Headmistress's Report 2018 Welcome the Council of Abbotsleigh
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Headmistress's Report 2018 WELCOME The Council of Abbotsleigh President The Most Reverend BSc MDiv(Hons) ThM(Hons) DipA PhD DD Dr Glenn N Davies Archbishop of Sydney Chair Mr P Fontanot BCompt(Hons) CA GAICD JP Treasurer Mr R Bowden BBus CPA Mrs S Baillie BCom(Merit) CA CFA GAICD Rev Dr A Barraclough BE BD DipMin MA D(Min) Mrs J Cochrane BEc LLB(Hons) Dr E Cope MB BS FRACGP FAICD Ms L Ellis BEc LLB(Hons) GAICD Dr C Janssen MB BS MBA FAICD Rev M Kellahan BA LLB BD Mr P Nicholson BSc BE(Hons) ME MIEAust Mr D Pontin BPE DipTeach MEd Mrs S Roberts BPsych(Hons) Ms M Southwick BLArch(Hons) CPPD MAIPM GAICD Ms M Vanzella BEc LLB(Hons) MBA MAICD 1 Leadership Prefect Executive 2017/2018 PREFECT EXECUTIVE YEAR PREFECTS Gilmore Head Prefect Annabel Brentnall Junior School Katharine Laithwaite, Captain Alexandra Hofman Head Boarder Prefect Olivia Taylor Isabella Anderssen Vice Captains Natalie Freeman, Vice Head Prefect – Duties Jacinta Lin Year 6/7 Renee Crofts, Elizabeth Luu Sarah Reece Vice Head Prefect – Service Year 7/8 Natasha Ramsden, Melba Nicola Humphries Anneliese Buddee Captain Alexandra Brice Vice Head Prefect – Houses Year 8/9 Olivia Robinson, Vice Captains Bailey Stephen, Abigail Coffey Eliza O’Connell Emily Wiggan Year 9/10 Claudia Allworth, Prichard PORTFOLIOS Rebekah Underwood Captain Joanna Windybank Vice Head Boarder Prefect Abella Judd Year 10/11 Scarlet Lindsay, Vice Captains Grace Campbell, Boarding Kiara Davies, Vimbainashe Murambi Olivia Steer Ashleigh Donoghue, Athena Kam, Year 11/12 Emma Downham, Richardson Olivia Slack-Smith Sophie French Captain Emily Krust Chapel Natasha Li Vice Captains Isabelle Ellerker, Debating and Public Speaking HOUSE LEADERSHIP Lauren Li Winnie Yuan Chisholm Tennant Drama Charlotte Raftesath Captain Sarah McDermott Captain Claudia Flanery Environmental Sustainability Vice Captains Keely Allsop, Vice Captains Katelyn Lamb, Amelia Martin Lauren Henderson Laura Petersen Music Josephine Brereton Franklin Wright Sport Claire Eaton Captain Jaimey Yeats Captain Sophie Student Representative Council Vice Captains Madeleine Vincent, Lloyd-Hurwitz Celeste Zhong Alexandra Zubrickas Vice Captains Sasha Matthews Hornery, Anthea Tang Prefect Executive 2018/2019 Head Prefect Caitlin Oschadleus YEAR PREFECTS Vice Captains Sophia Digges, Head Boarder Prefect Rosie Meares Junior School Anna Graham, Grace McInerney Vice Head Prefect – Duties Julia Spiteri Melba Jessica Cejnar Year 6/7 Chelsea Chaffey, Winona Lu Captain Annabel Laurie Vice Head Prefect – Service Year 7/8 Ann Guo, Madison Kim Vice Captains Carly Lomax, Claire Luger Year 8/9 Georgia Graham, Elizabeth McLean Vice Head Prefect – Houses Waiwai Yeap Prichard Clementine Hobill Cole Year 9/10 Molly Evans, Claire Yu Captain Olivia Hogg Year 10/11 Emily Ong, Vice Captains Katherine Cormack, PORTFOLIOS Emma Shannon Abbey Rockliff Vice Head Boarder Anna Verheul Year 11/12 Elizabeth Flaherty, Richardson Boarding Sophie Forsyth, Lauren Job, Nikita Sethi Captain Charlotte Banks Emily Phelps, Molly Scholes Vice Captains Kaitlin McKinnon, Chapel Charlotte Deng HOUSE LEADERSHIP Emily Wong Debating and Public Speaking Chisholm Tennant Julia Kelland Captain Lucinda Bray Captain Sarah Buchanan Drama Katie Ord Vice Captains Zoe Gleeson, Vice Captains Brigitte Bennett, Environmental Sustainability Sophie Grant Anastasia Scholes Rebecca Whittle Franklin Wright Music Stella Leonardi Captain Kimaya Kapuwatte Captain Emily Tan Sport Jessica Nagy Vice Captains Charlotte Jagger, Vice Captains Georgina Cooper, Student Representative Council Imogen McIntyre Skye Sylvester Natasha Huang Gilmore Captain Arabella Archibald Christian Purpose 6 Early Learning 8 Senior School 21 Boarding 38 Creative and Performing Arts 39 AbbSchool 43 Literary Festival 2018 45 GLOW 46 TEDxYouth@Abbotsleigh 46 Abbotsleigh Hosted Conferences 47 Robotics 48 STEAM at Abbotsleigh 49 Global experiences 51 Grace Cossington Smith Gallery 54 Community 56 HSC 2018 Results 58 NAPLAN 2018 60 Competition Results 62 Sport 66 Staff achievements 72 3 HEADMISTRESS REPORT 2018 has been a year of great learning, inspired teaching and impressive accomplishment for each girl. 2018, a year of change. OUR SCHOOL. OUR GIRLS. 2018 has seen the opening of STEM Street TODAY AND TOMORROW. in the Junior School; the Pre-K to 12 GLOW; Literary and Arts Festivals; Junior and Senior ‘Great learning is joyful, intrinsically motivating School plays and productions such as James and often sees the impossible realised. As and the Giant Peach and The Little Mermaid; educators we are deeply committed to seeing sublime music concerts; brilliant debates; each girl become an empowered learner and overseas trips to China, Hong Kong, NASA, an enabling friend with the belief that she is and Oxford; exchange opportunities in Asia capable of making a positive difference in and Europe; the expansion of our already vast our world through service and the pursuit of sporting opportunities; and Abbotsleigh’s very personal excellence.’ own, student driven and led, TedX Conference. 2018 has been a year of great learning, inspired The year has demonstrated just how much our teaching and impressive accomplishment girls love to learn. Across the School we have for each girl as she has strived to achieve seen girls enjoy grappling with problems and her personal best in all areas of endeavour. difficult concepts; revel in thinking deeply, It has been a year where the girls have truly critically and creatively, and thrive when embraced the opportunities to do more so that connecting, collaborating and communicating. they have the ability to be more. We have seen girls hypothesise, ‘think outside The Prefect Theme for the year, ‘Dare to the box’, attempt to solve real life problems, Grow’, has seen the girls across the School become involved in STE(A)M days, chess, rising to the challenge of ‘daring to grow’ in coding, robotics and achieve outstanding all pursuits with enthusiasm, vibrance and results in English, Languages, Maths verve. They have taken risks, dared to try and Science competitions. We especially new things ‘outside of their comfort zones’, congratulate Rebecca Whittle (Year 11) on dared to make mistakes and use these as winning the Gold Medal in the International learning opportunities and dared to stand Science Olympiad. up respectfully for others, and for what they Our girls have also attained exceptional believe in. They have shown initiative, been NAPLAN and Higher School Certificate innovative and participated in myriad activities. results with Abbotsleigh being named the Top Indeed, one characteristic of Abbotsleigh girls Independent Girls’ School in NSW and placing is that they seem to be involved in ‘everything’. 11th overall for this year’s HSC. We 4 congratulate every girl in Year 12 as each The development of our girls’ empathy, girl has worked so hard to achieve her compassion, patience and understanding personal best. Special congratulations go learned through these and other service to Hannah Lo and Jacinta Lin who share the learning experiences are lessons that will not Abbotsleigh HSC dux position with each girl only last a lifetime, but lessons that will hold attaining the highest possible ATAR of 99.95. our girls in very good stead for life. Jacinta Lin was also awarded first place The development of these essential skills is in Latin Extension and Sarah Chang was also fundamental to our girls’ wellbeing. As awarded first place in Music 2 and Extension wellbeing is crucial to gaining as much from Music. Both Sarah and Jacinta deserve our school and life as possible, we have spent warm congratulations. Our girls are indeed, much time developing excellent programs dedicated and empowered learners. that target the needs of our girls. This Other outstanding achievements attained year, our ‘You Can Do It’ program has been by our girls this year include Samantha reinvigorated throughout the Junior School Ramsden representing Australia in swimming and implemented in the Senior School. in the Commonwealth Games and, our Cross Additionally, we have doubled the number Country team competing at the World Cross of tutor groups in Year 7, thus decreasing Country Championships in Paris placing the number of girls in each group so that our second, with Abbey Rockcliffe (Year 11) programs can be of maximum benefit. This coming first in the world in her age group. new structure will roll out over time so that by the time our 2018 Year 7 girls are in Year In addition to their involvement in vast 12, there will be smaller tutor groups in each curricular and co-curricular activities, our girls year group. are determined to make a positive difference in our world. In fact, making a positive It is so important in our ever-changing difference in the world is something about 21st century world that our girls develop which our Old Girls, parents and staff are also into confident, articulate young women passionate. The centrality of service learning of integrity who are free and proud to be can be seen clearly through our connection who they are as human beings. After all, with many organisations, one of which is St ultimately, ‘who’ you are, is much more Lucy’s, and 2018 has seen the celebration important than ‘what’ you are. It is also of 10 years of our Junior School’s mutually critical that our girls become flexible and beneficial service learning partnership with agile learners who can deal with change and St Lucy’s. This partnership sees our Year 3 ambiguity. As we head towards the future, girls every year engaging in music, art, drama, the girls will be challenged with new syllabi PE and play sessions with St Lucy’s students and learning experiences that aim to do both at St Lucy’s and in our Junior School. exactly that. Service Learning is of equal importance in the It is the goal of the Abbotsleigh Council, Senior School. Among many programs, this teachers and I, to enhance the girls’ future year saw DJ Begbie from Crossroads Hong by providing the best possible 21st century Kong create simulation experiences for our educational opportunities in the best staff and girls to help in the development of possible learning environment – inside our understanding and empathy.