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Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus Academic Excellence Personal Best Giving Back to the Community Principal: Ms Cath Whalan Deputy Principals: Ms Kathy O’Sullivan Mr Alex Newcomb 8 March 2019 – Newsletter No.4 From the Principal Careers Marketplace Year 12 Parent / Teacher Night The Year 10 and 12 Careers Marketplace held on The Year 12 Parent and Teacher evening was held last Thursday this week was once again a very successful night, providing a valuable opportunity for our staff to event. The feedback from students was very positive, meet with parents and discuss the progress of our 2019 indicating their appreciation of the invaluable HSC cohort. Students are encouraged to reflect on their opportunity to talk with industry professionals. The progress and the feedback provided by teachers to guest presenters, some of whom were ex-students of ensure they are working towards achieving their Manly, spoke glowingly about how engaged our personal best throughout the year. students were. Many thanks to Ms Colby and Ms Rixon for organising this excellent learning opportunity for our Year 7 Camp senior students. Our Year 7 students enjoyed the three day camp held last week at Mangrove Mountain. The wide variety of activities provided new experiences for our students to work together to solve problems and challenge themselves individually. Many thanks to Year Adviser Josinta Chandra for all her enthusiasm and organisation in ensuring the camp was so successful. Thanks also to the other staff including Ms Grace, Ms Rixon, Ms Woodward, Mr Nguyen, Mr Goykovic, Mr Forsyth and Mr Newcomb who gave their time to ensure our Year 7 students had such an enjoyable and worthwhile experience. NBSC Manly Campus 138 Abbott Road, North Curl Curl NSW 2099 Phone: 9905 3982 Email: [email protected] Transport Initiatives Year 11 Visual Arts Excursion This fortnight has been an exciting one for our students On Thursday 28 February, the Year 11 Visual Arts who share a passion for NSW transport and a concern students went on an excursion to complement their for issues affecting our students. Last Wednesday classroom learning about Figurative Art. The day began afternoon, our 2018 Metro Minds winning team of Alex with a tour of Brett Whiteley’s Studio and a life-drawing Yuen, Alex Todd, Joshua Hort, Harry Ross and Daniel workshop in Surry Hills. The students then visited the Duncan met the NSW Transport Minister, Andrew AGNSW to see the ARTEXPRESS HSC showcase and Brett Constance, and had the opportunity to share their Whiteley’s work in curated form at the Drawing is thoughts on a range of transport issues. Thank you to Everything exhibition. The day ended with a visit to the James Griffin, Member for Manly, who provided the Body Worlds Vital exhibition at Sydney Town Hall where opportunity for our students to meet Mr Constance and they extended their understanding of anatomy and demonstrate their passion and enthusiasm for public gathered source material for their own figurative transport. To view the promotion of the 2019 Metro artworks. Thank you to Mr Newcomb for organising this Minds STEAM Challenge, which includes comments informative and enjoyable learning experience. from our students, go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwEDZ47tNik On Monday, Alex Yuen and the SRC presented an overview of bus transport concerns affecting Manly students and five different petitions signed by over 600 Manly HS Sports Master of our students to our local member, James Griffin. The Last Friday we had the pleasure of petitions summarised current concerns regarding bus meeting Max Quirk, Sports Master routes and timetables and provided possible solutions at Manly High School from 1953 – to the problems. We hope our students’ ‘democracy in 1963. Now 98, Max shared his action’ results in a positive change. stories of teaching at Manly 60 years ago with current members of staff, including James Blanch. Year 10 Study Skills Year 10 attended Study Skills with Elevate Education last week. Workshops covered topics such as preparing for assessment tasks, managing time and improving organisational skills. Below are some of the positive feedback from the student evaluation forms: "We learnt heaps about useful skills that can actually be applied in life!" "It was helpful to learn new study techniques, especially for the HSC. It was interactive and interesting." "I was inspired to go home and get organised." "I was engaged the whole time." School Swimming Carnival "I found it really helpful and I'll use some of the tips The weather last Friday was perfect for our school from today." swimming carnival at Manly Andrew Boy Charlton Pool. Year 12 Music Masterclass The 50m freestyle races, held as the first event, allowed plenty of time for our House Captains to organise the On Monday evening last week, the Music 2 class all-important House relays at the end of the day. performed one work from their HSC program to Winners of these relays included Macquarie (Senior acclaimed performer Dan Williams, as part of a Girls), Bligh (Senior Boys), Phillip (Junior Girls) and masterclass session. Both the audience and performers Macquarie (Junior Boys). It was wonderful to see so were able to see improvements made to the musical many students attending the carnival and giving their items resulting from Dan’s feedback provided. It was a personal best in the pool. The final event was a relay very worthwhile and enjoyable night for all involved. race between the Year 12 students and teachers. Whilst Ms Izossimova, Mr Newcomb, Mr Nguyen and Mr Posen proudly represented the Manly staff, unfortunately they were beaten by the Year 12 team. Congratulations to all of those who entered each race and especially to our Age Champions: 12 Years Ella Beanland and Felix Birke 13 Years Antoinette Hewish and Liam Lehane 14 Years Alisha Choi and Michael Hawkins 15 Years Freya Green and Max Oldham 16 Years Amelia Wegenaar and Isaac Clark 17 Years Arquette Milin-Byrne and Kyle Ambrosius Year 11 Urban Challenge – Life Ready Upcoming Events On Wednesday Year 11 enthusiastically participated in New Parent Welcome Evening - We look forward to Urban Challenge as part of their Life Ready Program. welcoming all new parents and carers to the welcome Urban Challenge is a one-day program where students evening next Monday 11 March 6:30-9pm in the school are involved in an unfolding journey taking them library. This is a great opportunity to meet other around the Sydney CBD and surrounding suburbs. They parents and be welcomed into the Manly Campus are given a budget, an Opal card and organise their food Community. and travel as they navigate and negotiate their way across the city. They learn about teamwork and real-life Year 7 Disco - will also be held on Monday 11 March, at lessons (such as public transport won’t wait for the slow 6:30pm in the school hall and is a fabulous socialising team!) whilst being supervised by a school staff opportunity for our Year 7 students. member and guided by an Urban Challenge guide. The Year 8 & 9 Disco – held the following evening on challenge was an opportunity to learn skills and Tuesday 12 March at 6:30pm in the school hall as well. methods in self-sufficiency, leadership and followership, team responsibility and more. Each team had to create Selective High School Placement Test – will be held on a theme for the day, dress up accordingly and spend the Thursday 14 March, for students who have applied for day in character as they solved riddles, found clues and Year 7 2020. participated in challenges, whilst exploring their city in Judy Boylan’s Retirement Function - will be held on new and unexpected ways. Our teams ranged from Toy Thursday 14 March at Wakehurst Golf Club. Story to The Bachelor, Hippies to Bunnings BBQers, Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet to a team of Hunger School Cross Country - will be held on Friday 15 March Games Tributes. Despite the temperature reaching 33°, during lunch and periods 5 and 6. a great time was had by all as they competed against each other yet simultaneously connected and bonded Congratulations to: over a shared experience of adventure, challenge and • Ella Spencer - from Tuesday 19 March to Thursday lots of laughter. 21 March 2019, Ella will be among 120 Year 11 and 12 students from around Australia attending the 24th National Schools Constitutional Convention (NSCC), being held at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House, Canberra. As a national delegate, Ella was selected from over 800 students from government, independent and Catholic schools, most of whom took part in feeder conventions in their home state or territory. • Charlotte Camburn – Charlotte’s cricket team NSW Metro won the U15 female National Championships in Canberra last week. The team went through the comp undefeated and beat ACT/NSW Country who have been the champions for the last three years. Charlotte -front row, second from the left In this regular feature we like to recognize students feel some strong emotions about your child’s who have achieved highly in school and community experience, try to keep calm to avoid more distress events, competitions and activities. Demonstrations of to your child. the school ethos of academic excellence, personal best 2. Reassure your child they are not to blame. Many and giving back to the community deserve to be children blame themselves and this may make them recognized. Parents are invited to phone or email the feel even worse. You could say things like, ‘That sounds really hard to deal with. No one should have school any achievements we may not be aware of for to put up with that.’ or ‘I’m so glad you told me.