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7 www.narrabundahc.act.edu.au November 2018 Issue 7 PRINCIPAL'S NOTE WELCOME TO PROSPECTIVE YEAR 11 STUDENTS reception. We look forward to students and their I wish to welcome warmly the prospective year 11 parents attending. students and their families. We look forward to beginning a very strong connection with our new students in our CONGRATULATIONS challenging, exciting and very supportive learning Congratulations go to all students who have accepted environment. the challenge of volunteering for numerous leadership opportunities this year. I would like to acknowledge the Newsletters are sent to our community by email so that work this year of the Student Governance and Peer Ed you receive it quickly. If we do not have your email Groups led by Andrea Trappes. Our students will be details can you please contact the college’s front office. receiving some recognition on their academic records for ENROLMENTS FOR 2019 leadership participation in events such as United Nations At this point incoming students should have chosen Youth Association, Student Governance, debating and units/courses for next year with a member of the representing the college in a wide range of forums. We enrolment team. Details of the timetable, week one do believe that students should be involved in a broad program for 2019 and other very useful documents that range of extra-curricular activities to value add to their will help you understand key operational aspects at packages. Narrabundah College will be mailed out in January next Congratulations also to the following students and teams year. Should you have any questions please do not for their outstanding successes: hesitate to call the college. • Ziqui Y who attained a perfect score in the Australian Mathematical Olympiad Committee Senior Contest PARENT/STUDENT/STAFF REVIEW INTERVIEWS achieving Best in the State. We offer an interview process for year 11s in December. • Selina L, Joanne N and Tim H were the top team at This process allows Year 11 students and parents to review the year with Student Advisers/Executive the World Scholar’s Competition with Tim H awarded Teachers. Please take up this opportunity to be informed the Top Scholar of the competition. Tim was offered about your son/daughter’s progress in year 11 and then and accepted a Gap Year job with this organization to to plan for year 12 as well as post college. See more present at the tournaments around the world – to date details later in this newsletter. he has presented in India and the USA. YEAR 12 EVENTS • Tim H, Selina L, Joanne N and Sam Parkinson were This is a very special time for our year 12 students as it ranked in the top 10 of the ACTDU Advanced Premier is the end of 13 years of schooling and there is a Competition. number of special events to celebrate their time at the • Vivien D won the 2018 Korean Speech Contest with college: Aradhya S being awarded third prize and Trinity K • Friday 30 November is the Formal which will be held being awarded a special prize in the Heritage at the AIS Arena. Category. • Then Presentation Night is at 5.00pm on • Rufus A, Raymond C, Henry D-D, Alyssa H, Rio H, Wednesday 19 December, where Year 12 students Laura Kristina K B, Kent L, Lucy M, Urvi M, Joanne N, will be presented with their ACT Senior Secondary Ralph N, Eliyahu W, Simon Y and Ben G have Certificate. There is limited seating capacity in the performed a significant number of hours throughout Gymnasium and we ask that all students advise the this year college of their guests on the form available at Reception or return invitation on page 10 to Page 1 November 2018 Narrabundah College Newsletter Reception 61423200 • Kira a, Brooke H, Jessica P and Patricia N who were Topics covered will include: - awarded Certificates of Excellence at the recent Maths projects Mandarin presentation contest and Ceremony. Visual Arts Comparative Study Preparation History investigation Patricia was the excellent compere of this event. TOK orals presentations (practice) • Tammy N who has been a successful applicant for Language written assignment the Department of finance – Career Starter Program CAS beginning 2019. Please note: World Literature essays and drafts for th • The 53 year 12 students who graduated from the Extended Essays are due on 12 December. ANU Extension Program. Chris Ward International Baccalaureate & CAS Coordinator ALUMNI • Grant Napier, a NC 2013 graduand, has written an FRENCH BACCALAURÉAT NEWS account of his post college journey which you will Wave–particle duality find later in this newsletter. This wonderful account The year12 students of the French stream had a task explores how he chose the career he has now about wave–particle duality. By group, they invented embarked on. sketches to introduce scientists like Newton, Huygens, Plank or De Broglie and their experiments and how they Kerrie Grundy improve our knowledge about this matter. Thanks to Principal their imagination, they invented debates between scientists who didn’t live at the same times and made us INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE understand this difficult and passionate concept. Eiffel Tower and exponential NEWS Everyone knows the Eiffel Tower. But where does its YEAR12 particular curve come from? Thanks to an activity The IB examinations are now underway. The students organised by M. Grenet in the maths class, students had are to be congratulated on their composure and maturity to model the shape of the as they experience a rigorous formal exam timetable. tower to discover it has an Well done! exponential shape! For Results will be released via the internet on January 3rd Gustave Eiffel, it was the best after 5 pm. Each year12 student has been given their way to make it resist to the personal pin code and other information about assessing wind! and interpreting results. Students must not lose their ID News from AP (accompagnement personnalisé/ and pin number as this is the only way to access their personalised support) class results. Diplomas will arrive at the college around late As postgraduate study choices get closer, the AP class March. If you know you will not be in Canberra, please is more focused on discovering universities and schools. give me a certified mail self-addressed envelope and I By groups, students have to pick up a subject they like will mail it to you. and explain to the class where to study this subject, how IB Graduation much it costs and other details (international IB Graduation will take place on Wednesday, February relationship, exchanges between universities, double th 13 , 2019 at 6.00pm at the college. It is very important diploma…) that all students reply to this invitation. We look forward In addition to that, a to this occasion where we can celebrate our students’ ceramic class was held achievements. thanks to Samuel YEAR11 Townsend’s collaboration IB exams and two dance classes are Year11 Environmental students have received a scheduled thanks to Cecile personal pin code and information to retrieve their exam rd Marot’s collaboration. results on Thursday, January 3 , 2019. Students must These lessons are an not lose their ID and pin number as this is the only way opportunity to develop to access their results. stress management skills, th Year11 IB progress interview: December 10 and 11th through expression via Please book IB interviews on these dates as Yr11 IB visual arts and to build students will be attending an IB study session on student capacity around December 12th – 14th. health and wellbeing Year11 IB study session: December 12th – 14th issues. To help students prepare for the following year, the Parent-Teacher interviews night college will be holding a Year11 IB study session which The parent/teacher interview session took place on the will be held from the December 12th -14th. Year11 1st November. Parents and students had the opportunity students will receive an IB study timetable for this to discuss the working method and results with the program which will be listed on the IB Google classroom teachers. They had the opportunity to talk to Mrs Grundy page. Page 2 November 2018 Narrabundah College Newsletter Reception 61423200 and Mr Binan as well about student options for further Thursday: The Drugs Don’t Work at the ANU Science studies in Australia and in France. Medicine Health College Enrolment for the French bac Friday: Indigenous Rights and Freedoms at the National All students are now enrolled for the Bac in June. Please Museum. return your confirmation form as soon as possible. The timetable for week 9 and 10 has been sent to all the Peter Rees’ visit parents. If you haven’t received it, please let me know. Friday 9th November, Peter Rees is going to visit our Special message from the French Bac students: English class. Peter Rees has been a journalist for forty The entire class of Terminale S and L would like to thank years, working as a federal political correspondent for Ms. Petitdidier for her amazing work during Mr. Brahim's the Melbourne Sun, the West Australian and the Sunday absence. Thanks to her enthusiasm and passion for the Telegraph. He is the author of The Boy from Boree subject, we were able to discover the field of politics and Creek: The Tim Fischer Story (2001), Tim Fischer's morality in philosophy through many examples and Outback Heroes (2002), Killing Juanita: A true story of discussions. murder and corruption (2004), which was a winner of the We touched on numerous topics and philosophical 2004 Ned Kelly Award for Australian crime writing, questions such as the following: Desert Boys and Lancaster Men (2013).