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0 H The Weekly Newsletter of Sydney Boys High School Vol 11 No 17 June 4 2010 From the Principal St. corner of the tennis courts will be locked High Talent every Friday afternoon unless there is a Great news for fencing. The parking event or a school function on. I I U15 team won the NSW propose to lock gate 3 also where possible to Schools championship – the restrict through traffic from SGHS or people first public school to do so. Congratulations trying to get down to The Flat to park on to Shaun Pak, Mathew Chan, reserve Saturday mornings. William Yeung (Year 10) and Hayden Rabone (Year 9). Lloyd Perris and Jasper New Grass G Garay (Year 10) attended the NSW U15s Please do not park on the new AFL carnival in Albury. Lloyd grass at the rear of the Gym. was selected in the NSW side The area has been curbed, top to go to Perth for the Nationals. dressed and turfed as a passive recreation Congratulations to both boys. area for students. Well done to Dominic Edgtton and George H Denny-Smith (Year 12) for their selection in Gate 1–Gate 2 Roadway the Open Rugby CHS teams. Last week five I apologise for any inconvenience caused by High table tennis teams competed at the the lack of access between gates 1 and 2. Sydney Olympic Centre in a tournament won The inclement weather has forced a delay in by James Ruse. High No1 completion of the works. If water gets under team Kevin Qian and Tony the base and then asphalt is laid over it, the Xiao, progressed to the third surface is compromised immediately. We are round to be beaten by North waiting for a weather window of two clear Sydney Boys. Glanden Zheng won the days to try and complete the work properly. repechage event in singles. Congratulations to the teams and Mr Hagan for his input into Communications and Data Handling High table tennis. Congratulations to Andrija Policy Dumovic (Year 11) who was A small group is working on N chosen in the Australian U17 designing a communications basketball team to represent policy for the school. As a first Australia in the FIBA U17 step we have a structure for World Championship in what we would like to achieve. Increasingly, Hamburg in July. Great work we need a set of protocols governing the by the 15As (rugby) to beat SGS last way in which we handle information. What do O Saturday! we keep? Who keeps it? Where do we keep it? How long do we keep it? Who has access Year 9 Reports to it? If you have suggestions about how we All boys in Year 9 should now have their might collect, store and make available reports. Parents need to ask their sons to information, please email me. see the report given to them after discussion Dr K A Jaggar T with the Principal. Gate entrances and security Staff and parents are reminded that Gate 3 next to the Gym is an exit gate only. E No cars should be driven onto the SGHS side of The Flat and Gate 4 should not be DISCLAIMER used by SBHS traffic at any time. That gate Products and services advertised in High is restricted to SGHS users of the tennis Notes are not necessarily recommended or court and for SGHS parking as an entrance endorsed by Sydney Boys High School. and exit. Gates 9 and 10 and the new gates at the end of the gym and at the Cleveland S FROM THE ANDREWS LIBRARY meeting it. With last year’s First in English so are our BOOK FAIR English teachers! Last High Notes had to be written before the Book Fair so we had no idea how it DONATIONS AS A RESULT OF THE BOOK FAIR went until now. Some early bird donations have come in and other people have been inspired to donate because we had a Thanks to really fabulous staff who moved Book Fair. As Senior books in particular can cost $30 1100 plus students through the Book Fair strictly and upwards this is a real help. So Thanks to Dr Paul according to schedule and to our vigilant volunteers and Ganderton and his wife who are regular donors for 14 hard working library staff and our positive thinking Senior novels and 3 non- fiction. Thanks also to early beautiful students the Book Fair proceeded without a bird donors – Jens Waring - for three popular Percy hitch. Not one of our display books disappeared and all Jackson novels and a Mark Haddon novel. Thanks to were packed beautifully thanks again to boys who Sunny Chen and Tim Chan, two of our volunteers, for volunteered. All are now back with Borders. donating early. It is now up to parents to ensure the success of the NEW RESOURCES PROCESSED THIS WEEK Book Fair by actually seeing that their son does order ANDREWS LIBRARY: one lovely book to read and then donate. Of course our SENIOR FICTION: The New New Thing, Michael Lewis; boys are not in charge of the money in their households The Bear and the Dragon, Tom Clancy; Australian and need your encouragement to actually make a one Mercantile Law, Yorsten and Fortescue; The Bounty, book donation. These have to be done online with Caroline Alexander; Jonathan Kellerman Omnibus, The Borders or by returning a form to Mrs Gordon. Any Web and Bad Love, Jonathan Kellerman; Imprimatur, family who does not do credit card transactions online Monaldi and Sorti; Lightning, Midnight and the Bad can purchase a great book from any bookshop, give it to Place, Dean R Koontz; Three Dog Night, Peter their son to read and then donate and this will still have Goldsworthy; The Young Savages, Fred Mustard the same effect of procuring fiction for the libraries this Stewart; Direct Marketing, Mike Power et al. year. These donations will receive the same permanent acknowledgement of a plate inside the book cover as JUNIOR FICTION: the others. Borders has kept their 20% discount until the SENIOR NON FICTION: end of this week. I believe the Borders shop is making a Bobby Fisher Rediscovered, Andrew Soltis,;; Winning at 35% off discount offer with this voucher: Service, Waldermar Schmidt et al; The State We’re In, http://upload.ozbargain.com/2010/05/25/3842_have-it- Will Hutton; Essays Moral Political and Literary, David your-way-au.pdf Hume ;A Place in my Country, Ian Walthew Boys only informed us at the Book Fair that 46 books JUNIOR NON FICTION would be donated and all our hard working volunteers Classroom Blogging, David F Warlick, UNICEF and and staff were very disappointed as such a big effort had Other Human Rights Efforts, Roger Smith, The History been made to make this a real success. If 46 books and Sturcture of the United Nations, Heather were donated this year this is still over $600 worth of Docalavich; Test Your Video Game IQ, Terry Munson; books but it does not justify the huge effort on Guys Write For Guys Read, Jon Scieszka advertising, organising and creating websites that was JUNIOR NON FICTION made on this Book Fair. So now we need the parents to The Future of Animal Farming, Marion Stamp Dawkins; show their sons they support the concept of boys Numerology Secrets, Sonja Dulcie; reading. However we hope that seeing a great display of 1600 of the latest books has turned some boys on to reading FROM THE MCDONALD (SENIOR) LIBRARY and that alone will justify the effort. The Book Fair has come and gone and much has been achieved we feel from holding such an event. Some For many boys in our school, teaching them to value books have been donated to the library, many students reading is an acculturalization as demanding as teaching have had the pleasure of viewing and suggesting titles boys to love sport by running GPS sport. This is the for the newly established book collection and the profile challenge successfully faced by High English teachers of the libraries has been raised considerably in the and High Librarians. With an excess of 11,000 loans by process. the Andrews Library alone last year we think we are We would like to thank the many fantastic volunteer Booking interviews with your son’s teachers helpers for all their work and support in making this first This year we will again use a web based electronic Book Fair successful. Thanks also go to teachers for scheduling system for arranging interviews. This should bringing students through the library to see the books on produce better results for all participants, especially display and to those generous teachers and students more compact time schedules for both parents and (and their parents) who donated books. teachers. The system works as follows – So far these people have donated books: Mr Hannon • On Tuesday 8 June all parents of boys in Year 7 (Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore); Ms Kaye will be sent by email details of the scheduling (Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon); Dale Chen system and a unique code to be entered at Yr 12 (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button & Six www.edval.com.au/book . Other Stories); Soorag Prakash Yr 11 (Peeps by Scott • On Tuesday 15 June all parents of boys in Years Westerfeld); Warren Dang Yr 11 (The Name of the Wind 10, 11 and 12 will be sent by email details of the by Patrick Rothfuss); Jeffrey Ni Yr 9 (Lady Macbeth’s scheduling system and a unique code to be Daughter by Lisa Klein); Leon Zhang Yr 10 (We by John entered at www.edval.com.au/book .