N ` H The Weekly Newsletter of Sydney Boys High School Vol 15 No 8 21 March 2014 From the Principal for some of the $31,400 worth of prizes I awarded each year to students. The Ethel High Talent At last Saturday’s Head of the River, two Killip Trust pays for the replacement and crews achieved benchmark results for High. upkeep of honour boards, memorabilia of The 2nd Year 10 VIII rowed to the winner’s Old Boys, photographs on walls and the time +9.93% - a solid performance inside school artworks collection. the 7.51-9.99% band. The 1st Year 10 VIII G Tennis Court Refurbishment achieved the second benchmark +6.21% – within the range 5.1-7.5%. Only 31/108 Our tennis courts are going to be ground crews have done this in 16 years. Both Year back, prepared, the layout of two courts 10 VIIIs performed better than any other repositioned and all four courts will be Year 10 crews since 2004. Congratulations, repainted during the next five weeks. The boys! At the CHS Championships, held on area is now out of bounds until further H Thursday and Friday last, the High team notice. New net winders will be installed retained the Peter Bond Cup for Champion along with a set of posts and wires to hold a Boys School in the points score and the retractable net to aid in training and tennis Rowing Association Trophy for Highest coaching by keeping balls from entering Points Score School Overall. High crews adjacent courts. The new courts will be in had a clean sweep of the medals in five Aussie Open Blue. The facility will then be first class in terms of playing conditions for events! Competitors can only be entered for three events. Champion Junior Rower was GPS tennis and also a valuable commercial Roy Yi with two gold medals and one asset for the school. The Sydney High bronze. Champion Senior Rower was School Foundation has management of the shared between Steve Comninos and Sam courts and has made provision for Musgrove with 3 gold medals each! Ray resurfacing costs over several years. N Fang, Shawn Noronha and James Tinker earned two gold medals and one silver each. A compound has been erected in the car Two gold medals were earned by Joshua park opposite the gymnasium to allow Maloof, Yi Dong Luo and Jesse Nixon. Well machinery and materials to be stored done to all the competitors! Our sculling securely and waste material collected in a policy has certainly helped to make our dumpster. There will be significant noise O boys better prepared for CHS events in and dust pollution in the area for a couple of recent years. weeks while the grinding is done. I know the wider High community will understand that Trusts for the benefit of High boys periodic maintenance such as this is The audited accounts for our trusts show necessary and will bear with us until the job that as of December, 2013 balances of: is completed. $122,026 for the Ethel Killip Memorial Trust; T Sydney High School Building Fund $85,816 for the Prizes Trust; $77,717 for the Phil Day Memorial Scholarship Trust; Thanks to the great support by parents our $17,104 for the ANZAC Trust Fund and Sydney High School Building Fund, as at $7,348 for the Mitchell Seow Memorial Prize December 31, had funds held specifically Trust. Half of the interest earned on these for the joint project Governors Centre of Trusts is donated to the School for uses $483,000. Year 7 parents should be E particularly keen to support this Fund as determined by the Trust Deeds. The Seow Trust funds a specific prize. The Anzac their sons have every prospect of using the Trust supplements the Student Assistance new facility in 2018-19, more certainly if a Scheme with direct financial help to higher percentage of parents each year join students in necessitous circumstances. The in the giving program. Many parents, Old Phil Day Trust funds an annual scholarship Boys and friends of High have given before S you so this major addition to our learning worth $1,500. The Prizes Trust helps to pay facilities can be achieved. Total funds available for the project are now $2,263,990. We Free workshop for supervisors of achieved our first target of $2,250,000 by learner drivers December 31, 2013 and now we need to reach $3,000,000 by December, 2014. If you haven’t made your donation yet, I urge you Ensure your learner driver has the best to do so. Forms are available at possible introduction to driving; their life could www.sydneyboyshigh.com/donations/governors- depend on it! centre. The City of Sydney aims to improve road safety Early Bird Discounts with a workshop for supervisors of learner Thank you to the 571 families who supported the drivers. early bird discount scheme by paying for all of the invoiced items by February 28. A small increase Wednesday 9 April 2014 from 47.8% to 47.82% of families shared the discount pool of $100,859. Big contributors this year 6pm -8pm were Year 7: (66.67%), Year 8 (57.78%) and Year Customs House 10 (52.68%)! It would be very encouraging if we Alfred Street, Circular Quay could reach a majority of parents overall who realised that the High experience represents very The two hour workshop will provide pertinent good value for money. practical advice regarding: Dr K A Jaggar · laws for learner and P-plate drivers. · how to use the Learner Driver Log Book HIGH STORE · how to plan on-road driving sessions Pre Rugby Season SALE and supervise learner drivers Last WEEK! · understanding the benefits of The High Store is offering a discount for supervised on road driving experience purchasing your training mesh, cap & water bottle in the month of March. Bookings are essential, please phone The City Training Mesh $55 NOW $50 of Sydney on 9265 9333 or Rugby Cap $20 NOW $16.50 email [email protected] to Rugby Water Bottle $9.90 NOW $8.50 reserve your seat. From the Canteen Thank you to our volunteers last week:- MON: Alana Liang, Olivia Yinzhu, Tina Chang TUES: Farrah Chew, Marian Elton, Penny Chan, WED: George Haddo, Jim O’Sullivan, Lesa Katsilis, Maria Dos Santos-Lee THURS: Ha Tran, Tina Chen, Rita Wu, FRI: Theo Tsiribas, Soogie Sim, Frances Salmon, Sharon Hughes Debating MIC Report For the last two weeks we have been going through Senior trials to select our Years 11 and 12 Premier’s Debating Team and our GPS Firsts and Seconds team. Antony Paul and Christopher Chiam who are the Firsts and Seconds coaches would like to thank everyone who trialled for Senior teams this year. They have had an incredibly difficult time trying to decide between some of the boys. We appreciate the time and effort you all put in, as students and, in addition I appreciate the time and effort the coaches have put in. They have made every effort to make sure we have the best chances of success in the GPS and PDC competitions and, as such, this year, for the first time, we allowed last year’s Year 9 GPS As to trial as well as Years 11 and 12. This was a very useful experience for all four of them and has been particularly successful for one who has made it into the GPS Second Squad. Another unusual decision this year has been to have quite different GPS Seconds and Year 11 Premiers Debating team. Finally we have announced the team captains of Firsts, Seconds and Thirds at the start of the season. Well done boys - the serious work starts now. Commiserations for the unlucky boys, but remember we are still looking for two students to work with Andrew Liu in the GPS Thirds team. I am very pleased to announce the 2014 Sydney Boys High School Senior Debating teams. GPS 1st Grade GPS 2nd Grade - Jon F - Ganesh - Lokesh Sharma - Peter Stephens ( Captain) - Riley Irwin ( Captain) - Thomas Shortridge GPS Third Grade Andrew Liu is Captain and will also be the reserve for the above teams. The other two team members will be chosen in Week 4 of next term. Hume Barbour Karl Kramp - Jon F - Ganesh - Lokesh Sharma - Gautham - Peter Stephens - Nick Phillis - Riley Irwin - Thomas George Now that the Senior trials are finished we have started Year 10 trials and we are hoping to have both Year 10 and Year 9 trials finished by the end of term 1. Rachel Powell Debating MIC Debating Prefect Report This week, we had a mixed bag of results with only 2 out of 6 wins in FED against Knox but 5 out of 6 wins against Cranbrook in Eastside. In FED, seniors were given the tricky topic “That racial background should be a factor in court verdicts”. All senior teams were unsuccessful with this topic on both sides but no doubt we learnt some valuable lessons about characterising arguments. In Eastside, the senior topic was a relevant one – “That universities should determine admissions based on interviews as opposed to the ATAR.” All out teams were successful in arguing their respective sides of this notion, giving nuanced points about the objective nature of the ATAR (and HSC exams) in contrast to the subjective nature of the interview. Today we face two of our biggest rivals in debating, Newington (in FED) and Grammar (Eastside), both at home. Hopefully we are successful all-round this week.