TAIPEI EUROPEAN SCHOOL 台北歐洲學校
European Secondary Campus Newsletter
EDITION 11 FRIDAY 14TH FEBRUARY 2014 Fri IN THIS ISSUE
Message from… Page 1 Chinese New Year Page 4 A message from the Headteacher Music Concert Page 6
Student Council Page 8 Dear Parents, ESPCA Page 9
This month our High School team has Spotlight on IB Page 10 been mainly focusing on preparing our Academic honesty Page 11 students for their future in higher English Page 13 education. Our H2 students have been Science Page 14 involved in a very intense week of Futurewise interviews which help them Drama Page 15 ascertain their academic and personal German Section Page 16 strengths. This information is then used KS3 MUN Page 17 to advise them towards potential IB University and Careers Page 17 Diploma subject choices as well as ESC Sports Page 19 possible career paths.
Please talk to your H2 child about this process. Please also make a Dates for your Diary note of a University Destination Information Day coming up on the H1 and H2 Drama Thursday th afternoon of March 19th to be held at the EPC. We are very proud of Performance evening 20 Feb our growing admissions to the world’s top universities and want to HS Options Information Tuesday Evening 25th Feb update our parent community on pathways available to our High th Peace Memorial Day Friday 28 School students. Feb MUN Beijing 13th – 16th Next week is an important one at the ESC as we celebrate a week-long Feb series of language focused events to celebrate UNESCO’s BSHS Headteacher 16 – International Mother Language Day. Did you know that there are 37 Recruitment process 18th Feb UNESCO International 21st Feb different student nationalities in our High School alone? Mother Language Day
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Our students have very rich and diverse linguistic backgrounds and for the first time this year we want
to celebrate this to tie in with a globally recognized day UNESCO day on Friday 21st. This is a combined project between the Primary and Secondary Campus with children of all ages involved which signals the official launch of Goal 1 in the TES Strategic Plan to become a ‘Centre of Linguistic Excellence’. Watch out for articles and events details in our next Newsletter edition.
Finally, a hearty thank you to our ESC Parents’ Association who organized a very welcoming coffee morning for Year 6 parents from the EPC this week. In this dreary weather their homemade cakes and hot coffee was much needed!
Chrysta Garnett
Message from Sonya Papps
Deputy Headteacher
This year TES will, for the first time, celebrate
UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day with a week of activities and events starting on Monday th 17 February and ending with a final assembly on the official IML Day – Friday, 21stFebruary. For weeks teachers at both the EPC and ESC have collaborated to devise activities and events that will celebrate the wonderful range of languages spoken by the TES community. At the ESC a team of students have been working on creating a documentary film that showcases some of the
mother languages of our students and teachers. This film will form part of a larger display of ‘TES mother languages’ that students have created to tell their language story. (image borrowed from Flikr Creative Commons) The Chinese Language and Culture department have organized a Mandarin radio play competition. Another local radio station has also shown interest 20 student teams have devised scripts which will be in our IML celebrations. On Wednesday morning judged by Radio Taiwan International. The winners at 10:30am please tune into ICRT to hear an will be invited to perform their scripts live on air. interview with TES students about their participation in IML week.
On Thursday we are hosting our first ever “Languages Speed Dating” event. Now, before parents panic, the so called ‘dates’ are actually mini language lessons! A group of students and teachers have volunteered to teach a few key phrases from their mother language. Students will visit as many stations
as they can during the session and learn phrases from an impressive range of languages including Italian, Swedish, Seswati, Serbian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Korean, Hindi, Hakka and many more!
On Friday H1 foreign language students will travel to the EPC to run lessons for their younger colleagues. This is a fantastic opportunity for our students to show off their language learning, but also to develop their leadership skills. The lessons will give EPC students a taste of what they can look forward to in their future foreign language lessons at Secondary – a great example of the great work happening across campuses next week.
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Friday February 21st is UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day, and the final day of our week long celebrations. We will come together as a school for an assembly to reflect on the week and recognize achievements. IML Week will then be capped off with a House language quiz hosted by our
CLC department.
There is a lot to look forward to in our first celebration of International Mother Language Day. We are hoping this will be the start of a longstanding tradition as TES move towards our goal of becoming a
centre of linguistic excellence by 2018.
Message from James Woodall
Assistant Headteacher; KS3 – IB
It has been a very busy examination and reporting period The end of the reporting period signals for staff and students since returning from the Christmas the beginning of the post mock analysis break. That all culminated on Thursday with the Parent for H2 and H4 students. This is such an Teacher Meetings at the ESC. It was the longest session of important time for these students and it interviews ever hosted running from 11.30am until is vital that they listen to every piece of 7.00pm and was extremely well attended. There was advice given to them by their teachers in
positive feedback from the High School parents as order to achieve to their potential in the extending the session resulted in less congestion so summer exams.
enabling parents to see more teachers. You will read later about the Student Council and all that is happening with them. Janice the president is really
driving things forwards with such initiatives as the re-development of the High School study areas and the research into the possibility of a school hoodie etc. She is doing a fantastic job for our
student body and she is just getting started so we expect there is a lot more to come.
A large group of KS3 students flew to Beijing on Thursday morning for an MUN conference and we look forward to hearing of their
success in the next edition of the newsletter.
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Chinese New Year
Celebrations at ESC
Welcome to the Year of Horse by celebrating its arrival with students and staff at ESC! This year we exclusively designed a drama production
to introduce the convention for Chinese married daughters returning
to their birth family on the second day of Chinese New Year. We also included how Chinese girls found their
husbands thousands of years ago when
dating was a social taboo. The brides being brought in!
Mr. Fritzen is unveiled. Dr. Matthews asks for a kiss!
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In addition to the exciting opening performance,
four different House Activities were planned with special support from Kuo Yuan Yi Food Enterprise and its Education Foundation 郭元益食品暨教育基金會 , a highly regarded food enterprise not only for its leading position in the
industry but also for its generous support with the education -related business worldwide. Professional chefs from 郭元益 worked with our students to produce traditional Chinese Green
Bean Cakes and to design various outlooks of cookies by incorporating their creativity.
The students decorate their cookies.
Lantern design was another highlight of the day, which was exclusively supported by Mr.
Hill and Mr. Hebden of the Art Department. It’s hard not to pay attention to the beautiful lanterns displayed around the building the minute you walk in the building.
Daphne and Christina make paper lanterns.
Following the House Activities, we had a very exciting and challenging House Quiz. Students and colleagues
not only demonstrated their knowledge and understanding about Chinese language and culture but also showcased their performing gifts during the Chinese Talent Shows.
Marin competes in the challenging House Quiz.
It was a wonderful day to celebrate the arrival of Chinese New Year in a piece of Europe in Taiwan!
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TES 14th Music Concert
From the Music Department
Music Concert
The 14th TES Annual Music Concert was held just before the Chinese New Year Holiday th on the 24 of January, and again was a great showcase of musical talent at the
school. Big congratulations to all students who were involved (performers, backstage, front of house, Music Leaders, MCs and supporting teachers and staff) who
performed a wide range of pieces to a very high standard. A special thank you to the ESCPA for their generous support of the event, providing beverages and food during
the concert.
The Orchestra
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From the Music Leaders
Jolie Ting and Stephanie Kao
th The 14 Annual Music Concert was a huge success!
We sold tickets and greeted parents at the entrance. We were amazed
by the amount of supportive students, parents and
teachers who attended the The Yang Ming Shan Choir concert to The performers’ amazing performances demonstrate the wide range of talents in enjoy the TES. More importantly, we should never forget that the short performances on musical talents stage were the results of weeks and months of practices and rehearsals. in TES. We would like to thank all the performers and soloists who performed in the music concert for their outstanding performances and the efforts they put into practicing their pieces. We would also like to thank Mr. Papps and Miss McNeill for their hard work in organizing the music concert and leading
weekly orchestra and choir rehearsals. Furthermore, we would like to thank all the backstage members and Amit Agnani for their hard work before and during the music concert. Unfortunately, this was Miss McNeill’s last concert at TES, but this was surely the best one. We would like to thank her for her contribution to the school and to the Music department, and wish her the best of luck in
the future.
The Jazz Band
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Student Council
The Blue Group of the Student Council is the committee focused around improving school
facilities and providing student services, dealing with most of the internal affairs related to the student body and the school. As a committee, we aim to construct a school environment that provides a positive and
convenient atmosphere for students, bringing forward our facilities and services to meet what the student body wants.
One of the main things we are promoting right now is bringing up school spirit through producing and selling school merchandise, especially since we recently introduced a new school mascot (TES Titans) that has started showing up around school. Primarily, we
intend to introduce school hoodies for students to purchase during school, which will be designed by the students themselves through a competition that has just seen closure.
With the excellent designs that we have received, we already know the tough deliberation process that will succeed the competition, but we are more than excited to embark on this project to fuel further production of school merchandise in the future. Hoodies being just the start of this journey, we have in mind and in action more pieces of merchandise to follow, such as
stationery, to solidify and strengthen school spirit, in full pride and support of Taipei European School.
Facility-wise, we are working on two closely related projects. The first is improving the printer
facilities we have around school in study areas, to make them more accessible and convenient for student usage, hopefully through installing more printers and/or reworking the printing process in study areas to benefit students and amend the present situation. To mitigate this problem, we will be working with the ICT department to formulate a solution to improve printing facilities. The other project that goes hand in hand with the printer improvements is of a much larger scale – the complete refurbishment of the Phase II study areas to create a more study-friendly and
colourful environment for students. With generous support from the ESC PA, the Student Council Blue Group will be working with all students wishing to take part in this exciting project, to garner the masses of creativity within the student body to produce an environment that best fits what students look for in study areas, which are integral parts of the school environment.
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With many exciting projects ahead of us, the Blue Group is looking forward to embarking on and making the most out of these experiences, to continue moving the school towards the next steps, and servicing the student body in collaboration with the students themselves – as a Council and as a school!
“With a new vision and new direction, we will start something that matters, and take us, as a school, forward, towards our next stop, everywhere.”
– TES Student Council 2014
From the ESCPA
ESCPA hosted a Welcome Coffee Morning on
Wednesday 12 February.
New ESC families as well as current
Year 6 families transitioning to ESC in next August were present.
Head of each section and the school management
team joined us for the morning.
After a treat of home baked sweets, the morning was concluded with a campus tour lead by several Year 7 students. Well done to our tour guides!
Thank you all who joined us for the morning in spite of the cold and wet weather.
We all had a great time.
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HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY
Studying in high school is all about preparation for the next stage, and since the vast majority of our students leave the IB programme to go on to academically rigorous courses at prestigious
universities, it is appropriate that we equip them with the skills they need to be successful there as well as here.
Studying for the IB Diploma is not just about learning new content in order to complete assignments and get good grades in examinations. While that is certainly a significant part of it, all IB programs have at their heart the Learner Profile, a set of attributes to which all students should aspire. When combined, these ten attributes are designed to represent a well-rounded, intellectual individual who genuinely cares about the world in which they function and their relationships with other people. The standards expected of students at university are exactly the same in the IB
programme – students are expected to apply the principles of academic honesty to all the work they produce, without exception.
Since our students are young and many are only part way through their academic lives, it is
important that we teach and all students learn the principles of academic honesty, and we have held two major events recently to promote this both with teachers and with IB students. The IB Learner Profile states that all students should be:
Principled They act with integrity and honesty, with a strong sense of fairness, justice and respect for the dignity of the individual, groups and
communities. They take responsibility for their own actions and the consequences that accompany them.
(IBO (2008), IB Learner Profile Booklet (Cardiff: International Baccalaureate Organization)
Following a whole staff meeting in which we discussed a range of scenarios and a Core lesson with H3, academic honesty is very much on students’ and teachers’ radar. This is something we are promoting positively by modeling and having high expectations from students. That said, all teachers and students have had the negative aspect explained to them. Being academically honest is just the right thing to do and it’s a fairly easy concept to master, but there are obviously
consequences if students are not academically honest – if they are found to be guilty of what the IB calls academic misconduct. The definitions of these are:
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Plagiarism The representation, intentionally or unwittingly, of the ideas, words or work of another person without proper, clear and explicit acknowledgement. Collusion Supporting misconduct by another candidate, as in allowing one’s work to be copied or submitted for assessment by another. Duplication of work
The presentation of the same work for different assessment components and/or diploma requirements. Unfair advantage Anything that gains an unfair advantage for a candidate or that affects the results of
another candidate (such as taking unauthorized material into the exam room, misconduct during and exam, or falsifying a CAS record). (IBO (2009), Academic Honesty (Cardiff: International Baccalaureate Organization)
What leaps out from these definitions for me is that ignorance is not a valid excuse for not referencing the ideas of others properly. If a student uses the idea of another person, they must give that person credit for that idea, and not pretend (accidentally or deliberately) that it is their own. Getting this right shows integrity and respect for the ideas of others, getting it wrong has serious consequences. Darren Latchford IB Co-ordinator
The Year 7s will look at the TES Academic Honesty policy in greater
depth during their PSHCE lessons over the next few weeks. It is very important that students understand the expectations for academic honesty and
that the work that they produce is
always their own. We will begin by Then, students will be given explicit instructions on how to reviewing the ‘Academic Honesty’ cite sources, how to paraphrase effectively and how to policy which can be found in the TES create a reference page. With good use of these strategies Student Diary in the Personal and practice, Year 7s will be able to successfully write and Information section. submit well referenced research projects and papers.
By Mr. Imbleau – Head of Year 7
Avoiding Plagiarism
There has never been a time or age when information and ideas have been as accessible to people as now. The internet has opened up a wellspring of information to students that has never been seen before. I remember when my own access to information was limited to two things; the number of books in my library and the library working hours!
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Students of today have 24-7 access to information from all over the world which can be both a blessing as well as a curse. Being able to discern good information and sources from bad is a key skill coupled with the ability to avoid plagiarism. TES students must certainly be mindful of the material they read online and consider the validity and reliability of the sources. This is a key skill
learned in both Geography and History lessons!
However, plagiarism can be subtle and dangerous. Students must be careful not to submit to the ease of the copy and paste solution when required to produce case studies
and research articles as academic institutions as well as the media do not take lightly to cases of plagiarism. I found 5 very good tips to assist students to avoid plagiarism.
(image borrowed from Etsy.com)
Five Tips for Avoiding Plagiarism
First, use your own ideas. It should be your paper and your ideas that should be the focus.
Use the ideas of others sparingly - only to support or reinforce your own argument.
When taking notes, include complete citation information for each item you use.
Use quotation marks when directly stating another person's words.
A good strategy is to take 30 minutes and write a short draft of your paper without using any notes. It will help you think through what you want to say and help prevent your being too dependent upon your sources.
These tips were found at: www.flagler.edu/library/polaris/mod6/06-tips-plag.html
I hope that they will be useful to you as you do research and work on projects, knowing that you
will produce well sourced and well referenced work that accurately reflects our TES Values.
Mr. Sing Key Head of Years 8 and 9
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The English Department
At the completion of a unit on
media and the way satire is used to make us laugh, Year 8s in Mrs. Laing's English class worked in groups to produce a cartoon featuring a typical Taiwanese family
based on 'The Simpsons'.
The results were hilarious, with students using exaggeration, incongruity and ridicule to show their learning about the techniques of satire, while putting their skills at working as a team to the test.
The students worked together in groups to develop their ideas. Once complete, each group presented their story board to the class. Some
artistically talented students were able to add
drawings to their story lines.
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The Science Department
H3 Physics – Heating Up!
H3 Higher Level Physics are currently studying Thermal Capacity, and last week investigated the properties of different materials to determine how much heat is needed to raise their
temperatures.
Heat and temperature are related concepts that sometimes lead to misconceptions in Science. Heat or thermal energy is what causes a change
in temperature or as the students can explain: the internal energy of the material will increase as the average kinetic energy of the particles increases!
Using electric heaters with current
and voltage readings to provide the energy, students measured the change in temperature of water, aluminium, steel, copper and brass
over a fixed amount of time. They calculated the specific heat capacities of each material to determine how much energy was needed to change the temperatures.
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The Drama Department
Performances of The Tempest will take place on the last three evenings of term. We welcome your support as always. Rehearsals will intensify in the coming weeks (including weekends) and we wish our students luck in their handling of
the old fashioned language of the play!
So what can we say about the Tempest that hasn't already been said? Well...we are going for a comic version of the play. We have kept the
language of the original but have taken some liberties with some modern updating.
We are hoping that the scenes will speak for themselves as there is plenty of action, plotting and intrigue. The story, (for those of you who do not know), is centered on a main character called
Prospero, who has been exiled to a deserted island, after being ousted from power by his brother.
At one time, he was a mover and a shaker in Colonial interpretations of the play, are as you political life but you don't have to look very hard can imagine, plentiful, but for us, the colonial at the play, in order to figure out that he aspects are overshadowed by the relations of probably wasn't a very good leader. Certainly, power that exist between fathers and daughters
that's our interpretation anyway. Also on the and between education (Caliban is educated by island are his daughter, Miranda and Caliban, an Miranda mostly) and ignorance. In reality, we indigenous native of the island who Prospero have focused on the revenge plot of the story. has enslaved.
By chance, Prospero's enemies sail a little too close to his shores, whereupon he invokes a storm,
shipwrecks them and then proceeds to manipulate them whilst they are on his island. He does this with the help of Ariel, a supernatural creature who (funnily enough), he has also enslaved! So the play has magic as well as politics. In addition, with the meeting of Miranda and Ferdinand there is romance and no shortage of anti-establishment sentiment in the form of Trinculo and Stephano,
two increasingly drunken clowns fresh off of the foundered boat. It should be enough to keep our audiences interested and smiling we hope. As always we look forward to seeing you on performance night.
Robert Morris
Head of Drama
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“Warum melden sich die Schüler so gerne?“
von Daniel Engler
Über etwas zu lesen oder es selbst zu erleben sind zwei Paar Schuhe. Das dachten sich auch Professor Lin Tong-Minn und seine Pädagogikstudenten von der
Soochow-Universität. Nachdem im Seminar über verschiedene didaktische Modelle gesprochen wurde, sollte nun der Theorie ein Praxiseinblick folgen. Da
Professor Lin in Deutschland studiert hat und seine Studenten neben Pädagogik auch Deutsch studieren, war ein Besuch an der Deutschen Schule die natürliche Lösung.
Da zu den Aufgaben einer deutschen Auslandsschule die Förderung der deutschen Sprache und die Begegnung mit Kultur und Gesellschaft im Gastland gehören, war die Schule natürlich sofort bereit, der Universitätsgruppe einen Einblick in den Unterricht zu geben.
Am 9. Januar konnte die Deutsche Schule Professor Lin und sechs seiner Studentinnen und Studenten am Sekundarcampus begrüßen. Nach einer Schulführung, bei der sich die Besucher von der technischen
Ausstattung der deutschen Klassenräume besonders beeindruckt zeigten, hospitierten sie jeweils 20 Minuten den Geschichts unterricht der Klasse 9, den Englisch- unterricht der Klassen 5/6 und den Biologieunterricht der Klassen 7/8 an.
So konnten die Studenten gleich drei verschiedene Lehrkräfte im Einsatz erleben und Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten erkennen. Im Anschluss daran gab es noch Zeit für ein Auswertungsgespräch, in dem eine Frage die Studierenden ganz besonders bewegte: „Warum melden sich die Schüler so gerne?“ Dies war für sie besonders beeindruckend, da aus ihrer Schulerfahrung die Schülerinnen und
Schüler eher versuchen zu vermeiden, im Unterricht etwas sagen zu müssen.
Mit dieser und noch einigen anderen Erkenntnissen sind die Studierenden dann zurück an ihre Universität gegangen. Wir wünschen ihnen viel Erfolg für ihr weiteres Studium und vielleicht werden sie durch das, was sie bei uns gesehen haben, etwas beeinflusst.
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DIMUN IV – KS3 MUN Inaugural oversees
conference
For the first time TES KS3 students have been invited At DIMUN IV, Key State 3 (middle school) to attend the annual Dulwich International Model delegates will be debating a total of 24 topics United Nations conference (DIMUN IV) will be held at in six different committees. These topics will Dulwich College Beijing from 14th - 16th February range from implementation of the Arms
2014. Model United Nations is a unique opportunity Trade Treaty to demolition of cultural World for students to expand their knowledge of world Heritage Sties, environmental recovery in affairs, improve their public speaking skills, post-conflict zones to the trafficking of interpersonal skills and self confidence through women and girls in Syrian refugee camps, and research, discussion and debate with other the security of disused nuclear technology
international students who share the same passions. and materials to the issue of the Korean peninsula. We must congratulate Ray Huang in H1 who will be the only non Dulwich student to chair a committee. Watch this
space for a report on the conference in the next newsletter.
MUN Directors Mr. Ian Stewart & Mr. Tim Sing-Key
(image borrowed from the UN website)
University and Careers
Upcoming university visitors to TES Secondary Campus:
FEBRUARY
th 17 Interview training for Hong Kong University (only for those who have applied) th 20 : UC Berkeley Summer school and Business School st 21 : Widener University
Interviews (only for those who have applied) King’s college London th 24 : an Aeronautics university from USA Embry-Riddle th 26 : UC Irvine
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MARCH
th th UBC (4 ), Leicester ( 5 ) … Look out for a special coaching during study time by the University of Manchester on writing a personal statement: the only window on your true self the universities will
see. The representative will coach all H3s who aspire to study not only in Manchester (what a great city though!) but at any UK university. Tell your friends now about the options evening for IB choices that the High School will organize at 7 th Pm on February 25 , because it feeds into university choice.
University Exhibition – Study World 2/22 in Taipei
On Saturday 22nd February, 12-6 PM the public can meet face-to-face with respected US and UK universities. TES students and parents should register now with the representatives of your chosen colleges. Here are the list, the venue, and the link. THE LIST: University at Buffalo - State University of New York, Glasgow University, Goldsmiths University of London, Hult International Business School, IE (Spain), University of California - Irvine, University of Kentucky, King's College London, University of Reading,
University of San Diego, University of St Andrews, University College Dublin.
THE VENUE: Building number 2 Song Shan creative Park.
To walk there: Leave Taipei City Hall MRT by exit 1 and go west along Zhong Xiao E. Road,
take the third street on the right… walk down an alley to the park. Walking beside the lake you will see signs to the Study World exhibition which is in the tallest building.
TO REGISTER your name: http://www.useas.com.tw/study-world/index-english.php
Job creators or job takers?
TES offers High School students regular A good education walks with us, leading us into reflection on their gifting to prepare their career our abilities as we study! It helps us discover choices. Job experience was such a moment and treasures : strong tendencies we did not know it was good. This week we are glad of the input that we possessed. Then it pushes us to invade the world of work, of production, of creativity given by Mr. John Watson and Ms. Alison Baker from the Inspiring Futures foundation. They have with fresh skills. As R. Bowen Loftin of Texas interviewed H2 students. I hope the families will A&M University says young people when they follow up suggestions made to them. Some leave college should think about developing into students have told me they have focused on one “job creators” rather than “job takers”. The jobs
country for their degree, some have chosen a some of the TES graduates will create have not degree but no country yet, and some have talked yet been seen. to grandparents or parents about choices. For Best wishes for the year ahead others they have approached career choices too
by looking at websites. Try for yourself:” What Julian Brown colour is your parachute?”
http://www.jobhuntersbible.com/
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ESC Sports
A word from the Head of Sport Kwok Chow
It’s been a wet and cold start for the athletes at TES, but all the middle school students have braved the conditions for their football training. The High School
Boys Volleyball and Girls Football have started their training as well in preparation for their TISSA Tournaments. Lastly we have new column for the Athlete of the Fortnight sports newsletter, I will be asking teachers of the school Brian Shih their ‘Most Memorable For his leadership and performances during this year’s Moment in Sport’ and I am basketball season. sure there will plenty of stories which will inspire you.
My Most Memorable Moment in Sport
By Jared Duxfield
I played rugby from when I was 5 years old and
played in many successful teams but had never won a championship. Three years in a row, we had made the championship final only to trip at the last hurdle.
In 1990, as 13 year olds, we finally thought we had a chance to do it. In the preseason however, we
were dealt a devastating blow. Arch rivals, Northcote, had offered players track suits (a big deal for us) and a trip to Australia (an even bigger deal for us) to play for their club. Several of our strongest players, seeing the chance to profit, switched allegiances and moved to Northcote. This must be what Cleveland felt like as Lebron James chased glory in Miami. Betrayed!
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The season started, and we pulled together as a With time up on the clock, we were down by 3 team. We worked hard, as we had every year on points, however Northcote had conceded a our fitness, skills and strategies. We had retained penalty. The penalty was too far out for us to and gained some great talent and won most of kick a goal and we had to move fast. The penalty our games. The rugby season is long and there was taken quickly and passed to me. We had a are many teams involved but we managed to lightning fast runner, Trent, outside me, and as I
make it once again to the final. As you probably faked the pass towards him, the defense drifted guessed, we were up against our old nemesis away from me. All those instincts developed from the neighboring suburb, Northcote. At this during years of training paid off and I darted into age, rugby was played in weight restricted the gap. I made a break and got down near the grades so a number of players had to diet, and goal line. As I closed in on the 22m line, the cover
even run right before the game, just to reach the defense closed in on me. Blocked on all sides, I weight limit. The game was played in wet, passed it over the heads of the defense to an muddy conditions and the score was tight right unmarked Trent, whose speed took him the rest throughout the game. We had an amazing goal of the way to score the winning try!
kicker who could kick goals from the sideline and kept us close to Northcote, who had scored more tries.
I remember jumping on the back of one of our biggest players in celebration, Jubilant at having
taken the victory. In my mind, this was a momentous achievement, equal to landing on the moon, splitting the atom or climbing Mt Everest. Although having been in very successful teams, I never again won a rugby championship. The winner’s trophy has long been lost but no one will take away the memory of winning the 1990, Junior Boys rugby championship!
U13 FOBISIA Team 2013-14 Sarahi ZUNIGA RUIZ Hannah KWUO Molly DI RIENZO Eileen RASCHE Bernard YANG Bo-Chyan TOPHAM Nicholas LIN Justin LIN Chloe Jessica Nina FAN CHUANG Elea Camille Tiffany CHEN LAGARDE Jeremy WU Tom Wikstrom Billy Brian LU SKJONNEMAND Aileen TOWNER Grace KHOO Vianne TSENG Ashley YEOW Kei SUMIYA Justin HUANG Lauren LAM Donny LEE Hani SPARKS Elizabeth LIN Anna-Bella SULA Audrey LAM Keisuke MAKINO Ray YANG Lenny PELHATE Katya THOMAS Janis NETH Douglas LEE
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