MODBURY HIGH SCHOOL Issue 12 Newsletter | December 2018

62 Pompoota Road, Modbury SA 5092 Department for Education T/A South Australian Government Schools Ph: (08) 8264 1955 Fax: (08) 8263 0316 CRICOS Provider Number 00018A http://www.modburyhs.sa.edu.au [email protected] www.facebook.com/ModburyHighSchool/ PRINCIPAL’S REPORT Dear Parent/Caregivers, had the opportunity to dance to the wonderful music played by We have come to the end of the year and what a busy year it has our students. It was a great evening for everyone who attended. been as evidenced through all of our newsletters including this Rosie Carr put a lot of effort into the planning and organising of one. Term 4 has been filled with many new activities such as our this event with the support of Ben Fuller, Arts Coordinator and SACE Art Exhibition, Remembrance Day Assembly, Valedictory Joan Baker, Music teacher. Congratulations to them and their and Prize Giving Assemblies for all year levels, Year 7 Information students. Evening and Orientation Day, many different excursions and Year 8 and 9 Music Night much more. On Tuesday 4 December I had the pleasure of seeing our year 8 Prize Giving Assembly and 9 Music students perform in front of their parents. I was very On Tuesday 27 November we held our first Year 8-11 Prize Giving impressed with their performances, especially with our year 8 Assembly. This assembly recognised student achievement for students who have only been learning an instrument for a students in Years 8-11. Awards presented were: Home Group semester. Awards, Finem Respice (School Ethos), Meritorious, Community Well done to Ben Fuller, Rosie Carr and Joan Baker for an amazing Service, Sports Awards, All-Rounder, and Dux for each year level. night and their excellent work with the students. As well, for our Year 11 students we had a Humanities Award School Improvement sponsored by an old scholar, an Art Award also sponsored by an During this term I have been involved in a number of workshops old scholar, a Languages Award sponsored by the Tea Tree Gully run by our Education Director about our new improvement plan. Mayor Mr Kevin Knight, a UniSA Maths and Science Award Teachers have also spent time looking at our schools’ NAPLAN, sponsored by University of South and the Zonta Award PAT-M and PAT-R student grades, attendance and the student sponsored byM the Zonta Club of Para District. engagement survey to determine what our goals for 2019 should There were over 200 parents and grandparents here on the day be. We have decided that two of our goals will focus on Literacy celebrating with their children. A number of parents spoke of and Numeracy improvement and our third goal will be focusing how impressed they were by the assembly and our students. This on supporting students to improve their learning readiness. For new initiative is another way of realising our goal of increasing this goal, we will be focusing on strengthening the students’ community and parent involvement in the school. ability to persevere with their work and their academic self- Year 8-9 Entrepreneurship Activities concept. Over the last two weeks of the term our Years 8 and 9 students I am looking forward to working with our staff and students to have been involved in a new program called Entrepreneurship. implement these goals which I strongly believe will increase The purpose of this program is to provide students with the student learning outcomes. opportunity to work in teams, gain skills in critical and creative 2019 Staffing thinking, problem solving and collaboration. These skills are an Three of our teachers are either taking long service leave with the integral part of 21st Century learning. All teachers are taking part intention of retiring or are definitely retiring. They are: Sid in the program. Each home group had a H team of at least four Wrangles, Di Dietman, and Nick Rettig. Linda Guthrie, School teachers working with the students to support them with the Librarian has won a position at Thebarton Senior College and will activities. On Thursday, students held a Market Day where all the be leaving at the end of this year. I would like to thank them for teams sold their products to other students and staff. Students their contributions to student learning and their commitment to presented their learning from this activity to their team of making Modbury High School a great place for young people to teachers on Friday morning. Feedback from students was very learn. positive indicating that the program has been fun and at the same time has supported students in developing new skills. We also have two of our SSO staff taking leave with the intention to retire, Davina Kearns and Wayne Kearns. Davina and Wayne Japanese Short Term Study Tour have done an excellent job in ensuring that the school finances During Weeks 7 and 8 we had twelve Japanese students and their are always in the black. Both of them will be missed by all the teacher staying with us. The students had a timetable which staff and the wider school community. We also farewell Keith enabled them to improve their English, experience Australian Potts who has been mowing the school oval for 35 years. culture and the different subjects we offer at Modbury High School. It was fantastic to have the students as part of our school I wish them a happy holiday and all the best for the future. as their stay enabled our students to practice their Japanese and Thank youS to all parents and students for your ongoing make new friends from another country. commitment to making our school the great school that it is. Music I wish all families a Merry Christmas, happy holidays and a Dinner Dance wonderful New Year. I am looking forward to working with all of On Saturday 24 November our Music faculty held a dinner dance you again next year. at the Salisbury RSL where our students in the Concert Band and Joanne Costa Stage Band entertained the guests. Parents and other guests Principal

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YEAR 12 VALEDICTORY - MAJOR PRIZE WINNERS DIARY DATES Most Outstanding Student Makin Humanitarian Award - John Tilley Memorial Award Sam Mountford Monday 21 January Year 8 School Fees Josephine Matthias Sponsored by Mr Tony Zappia MP Information will be posted Sponsored by Modbury Golden Grove Rotary Club Florey Electorate Awards in early-January ADF Long Tan Leadership and Teamwork Award Josh Williams and Caitlin McManus Year 12 - Sarah Priasca Sponsored by Ms MP Tuesday 22 January Year 10 - Rachel Sparks Florey Electorate Music Award Year 9 School Fees

Sponsored by the Australian Defence Force Francis Dela Cruz Wednesday 23 January Best All-Rounder Award Sponsored by Ms Francis Bedford MP Year 10 School Fees Jo Roberts Pierre de Coubertin Award Sponsored by Pascale Construction Pty Ltd Mikaela Hahn Thursday 24 January Principal’s Award Sponsored by Modbury High School Year 11 & 12 School Fees

Jade Mason Bent Spoke (Pedal Prix) Award Monday 28 January Sponsored by Ms Joanne Costa Sam Mountford Australia Day Public Holiday Year 12 Manager’s Award Sponsored by International Cycle Centre Lucas Pallot Darryl Baylis Senior Sports Awards Tuesday 29 January Sponsored by Modbury High School Male - Rogan Beard School commences for Year 8, Jay Strudwick Ethos Award Female - Ashleigh George (Year 11) Year 12 and New students Year 12 Orientation Day Michael Pertl

Sponsored by Modbury High School Congratulations to all award recipients. Wednesday 30 January Dr Richard Harvey MP Science Award School commences for Jo Roberts Year 9, 10 and 11 students Sponsored by Dr Richard Harvey MP Tuesday 5 February Year 8 Parent Meeting 6:30pm

Tuesday 12 February ENTREPRENEURSHIP CHALLENGE Year 9 Parent Meeting 6:30pm Year 10 Parent Meeting 7:00pm This year, during the last seven days of school our Year 8 and 9 students participated in an Celebration & Achievement exciting new entrepreneurship challenge. Students learnt how to start, own and operate their Assembly own business, as well as produce and sell a product prototype to their peers on our mock market morning. What an exciting time for both the students and staff who put in so much effort in the Wednesday 13 February preparation and execution of the market morning. The whole gymnasium was buzzing with School Photos excitement with students working collaboratively, creatively and problem solving to sell their Year 11 Parent Meeting 6:30pm products, and most of all having fun. Year 12 Parent Meeting 7:00pm Angela Stamati, VET/Cross Disciplinary Studies Coordinator Thursday 14 February Governing Council AGM 6:30pm

Monday 18 February School Photos Catch-up

Wednesday 20 February Year 11 RAP Program Year 8 Immunisation Info Session Governing Council Mtg 6:30pm

Tuesday 19 March Open Evening 6:00pm-8:00pm

Friday 12 April Last day of Term 1 Dismissal at 2:30pm

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The Hon. Vickie Chapman and Hon. Dr Richard Harvey visit senior Legal Studies students On Wednesday 31 October, State Attorney General and The politicians really helped to expand our knowledge and Deputy Premier Vickie Chapman, and member for Newland understanding of parliament and law-making in South Richard Harvey, visited Modbury High School to speak with Australia. I was particularly intrigued to learn that senior Legal Studies students about various aspects of the questions, queries and suggestions from the public are sent legal system and their role in parliament. The Attorney directly to the Attorney-General, for example requests to General specifically spoke about how parliament makes law exhume bodies. - Adam Janda and the different complexities involved. They then took Andrew Rowberry questions from the ‘student gallery’, answering queries like Legal Studies teacher why they became MPs, the best and worst aspects of their jobs, general advice on careers in politics, and the importance of looking after the people in their electorates.

It was really interesting that their favourite part of the job was meeting people … like us! - Nikita Hurrell As someone who wishes to pursue law or politics as a career, I was fascinated by the insights Vickie gave into some of the changes to laws currently being reviewed in parliament, on areas such as; surrogacy, provocation, and animal welfare. - Adam Mills-Bayne

2018 YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE On Monday 22 October, several Year 9/10 students a more sustainable city. We also looked at iconic movie including myself were privileged to attend the Tea Tree characters like Harry Potter and P.T. Barnum from The Gully Youth Leadership Conference at the Golden Grove Greatest Showman. We examined their techniques of Arts Centre. Students from schools all over were leadership skills and whether they were effective or not. given a chance to further develop their leadership skills Modbury High School was lucky enough to be invited to this through interactive activities and hopefully gain a sense of conversation as well as having Hannah and Rachel Sparks initiative/influence. represent us as Council volunteers. The conference The day jump-started with a games like ‘Dino Hunt’ and reminded us that although there is so much going on in our ‘Beach Ball Questions’ where each student answered trivial lives let alone world, it’s important to use the leadership questions based on the number of the beach balls they skills we have to help better each other. caught. It was pretty funny to watch a bunch of beach balls Tasnuva Tahabub, Year 10 student get thrown around on stage. A variety of guest speakers such as Keira Rodriguez - a former Royal Australian Navy Officer, and Joshua Stokes- a Youth Parliament speaker and many more. They shone light on important, global topics and the leadership skills required to tackle these challenging issues. By midday, some students and I participated in a Student Live Debate. We were put in groups to argue for or against if ‘leaders are born, not bred’. We practiced public speaking the way politicians do in the Parliament House. I found it interesting being on a team opposing my own belief. I saw another perspective. Then, we investigated how to ‘Shape Your City’. We looked at different ways to build infrastructures, communities and

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TERM 4 VISTA SPORT RESULTS Round 2 Results Round 6 Results Tuesday 30 October Tuesday 27 November Boys Basketball Division 1 had a Bye Boys Basketball Division 1 vs Banksia Boys Basketball Division 2 vs Endeavour Modbury won 56-35 Modbury won 43-30 Best Players: Jackson Haren & Matt Zille Best Players: Sam Hastings & Oran Goodwin-Smith Boys Basketball Division 2 vs Cedar College Girls Basketball had a Bye Modbury won 52-48 Best Players: Andrew Hage & Nick Bentley Round 3 Results Girls Basketball vs Banksia Tuesday 6 November Modbury won 25-7 Boys Basketball Division 1 vs Parafield Gardens Best Players: Emma Branagh & Mali Emery Modbury won 87-42 Best Players: Jackson Haren Vista Sport Finals Boys Basketball Division 2 vs Cedar College Modbury had a wonderful representation in the term 4 vista Cedar College won 61-41 finals with 2 out of our 3 teams competing at Golden Grove High School. Our girls basketball team narrowly missed out on making Best Players: Nick Bentley & Sam Hastings it but both our division 1 and 2 boys basketball teams were in. Girls Basketball vs Parafield Gardens Congratulations to the division 2 team that defeated Cedar Modbury won 35-27 College 65-36. Unfortunately our division 1 team was beaten by Best Players: Emma Branagh & Kay White Torrens Valley in a close game, 42-35. Well done to both of our teams for putting in a gallant effort. Round 4 Results Thank you to all the coaches, players and umpires for their efforts this term, and year. We look forward to another strong Tuesday 13 November participation of school sport in 2019! Boys Basketball Division 1 vs Torrens Valley Modbury won 62-52 Best Players: Jackson Haren, Jaxon Sangster & Matt Zille Boys Basketball Division 2 vs The Avenues Modbury won 56-51 Best Players: Jakobe Wilson & Jordan Harrison Girls Basketball vs Golden Grove Golden Grove won 53-16 Best Players: Dominique Van Zyl & Emma Branagh

Round 5 Results Boys Basketball Division 2 Winners Tuesday 20 November Boys Basketball Division 1 vs Endeavour Modbury won 79-36 Best Players: Jackson Haren, Jaxon Sangster & James Wood Boys Basketball Division 2 vs Endeavour

Modbury won 62-30 Best Players: Dunya Wumaier & Oran Goodwin-Smith Girls Basketball vs The Avenues Modbury won 33-25 Best Players: Dominique Van Zyl & Abby Lovell

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YEAR 10 PE AQUATICS REPORT Students attended the Aquatics Centre at Port Noarlunga on Thursday 15 November and were involved in snorkelling on Port Noarlunga reef and surfing at Southport under the tuition of the centre’s qualified aquatic instructors. This was a valuable opportunity to be engaged in recreational activities and to find out about the history and aquatic environment of the area. Marg Vivian, Year 10 Manager

MHS OLD SCHOLAR From 2019 UMAT is now UCAT DRAFTED INTO THE AFL Students wishing to enter certain medical courses at universities in Australia and New Zealand have previously been required to sit the UMAT test in order to help determine Congratulations to Modbury High Old their suitability. As of 2019 the UMAT no longer exists, and has been replaced by the Scholar, Jordon Sweet, on being drafted UCAT, which stands for University Clinical Aptitude Test. to the Western Bulldogs in the AFL Rookie Draft, 2018. We would like to wish Jordon If you wish to apply for entry into any of the courses below in 2020, you will need to sit every success on his AFL journey. UCAT in July 2019. UCAT results are valid for one year only, and cannot be carried over from one year to the next. University Course or Programme The University of Adelaide Medicine, Dental Surgery, Oral Health Curtin University Medicine Monash University Medicine The University of Newcastle / Joint Medical Program University of New England The University of New South Wales Medicine

The University of Queensland Medicine (provisional entry), Dental Science University of Tasmania Medicine The University of Western Australia Medicine or Dental Medicine (both Direct Pathways) Western Sydney University Medicine The University of Auckland Medicine University of Otago Medicine, Dental Surgery

The official website for UCAT information & registrations is: https://www.ucatofficial.com/ and further information & assistance is available at: https://www.medentry.edu.au/what-is-ucat-and-how-to-prepare-for-it Glen McKie, Year 12 Manager

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