JUNIOR SCHOOL JUNIOR SCHOOL Alison Brent • Head of Junior School

Our journey throughout 2019 was gather and analyse evidence of critical Our Mindfulness and Positive Education inspired by the words of Mary Ward, thinking to inform our teaching practice programs continued. Staff aligned their “We should be such as we appear in the Junior School. We chose this goal professional development and research and appear such as we are,” as we so that we could support the students to with practice and SMART goals. We celebrated the Loreto Year of Sincerity. learn and reason effectively, for example; continued using the SAMR model for digitally, verbally, creatively, analytically integration of ICT and we developed Sincerity is about knowing one's own and in writing. We also wanted to assist success criteria with the students for feelings, thoughts, strengths, goals, values our students to develop a mindful learning tasks and their ability to articulate and desires and also taking responsibility approach to their learning and develop the learning intention (LI) i.e. WALT - We for them and their quality. It is also about their skills in computational thinking, Are Learning To … WILF - What I’m acting in ways which are consistent with design thinking and systems thinking, Looking For … TIB - This Is Because … this true self. We worked throughout the to develop the learning dispositions year to develop the girls’ understanding in students so they can become A major priority within our school is to that we have a responsibility to ourselves critical thinkers. develop faith and a Catholic worldview, so and others, to be our best selves. the spiritual element of the girls’ education Our staff used a variety of evidence based continued to be an important focus We have much to be grateful for when strategies to improve student thinking throughout the year. Liturgies, School celebrating the school year. Our students including: Project Based Learning, Habits Masses and daily prayer combined with were offered a dynamic curriculum, of Mind, De Bono, Blooms, Williams Model, our Sacramental and Religious Education allowing them to set goals for themselves Multiple Intelligences, Visible Thinking Program, assisted in developing a and reflect on their learning. and Thinkers Keys. This was combined community of faith. Our Grandparents’ Day, with a variety of stimulus, including Mothers’ Day and Fathers’ Day activities Our goal for the year focused on Critical scaffolds, questioning techniques and all combined to weave the fabric of this Thinking and specifically on how we delivery methods to support learning. wonderful community. LORETO KIRRIBILLI

24 We invested in developing a mental of a great friend and how to use the Skipping, Speech and Drama, Code Club, health program called Grow Your Mind. Friend-o-meter to assess healthy versus Dance and Chess. A number of students Using the science of positive psychology, unhealthy friendships. Students also enjoyed performing with choirs and Grow Your Mind is an emotional wellbeing discussed the importance of standing up learning a variety of instruments. Many program for students and for their families. for themselves and how to put out those participated in the Concert Band, Jazz, Brain awareness is central to the mental common Friendship Fires. String, Guitar and Ukulele ensembles. health resources within the program. Year 6 travelled to Canberra and Year 5 The school year offered the girls many enjoyed Camp at Myuna Bay. Our students also experienced the opportunities to flourish and participate Language of Friendship program as well as in a number of Extra-Curricular activities. We are very grateful to the Class Parents a special workshop early in the year. Dana Swimming, Cross Country and Athletics who organised out of school activities Kerford, Canadian Friendship Expert and Carnivals were enjoyed as were a myriad for families. These events run by parents Founder of Girl Power, visited the Junior of sports including Tennis, Hockey, are always such a strength within our School to facilitate a Day of Friendship on Netball, Cricket, Tee-Ball, Modball, Softball, community and allow families to meet and 4 April. During these workshops, students Equestrian, Skiing and Taekwondo. enjoy each other’s company, developing a learnt the Four Friendship Facts, qualities Activities included Double Dutch sense of belonging and community. JUNIOR SCHOOL

25 CONGRATULATIONS & THANK YOU TO OUR 2019 SCHOOL LEADERS

SCHOOL CAPTAIN Clementine Wills VICE CAPTAIN Eva Eales LITURGY CAPTAINS Alannah Youseff & Anna Dowling MUSIC CAPTAINS Coco Butcher & Samantha Wong ICT MONITORS Mabel Oxenham, Annie Peel, Lara Bonato & Tess van Vliet LIBRARY MONITORS Stella Smith, Lauren Tandy, Daisy Smyth & Arabella Hsu

MUSIC AWARDS COLOUR HOUSE CAPTAINS For Music accomplishment and participation throughout the year. MILSON Tia McKenzie & Abbey Blanks CONCERT BAND Annabel Matthews Year 6 WARD Georgia Moran & Arie Stephens JAZZ BAND Charlotte Croll Year 6 HEATON Brigid Matthews & Claudia Healey STRING ENSEMBLE Lily Roberts Year 5 BARRY Audrey Segaert & Issie Howard JUNIOR STARS Abigail Damian Year 3 GUITAR ENSEMBLE Eva Eales Year 6 MOTHER GONZAGA BARRY UKULELE ENSEMBLE Arabella Bambagiotti Year 6 AWARD OF HONOUR The recipients of the Mother Gonzaga Barry Award of Honour CHOIR AWARDS have been selected by their teachers, due to their demonstration throughout the year to live the Loreto values and this year MAGICAL MINIS Zoe Turner Year 2 specifically targeting Sincerity….. “We should be such as we JUNIOR SCHOOL Coco Butcher Year 6 appear and appear such as we are”. Congratulations to the PETITE VOICES Arabella Hsu Year 6 following 2019 recipients. KINDERGARTEN Anastasia Louridas & Eloise Steele CONTRIBUTION TO THE SPIRIT OF MUSIC YEAR 1 Chanelle Leon-Gularte & Samantha Wong, Year 6 Mia de Vere White YEAR 2 Zoe Turner & Audrey Loneragan Thank you to our parents who have supported us this year and YEAR 3 Sophie Abbott & especially to those in their final year in the Junior School. We are Emmanuelle Senden-White blessed with very generous parents, willing and able to contribute to the positive wellbeing of our school. Thank you for your support YEAR 4 Alyssa Squires & Lara Verheyen in assisting in the classroom, with sport and carnivals, at Sausage YEAR 5B Lucy Henry & Mia Fernandez Sizzles, Concerts, the Spring Fair and P&F Functions, as well as class YEAR 5G Zara-Jean Falinski & Josie Harrington activities or representing us on various committees. Thank you! YEAR 6B Annabel Matthews & Annabel Peel Thank you to our tremendous staff who are such an asset to YEAR 6G Eva Eales & Anna Saliba Loreto and a pleasure to work with.

The following pages present a snap shot from each class and THE O’DEA AWARD special events held throughout the year. Enjoy! Congratulations to Year 6 student Claudia Healey for exemplifying School Spirit. LORETO KIRRIBILLI

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48 JUNIOR SCHOOL MUSIC MUSIC CAPTAINS' REPORT Coco Butcher & Samantha Wong • Music Captains

We welcomed our new Junior School Then it was off to China where Year 1 We finished the term by celebrating Music Teacher, Ms Amelia Granturco, to sang Nine Million Bicycles in Beijing with Grandparents’ Day with our marvellous Loreto Kirribilli and started the school their colourful fans. Next it was time to buskers filling the driveway with music to year with the Opening Mass at Star of hop onto the Locomotion with Year 3’s welcome grandparents and friends to our the Sea Church. Claudia Healey and spectacular dance number. The train school. The Liturgy began with the Magical Anneliese Scott sang the responsorial stopped in Hungary where Year 5 dazzled Minis singing You’ve Got a Friend In Me by psalm while Charlotte Croll, Coco the audience while singing and playing Randy Newman and the Junior School Butcher and Gemma Ronan played the Ukulele to Budapest by George Choir performing You’re My Best Friend percussion with Miranda Hamer on the Ezra. This was followed by Juniors Stars by Queen. Flute and Samantha Wong on Violin. performing Hungarian Folk Dances. In Term 3 we celebrated the Fathers’ Day In Term 2, we celebrated our mothers The new friends moved onto Turkey where Liturgy. The Magical Minis began with an with a Liturgy where we were serenaded Year 6 entered the Hall from behind the amazing version of Stand By Me that blew by the Petite Voices performing Whitney audience dancing and singing to Istanbul the dads' socks off. The Junior School Choir Houston’s One Moment in Time and the Not Constantinople. The next stop was sang My Dad Snores and the Guitar and Magical Minis with a cute performance France where we were blown away by Ukulele Ensemble performed We Will Rock of Put A Little Love In Your Heart by Genevieve Williams singing I Love Paris. You by Queen. Annie Lennox. The Junior School Choir performed the The Spring Fair featured a number of Our attention was then on the Junior crowd favourite I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) Junior School Ensembles taking the stage School Concert which was definitely one and we landed in New York, to be wowed in the GBC. The day was opened by the to remember. The theme for this year’s by the Broadway Dance show provided by Junior Stars followed by the Concert Band, concert was What a Wonderful World. The Year 4 to Anything Goes. From New York the Jazz Band and concluded with 5 Gold and audience was taken on a musical journey girls travelled south to Mexico where the 5 Blue, who sang and played a series of around the world led by Lara Bonato and Guitar and Ukulele Ensemble performed songs with their ukuleles that they had Hannah Duffy playing Lauren & Kate. On Un Poco Loco, the Concert Band performed been working on in class. their trip they met Estelle Brewer as Alice Rockin’ La Bamba and the Junior Strings from Asia, Genevieve Williams as Emily Vistas De Mexico. From Mexico it was time In Term 4 we held our first Ensemble from Europe, Zara Strickland as Maria from to visit a few tropical islands. The first was Assembly which featured all Junior School Mexico and Anna Saliba as Nellie from an impressive acapella version of April Sun ensembles performing a piece each. The New Zealand. in Cuba by the Petite Voices followed by Concert Band led the National Anthem Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds performed and performed our school song Eucalyptus The concert was opened by the Junior by the Magical Minis. On their way back to Blossoms. Numerous girls performed at School singing What a Wonderful World Kirribilli, the girls stopped by to visit Year the Studio Concert Series throughout together featuring a trumpet solo by 2, who sang a traditional Maori love song the year and our final musical moment Charlotte Croll. Lara and Hannah then Pokarekare Ana and the Dance Troupe was at the K-2 Christmas Assembly. This hopped in an oversized Hot Air Balloon performed their competition winning year the theme was Jesus’ Christmas Party, and went Up Up and Away. piece Sweet Dreams. where the inn keeper is continually woken up from her sleep by guests arriving to The hot air balloon landed in Japan where To bring the journey to an end, the entire meet baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph. This they met the Jazz Band which performed Junior School took to the stage again to was followed by the Loreto 12 Days of Sakura and Kindergarten dancing along to perform an Aussie Medley which featured Christmas we put together. Kutsu Ga Naru a traditional Japanese song songs such as Land Down Under, Happy about friendship, and boy did they look Little Vegemites and Love is in the Air which What an incredible year of cute in their Kimonos! contained a special confetti filled ending music making! thanks to the Year 6 class of 2019. LORETO KIRRIBILLI

54 Concert Band Petite Voices Concert Band was an amazing ensemble to be a part of One of the things I because of the many pieces we performed and the large will miss most from mixture of instruments. We performed at the Junior School my time in the Junior Concert, Spring Fair and Ensemble Assembly. The band School is being a enjoyed learning to play Funkytown but my favourite piece member of the Petite we learnt this year was Rockin la Bamba which we performed Voices. It was an at the Junior School Concert. I will definitely miss this band amazing experience next year. being part of this special choir. We were taught so much about singing by Mrs Walburn and it was very enjoyable being able to Annabel Matthews, Year 6 learn different kinds of music for many different occasions. We had students from Years 3-6 in our group. The Petite Voices had Magical Minis many opportunities to perform this year from the K-12 Masses, Volunteers' Lunch as well as our special performance with the Magical Minis began the year with only Years 1 and 2 working St Aloysius’ College Zipoli Choir. We met every Wednesday with on our concert piece Three Little Birds. In Term 2 we were joined our accompanist Ms Amanda Lee and worked on our songs. by the new Kinder girls and we sang in Japanese, Maori and I think the most amazing part of being in the choir was the even wrote our own special song for Halloween! Magical Minis opportunity to perform at many special Sacraments at Loreto – is great because I like singing. Actually, I love singing! I wish we singing at the First Communion in August was a highlight. As a had Magical Minis every day! Loreto girl, it was a privilege to sing with my fellow students as Andie Kennard, Year 2 well as share in the special days of the other Loreto girls. Thank you Mrs Walburn, for making Petite Voices one of the most special parts of Junior School!

Claudia Healey, Year 6 Jazz Band The Jazz Band rehearsed every Friday morning and had members from Years 4-6. This year the Jazz Band was led by a guest conductor each term. We started Term 1 with Mr Henderson, Term 2 with Mr Emery, Term 3 with Ms Dunn and Term 4 with Ms Prouse. I really enjoyed being a member of the Junior Jazz Band this year particularly learning many new skills and techniques with the various conductors.

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55 JUNIOR SCHOOL CONCERT Coco Butcher & Samantha Wong • Music Captains

The Junior School went on a wonderful pink and purple confetti rained down over journey around the world and the entire Junior School. there were lots of excited smiles in Centenary Hall. There were many Loreto secrets hidden within the script including the main The lights went down, the screen came characters named Lauren and Kate to life and we were treated to a music video which represented Loreto Kirribilli. The of I’ve Been Everywhere Man performed by concert also paid tribute to Mary Ward as the entire Junior School Staff. This energised the girls travelled around the world, they all of the girls, who headed out onto the kept their circle open, gathering friends as stage and performed spectacularly. they went.

Each item was special and impressive and Thanks to Ms Granturco who in her first we were in good hands with our various year managed to take all of the girls and tour guides from each continent. The our families around the entire world in audience was dazzled and as we sang one night! about love being in the air… ‘WOOSH’, red, "The Concert this year was spectacular, particularly watching the Year 5s play their Ukuleles and of course the big finale!" Arabella Bambagiotti Year 6 LORETO KIRRIBILLI

56 "When I entered Centenary Hall, I felt a bit nervous, but when I was on stage I was happy and excited. After the concert I felt proud and I can’t wait for next year." Aamiya Cleary Year 3 JUNIOR SCHOOL

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GIFTED & TALENTED

Desilee Tait • K-12 Gifted & Talented Coordinator

In 2019 our girls had a variety of excellent opportunities to learn and deepen their creative and critical thinking skills. This is a rigorous program and the girls are challenged above their stage level.

Below you can read about the variety of opportunities from dissecting toads in CREST to listening to Olympic Medallists talk about their career development at Lunchtime Talks.

GATEWAYS CHALLENGE For the second year in row, our girls qualified to represent Loreto Kirribilli at the National Gateway Challenge Academic Competition. Four teams competed on 13 November and one team qualified to go to Melbourne. The students in this team were Rosie Colla, Ruby Dickerson, Ellie Ko and Kaitlyn Siow. LORETO KIRRIBILLI

58 CREST Every Tuesday afternoon Dr Haydn Allbutt came to Loreto to The reason it was still pumping was because the brain had mentor a group of girls. Science was at work in all his classes and stopped working but the rest of the body had not so the animal his lessons were especially fun. could not feel pain.We then took the heart out and it still pumped in our hands even though it was disconnected from the body! It In one class we were given cane toads to dissect! They had been was the coolest feeling ever to feel it pumping against your palm. euthanized earlier that day. Keeping our diagrams of the toad’s body beside us we set to work. First, we put on gloves as cane We would like to thank Dr Allbutt for giving up his time to come toad's skin and glands are highly toxic. Then we took our tweezers and work with us and for Mrs Tait who co-facilitates the lessons and surgical scissors and butterflied it, exposing its organs. with Dr Allbutt. We all learnt a lot and enjoyed them immensely.

We then proceeded to taking out the thousands of tiny little eggs Evie Williams & Luella Roberts Year 5 (if it was a female) to get a clearer view of the body. Then we carefully extracted with our tweezers the small and large intestine and the liver. We set them out on our tray to observe closely. We then took out the stomach and lastly the heart. Even though the cane toad was dead, the heart was still pumping! JUNIOR SCHOOL

59 YEAR 5 PRESENT RESEARCH BEE RESEARCH PAPERS AT DOLBY As part of working with Mrs Tait in Year 6, we learned about bees, Eight girls from Loreto Kirribilli set off on an adventure to the pollination and how it affects food, colony collapse, parasites Dolby offices in McMahons Point in October and presented to and bees’ structural features. Throughout this project, we were authentic audiences (real scientists!) and even watched a bit of mentored by Mr Peter Carter, an employee with CSIRO. We learnt the movie LEGO Batman with ‘surround sound’! how the amount of pollen in a flower affects the size, shape and taste of the fruit produced from that flower. For example, if there is We could not have done it without our brilliant mentor Mr an overload of pollen in a blueberry flower, it makes the blueberry Lindsey. In Terms 3 and 4, Mr Lindsey volunteered at Loreto larger and less sour, whereas with an apple, it’s the opposite and it to help us study the subject of sustainability. We were in pairs is smaller when there is more pollen. and with the help of Mr Lindsey, each pair created a 15-minute presentation. The pairs were: Lily and I, Rosie and Ellie, Ruby and As we progressed through this project, we learnt about different Evie and Arabella and Luella. aspects in the life of a bee and how they work. Previously to this, we had done a bee project in Year 5, but this was more advanced Mr Lindsey took us on a winding tour around the office. We saw and more specific learning. The girls were engrossed in the meeting rooms, labs that were completely quiet (you could hear physical structure of the bee and why they were built that way. your heartbeat!) and even a lab that looked like a modern home, From these fun sessions with Mr Carter and Mrs Tait, we bed and all. Thank you so much Mrs Tait and Mr Lindsey for expanded our knowledge on bees and this will benefit our giving us this great learning opportunity and we hope we can go learning in Year 7. back again! Bridget Matthews, Year 6 Kaitlyn Siow, Year 5 LORETO KIRRIBILLI

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ICT INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ICT Maria Emmi • eLearning Teacher Educator

The Junior School students have had many enriching and rewarding experiences with the integration of ICT and Digital Technologies. We continue to address the General ICT Capabilities and the new Digital Technologies Outcomes whilst providing opportunities for different types of thinking such as Design Thinking, Systems Thinking and Computational Thinking. Students developed their understanding of how different technology tools may suit the design process and influence their final product. By exploring a range of technological concepts, students developed the skills to inquire, plan, investigate and develop solutions to problems. A variety of exciting activities engaged students and fostered deep learning throughout the year.

ICT MONITORS IN ACTION Being an ICT monitor gave us the opportunity to be leaders in a very exciting and growing area. As technology leaders we were given the responsibility to assist our fellow students and our teachers throughout the year with any digital technology needs. We were given the challenge of testing new equipment and trialling new applications. We were committed to our role to problem solve when the technology didn’t work and to be creative when it came to completing tasks which were given to us. We assisted with the audio-visual equipment in the GBC for morning assemblies. We used our Photoshop skills to create posters and produce a short animation film for the Junior School concert in Term 2. We participated in the Adobe 1 Minute Challenge Competition and provided our expert skills to help with the production of reflection videos for special events and Liturgies. It was an amazing experience and we are truly grateful for all the learning and for the opportunity to work as a team with Ms Emmi.

Mabel Oxenham, Annie Peel, Tess Van Vliet & Lara Bonato Year 6 ICT Monitors 2019 LORETO KIRRIBILLI

62 CODE CLUB VENTURES This year we became coding experts by participating in weekly Code Club. We started off coding the Micro:bit car. We used colour code to tell the car where to CREATIVITY THROUGH go and what to do. First, we learnt how to code the BBC Micro:bit which is like a FILMMAKING mini-computer. Then we explored how A very creative and dynamic bunch of to use colour so the sensor on the car Years 5 and 6 students participated in the code could read the patterns we made. 1 Minute Adobe Film Competition held We signed up to GROK and completed at St Andrew’s Cathedral School in the the NCSS Challenge, a competition run by city. The day began with ‘how to' tips for the Australian Computing Academy at the film production, ideas such as the rule of University of Sydney, where we worked thirds, the roll of music in film and camera through a series of coding challenges. angles. Then working on the theme, ‘If I Then we applied our coding skills to was a federal cabinet minister for the day’ working with the Sphero robots. This was we started planning out our one-minute so much fun and tested our accuracy with film. We had to work out where to shoot our code. Some of the Code Club students our film and how we would capture each designed a 3D keyring in Tinkercad to scene. One group shot their film using a test the new 3D printer. At the very end, green screen, the others used the grounds we created some collaborative Minecraft around St Andrew’s Cathedral. We had worlds where we used our design and to be critical and creative thinkers as we problem solving skills. collaborated on our scripts, captured our shots and finally, edited our product. In the Lucia Cade, Isabella Jurdeczka end we achieved excellent results. & Jemima Yard-Smith, Year 4 Our films won second and third prize.

Hannah Doolan, Mia Fernandez & Eily May Williams, Year 5 JUNIOR SCHOOL

63 DIGITAL FASHION We worked with Ms Emmi and Mrs Tait to design and create a Digital wearable. You might ask what is a digital wearable? Well, think about your Fitbit or your Apple Watch, these are examples of Digital wearables. It was Wellbeing Week and we worked on the theme of fitness. We designed our very own denim digital step counter with the BBC Micro:bit. Not only did we need our fashion design skills, but we also had to be computer programmers. We had to develop the correct code to run a digital step counter. Then we tested our step counters. We walked around the school, recorded the distances and then did some Maths to calculate how far we would need to walk to complete a certain number of healthy steps each day.

Claudia Coss & Lucia Cade, Year 4

ENGINEERING AND CODING In Term 4 we were learning about habitats and life cycles. Using the LEGO WEDO, we looked at how a frog changes from a tadpole to an adult frog. We also investigated how a frog moves at each stage of the life cycle. We programmed our models with code to see how it moved and what sounds it could make. It was challenging and a whole lot of fun.

Genevieve Nolan-Uzcilas, Chantelle Wilson & Abby Damian, Year 3 LORETO KIRRIBILLI

64 ROBOTS IN ACTION The Sphero robots were used by the Year 5 students to tell a story. We were able to code our robots with code via Bluetooth. It was quite challenging tweaking the code so that the Sphero would respond correctly. We coded the Sphero to move, pause, flash, make sounds and deliver a message whilst following a path we had designed in pairs.

Dash was a big help when Year 5 students created Road Safety videos as part of their Dash the robot was very busy this year. In PDH unit in Term 3. Using a road map, Year 2 we met up with Dash the robot to DIGITAL ARTISTS we coded Dash to be a safe road user. do some mathematical problem solving. & MULTIMEDIA We worked in pairs to troubleshoot and We programmed Dash with blocky code PRESENTATIONS work out the code. We recorded messages language to measure perimeters and Like many professional artists in the and activated Dash’s sensors, colours and compare shape sizes as part of a Maths world today, we also made use of digital motions. We made sure that Dash would topic. We worked in pairs and had to technology tools to produce artwork this deliver a safe road message through problem solve when our code wasn’t year. In Year 3 students used their iPads, its actions. helping Dash to do what we wanted. a stylus and some App mashing to make some fabulous Fathers’ Day portraits. They Zara Strickland, Year 5 Miranda Burns, Year 2 drew an image using Sketches Pro, then imported the image into an App called WordFoto. This blended a special message with their image. Year 4 produced postcards depicting Australian Landmarks using a desktop application. They also used Photoshop to reimagine minibeasts which were then animated with THE DRONE ChatterPix. Year 5 dabbled with Photoshop HAS LANDED to produce electrifying images and used Drones are being used around the world their portraiture skills to sketch images for many reasons like rescue missions, to of Significant Australian Colonial women keep our shores safe by Life Rescue and to from the 1800s. They animated their digital access places difficult for people to reach. sketches with Crazy Talk on the computers Now Drones have landed in the Junior to deliver a historical monologue. Year 6 School and we have been using them in also produced digital portraits for their Term 4 as part of an enrichment program Night of Excellence, sketching portraits of to extend our problem solving and coding significant people who have excelled in skills. The first thing we did was research their field and then animated them. Year 5 why drones have so many valuable uses in and Year 6 shared their animation movies our world today and the rules that govern with audiences using a QR code. Year 1 their use. We then set about learning how were super clever using Photoshop to to code the drones. We had to complete edit images with the brush tool to make challenge courses and simple real-world themselves into angels. We have fabulous scenarios that Ms Emmi created for us. We artistic talent in the making and great use found that we had to be accurate with our of tech in the Junior School. code or the drone would fail to complete its mission. Mabel Oxenham & Annie Peel, Year 6 ICT Monitors Eliza Damian & India Wills, Year 4 JUNIOR SCHOOL

65 HELPING BEEBOT TRAVEL HOME In Term 3, Year 1 combined our learning in Maths and Digital Technologies to create a city for the Beebot robot. We learnt about digital systems and where they are in the world. In Maths we used Purple Mash to design 3D nets on the computers. This 3D net in the shape of a building was for our Beebot city. Once the Beebot city was laid out in the Media Lab we discussed how we would program the Beebot so that it could travel to each section of the city. We used direction arrows to plan and when we thought we had it right we programmed the Beebot. Then we pressed go to see if our code worked. If it didn’t, we made changes and tried again.

Heidi Rogers & Imogen Haigh, Year 1

MOVIES, STOP MOTION AND CLAYMATION Making movies is a great way to show what we have learnt. In Term 1, we made KINDER CODERS movies about our local area. We walked AND ANIMATORS around Kirrbilli, took photos and then It all started with Ms Emmi pretending made an information report about our to be a robot. We had to tell Ms Emmi local area. We added recordings and music how to make a sandwich. We learnt that to our movie. Then in Term 3, we used Stop computers need the correct directions Motion and Claymation to make a digital or code to work. We learnt about digital narrative. We worked in groups of four so systems and to name some in our we had to collaborate and listen to each everyday lives. Then we explored how to other’s ideas. In Term 4 we wrote scripts code Cubetto. He is a wooden robot that about places around Australia and with we used to learn about coding. Then we Ms Emmi’s help, we used the green screen met the Beebots. After we programmed so that we could pretend that we were in the Beebots to travel along different maps, those places. It was like magic. We had fun we took photos of a Beebot and made an and learnt what it would be like to be a amination. To make the animation we used reporter on TV. an App on our iPads. It was so much fun Zoe Turner & Francesca Cade, Year 2 to make the Beebot talk in our movie. The Beebot described how we could help it move and what it could do.

Amelie Nuttall, Lucy Sultana & Danielle Guanlao, Kindergarten LORETO KIRRIBILLI

66 VIRTUAL CREATIONS - ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHITECTS We were learning all about Mount Kosciuszko for our Geography topic in Term 3. We were asked to became architects and design environmentally friendly eco-lodges for Mount Kosciuszko. SHARING OUR HISTORY First, we completed all our research about During Terms 3 and 4 we learnt about Mount Kosciuszko with Mrs Shaw and then Australia’s early colonial history. In different we worked with Ms Emmi on creating a groups, we researched and created many 3D ecolodge design using Minecraft Edu. products to answer inquiry questions. We We had to think about the digital tools were able to produce infographics, comic needed so that our design would export strips, illustrations, thinking routines, digital from Minecraft and how to best show our animations, short films, and written pieces lay-out. We had to understand things like to show our understanding of historical digital measurements and coordinates so figures and events. To bring all our work we could view and share our designs in 3D together, we used ThingLink. This made with the Virtual Reality goggles. It was so our images, videos, text and products much fun seeing all our designs. We were interactive by linking them all to one able to compare, contrast and evaluate base image that we designed. Then we each design to see if it was a good fit for made our interactive image available to Mount Kosciuszko. share with others using a QR code. It was a very creative task that allowed us to use Ava Prentice, Year 4 technology to present our work in different ways and bring our research to life.

Luella Roberts & Hannah Doolan, Year 5

SPARKING CREATIVITY WITH CIRCUITS During Term 1, we learnt all about electrical circuits. Although it was a Science and Technology subject it also blended with some Visual Arts, PDH and Pos Ed. We learnt all about electricity by researching and conducting different experiments. We built circuits using copper tape and a coin battery to light a design that delivered a message about friendship. We built moving sculptures using the Little Bits Electronics kit. We took our knowledge about circuits into building a paper switch. For this we had to learn how to code using Scratch. When the paper switch was pressed the code on the computer would run. The paper switch had four parts and each part was coded to tell different things about ourselves. Since many of us were new to Year 5, this was a great way for us to find out about each other.

Gemma Ronan & Lucy Henry, Year 5 JUNIOR SCHOOL

67 DESIGN THINKING Design Thinking is a great way to develop new and innovative ideas that address problems to be solved. Year 6 applied it as part of the creation process for a mobile application for the Tech Girls are Super Heroes Competition and Year 5 applied it for the development of a Sustainability themed game for The STEM Video Game Challenge. Meanwhile, Year 2 used the Design Thinking process to build an enclosure that would protect native Australian animals from feral cats. Each of these tasks also included the use of Digital Technologies and many ICT skills to produce their final product.

NATIVE ANIMAL ENCLOSURE It was so exciting to come up with TECH GIRL SUPERHERO a product that could help save our COMPETITION Australian native animals from feral cats. Year 6 students were involved in the 2019 In groups we worked with Miss McKenzie ‘Search for The Next Tech Girl Superhero’ and Ms Emmi to design somewhere safe competition. This exciting and innovative that the animals could go to if they were in program encourages entrepreneurship danger. We used a process called ‘Design through the development of a mobile Thinking’ to help us plan and build a safe App. We had 13 Year 6 teams registered. place for the animal to go. We used tools Each team was matched with a female from a Makedo kit to help us build a model tech mentor, who provided feedback made of cardboard. Then we used the on the team’s research, business plan ‘Little Bits’ electronic kit to engineer some and prototype ideas. Teams began by safety features. Some of our Little Bits identifying a problem in their local circuits included a buzzer or a light to scare community to solve. They researched off the feral cats. We had to think about and documented a solution in a business where our circuits would go and how plan, built a working App prototype and they would work best. It was fun and an produced a video pitch. When done, amazing project. we had completed the early stages of founding a true mobile App start-up. We Violet Beletich & Sophie Yoo, Year 2 had to work collaboratively and use our Our group took on the challenge of time management skills whilst applying making an App to teach people about creative and critical thinking skills to sorting rubbish and what goes into which problem solve throughout this project. bin. There were many different aspects in creating this App including coding, Our group was called ‘Cyber Soldiers’ and creating a business plan, researching new we created an App that helped people in trends and looking at what is popular on cyber bullying situations. We worked with the market. Our project mentor was Greer our business mentor, Sara Cheng, who Lester from The Trade Desk. We emailed helped us to get our graphics right and to her our questions and she gave us very develop our App idea. It provided us with valuable advice. We also had discussions an opportunity to learn amazing coding with her over Google Hangouts. We had skills and how to develop a business plan. so much fun on the project, collaborating It’s great to work on a project that can and learning new things, like coding and have a positive effect on society. creating a business plan.

Clementine Wills & Alannah Youssef, Year 6 Claudia Healey & Miranda Hamer, Year 6 LORETO KIRRIBILLI

68 MANDARIN The 2019 Sydney Chinese Language Spectacular was held on 22 October at Sydney Town Hall. The event was organised in partnership with the Confucius Institute at UNSW Australia and the Chinese Language Teachers’ Association of NSW.

STEM VIDEO GAME CHALLENGE Happy Chinese Leaning was the event’s theme, reflecting how students enjoyed and During Term 2 we created an entry for the Australian STEM Video Game Challenge. accelerated their learning in a happy and This competition let us engage with Science, Technology, Engineering and relaxed environment. Over 600 local students Mathematics in new and exciting ways. We worked through the Design Thinking from more than 30 primary and secondary process; Empathising, Defining, Ideating, Prototyping and Testing to develop our schools showcased their understanding of competition entries. We included the knowledge and skills we were learning in the unit Chinese language and culture. of work, ‘War on Waste.’ We also had the challenge of weaving this year’s competition theme, ‘Emergence’ into the game. We all had to include a Game Design Document to A group of Year 4 students took part in the show judges our thinking and ideas, and explain how our game would function. We combined choir and performed the Planting built our game in the online Scratch environment. Working collaboratively to design, the Sun dance. Congratulations to all our code and build our game, we had to apply the Character Strengths of persistence, dancers on their extraordinary performance. creativity and teamwork. We gained many important skills which we can apply to project work in the future. We were pleased to have been semi-finalists. Lily Wang, Mandarin Teacher

Caitlin Wong & Genevieve Williams, Year 5 JUNIOR SCHOOL

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LIBRARY

The Junior School Library is another AUTHOR VISIT learning space students can explore in On 22 August Frané Lessac, one of order to develop their love of reading Australia’s most eminent and much loved books and researching topics of interest. children’s authors, presented her life’s It was wonderful to see the library come journey as to how she became an author/ to life during lessons, before school and illustrator and she gave an inspirational talk “It can take up to at lunchtimes. Our responsible Year 6 to the girls. Her quirky sense of humour library monitors, Arabella Hsu, Stella Smith, and world travels made for an interesting 40 draft copies before Daisy Smyth and Lauren Tandy were busy presentation. She has published over 40 beavers sorting and shelving books to books including Pattan’s Pumpkin, Ned we publish a book.” keep our library in shape. They were always Kelly and The Green Sash, Simpson and His willing to lend a hand and their leadership Donkey, Under the Southern Cross and A is Frané encouraged the girls to write and skills shone through. All students were for Australia. to proofread and edit their work over engaged in reading a variety of genres and over. Conveying the characteristic of individually, with a friend or as a whole Frané resides in Fremantle, Western persistence and determination to succeed. class in order to successfully complete the Australia. She provided us all with great Although she claimed to be terrible at Premier’s Reading Challenge. tips about writing our own book and spelling and drawing at school, Frané how to illustrate using perspective and proceeded to become a highly successful We are truly blessed in the Junior School contrasting vibrant colours. After the author and illustrator. Library as we can enjoy reading and author visit, classes reflected and were completing library tasks outdoors to spark engaged in writing news reports to Joanna Staikos our imagination and creativity. capture the significant event. Junior School Teacher Librarian LORETO KIRRIBILLI

70 THE FRANÉ LESSAC SPECTACULAR Loreto’s Years 3-6 were stunned by the amazing words of the author talk for this year. Years 3-6 had mountains of fun learning about the stories behind all of Frané Lessac’s books. Years 3-4 focused on the hit book Simspon and his Donkey - the story of a WW1 first aid soldier. They looked at CHESS CLUB colours and illustrations and made a mini book about Duffy. Julia Kearney Every Wednesday morning Chess in Year 4 spoke to us, "My favourite part enthusiasts took over the library setting about the visit was when she took us up their chess boards to play chess and through how she did her illustrations. develop logical thinking and problem I enjoyed it because I love art." solving skills. Girls had the opportunity to make new friends and support each other Years 5-6 focused on a book about in learning strategic moves. Students were a bushranger - Ned Kelly and the able to concentrate and enhance their Green Sash. Junior School Captain memory as they participated in practical Clementine Wills said "I enjoyed it very and theoretical components of the much and it was very engaging." game. Our professional from the Sydney Mrs Staikos, the new librarian, gave us Academy of Chess was a great mentor. her opinion, "I loved her talking about Some of our Kindy Chess Players reflected her pets. I can’t believe she had a camel!" their thoughts.

It was definitely one of the best ‘I liked learning how to move pieces, author visits ever! Frané Lessac is especially the Queen.’ Eloise Perry, Kindy interesting, funny and she is a massive inspiration to everyone. We can’t wait ‘I liked playing against people and I really to see who comes next year!” liked question time with Mr Bellingham.’ Lucy Sultana, Kindy India Wills, Year 4 ‘I liked trying hard to play chess and learning about the pieces.’ Anastasia Louridas, Kindy JUNIOR SCHOOL

71 PREMIER'S READING CHALLENGE This year we once again saw a significant number of girls from Kindergarten to Year 6 completing the Premier's Reading Challenge. Congratulations to the following girls who received these awards. Gold Certificates Students who completed the Challenge for four years receive a Gold Certificate.

Year 3 Sophie Abbott, Heidi Betar, Eleanor Burke, Aamiya Cleary, Piper BRILLIANT BOOK WEEK Courtney, Abigail Damian, Virginia Dixon, In August, the Junior School had the Alessia Eerenstein, Amelie Elias, Bianca most amazing memorable time of the year Fogwell, Heidi Kennard, Sophie Lawson, - BOOK WEEK! Loreto’s library teacher, Mrs Alessandra Leon Gularte, Isabelle Staikos, organised this fabulous day. Every McCarthy, Genevieve Nolan-Uzcilas, class at Loreto Kirribilli got to dress up as a Eloise Roberts, Emmanuelle Senden- book character from any book! They also White, Grace Shanahan, Tiffany Soo, had a topic this year which was Reading is Sophie Squires, Tatum Trippe-Smith, my Secret Power. The best part of the Book Chanelle Wilson, Chantelle Wilson, Week parade was that in every class there Rebecca Wyke was a winner for the best costume award. Year 5 Charlotte Wood, Mia Lum, Luckily, we got to have an interview with Genevieve Williams the winner in Year 4 Sofia Restrepo-Barrero. Year 6 Chloe Allsopp, Annabel "I dressed up as Phileas Fogg from Around the Matthews, Indiana O’Dea, Alannah world in 80 Days. It was an honour to win this Youssef, Charlotte Croll wonderful prize presented by Ms Brent,’" Platinum Certificates she said. We also got an interview with Julia Students who completed the Kearney, "Book Week is a tradition at Loreto Challenge for seven years receive a Kirribilli. I dressed up as the amazing Solar Platinum Certificate. System," she told us. Louisa Warren, Luella Calandra, Claudia By the sound of these Loreto Kirribilli Healey, Ruby Kozub, Anouk Leyden, students they all loved Book Week. We Sophie Nisbet, Anneliese Scott, (The Kirribilli Weekly), are all looking Stella Smith, Arielle Stephens, Kaitlyn forward to reporting next year’s wonderful, Tooma, Clementine Wills, Samantha brilliant Book Week Parade. Who knows Wong, Abbie Blanks, Coco Butcher, what they will dress up as next year? Anna Dowling, Amber Reid, Shianti

LORETO KIRRIBILLI Tamvakeras and Maxine Watson. Ava Prentice, Year 4

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EXTRA-CURRICULAR

SPEECH AND DRAMA SHOWCASE Participants Congratulations to the following students in Years 2 to Francesca Cade, Verity 6, who participated in the first Junior Speech and Drama Hynes, Andie Kennard, Showcase in the GBC in September. Items presented Molly Roberts , Amelia Quinn, included: Choral Verse, Drama Monologues, Expert Talks, Isabella Rampa, Eloise Mikkonen, Duo and Solo Verse, Group Drama scenes and Mime. The Audrey Loneragan, Miranda Burns, Eloise Christian, girls performed with enthusiasm and their communication Hermione Austin, Alexandra Bova, Sophie Yoo, Sofia Briley, Amelie Elias, and artistic skills were well displayed in every performance. Heidi Kennard, Sophia Squires, Abigail Damian, Isabelle McCarthy, Piper Well done Girls! Courtney, Rebecca Wyke, Sophie Abbott, Alexandra Bova, Alana De Souza, Tabitha Johnston Marquez, Virginia Dixon, Genevieve Nolan- Thank you to Public Speaking Leaders Lucy Rathbun Uzcilas, Ariel Wood, Alessia Eerenstein, Chanelle Wilson, Anneliese Scott, and Bridget Currie for Hosting the Showcase with style. Julia Kearney, Lucia Cade, Meg Warburton, Caroline Hagopian-Minassian, Thanks to the IT Department for Technical and Audio Visual Isabella Jurdeczka, Annabel Parker, Jess Bruce, Gemma Ronan, Florence assistance, and to the parents for the encouragement you Hennessy, Luella Roberts, Caitlin Wong, Ava Prentice, Sofia Restrepo give your daughter as she develops her communication Barrero, Ruby Davis-Rice, Olivia Liew, Nathalie Matthews, Annabel Peel, skills and the support of this program at Loreto Kirribilli. Jessica Blackley, Daisy Smyth, Lulu Warren, Eliza Damian, Megan Huynh, Amelia Wkye, Charlotte Currie, Ruby Dickerson, Arabella Gray, Mia Lum, Jacqui Field Mia Fernandez, Katie Tooma, Zara-Jean Falinski, Lucia Childs, Hannah Public Speaking Convenor James, Abbie Blanks, Annabel Matthews and Anna Dowling. JUNIOR SCHOOL

73 ASCA SPEECH AND DRAMA EXAMINATIONS Congratulations to all the 2019 Speech students who completed their ASCA (Australian Speech and Communication Association) exams in June for Junior School. Excellent results were achieved across all years. The exams included informative presentations on a variety of topics, poetry, drama, prose reading and social speeches. Fantastic work girls!

ISDA IPSHA DEBATING DEBATING At the beginning of the year, a group of As part of English, the entire Year 6 Year 6 students were selected to represent took part in an Interschools Debating Loreto in the ISDA debating competition. Competition. We were split into teams of This involved going to training and three or four and every week a different competing every Friday night, whether team would debate against another school the debate was held at Loreto or at the at lunchtime. Everyone had lots of fun opposing team’s school. It was a great even though the majority of students had experience and we all really enjoyed never debated before. it. We had a Team A and Team B and both did an amazing job with Team B Bridget Matthews Year 6 being undefeated! LORETO KIRRIBILLI

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SPORT SWIMMING CARNIVAL

50m Freestyle School Championship 1st...... Anouk Leyden 2nd...... Lara Bonato 3rd...... Amy Hill

Junior Champion...... Eliza Damian 2nd...... Abigail Damian 3rd...... Alexandra Bova

Senior Champion . . . . . Anouk Leyden 2nd...... Lara Bonato 3rd...... Florence Hennessy

Spirit Trophy ...... WARD

Champion House...... BARRY LORETO KIRRIBILLI

76 ATHLETICS CARNIVAL

Open 100m School Championship 1st...... Chloe Allsopp 2nd...... Gemma Ronan 3rd...... Bridget Carneval

Junior Champion...... Ava Prentice 2nd...... Virginia Dixon 3rd...... Meg Warburton

Senior Champion . . . . . Chloe Allsopp 2nd...... Indiana Smith 3rd...... Isabelle Howard

Track Champion...... Chloe Allsopp 2nd...... Ava Prentice 3rd...... Isabelle Howard

Field Champion 1st...... Virginia Dixon 1st...... Indiana Smith 2nd...... Ava Prentice 3rd...... Georgia Moran

Spirit Trophy ...... WARD

Champion House...... HEATON JUNIOR SCHOOL SPORT

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