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Manly Campus Northern Beaches Secondary College Academic Excellence Personal Best Giving Back to the Community Principal: Ms Cath Whalan Deputy Principals: Ms Kathy O’Sullivan Mr Alex Newcomb 31 August 2018 – Newsletter No. 27 From the Principal P&C Trivia night Tickets for the P&C Trivia Night on Saturday 8 September are selling fast. The theme for the night is ‘colour’. In preparation for the event, do you know the answers to these trivia questions? • How many colours are there in the spectrum when white light is separated? • What part of the eye gives it colour? • What movie in 1986, had 11 Oscar nominations and won none? • During the first six months of life, what colour are a zebra's black stripes? Looking forward to enjoying a fun night of trivia as we raise money for P&C initiatives at our school. Wear it Purple Day On Thursday this week we celebrated diversity and young people from the LGBTIQA+ community through our participation in the annual Wear it Purple Day. This day is about showing rainbow young people, and everybody around us, that they have the right to be proud of who they are. Congratulations to the winning outfits from Year 7 Geography Ms Walker and Sammy Perks. On Tuesday, 28 August, Year 7 students attended a Geography excursion at Bicentennial Park. The focus of the day was on the topic ‘landforms and landscapes’. Students identified cloud types, took weather readings and examined the topography of NBSC Manly Campus 138 Abbott Road, North Curl Curl NSW 2099 Phone: 9905 3982 / Fax: 9905 777 / Email: [email protected] P&C website: www.manlypandc.org.au the site. They also engaged with aerial primary school students, the elderly, the disabled, photographs and a Geographic Information System non-English speakers, and preschool children. The to explore the changes in the landscape between games designed included board games, mobile 1930 and 2016, resulting in a thorough phone apps, video games, card games and a understanding of the environmental impacts of gamified social media platform. human activity. Students investigated the types of On Monday, all 30 of our game design teams plants in the region, including saltmarsh and pitched their final game design to a panel of mangroves, studying the role of plants in the shaping of the landscape through the process of invited experts. Our experts included Pete deposition. Scientific tests were also undertaken, Mahoney and Annabel McFarlane from the Museum of Applied Arts and Science (MAAS), with students learning how to test the pH of water Heather Sheldrick, a registered nurse with and soil. expertise in working with the elderly and the disabled, Sarah Bryce, a primary school teacher with expertise in gifted education, and Branko Goykovic, who is both the Year 7 Adviser and an expert in technology and gaming. Our game design teams delivered a Shark Tank- style two-minute pitch to the panel, and then responded to tricky panel questions about their proposed games. Following this, each team spoke and had an opportunity to showcase their game prototypes via a mini expo display. Needless to say, our students were incredible on the day, demonstrating impressive creativity and critical thinking, as well as empathy in the design of their games. Praxis is a course designed to give our gifted and talented the opportunity to collaborate on engaging projects in a learning environment that is challenging and dynamic, allowing for authentic differentiation based on students' learning Praxis: Games 4 Good capacity, needs and interests. The Games 4 Good Over the last term and a half, Year 7 have been project showcased just how powerful this working on the Games 4 Good project in Praxis. opportunity can be for our young learners! This project saw students working as game Congratulations G23! designers in teams of four, with a focus on answering our driving question: How can serious play transform our community for the better? Teams investigated the history of games, learnt about game design and game mechanics, then selected a community user from a given list for whom they would design a ‘serious game’. A serious game is one which has a primary purpose other than entertainment; in this case it was to meet identified needs of the community users. Community users included gifted and talented timber. This project also included a reversible wood and white board top to provide a choice work surfaced depending on their needs at the time. Thank you to Mr Forsyth for his guidance and expertise. Year 11 Design and Technology The Year 11 Design and Technology cross-campus class have worked in small groups to research, design, construct, test and evaluate a broad range of outstanding products. The focus of the assessment task was ‘Green design is good design’ and encouraged students to incorporate previously used products in their solution to a need. The following photos include close-ups of the finished products and photos from the library display. The ‘Cutlery tree’ groups repurposed unwanted cutlery to make jewellery stands. Business ties were used creatively as shoulder straps for the compact carry bag group. A storage problem for hanging coats and hats was solved by recycling wood and steel into a contemporary rack. The final group used 3D printing to produce special joints to assemble a work table from recycled Year 12 HSC Preparation Pictured: Douglas Woon, Sophia Wu, Sam Axford, Year 12 students have been presented with Nicholas Mulquiney, Elliot Connor, Paolo Liegho, information regarding HSC marks, ATAR Alexander Gaal and their creature (found in an calculations and helpful strategies to support them underwater volcano). as they near the culmination of their HSC journey. Under the umbrella of ‘we’re all in this together’, the importance of working collaboratively to improve the results for the whole cohort was emphasised. In some subjects, Year 12 students have been taking part in a trial of Edrolo, an online resource which provides presentations and quizzes to help them understand and learn the course content. This trial will continue until the HSC examinations and students are encouraged to make the most of this additional resource to support their learning. Year 9 Debating The NBSC Manly Campus Year 9 debating team have won their regional final against Carlingford High School in the NSW Premier's Debating Tournament of Minds Competition Challenge. The team, comprising Nina Grozdanova, On Sunday, the Manly Tournament of Minds team Eliza Lo Russo, India-sioux Fabig and Max Oldham, competed at Roseville College. They presented argued successfully that public transport should their solution to the long-term STEM challenge not be free. The Year 9 team will now participate which required them to ‘discover’ an unknown in a semi-final debate next week against either organism in an unusual environment, design a Epping Boys High School or North Sydney Girls model of the creature, a video of the discovery and High School. We wish them all the best for the a performance to creatively present their work to next stage of the competition and thank Ms Koo a panel of judges and an audience of parents. Their for her ongoing support. presentation was complex, interesting and Congratulations to: humorous, showcasing their extensive capacity to creatively apply their scientific knowledge. They • Ben De Vries (Year 11) who was one of 18 very also competed in a spontaneous challenge, which privileged students from around the world invited to study tested their collaborative problem-solving skills with the Brubeck under pressure. The Manly team was the highest Institute at The scoring STEM team of the day, and are to be University of the congratulated for their efforts. Special thanks to Pacific, Sacramento. Ms Munro for her enthusiastic coordination of the The Brubeck team. Institute Summer Jazz Colony is a one week, intensive educational program in jazz performance for a From the Deputies very limited number of exceptionally talented United Diversity students who are under the age of 21. This year students were either in their last year of This week, our school community celebrated Wear high school or studying at Uni. Ben had the it Purple Day. It was great to see so many students opportunity to study with leading Jazz artists and staff share in the spirit of the day and enjoy and educators. Colonists’ days were intensive the colourful festivities. This annual event has 8am-11:30pm, involving combo rehearsals, become another of our wonderful school individual tuition, master classes, classes in Jazz theory and advanced improvisation, traditions and captures what is proudly referred to seminars lectures on the music of Dave as ‘The Manly Vibe’. Brubeck, composition, jam sessions and performing nightly at venues. The Wear it Purple movement has had overwhelming support since its inception in 2010. • Alysha Airey (Year 9) who Initially a way of showing support to LGBTQI teens won the Golf Mixed at risk, it has grown to become a celebratory Foursomes Championship event; symbolic of positive self-identification and at Manly Golf Club. rainbow pride. As part of an ‘older generation’ it is great to see such social progress in our schools. It • Lauto Ako (Year 10) who has been selected to is great to see our schools become places in which represent Sydney North at we can appreciate our diversity and feel safe to be the NSW Tennis State who we want to be. Championship to be held in Inverell from 11-13 ‘We must learn to live together as brothers (and September. sisters) or perish together as fools’. These words were spoken by Martin Luther King Jr. at an African American civil rights rally in 1964, yet they transcend that context.