Manly Campus Northern Beaches Secondary College Academic Excellence Personal Best Giving Back to the Community Principal: Ms Cath Whalan Deputy Principal: Ms Kathy O’Sullivan Acting Deputy Principal: Mr Jamie Kay 21 July 2017 – Newsletter No.21 From the Principal Rube Goldberg machines that represent the NBSC Professional Development Day contributions of select revolutions within given Welcome back to Term 3. Staff began the term disciplines. This project encapsulates our school's with College Development Day on Monday, an commitment to enriching, engaging Project Based opportunity for teachers across all five campuses Learning experiences to develop students' team to collaborate and learn together. The focus of day work, and critical and creative thinking. was Visible Learning, based on Professor John Hattie’s research into what works best to improve student outcomes. The keynote and workshops provided an engaging overview of the research and also provided teachers with strategies to develop students’ metacognitive skills. Our staff were affirmed to hear our teacher professional learning focus on effective feedback to students using strategies, such as ‘medals’ and ‘missions’, has a significant positive impact on students’ learning. Interesting also to note, the top two study-skills strategies which have the greatest positive effect on students’ learning are ‘organising and transforming – making an outline before writing a paper’ and ‘self-consequences – putting off pleasurable events until work is completed’. Both of these strategies would be worthwhile incorporating into ongoing practice for all students, and in particular for Year 12 working Enrolments towards their Higher School Certificate with Trial Applications for enrolment in Years 8 – 12 are Examinations in Weeks 3 and 4 and Major Works open to students outside the school. Enrolment due this term. information and application forms are available Praxis from the school website or https://education.nsw.gov.au/selective-high- Year 7 continue to work enthusiastically on their schools-and-opportunity-classes/years-8-to-12 . current Praxis project, where they have been The closing date for applications is Friday 28th July challenged to answer the driving question 'How do 2017. Any queries can be directed to the front revolutions progress human knowledge?' Students office. in Praxis A classes are constructing complex Manly Campus 138 Abbott Road, North Curl Curl NSW 2099 Phone: 9905 3982 / Fax: 9905 7772 / Email: [email protected] P&C website: www.manlypandc.org.au Congratulations to: five random words that they had to include. • Mallika Aithala (Year 7) who achieved 3rd Completed books are presented to children in place in the Wenkart Foundation Ballet hospital. To be eligible to compete teams need to Competition at the Sydney Eisteddfod. raise a minimum of $300, with all funds raised • Nick Hammond (Year 8), member of the going directly to the Kids’ Cancer Project. Providing runners-up team in the NSW State Field opportunities for students to write for an Hockey Championships. authentic purpose is a great motivator and Giving Back to the • Fergus Clarkson (Year 9) who represented embraces our school ethos NSW at u14s in the Sydney Water Community. The task commitment, effort and Polo Youth Festival during the holidays, team cooperation shown by the following students playing for the NSW Waratahs (State B were outstanding: team). Defeated by NSW Blues (State A Team 1: Nathan Cheng, Daniel Duncan, Casey team), their silver medal was presented by Bolton, Jayden Hunter, George Mc Kee, Martin Le four time Olympian Thomas Whalan. and Benjamin Parry. You can sponsor Team 1 by • Josephine Butler (Year 10) who was visiting - selected to attend a STEM Careers Week https://www.writeabookinaday.com/teams/year- hosted by Science 50:50 and UNSW 8-team-1- Women. • James Ladbrook and Caiden Morjanoff Team 2: Gemma Cooper, Levi Newport, Hannah de (Year 11) who were chosen to attend the Mars, Max Oldham, Jed Morrison, Matthew UBS Finance Academy. Robinson, Mia Schwartz and Melissa Chen. You can • Jessie Dransfield (Year 11) who is sponsor Team 2 by visiting - representing Australia in the 29er World https://www.writeabookinaday.com/teams/team- Championship Sailing Regatta to be held 2-year-8 later next week in Long Beach, California. Team 3: Eliza Lo Russo, Amelie Letchford, Hannah Vale Justine Lovlin, Zahra Chew, Chloe Bracher and Vivienne Paduch. You can sponsor Team 3 by visiting - We express our deepest condolences to the family, https://www.writeabookinaday.com/teams/term- colleagues and friends of Justine Rusczyk Damond 2-year-8 who died this week in extraordinary circumstances in Minneapolis. As an ex-student and School Thank you to Ms Tye, Ms Izossimova and Ms Captain of our school in 1995, she left a powerful Hewes for supporting and motivating the students legacy with staff and her cohort, many of whom throughout the day. have expressed their shock and disbelief in messages to the school. Her death is a reminder of A detailed report by the students will be posted in the enduring importance of community, local and next week’s Weekly Pines. global. Cath Whalan Principal From the Deputy Principals Year 8 On Tuesday I had the pleasure of supervising 21 Year 8 students participate in The Write a Book in a Day competition. In The Write a Book in a Day competition budding authors are given only 12 hours to write, edit, illustrate, review and print a 4,000 – 5,000 word novel suitable for children aged 10 – 16 years. Students are given the parameters at 8:00am; these included two human characters, one non-human character, an issue and the setting. On top of that they were given Year 10 to the Peer Support program, allowing students to enhance both their academic performance and Thank you to the Year 10 parents, caregivers and overall wellbeing. In addition, Year 7 students will students who attended Parent Teacher night on be undertaking their Gala Day on Monday 31st July, Thursday evening. This event provided an competing in a variety of sports against other opportunity for teachers to give feedback and schools in the regions. Information on this event discuss strategies to assist Year 10 students as they will be distributed next week at their Year move towards the final stages of their Stage 5 Meeting. journey. There was a lot of discussion around Stage 6 subject selection. This will be discussed at Thank you to all Year 9 parents and students who the Year 10 into 11 interviews to be held in Week attended Thursday’s Parent Teacher night. It was 4. Details about booking an interview will be fantastic to speak with a number of parents, some emailed to parents next Friday and also provided of whom were experiencing their first Parent in the next issue of the Weekly Pines. Teacher night at Manly. The event allowed teachers to provide valuable feedback to students Year 12 and parents, providing guidance on how students can move forwards with their studies and achieve It was fantastic to see so many students take up their personal best. If you were not able to attend the opportunity to come into school during the and would like to discuss your child’s progress, holiday period to work on major works and attend please contact the school. workshops. This added support and time would not have been possible without the dedication and Year 11 will be receiving information in the coming commitment from our wonderful Year 12 teachers. weeks on their Year 11 into 12 interviews with With only a week to go until the HSC Trials, I either myself, Ms Walker or Ms Rixon. Topics for encourage all students to utilise the resources discussion will include subject choices for the HSC, available to them. To help students prepare for the strategies to help students through their final year Trials we are opening the Library after school on of school and the Year 12 teacher mentor Mondays through to Thursdays. HSC Hub is a good program. This will be a highly valuable experience resource for students to access when revising and for students as they move into their HSC year. Year 12 students have been given free access during the trial period. Please remember to speak Jamie Kay to your mentor teacher and class teachers who are Acting Deputy Principal - Years 7, 9, 11 there to support and encourage you to achieve your personal best. Kathy O’Sullivan Year 8 Deputy Principal – Years 8, 10, 12 Mallika Aithala, of Year 8, was very successful at the Sydney Eisteddfod this year. rd Welcome back to Term 3, with another action Her results, including 3 Place in Classical Ballet packed term ahead at Manly! Duo (Any Age) The Wenkart Foundation Ballet Championship (13 Years) - 3rd place; In addition to Years 7 and 9 beginning a number of Contemporary (13 Years) – Finalist; Modern new subjects for the semester and Year 11 starting Expressive (13 Years) – Finalist; Demi Character (13 their final term of the Preliminary course, a Years) - Highly Commended. number of exciting activities are planned throughout the term. This starts with a food drive It was very competitive; with almost 80 dancers collecting non-perishable items for the homeless from all around Australia in most of her events. being organised by Rhiannon Marshall Whitte, we then have an upcoming House Competition event, the SRC elections, not to mention the infamous Pinestock with the theme eagerly awaited by a number of students (and staff I’m sure). In coming weeks the Year 7 PALs program commences, with Peer Academic Leaders from Year 10 working with small groups in a similar way city and be presented with interesting speeches by Year 10 different sectors of the financial industry, which Women in Engineering STEM Careers Week included a talk from a venture capitalist firm Stone ‘n’ Chalk, CNBC studios, Stan and the CFO of the During the second week of the school holidays, I New South Wales Art Gallery.