu’s first competition provided him with a food thermos, coming 1st place in luck. breakthrough performance onto the shooting scene, taking 3rd place in C grade and 5th place overall in our Overall the shooters had a great time at Cessnock, from school, showing his passion for shooting and the the long bus trip to the lack of sleep and even to the large efficiency of the Sydney High Shooting Program; Denny delays during the competition, the shooters took it all in is technically still in his first year of shooting. Dallas stride and had fun, as this was the first camp out (or even missed out on getting a prize, with a great 4th place competition) for many of the shooters. This camp and finish. Despite often shooting in the centre of the target competition allowed them to deepen friendships with (90.6), he lost out on overall score to Denny’s 91.2. their comrades and experience something different, There were also exceptional performances by our which is what sport at Sydney High, and especially Rifle shooters in the high-level A and B grade competition. Shooting is all about. Wentao Ruan took 6th place in B Grade, placing him 1st Ciaran Farrell in the school, followed by Ciaran Farrell and James Jiang Captain of Rifles 2016 who took 12th and 13th place in B grade respectively. Edited by Kieryn Mascarenhas
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May 2016
Night work on Flinders Street, Darlinghurst from Sunday 29 May
The NSW Government is funding this essential maintenance work between Albion Street and South Dowling Street to provide a stronger, longer lasting and safer road.
Roads and Maritime Services will carry out this work which includes removing and replacing small sections of asphalt.
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June/July 2016
03-06-2016 Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Sports Physiotherapist, Year 12 Assessment Exams Year 12 Assessment Exams Year 12 Assessment Exams Year 12 Assessment Exams Rifle: Wingham Prize Meet Rifle: Wingham 07:00-09:00, 901 Year 7 Meeting, Great UNSW School Mathematics Year 10 High Resolves Peer Support: VE2-P1, Cadets: AFX Conference, Prize Meet Year 12 Study Day Hall, 09:55-10:20 Competition 09:00-12:30 Leadership, 13:10-15:15 VE1-P3, VE4-P4 Holsworthy Army Barracks Year 9 High Resolves Debating: UNSW Debating Yrs 9-12 approx 25 (30 boys) Class test 9MaL-P4 Parking: Roosters v Leadership Training All Day, Selected students students Chess: P5, selected Panthers, 19:30 7 Day (30 boys) Basketball: Year 9 House students (Debating) Basketball: NSW All Competition, lunchtime Rifle: Wingham Prize Meet Schools, CIS v CCC v Class test: 9MaB-P4 Table Tennis: Sydney East C CHS, Terrigal TBC Jazz and Small KO Rugby: Committee Meeting, Ensembles Soiree, Great Staff Common Room, 18:00 Hall, 18:30-20:30
13 14 *** 15 *** 16 *** 17 18 19 Queen's Birthday - Public Year 12 Assessment Exams Year 12 Assessment Exams Year 12 Assessment Exams Year 12 Assessment Exams Football: SHS v Shore Parking: Holiday Year 10 Meeting, Great Year 11 Meeting, Great ICAS Writing Competition Peer Support: VE1-P2, Rugby: SHS v SIC Sydney Swans Rifle: Wingham Prize Meet Hall, 09:55-10:20 Hall, 09:55-10:20 Kevin Lee Quiz, Latin, VE6-P4, VE5-P5 Cross Country: Trinity v Melbourne, Football: SSA All Schools Year 7 Science Excursion Preliminary HSC: Modern Year 8 Drama Production: Relay, Ewen Park 13:10 Championship to Taronga Zoo History Assessment, Peer Support: VE7-P3 Campbell Hall Volleyball: SHS v SIC (Cricket) 8 Prelimary HSC Assessment: 09:05-09:50 Class test: 10MaB-P3 Chess: P5, selected NSW All English Extension, Peer Support: VE8-P3, Cross Country: CIS, students Schools Boys Utopia or Dystopia VE9-P3 Eastern Creek Cross Country: Sydney Football A Creative Writing Class tests: 9MaU-P3, Drama Production: East, Miranda Park Championships Response, P3 8MaS-P4 Campbell Hall Football: SSA All Schools Debating: DSG Meeting, Basketball: CHS Opens Championship Common Room, 18:00 Finals Series (top 8), Basketball: Year 9 House Drama Production: Terrigal Competition, lunchtime Campbell Hall Special P+C Meeting, 20 *** 21 *** 22 23 24 *** 25 26 Sports Physiotherapist, Latin HSC Seminars Brainstorm Productions - Basketball: CHS Opens Melbourne/Sydney Sporting Parking: Australia v Great Hall 07:00-09:00, 901 Athletics: Zone Carnival, Cheap Thrills (Year 9), Finals Series (top 8), and Cultural Exchange England 20:00 (Football) Booking: English Extension 1: ES Marks Great Hall, 14:15 Terrigal (tbc) Early morning collection: 06:00-23:00 Basketball: Year 9 House Melbourne/Sydney Sporting Excursion: HSC Chemistry, Red Nose Day Competition, lunchtime and Cultural Exchange UNSW, 09:00-11:30 Physics incursion: 9 Bright Spark: Books and Preliminary Assessment: Melbourne/Sydney Sporting Sunswift Outreach Event Toys Donations, room Ancient History, task 3, and Cultural Exchange Bright Spark: Books and 603, lunch + recess room 212, p2 Bright Spark: Books and Toys Donations, room B Literary submissions to Bright Spark: Books and Toys Donations, room 603, recess Record due Toys Donations, room 603, recess + lunch Volleyball: Metro all Fundraising Management 603, recess Parent/Teacher Night Schools Volleyball, Committee meeting, Basketball: CHS Opens (Years 7 and 11), Great Olympic Park, (14a, 15a, 17:30-18:30 Finals Series (top 8), Hall, 15:00-19:00 16a) Foundation meeting, Terrigal (tbc) Peer Support: VE3-P3 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 HSC English Extension 2, Parent/Teacher Night Parking: Roosters v SRC Talent Quest, Lunch Parking: Sydney Swans v Cadets: Submission of Major Work (Years 8 and 10), Great Bulldogs, 19:50 (Tennis) (tbc) Western Bulldogs, 16:35 Adventure English Extension 1, Hall, 15:00-19:00 Peer Support: VE4-P4 (Rowing) Training Speeches, Period 2 and 4 English Extension 1, LAST DAY TERM 2 Award, Preliminary HSC Speeches, Period 2, 3 Singleton 10 assessment: English and 4 Army Range Advanced, Comparative study, P4 C Attendance and Progress Review (all Years) Rugby: Committee Meeting, Staff Common Room, 18:00