Marryatville High School Issue 12 December 2016 170 Kensington Road, Marryatville South Australia 5068 | P +61 8 8304 8420 | F +61 8 8332 3228 E [email protected] | W www.marryatvillehs.sa.edu.au | P (Music Centre) +61 8 8304 8431 FROM THE PRINCIPAL Dear Parents, Caregivers, Staff and Students This is the last newsletter for 2016. Please take the I would like to thank members of the Governing time to read it as it contains important information Council for their energy and hard work. It has for members of the school community, as well as been very rewarding to work with successive acknowledging and celebrating the outstanding Governing Councils in providing leadership at achievements of our students. The first newsletter Marryatville High School. for 2017 will be emailed home on Thursday 2 I would like to express my appreciation for the effort March 2017. of members of our school community, particularly Pupil Free / Closure Days parents and caregivers. The enthusiasm of our I would like to take this opportunity to provide you students to come along and engage positively with information about Pupil Free Days and our with what we have to offer at school in a way that Closure Day for 2017 to assist with your planning. makes each day enjoyable is a strong reflection of the values and attitudes of their parents. I thank Governing Council has approved the following you for your support over the last 12½ years. Pupil Free Days/School Closure Day for 2017. Finally, I would like to acknowledge both current Monday 30 January 2017 and past students of Marryatville High School. Staff Professional Learning Day They give us cause for great optimism for the This is the first day of the School Year and Staff future and have played a major role in making will be involved in Professional Learning activities. my 12½ years truly memorable. School will commence for all students on Tuesday Appointment of the Principal 31 January 2017. Following the recent panel process, there has Tuesday 13 June 2017 been no appointment to the position of Principal at Staff Professional Learning Day Marryatville High School. Ms Chris Sheldon, our Thursday 31 August 2017 Education Director will now manage a process Staff Professional Learning Day to ensure that a Principal is appointed before the Friday 1 September 2017 commencement of the 2017 school year. You will School Closure – Adelaide Show Day receive a letter in the New Year advising you of the appointment. Friday 1 December 2017 Staff Professional Learning Day First Lego League National competition in Sydney Newsletter On Saturday 10th of December, the Marryatville This arrangement is consistent with previous practice Drifters, a team of Year 8 and 9 students attended with the exception of 30 January 2017. Last year the First Lego League National competition we held our first Professional Learning Day in March in Sydney. All involved found the trip to be a but want to take the opportunity to bring that work rewarding experience and the students are forward to the beginning of the year for 2017. already making plans for robotics in 2017. Retirement of the Principal Congratulations to the team on making the As you as aware I will be retiring from Marryatville Nationals and well done to the students on High School and the Department for Education representing the school with distinction. and Child Development at the end of this year. Arrangements for Friday 16 December The last 12½ years as Principal at Marryatville On the afternoon of Friday 16 December students High School have been the most professionally will be dismissed at 12.30pm and staff will rewarding and personally enjoyable of my career. be farewelling colleagues who will not be at I have appreciated the opportunity to work with Marryatville in 2017. Reports can be posted home students who are optimistic, enthusiastic and if students have provided a stamped self-addressed committed to doing their best and I have taken envelope. They can also be collected from Student great pride in their achievements. Services between 9.00am and 3.00pm on Monday 19 December and Tuesday 20 December. I have been privileged to work with teachers and support staff who meet the highest professional I wish everyone in our community a safe and enjoyable festive season. Department for Education and Child Development standards and believe that their generosity with T/A South Australian Government Schools their discretionary time is one of the factors that CRICOS Provider No: 00018A Mr Mark Leahy has built and sustained our tradition of excellence. Principal Marryatville High School Newsletter I Issue 12 I December 2016 1 Issue 12 December 2016 TERM 4 IN THE MUSIC CENTRE The end of the year is fast approaching and reflecting upon the number of performances this term leaves staff and students in no doubt as to why they are feeing exhausted but exhilarated. Many of the performances involved direct interaction with our local primary schools and the wider community. New Music Year 8 stomp The term began with an informal evening on Thursday 27 October 2016 in The Stables to farewell our Year The New Music Concert on 14 November 2016 12 music students – an opportunity for parents, music held in The Stables is one of the more intimate events faculty teachers and students to chat over pizza and in the concert calendar and highlights the creativity of then communicate what they all really think of each students in both the Elective and Special Interest Music other through song – needless to say, it is the music staff programs. From atonal compositions, the Stomp Project who have the last right of reply! (composing rhythms using only body percussion or self- Music News The following week saw all of our Year 8 and 9 Music made instruments), to choral works (chamber choir), students participate in the Elder Hall Concert on 3 solo instrumental works, movie soundtracks to electronic November 2016. Ensembles performing included the dance music – this concert had it all. class choirs, Big Band III, Junior Guitar Ensemble, Studio Term 4 of course saw us open the school to the incoming Strings, Junior Choir with the Year 9 Strings, Junior cohort of primary students and the Music Centre played Concert Band and the Junior Orchestra. its part by giving Year 7 students a taste of what A big thankyou to all of the parents and friends that happens in The Stable. Not only did the visiting primary supported this concert and provided a sympathetic students experience ‘sing along’ with Mr Aldis Sils, but audience for the less-experienced students. the incoming class of Special Interest Music students joined with the Junior Orchestra for some practical An event that was a little different presented in the form music-making, worked through some specialist music of a Conducting Workshop on 4 November 2016 with IT with Mr Ryan Gerlach and learned about unusual Luke Dollman for fourteen Instrumental teachers and instruments with Ms Josie Hawkes. Marryatville High School Music faculty teachers. Luke is the conductor of the Elder Conservatorium Orchestra and Elder Conservatorium Wind Orchestra. This initiative was organised by Ms Josie Hawkes and involved the Senior Concert Band as the ensemble for the trainee conductors to practise with. Luke generously gave of his time and professional expertise, and this collaboration paves the way for future projects with ensembles from the Elder Conservatorium for Marryatville High School students. SIMC Year 7 Year 8 Music Experience play Marryatville High School Newsletter I Issue 12 I December 2016 2 Issue 12 December 2016 A performance of a more unusual nature, the Year 8 Special Interest Music class performed a Renaissance Tableaux to their peers on 16 November 2016 – their assignment being to summarise the achievements of the Renaissance and reflect the impact that these had on the development of music. The students selected a topic, wrote a script for each scene, rehearsed appropriate music for their scene, and then had to act it out with music and props / costumes as desired. The results were an entertaining look at the Renaissance in all its glory – Leonardo painting the Mona Lisa (we have the model for the painting in our midst!) and John The Baptist (complete with contemporary references to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!), the introduction of spices into culinary cuisine (complete with a simulated medical emergency!), Henry VIII (and all of the wives!), Michelangelo painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel Music News (complete with his aches and pains!) and the invention of the Gutenberg Printing Press (it will never take off!) – all Marryatville Primary School Band complemented by performances of Renaissance music. We also welcomed the Marryatville Primary School As shopping precincts become more frenzied in the lead- Band with teachers Jan O’Connell and Rob Chenoweth, up to Christmas, it is a brave teacher who takes a small into a Year 9 Band rehearsal on 17 November 2016. ensemble to The Parade, Norwood, to entertain the The secondary students were able to mentor the younger masses. On 1 December 2016 Amelia Monaghan and players and joined forces with them to record Edelweiss the Recorder Ensemble busked with great enthusiasm from The Sound of Music, as well as sharpen their sight- and finesse amongst the hustle and bustle, showing that reading skills as they worked their way through some the recorder is indeed an instrument of great appeal, new pieces of repertoire. diversity and also portability! Remembrance Day would not be the same without the Last Post being sounded as the minute of silence is observed. This year the evocative call was played on trumpet by Marryatville High School Year 11 student, Will Madden and we thank him for having nerves of steel and playing with great dignity and respect to commemorate 11 November 2016.