Issue #1 April 2018 SHS Highlights... Message from the Principal Academic and Sporting Triumphs Old Boys News New ICT Support Hub Moore Park NSW 2021 • sydneyboyshigh.com Contents From the Principal 3 Welcome Exciting New Focus for Sport at High 4 Welcome to our new Sydney Boys High On Target 4 School Flying Higher magazine. 2017 Academic, Co-curricular and Sporting Highlights 5 High Students Achieve Top 3 HSC Chemistry Places 6 This publication aims to engage with the From the President of the Old Boys Union 6 whole school community that helps to News from the Old Boys 7 make Sydney Boys High the unique school that it is. It will connect current students, Sydney Boys High School Parents & Citizens Association (P&C) 2018 8 families, staff, Old Boys and supporters State Chess Champions 10 by highlighting all the activities occurring Na Ngara - A Unique Aboriginal and in the school and across the myriad of Torres Strait Islander Gallery 10 governance bodies, committees and Continued Basketball Success 11 support groups that make up the High The News at Stumps 11 school family. Profiling Kerry Rubie, an Esteemed Old Boy 12 The Development Office thanks the staff, Continued Success and Growing students, committee members and Old Popularity of Debating 12 Boys who contributed to our first issue of Mentorship Program 13 this magazine. Robotics Team No 1 at National Competition 13 Join us as we continue Flying Higher Back to the Sheds Day 14 together. Developing Diverse Skills in Drama 14 Wellbeing Matters 15 Diane (Williams) Harapin More Than Just a ‘Weights Room’ 15 Director of Development The School Plan 2018-2020 15 If these walls could talk... 16 A Tale of Two Captains 18 SBHS Tennis Makes History 19 From the Chair of the Sydney High School Foundation 20 New Philanthropy Program 20 Introducing our New Director of Development 21 Donation Form 21 New ICT Support Hub 22 The Class of 1967 celebrates their 50th Reunion 22 Donor acknowledgements 23 2 SHS Flying Higher • Issue #1 April 2018 From the PRINCIPAL On behalf of the Sydney Boys High School Our primary community publication and showcase community, let me commend to you this inaugural is The Record. It is a very substantial document edition of Flying Higher. given to students at the end of each year as a permanent record of activities at High and as a At High we have many channels of communication. keepsake for the future. It is an archival statement On a daily basis we text, email or telephone parents. of who we are and what we do. Our major events Students have their dedicated portal, as well as are recorded, speeches reprinted, team photos and Moodle, for teacher-to-student electronic contact. captions displayed and student work published. It is Each week we publish our newsletter High Notes and, principally a publication for our students and staff. It annually, we publish The Record and The Sydney is also published in PDF form on our website at www. Boys High School Annual Report. In recent years we sydneyboyshigh.com/publications, dating back to have intermittently published High Flyer and the SHS 2002. dating back to 2002. All our publications can Old Boys Union publishes the High Bulletin bi-annually. be accessed at www.sydneyboyshigh.com. Despite our efforts at coverage, there is always a The Sydney Boys High School Annual Report used constituent not really reached or desired content to be published by the school but is now published not really covered in our communication efforts. As only electronically on the DoE website and on our George Bernard Shaw observed acutely, ‘the single website, dating back to 2000. These days it is really a biggest problem with communication is the illusion compliance document. It contains sections on self- that it has taken place’. It it hoped that a publication assessment against the School Excellence framework, like Flying Higher will make genuine communication progress statements towards strategic goals, student with our community less illusory. attendance information, staff qualifications, a Flying Higher is a bi-annual integrated publication, Balance Sheet and comparative results for NAPLAN involving our major stakeholders, to replace and the Higher School Certificate. It also has High Flyer and the OBU’s High Bulletin. Our target satisfaction survey results for the stakeholders and audience is intended to be staff, parents, Old Boys some responses to DoE policy requirements. and supporters. We would like to reach out to people From time to time, High Flyer has also appeared as in the wider school community to inform them about a pamphlet featuring achievements, smiling boys what High is like today. What do we do? Who is and coloured photographs, with very little in the involved in our activities? What are we trying to way of text. As an in-house publication, it has been achieve? How can we be better? dependent on the goodwill of a couple of people, High Notes is published each Friday as a genuine principally Jenni May, Head Teacher Creative Arts newsletter, to be accessed electronically and and School Photographer. It was low-budget and recording the week’s events and student slender in size. accomplishments Much of it concerns the I hope that this new initiative, compiled and funded administrative machinery of the school. It contains jointly by the Sydney High School Foundation, the detailed results and notices of forthcoming events. Sydney High School Old Boys Union and the school, A notice of its publication is emailed to parents. A will be well-received by everyone with an interest limited run of hard copies is printed for access in in High. the school libraries and at the administration office and each edition is published in PDF form on the Dr K. A. Jaggar school website. Principal SHS Flying Higher • Issue #1 April 2018 3 Exciting New Focus for Sport at High It is with great honour that I introduce myself as your new Head of Sport. Since arriving at High, I have experienced nothing but dedication, professionalism and the striving for success shown by the whole school community, especially the boys. I come from a twelve-year background of working with the Department of Education— Over the past three years High has seen four as a PDHPE teacher, Head Teacher of PDHPE, talented boys go on to higher representative levels Head Teacher of Administration, Head Teacher in Rugby. Of those four, we have Archie Fox and of Welfare and now Head of Sport. This, together Will Choi playing 1st Grade in 2018. Recently, Old with my experiences working with the NSWRL, ARU Boys with rugby experience have volunteered Junior Gold Cup and sports management, makes their time to the program, including Old Boy and a me excited to be working with Sydney Boys High. Rugby coach at Randwick, Matt Bowman (1996), who is supporting the 16As. With the new structure I would like to acknowledge the hard work of my of the program, an enthusiastic team of coaching previous Heads of Sport—Mr Mick Aldous (relieving) staff headed by Mick Aldous and Paul Scrivener, and Mr Mark Pavone—who have definitely paved who will coach 1sts and 2nds Rugby, and in the way for success here at SBHS. Whilst SBHS enjoys partnership with three coaches who are former well-known sporting success, notably in Basketball, professional rugby players, we are looking forward Tennis, Rifle Shooting and Volleyball, I have begun to what promises to be a fantastic season ahead. initial work on long-term success plans for Rugby, Football and Cricket. Steven Marcos, Head Teacher Sport to be awarded to On Target Sydney High’s top scoring shooter at Rifle Shooting continues to strive for great results. the annual GPS With continuing support from Old Boys, parents and Shoot. the wider High family, we are working very hard to train for the 2018 GPS Shooting Competition to Three Old Boys be held in Hornsby in July. We always have a large recently travelled number of Old Boy shooters who support us during to New Zealand to Greg Won (1970), this competition and welcome new supporters. For compete in the New James Jiang (2017) and Nathan Wong (2017) details of our upcoming GPS event, please contact Zealand National Queens Rifle MIC Cathy Meaney via the School Front Office. Championships with a NSW U25 development squad. Wentao Ruan (2017) placed Our training program has been streamlined by the 19th in B Grade, Jeremy Chan (2014) placed 1st in recent purchase of a new Barnard rifle and an C Grade and Wilbert Wu (2013) placed 2nd in C extra electronic target (taking our total number Grade. All fantastic results! Furthermore, in the past of e-targets now to 4). Both these purchases were ten years, High Rifle Shooters have won three 1st made possible as a result of a bequest from an Grade GPS Shooting Competitions and four 2nd Old Boy shooter. We are very appreciative of these Grade GPS Competitions. This year, we have a lot of new additions. We continue to have many Old work to do to have our GPS squad meet our ‘High’ Boys join our long list of dedicated coaches who all expectations, and we do that through our training work together as a team to teach the students the sessions each week as well as competitions. Our intricacies of our sport. upcoming competitions involve a weekend camp for the Wingham Open Prize Meet, a weekend camp Last year, Old Boy Greg Won (1970) gifted the for the annual TAS visit, a day trip to Cessnock and Sydney High School Rifle Club with a scope his father our annual week-long GPS Camp.