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.3\N ` H The Weekly Newsletter of Sydney Boys High School Vol 18 No 37 24 November 2017 From the Principal welcome to our summer sports assembly. Today I am pleased to make welcome to High our newly Orientation Day 2018 appointed Head Teacher of Sport, Steven Marcos. I Thank you to Maria Steven comes to us with a wide experience of Glenn and her staff, schools, students and sports administration at teachers, students several levels. I know everyone will work and parent volunteers collaboratively with Steve to promote and nurture who worked so well together to make the sport at High. GPS competition is underway for orientation / enrolment process as smooth and some summer sports and just about to commence efficient as possible this week. The enrolment in others. G processes were completed with impressive Our cricket program is being managed this season efficiency and effectiveness, thanks to the by David Smith, an Old Boy and former Combined smooth organisation and hard work of the SAS GPS cricketer. I would like to thank him for taking staff. They had to process over 200 new over a complex role so seamlessly, especially when students. The Great Hall was full for the we are hosting the Five Highs tournament this year. H assembly at the new time of 3 pm. Many new Our thanks go to first XI coach Andrew Walters, 2nd students and their parents were shown around XI coach Glenn Holstock, Tushaar Garg (SHS the school by School Prefects. These boys 2016) as coaching coordinator and to Darius Visser also did a wonderful job assisting the SAS staff and his coaches Luke Bartier, Pete Francis and in the Common Room as they processed Devlin Malone. The training intensity has definitely applications. Volunteers who attended the lifted. Thank you to the members of the Cricket Committee for their work: Sandeep Mahajan, Ben various activity stalls did a great job too, as did Giles, Andrew Roland, Jay Goonaratne, Gracey the parents who gave up their time. Thank you Joseph, Shakeel Memon and Manisha Shridokar. I also to the P & C for providing refreshments. look forward to an improved showing from our Thank you to Mr Aldous for his organisation teams this year. and to everyone associated with the day. It was certainly very well organised. Thank you In basketball, long-serving MIC and first grade to everyone involved. A great High team effort! coach, Ben Hayman, has led his team of coaches N really well again this year. Our boys won the Yeend Shield in second grade last weekend. I’d like to Summer Sports Assembly acknowledge the work of two volunteer stalwarts in At our summer sports assembly, the basketball program. Bruce Gordon - the basketball Olympian Shane Heal urged our strapper/ first aid/ tour manager guy and Chris boys to find something they loved doing Chiam (SHS 2012) who produces game statistics for the coaches at each break – a marvellous O and do it with great energy. He talked service. Nima Sedaghat (SHS 2004) is still our long about how passion, commitment and standing Treasurer. Thank you for the ongoing perseverance carried him to the highest contributions of Sam Higgins, Eamon Kelly (SHS levels of his sport. 2013), Tom Neal, Erik Dorbek, Shiraz Biscevic (HS He cautioned the 2010) and the Basketball Committee. There is much to do running the kiosk, rounding up parking boys that setbacks volunteers, scoring games and preparing food for T are inevitable in after game functions. Thank you to everyone sport. Effort does involved! not always equal In sailing, I want to thank MIC Matt Cotton for his reward. The test is efforts this year, particularly in the off season when how much you we moved from Double Bay to Woollahra and took E want it to keep on delivery of two new boats. Thank you to the South trying without family for their ongoing support for sailing. I would giving up at the first like to recognise the work of Sailing Committee members Bill de Araujo, Georgina Kernohan and big setback. My Tom Beer. Thank you to Richard James on behalf speech to the assembly is reprinted below: of the Sydney High School Sailing Association. We are rebuilding our program at Woollahra and should S Special guest Shane Heal, staff, parents, GPS get more time on the water in an easier location to representatives and students – good morning and navigate. Jessica Millar has backed up again as MIC of Water Polo and Clear your mind of any self-doubt you have. Embrace the done a great job. Our development is dependent upon High challenge. Stay on track. Show the world you can do it. That is having good swimmers who also want to play this demanding what success as an acrostic looks like. Goal setting is a sport. The standard of our teams seems to be lifting year on valuable life skill in academic as well as sporting situations. year which is gratifying. Peter Loizou has been MIC of Swimming for many years and all the events he is associated I congratulate all boys selected in GPS teams this season. I with are run very smoothly and efficiently. He has a lean and exhort all team participants and coaches to work with goal efficient operation that I can count on to work each year without setting to improve performance. a hitch. We have had some really good support from our boys as spectators at recent GPS Swimming carnivals. I appreciate Student Awards Scheme your support. Last points for the Award Scheme can be earned up to Friday 24 November. If you check your participation file Kurt Rich has worked very well as MIC of tennis and is working and detect that something is missing, it is up to you notify closely with David Deep, our Coaching coordinator and Head the MIC in charge of the activity to have the text file of Coach, to build up the tennis successful participants compiled and sent to Mr Dowdell. program. My thanks go to these two Awards have to be determined and medallions/ plaques men for their efforts. One of the hardest achievements in sport ordered before the end of the school year so that they will is to back up after a big win. Our boys are taking on the be ready in time for our awards assemblies early next challenge of defending our first and second grade titles. It was year. Don’t miss out on getting all the points you should! a strong start against Riverview last Saturday. The big test is Newington this week. Scholarship Applications There is only one week left for students to apply for the Thank you to our piano players for today’s assembly – Lingyu Phillip Day Memorial and Sir Wong and Sampson Xie. In closing, I want to make a few observations about sport and goal setting. Roden and Lady Cutler Scholarships. If you have The goal setting process helps athletes to understand the financial needs due to family quality of their current performance and also to clarify where or special circumstances; if they want to go and by when. Trained professionals help you are a great all-rounder; athletes to set systematic goals that are focused on the process or if you have a special talent that needs extra resources and personal performance parameters rather than unpacking to help you develop, please consider applying. possible outcomes from the competition they are training to Scholarships are valued at $1500 in school credit. compete in. Teams respond well to SMART goal setting. When Application forms can be downloaded from the school you set specific, measurable, achievable, realistic time bound website – www.sydneboyshigh.com/scholarships. goals, you are more likely to achieve them. They are designed to narrow focus and galvanise action. SMART goals begin the Applications close now on Thursday 30 November. process of turning the invisible into the visible. Who is involved in our process? What do we want to accomplish? Where will we End of year Reports be doing our training and competing? How long have we got to All boys in Years 11, 9 & 7 should have discussed their get to where we want to be? What are our requirements and reports with me. Boys in Year 7 requiring Clearance what is constraining us? Why do we want to achieve the goal Forms who have not collected their reports will have time we have set for ourselves? Teams need a process for setting slots available to book in for interviews next week. I will individual and collaborative goals. Write them down. Compose have a ‘Stragglers Reports’ session when I can find some them with only positive statements. Put in enough detail to time. Check out the Waterhouse desk to enter your name make the goals clear. Have them observable at training each day by all the team members. on a sheet. Thereafter, they will join the other Years in having appointments only out of school time or in breaks. How do teams and individuals derive benefit from the goal Please make sure that your son meets his obligations to setting process? Goals provide us all with direction. Goals the school and then books in for an appointment. remind us to focus on what is important. Goals help us to Dr K A Jaggar become clear about what decisions need to be made. Goals Principal empower us because we are managing our own futures. Goals help us with our motivation because a big task has been broken down into achievable parts. We can remain really keen to tick off each goal as we reach it.